Teutenberg takes the time trial! Vos ends in the pink! Giro Donne Stage 10
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 9:45 AM EDT
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I can't believe this race is over - it's had so much drama - from the lows of the crashes (get well soon Rochelle Gilmore, Grace Verbeke and all the riders injured out - and to Marijn de Vries & anyone out sick) and the news of the death of Australian cyclist Carly Hibberd - to the highs, of the fantastic racing on an incredible course. But after ten days, it all ended today, with a 16km time trial in San Francesco al Campo. Monty gave us all the profile information in his preview - so how did it play out?
HTC-Highroad's Ina-Yoko Teutenberg has had a great Giro. She was 3rd in Stage 5 & 6, 2nd in stage 1, and won stage 4 - and then when the roads went uphill, was in a super-long breakaway that lasted nearly all the way up the mountain of stage 8 - and tried to get in another breakaway on yesterday's stage - and this from a sprinter, who no one would blame for sitting in the grupetto all day! So after a race like that, how do you round off your Giro? By winning the final ITT, of course!
And of course, today was the coronation of Marianne Vos as reigning queen of this year's Giro Donne. Here's a NOS report from the final stage - in Dutch, with interview and lots of ITT action. Look out for how Vos takes the final sleeping policeman - and bear in mind she'd punctured at 5km to go....
And here's the full video from today's stage. More information below - and I'll edit in more as we find it
The ITT was just 16km long - but with some extra drama from a sleeping policeman right at the end, which must have added a certain frisson to the ride! Watch the full video for all the ITT action, but huge congratulations also to Emma Johansson (Hitec Products UCK) who came 2nd behind Teute. Johansson has only ridden 1 Giro before, back in 2006 - before the race she told us what she was hoping for - and yesterday she was out for most of the day in a break which only got caught in the 3km long uphill tunnel at the end of the race.
1. Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (Ger) HTC-Highroad, 00:22:17
2. Emma Johansson (Swe) Hitec Products UCK, + 0:12
3. Marianne Vos (Ned) Nederland Bloeit, + 0:15
4. Judith Arndt (Ger) HTC-Highroad, + 0:23
5. Ellen van Dijk (Ned) HTC-Highroad, + 0:30
6. Emma Pooley (GBr) Garmin-Cervélo, + 0:43
7. Olga Zabelinskaya (Rus) Diadora-Pasta Zara, + 0:51
8. Evelyn Stevens (USA) HTC-Highroad, + 0:54
9. Tatiana Antoshina (Rus) Gauss, + 1:00
10. Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) MCipollini-Giambenini, + 1:03
But the biggest story from today's stage is Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) winning her first Giro Donne at the age of 24. Last year she won the Points and the Best Young Rider jersey - this year she takes home the points, mountains and overall win - the maglia rosa, which she won on all but 1 stage of the race. Emma Pooley (Garmin-Cervélo) was the only rider who could keep up with Vos' many attacks, and their mountain battles lit up the race - she finished in second place, with HTC-Highroad's Judith Arndt rounding off the podium in 3rd. The only jerseys Vos didn't win were ones she isn't eligible for - the best young rider jersey, which went to Elena Berlato of Top Girls Fassa Bortolo and Best Italian, to former World Champion Tatiana Guderzo of MCipollini-Giambenini.
Final GC
1. Marianne Vos (Ned) Nederland Bloeit, 25:42:40
2. Emma Pooley (GBr) Garmin-Cervélo, + 03:16
3. Judith Arndt (Ger) HTC-Highroad, + 08:15
4. Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) MCipollini-Giambenini, + 09:09
5. Tatiana Antoshina (Rus) Gauss, + 12:46
6. Ruth Corset (Aus) Bizkaia-Durango, + 12:58
7. Emma Johansson (Swe) Hitec Products UCK, + 14:15
8. Sylwia Kapusta (Pol) Gauss, + 14:26
9. Shara Gillow (Aus) Bizkaia-Durango, + 15:48
10. Mara Abbott (USA) Diadora-Pasta Zara, + 16:24
Vos started the way she meant to go on, winning the uphill cobbled sprint on stage 1, then taking tough, hilly, Classics-esque stage 3, the flat technical sprint stage 6, and two of the three mountains stages - Stage 7, which included a climb and descent of the legendary Mortirolo and Stage 9, uphill all day with a 3km-long, dark tunnel at 15% gradient. Her team, Nederland Bloeit, have work tirelessly for her - and all her work paid off. She truly is the best cyclist in the world!
If you want an idea of what riding the race has been like, here's the latest film from AA Drink-Leontien.nl, with lots of film from on-board the bike of Lucinda Brand from stage 8 (I think). These filmpjes have been a real highlight of the Giro (well aside from the Numero Uno song, which is implanted in my brain!), and I love the perspective. I wish all teams did this, in every race!
Massive congratulations to Vos, Pooley, Arndt, Berlato, all the stage winners - Marianne Vos, Shara Gillow, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg, Nicole Cooke and Emma Pooley - and every single rider who rode this race. They gave us some of the best racing I've ever seen - and also for all the rider tweets and blogs and updates that helped us follow the race and get insights on what it was really like. Thanks also to Cicloweb, team AA Drink-Leontien.nl and the dedicated youtubers for providing us with videos to help us watch the action. And again to Cicloweb, CyclingFever, and the non-racing twitterers - HTC's Beth Duryea, Hitec's Karl Lima, Roy Gershow, Mr Ash Moolman (Carl Pasio!), and Anton Vos for the race updates. And finally my personal thanks to Monty, for his race previews, and his fantastic daily race-reports-in-screencaps - they made me laugh every day, and just added to what was an incredible race!
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Gah!
At only 15 sec back, she probably would have won this, too.
"On paper, your team is awesome." -- Pigeons on my WVDS team, and life in general.
Oh, Ted, your team
how do you feel it did here. Given you had Vos, will I laugh out loud when Jens posts the scores?
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Don't know!
You’ll laugh, I’ll cry, probably.
"On paper, your team is awesome." -- Pigeons on my WVDS team, and life in general.
Blimey, she was rocketing round
or it was a Menchov-Rabo-Giro mechanical effort – hope we see it.
(Knowing Vos and Nederland Bloeit, it was both!)
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Try
http://ewoud.home.xs4all.nl/tmp/donne_nos_vos.flv
(open with VLC Player on Win/Mac, Quicktime Player on Mac works too)
"On paper, your team is awesome." -- Pigeons on my WVDS team, and life in general.
If you don't know the circumstances then that shot after the finish line is scary
Savoldelli mentioned that she’s also got wer eye on the TT at the Worlds this year ……
And cycleball?
Is she just going ignore cycleball completely? Pretend like it doesn’t exist? And what about BMX?
and what's that bike dancing sport there's a World Champs for?
balletic bicyling?
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions
It's also
found on CyclingFever - so, Dutch-speakers, any translations? It was tweeted as “a new chapter in Vos’ career after the GD” – what’s she saying?
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Here's Vos crossing the line at the ITT
via cicloweb, of course – the other day Monty suggested we showed our love for them by clickety-clicking on the ads on their site!
Can you watch the NOS vid linked above by blackswangreen?
Towards the end, they show the TT start and finish, and Vos lying on the ground exhausted.
"On paper, your team is awesome." -- Pigeons on my WVDS team, and life in general.
this is adorable
Another of Iris Slappendel’s home movies – interviewing Noemi Cantele and the bus driver after the end of the ITT. I hope they found gelati….
Paolo Savoldelli turned up for the final stage commentary. He was really good with some nice technical insights.
Noemi Cantele being interviewed as some random passerby wanders into shot
The course strted with 50m downhill on carpet leading to a 90 degree left hand bend. That’s one way to get a few crashes on camera I guess.
Ellen van Dijk cutting it very fine on a left hander. There’s a worrying chunk missing out of that house that suggests that many others have misjudged their line here.
Not many were at the finish to see Teutenberg arrive. It’s strange how certain stages attract all the crowds.
According to Savoldelli, Emma J needs to drop her head a little and move her hands forward a bit further. Looks obvious, doesn’t it. And I was just patting myself on the back for spotting that she really should have tied her radio on a bit better.
He refrained from criticising Emma P. I can’t remember seeing her ride in her rainbows to date.
Apparently Vos punctured some 5k from the end, just before the cameras picked her up, and lost 25-30s. Otherwise she would have won this stage too. It looks like the organisers only had one pink baby-gro – spot the carefully hand-crafted Nederland Bloeit stencilling. Gav and her crayons couldn’t have done a better job.
Once more there was a speedbump just before the finish line. How Spanish.
Ever feel you’re being followed?
Do you recognise them out of uniform?
Things that they didn’t show earlier. Apparently Marianne had a small mechanical yesterday on the climb which forced her to change her bike. From this shot, which popped up in a short montage at the end, it looks like her chain broke and as a result she came close to smashing her jaw on the handlebars.
oh, was that the one we saw - just after the tunnel?
I guess Emma P rode in rainbows in that weird Cali ITT? But we never saw that on tv, which was weird in itself
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions
That's the accident
It’s scary how close she came to crashing out completely, and impressive how she didn’t seem flustered at all.
Her cyclocross & track skills coming through?
In this year’s cx Worlds, she had problems on the off-camber slope of disaster, & came off on a couple of laps – by the end, she was just running it! ‘Cross riders must get used to not panicking at disasters (I still really love the finale of Krawatencross, where her tyre fell off on the final lap, & she ran for the last quarter lap… with Hanka Kupfernagel doing the slowest sprint in the world trying not to overtake her on the finish-line – see the video, and isn’t this a fab photo of someone loving what they do?)
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions
and Jeroen Blijlevens (Nederland Bloeit DS)
I like the answer to “what was the most difficult thing for the team?” “there wasn’t one” – aw!
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions
and
again by CJ
and
On that lovely Piacenza news report
(If anyone missed those Piacenza pics, there are some lovely one of Giorgia Bronzini with her dog & with some fans)
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Video from the press conference after the race
Marianne Vos talking, in English, about how incredible she found it that she won – from Cicloweb, of course, give them a lot of love!
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Hahahaha, that's fabulous!
She’s a bit curlier in real life!
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 10, 2011 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions
The video from the final stage is up on youtube
via cyclingfever. I’m editing it into the article too – and if you haven’t already, check out the gorgeous vid at the bottom – it’s in-race footage from Lucinda Brand’s bike on stage 8 (if my Dutch is correct) – beautiful to see both the scenery and how the cyclists move around each other – so fluid! and the climbing! Just wow!
Wow, she's a freak, you know... in a good way.
And her hair would look great on my head. #hairenvy
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
Not really the place to put it but have a watch and listen
Glad it is all sorted for the men then.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/14127152.stm
In case the link dies (It is cycling but under the heading golf – ?How does that work ?) the title of the interview to search on the BBC is
Tour will be secondary to Olympics in 2012 – David Brailsford
It is like the female British road riders do not exist either for Brailsford or the BBC. Has he not realised Emma has just done a stunning ride into second and Nicole is back with a stage win ?
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