Rider diary: Highs and lows of the Giro Donne
The longest and hardest stage race on the Women’s calendar is the ten-day Giro Donne. Second place on GC and a stage win for Emma Pooley made it a good result for our women’s team. Sharon Laws reflects on the biggest race of the women’s season. Iris Slappendal, Noemi Cantele, Sharon Laws, Lucy Martin, Jessie [...]
Race gallery: Giro Donne, stages 9-10
Emma Pooley takes second place overall Emma Pooley fighting it out with Marianne Vos More photos from the Giro Donne:
Race report: Pooley wins Giro Donne stage
Race report from Theo Maucher: It was a short but demanding stage. Emma tried everything to drop Vos from her wheel. Noemi and the other four prepared the attacks. The whole bunch was dropped but Vos. A great victory after a lot of great team work. Tomorrow again is an uphill finish wıth steeper sections [...]
Race report: Pooley into second – Giro Donne, stage 7
Race report from Theo Maucher: Today was the first of three demanding climbing stages with the famous Mortirolo. After 15km a group of 12 riders left the peloton including Garmin-Cervélo’s Carla Ryan. The group got a maximum advantage of 7 min, with 4:30min left at the begin of the Mortirolo climb. Carla Ryan did a [...]
Race report: Giro Donne, stages 4-5 and injury report
Race report from Theo Maucher Altedo to Verona 136km It has been a quite fast race. Nobody wanted to let a group go today. After 80km there was the first successful breakaway with a group of 11 including Iris Slappendel and Sharon Laws. Our plan worked because Sharon was dangerous for the GC riders. Nederland [...]
Race preview: Recon for the Giro Donne
Sharon Laws is part of our team for the Giro Donne, the Grand Tour for women’s racing. She sent this diary of the team’s scouting of the race. The Giro Donne is the most prestigious women’s stage race of the year and runs from the first to the tenth of July taking in many of [...]
