Apr 18, 2024
Kasia Niewiadoma! 🇵🇱
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Kasia Niewiadoma! 🇵🇱
Can we talk about Kasia Niewiadoma for a moment? Her second-place finish at Tour of Flanders was heartbreaking for her fans, who are longing to see her atop the podium of a road race again. When Shirin van Androoij and Elisa Longo Borghini made the final move, only Niewiadoma was strong enough to answer. Does she contribute more than she should in groups like this? Maybe, but we love to see her fight, and her participation in the group of three was what guaranteed cooperation and set the podium. Any race she is in is more exciting as a result.
And if you need to see her winning again, just remind yourself that she's the reining gravel champ!
Who's the best stage racer in the women's peloton right now? This woman right here.
With a solid lead over her rivals, the GC lead wasn't really in play in the fourth and final stage of the Tour de Suisse Women. But Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) wasn't leaving anything to chance. She won the final sprint to take the stage and show that she is the overwhelming favorite for this year's Tour de France Femmes.
It was an exciting final stage, with the rest of the podium at play and mere seconds separating Neve Bradbury (Canyon-SRAM), Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek), Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek), and Kim Cadzow (EF Education-Cannondale). Kasia Niewiadoma attacked in the final 10k, allowing her teammate Bradbury to sit on a bit. Lidl-Trek set a very hard pace for much of the day, and Niewiadoma's attack forced the team to sacrifice Gaia Realini's position on GC to ensure that ELB stayed on the podium. Realini did a big lead-out on the final climb, and ELB fought hard, and although she held off Niewiadoma to stay in third place, she couldn't put enough time into Bradbury, who stayed ahead of her by two seconds to keep second place.
In the end, as the top riders neared the finish, a relatively fresh Vollering lit up the sprint and won by several bike lengths. ELB took second, and Niewiadoma sat up to ensure that Bradbury placed third, taking the bonus seconds and cementing her second-place in the general classification.
The Tour de Suisse Women has some unusual stages, and we like the variety. It's also just a gorgeous race to watch. We'd really like to see this race expanded in the future.
Canyon-SRAM deserves kudos for the raid they pulled off on Stage 3, and an impressive set of performances from Neve Bradbury (2nd), Kasia Niewiadoma (4th), Antonia Niedermaier (6th), and with Elise Chabbey winning the Mountains Classification and placing 14th on GC.
Lidl-Trek also put up a big performance, with four riders in the top twelve. ELB did a really impressive time trial, and fought hard to stay on the podium. Realini was the closest rider to Vollering on the climbs. Amanda Spratt and Brodie Chapman did a lot of work for this result—Spratt in the breakaway on Stage 3 and Chapman single-handedly chasing down breakaways in Stage 4.
We were also impressed by Kim Cadzow's performance this week. She crashed on one of the descents and lost more than three minutes, but still finished the stage and came in eighth on GC despite her injuries. This was a great race to watch.
What do we love to see more than Kasia Niewiadoma winning races? Niewiadoma finishing alongside her teammate, Neve Bradbury (Canyon-SRAM), who takes her first professional victory!
Stage 3 of Tour de Suisse Women was an up-and-down stage with four categorized climbs, and multiple breakaways went up the road on the climbs. Bradbury went in one of the breakaways, and when Niewiadoma bridged to join her, they worked together with three other riders (Amanda Spratt, Elena Pirrone, Femke de Vries) and built a gap of almost three and a half minutes to the peloton. That forced SD Worx to chase, with a bit of help from dsm-firmenich PostNL.
Eventually, Bradbury and Niewiadoma dropped their breakaway companions on the last climb, and rolled into the finish together. Spratt and de Vries finished two minutes back, just ahead of the group of top riders—Demi Vollering, Elisa Longo Borghini, Gaia Realini, and Kim Cadzow.
Bradbury now finds herself in second on GC, 1:22 behind Vollering, so it will be interesting to see how Canyon-SRAM defends her podium position on the fourth and final stage!
Last year's Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes was a triple-crown victory for Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime), after she won the 2023 editions of Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallonne. This year she doesn't appear quite as dominant, but is still a favorite for the race. Other contenders include Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek), who has been very strong this spring, or Marianne Vos (Visma Lease-a-Bike), who has actually never won Liège-Bastogne-Liège but has been back in great form. Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) and Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) cant' be ruled out, and we can always hope that an unexpected winner will emerge—we love an exciting and unexpected race!
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