I feel like nobody ever mentions the fact that this is AVV's age 40 season. The fact that she's on the level she is right now is unreal. Vollering is finally winning against her consistently for the first time ever...
I also don't think she has been doing the same asinine training she did in years past (i.e. - join men's training camp)... her approach to cycling seems more casual than it did before.
@@cup_and_cone No it isn't. She said she will attack this season because she's already decided it will be her last. In the preseason she rode the most kms in the peloton, men and women.
@@cup_and_cone I don't know. Her Strava says she did 5 (!) back to back weeks of around 30 hrs (!) in Januari and Februari. Maybe she isn't as vocal about it, but the training volume seems as big as ever.
Loving women's cycling these days. The stars, the routes, the coverage. As a fan of pro cycling, now I have twice the entertainment! All this interest and talent will doubtless inspire future generations of incredible female athletes also.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the performance from Bauernfeind? She held AVV's wheel for the whole climb only losing a couple seconds in the last few hundred meters. Really impressed by the young German.
@@AshKetchhum It's not just about following Vollering and van Vleuten (even though they are 2 of the 3 strongest climbers in cycling), it's also about beating 99 % of the peloton, including a lot of big names.
Fantastic coverage. I've eaten sandwiches bigger than Realini; she would absolutely drop me and anyone I have ever raced with in my career. AVV is already a legend before retirement. What an amazing athlete. What an inspiration....
As soon as Vollering set the pace on that final climb, I feel like it was pretty obvious how the race was going to end. It was funny watch AVV out of the saddle at 300m to go, she looked like she was going so hard yet somehow going nowhere. Fwiw I think this finish bodes really well for AVV. Her current form compared to the early spring races is night and day. It lends credence to the fact that she will be in top shape come TdFF.
Funnily enough, I think that it is the other way around: AvVs style looks like she is going nowhere, throwing her body all over the bike but she is actually going quite fast, only beaten by Vollering who is just the best on these shorter climbs this year.
@@stefanjoeres7149 Agreed, her style is very deceptive. When she's out of the saddle it looks like she puts everything into it but most of the energy is wasted if you only look at her. Then you look for other riders and usually they're in the background...
@@stefanjoeres7149 Oh yeah, no doubt she was going fast, it was just the combo of the steep finish, combined with Vollering's pace that made it look funny.
Vollering is on another level this year. She's riding everyone off the wheel without even looking like she's trying - everyone else is struggling and out of the saddle, and she's seated without even looking like she's breaking a sweat. At least in men's racing Pogi and Remco look like they're trying when they're blowing everyone up.
Great to see this video despite all the Giro activities you are doing, thanks! Would have been nice to cut down a bit on the Realini content and give a bit more praise to Bauernfeind who was amazing, and Muzic was great too. Both finishing very close to the old and the new pacesetter. As you say, exciting to see what will happen especially on Sunday. The last bastion of AVV dominance, the very long climbs, will it be conquered too by Vollering? And can the youngsters Bauernfeind, Muzic and Realini stay close again, even what will this years improved riders Chabbey and Markus do?
Props to Realini for being a team player and doing her best to play the role she was assigned, despite clearly being stronger than the rider she was working for.
Fischer-Black got chopped by Mavi Garcia, then screwed over by the jury making barrage and then she's probably sad that her own GC standing is kinda dead now.. Brutal call the jury made there in my opinion. Would've been cool to see SDW play the game of having two riders near the top taking turns attacking
marlen could've helped fisher-black. canyon could've made the race harder for ricarda. movistar could've made Anemeik their sole leader. loes and cavalli could've supported muzic. it's not just trek.
@@sudsehun76 Marlen stayed with her team leader, the only common sense thing to do here, if Vollering has an issue she has to help her. Canyon could not have guessed from any previous performance that Bauernfeind would be on the tails of AVV and Vollering on this climb, what exactly should Loes and Cavalli have done for Muzic? Drive hard at the front? Do you think that if Canyon and FDJ had made the race harder Bauernfeind and Muzic would have finished ahead of AVV and Vollering? No not at all, the way the race went was perfect for these two girls, a harder race would have suited the two Dutch ladies a lot more than them. And by the way Trek only had one other rider there. This video makes it seem as if Realini was pulling all the time for Spratt, but that was not the case at all, she was there only a little bit.
@@rulifaller8474 what should loes and cavalli have done? since muzic lost time in previous stage cos of echelon and loes and cavalli clearly weren't in form, they could've paced to lower the GC time muzic lost on field. they had 3 mins on fisher-black group with lippert and other GC riders which was brought back to 30 secs, u do the math. neiwadoma had already dropped in the first climb, before the coverage started, i was checking procyclingstats, so the team already knew she won't make the final climb but they just played the hoping game instead of pulling for ricarda who also lost time in echelon. but response was to the comment of how trek needed to ride for realini, which is a complete hindsight talk. so similarly i made stupid assumption, like going back in time and making reuser bring back fisher-black since she didn't need to look after demi, canyon and FDJ pace the peleton since now we know ricarda and muzic are stronger, etc.
I am new to cycling but there is a way this team makes riders super climbers and unbeatable. Kopecky was an average sprinter and classics rider with no major wins. Upon joining the team last year, she instantly started dropping the whole peloton including AVV at Strade Bianche and Flanders. Reusser was a time trialist and a power on the flats. This year she attacked and dropped the whole peloton on the climb at Gent Wevelgem. In LBL she dropped pure climber Amanda Sprat on a climb, stayed with the favourites through La Redooute and Falcons when the break was caught and outsprinted some of the "fresh" fast finishers for 3rd place. Wiebes could not climb a hill at DSM. This year at Omloop she was dropping the best classics specialists at the Mur. At Amstel, she comfortably "survived" almost all the climbs and even launched a blistering attack against the group of favourites on the Cauberg.
No mention of Bauernfeind? I had never heard of her until this point, but following the 2 superstars for that long was incredible. Hope this is a sign of a new superstar rising (:
I haven't been keeping up with the women's peloton as much as i should have. Is Dygert back on form now? She seemed to have a really rough time after her big accident with that awful injury.
Vollering is on fire and I think it's hers to lose, but as others have said, it is truly impressive how Van Vleuten is still challenging for the Red Jersey at 40. Also the women's kits are better looking than the men's, change my mind
Tough crash for Fisher-Black but good for AVV as I reckon Vollering would have ended up with a bigger gap if she had been able to pace hard on that last climb
@@pauljansen1137 cos she cries every race. matter of fact she cries every chance she gets? they even made fun of her yesterday. and it's disrespectful cos marianne vos is dubbed as the cannibal and she's still racing and winning. i'm just the messenger :)
Anna van der Breggen really prepared Vollering to be her proper replacement .. Van Vleuten has some problems i think or maybe she is timing her form for later in year
Well AVV was second today, only three seconds behind. The problem she has indeed is that Vollering is developing into AVDB 2.0, a more powerful version than the original.
AVV performance for being 40 years old is amazing, but her riding style (especially out of the saddle) is hard to watch, especially compared to Vollering.
Not so much. Others are improving and she obviously cannot really improve a lot anymore. She was still second today, and without the enormous step up that Vollering took this year AVV would still have won this stage.
@@geoffreyholmes5447 and she was 20 last year when she won 3 grand tours, 1 monument and world championship? to put things into perspective, he's asking what happened to 39 yrs old avv frm last year who dominated womens racing for the whole year.
AVV hasnt really looked convincing in any race this season sadly, just seems to be lacking something overall....having said that....she's 40 and she's still the one to beat for Vollering, which is pretty damn remarkable anyway! Awesome seeing Dygert in these races also, huge fan of hers, she is one of those imposing, screen chewing riders!
@@Steve-jo3cl mate AVV is like 500 years old and has been until this year cooking everyone. Vollering was easily second best last year. Not a surprise for her to be better than AVV this year at all.
I just dont get how Vollering can make the tempo for the last 2-3 k and nobody can hold the wheel and she can go even faster the last 200 m and smiles like she just did a easy training
@@ReAIex17 If you can't understand this performance, you damn sure won't be able to make sense of how AvV broke away 60km from the finish and then pulled a 5-minute gap on a chasing peloton in stage 7 of the 2022 TdFF. Or, alternatively, you could go watch professional tiddlywinks instead of cycling, because rather than learning a damn thing about the sport you just say "DRUGZ" when something happens which you did not expect.
@@ReAIex17 Have you seen her legs? Muscle power is better than say VV, so her legs just like the pressure when it gets steeper, VV however then has to go full circus mode to even stay somewhat near. Vollering has the superior build for climbs like this, an she is obviously in form and one the fastest women.
I don't really care about doping but it's refreshing to hear some dope talk with regards to women's cycling!! If Demi V was a man the accusations would be constant.
@@ktakashismith where u live, have the news been out that lance doped to win 7 TDF? i'm curious cos this only happened recently and not everyone is aware.
Wat een jankerd is die Demi vollering dan moet ze harder gaan fietsen ze kan gewoon niet tegen haar verlies ze moet gewoon stoppen met wielrennen als Ze niet tegen haar verlies kan
I feel like nobody ever mentions the fact that this is AVV's age 40 season. The fact that she's on the level she is right now is unreal. Vollering is finally winning against her consistently for the first time ever...
And don't count her out yet...
I also don't think she has been doing the same asinine training she did in years past (i.e. - join men's training camp)... her approach to cycling seems more casual than it did before.
@@cup_and_cone No it isn't. She said she will attack this season because she's already decided it will be her last. In the preseason she rode the most kms in the peloton, men and women.
@@cup_and_cone I don't know. Her Strava says she did 5 (!) back to back weeks of around 30 hrs (!) in Januari and Februari. Maybe she isn't as vocal about it, but the training volume seems as big as ever.
@@Jeroen_K and u are right
Loving women's cycling these days. The stars, the routes, the coverage. As a fan of pro cycling, now I have twice the entertainment! All this interest and talent will doubtless inspire future generations of incredible female athletes also.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the performance from Bauernfeind? She held AVV's wheel for the whole climb only losing a couple seconds in the last few hundred meters. Really impressed by the young German.
you do know AVV is in her 40s?
@@AshKetchhum It's not just about following Vollering and van Vleuten (even though they are 2 of the 3 strongest climbers in cycling), it's also about beating 99 % of the peloton, including a lot of big names.
VV did not wrestle with the bike enough, should have put it in a head lock
Naw dude need to do a tope suicida or a death valley driver.
The difference in their styles is really striking. AVV looks to be in p a i n.
she wrestles the bike any more she’ll transform into mauri vansevanant
i believe that she’s wearing the leader’s jersey of the UCI points category
Seriously though, her out of the saddle riding style is painful to watch. Suppose it has worked for her though
Fantastic coverage. I've eaten sandwiches bigger than Realini; she would absolutely drop me and anyone I have ever raced with in my career. AVV is already a legend before retirement. What an amazing athlete. What an inspiration....
As soon as Vollering set the pace on that final climb, I feel like it was pretty obvious how the race was going to end. It was funny watch AVV out of the saddle at 300m to go, she looked like she was going so hard yet somehow going nowhere. Fwiw I think this finish bodes really well for AVV. Her current form compared to the early spring races is night and day. It lends credence to the fact that she will be in top shape come TdFF.
Funnily enough, I think that it is the other way around: AvVs style looks like she is going nowhere, throwing her body all over the bike but she is actually going quite fast, only beaten by Vollering who is just the best on these shorter climbs this year.
@@stefanjoeres7149 Agreed, her style is very deceptive. When she's out of the saddle it looks like she puts everything into it but most of the energy is wasted if you only look at her. Then you look for other riders and usually they're in the background...
@@stefanjoeres7149 Oh yeah, no doubt she was going fast, it was just the combo of the steep finish, combined with Vollering's pace that made it look funny.
Vollering is on another level this year. She's riding everyone off the wheel without even looking like she's trying - everyone else is struggling and out of the saddle, and she's seated without even looking like she's breaking a sweat.
At least in men's racing Pogi and Remco look like they're trying when they're blowing everyone up.
YESSSSSSS
Amazing video! thank you for the coverage
Great to see this video despite all the Giro activities you are doing, thanks!
Would have been nice to cut down a bit on the Realini content and give a bit more praise to Bauernfeind who was amazing, and Muzic was great too. Both finishing very close to the old and the new pacesetter.
As you say, exciting to see what will happen especially on Sunday. The last bastion of AVV dominance, the very long climbs, will it be conquered too by Vollering? And can the youngsters Bauernfeind, Muzic and Realini stay close again, even what will this years improved riders Chabbey and Markus do?
Demi is an Animal! Love seeing 2023 being her year!!!
i want to see Realini go full Pantani one of these days. Shaved head, hoop ear/nose rings and a bandana.
Vollering fr the baddest femenina in the peloton rn no cap
Vollering is looking more and more like having one of the best seasons ever. May even top AVV's season last year.
Props to Realini for being a team player and doing her best to play the role she was assigned, despite clearly being stronger than the rider she was working for.
Really enjoying all the women's cycling coverage!
Fischer-Black got chopped by Mavi Garcia, then screwed over by the jury making barrage and then she's probably sad that her own GC standing is kinda dead now.. Brutal call the jury made there in my opinion.
Would've been cool to see SDW play the game of having two riders near the top taking turns attacking
Can someone tell Trek that the squad should ride for Realini?
marlen could've helped fisher-black. canyon could've made the race harder for ricarda. movistar could've made Anemeik their sole leader. loes and cavalli could've supported muzic. it's not just trek.
@@sudsehun76 Marlen stayed with her team leader, the only common sense thing to do here, if Vollering has an issue she has to help her. Canyon could not have guessed from any previous performance that Bauernfeind would be on the tails of AVV and Vollering on this climb, what exactly should Loes and Cavalli have done for Muzic? Drive hard at the front? Do you think that if Canyon and FDJ had made the race harder Bauernfeind and Muzic would have finished ahead of AVV and Vollering? No not at all, the way the race went was perfect for these two girls, a harder race would have suited the two Dutch ladies a lot more than them. And by the way Trek only had one other rider there. This video makes it seem as if Realini was pulling all the time for Spratt, but that was not the case at all, she was there only a little bit.
@@rulifaller8474 what should loes and cavalli have done? since muzic lost time in previous stage cos of echelon and loes and cavalli clearly weren't in form, they could've paced to lower the GC time muzic lost on field. they had 3 mins on fisher-black group with lippert and other GC riders which was brought back to 30 secs, u do the math. neiwadoma had already dropped in the first climb, before the coverage started, i was checking procyclingstats, so the team already knew she won't make the final climb but they just played the hoping game instead of pulling for ricarda who also lost time in echelon.
but response was to the comment of how trek needed to ride for realini, which is a complete hindsight talk. so similarly i made stupid assumption, like going back in time and making reuser bring back fisher-black since she didn't need to look after demi, canyon and FDJ pace the peleton since now we know ricarda and muzic are stronger, etc.
@@rulifaller8474 are u a gaia realini believer now?
4:56 is just craaaazy
she rides likes she's angry at the bike
I am new to cycling but there is a way this team makes riders super climbers and unbeatable. Kopecky was an average sprinter and classics rider with no major wins. Upon joining the team last year, she instantly started dropping the whole peloton including AVV at Strade Bianche and Flanders.
Reusser was a time trialist and a power on the flats. This year she attacked and dropped the whole peloton on the climb at Gent Wevelgem. In LBL she dropped pure climber Amanda Sprat on a climb, stayed with the favourites through La Redooute and Falcons when the break was caught and outsprinted some of the "fresh" fast finishers for 3rd place.
Wiebes could not climb a hill at DSM. This year at Omloop she was dropping the best classics specialists at the Mur. At Amstel, she comfortably "survived" almost all the climbs and even launched a blistering attack against the group of favourites on the Cauberg.
Demi looking strong for the TdF!
No mention of Bauernfeind? I had never heard of her until this point, but following the 2 superstars for that long was incredible. Hope this is a sign of a new superstar rising (:
I haven't been keeping up with the women's peloton as much as i should have. Is Dygert back on form now? She seemed to have a really rough time after her big accident with that awful injury.
disappointing that coverage started in the valley after the main climb today
If Niamh F B had been there to do some semi nuclear pace settling for Vollering the gap to AVV could have been over 30 second s 😊
Terbaik lah Marianne Vos
Surprised that neither Vollering and Van Vleuten had any help from their teammates on the climb....Vollering was great...
Demi looks like Remco with long hair
genius riding. if you can stay in the saddle while others dont and attack then do it!
Vollering is on fire and I think it's hers to lose, but as others have said, it is truly impressive how Van Vleuten is still challenging for the Red Jersey at 40.
Also the women's kits are better looking than the men's, change my mind
What a difference a day makes… AVV is back
Where is the stage 6 highlights?
Tough crash for Fisher-Black but good for AVV as I reckon Vollering would have ended up with a bigger gap if she had been able to pace hard on that last climb
Giro videos coming up?
why does Demi Vollering wear a different color jersey from her teammates?
She is the current leader in the world tour.
that's the jersey for world tour leader classification.
I wish FDJ had posed Muzic as their primary the whole time. She has good power!
I don't think AVV is in the same form that saw here sweep the tours last year...
AvV really wrestling that bike.
Van vleuten toujours dans les roues
Keep an eye on that Ricarda Bauernfeind👀
if Trek don't ride all in for Gaia at TdF Femme it will be a cardinal sin
Whoops #saturday 😮😂
Vollering is the new "cannibal' in this peloton...still...gotta respect Van Vleuten for being second at her age though!!!
Lol what a way to disrespect the real cannibal by calling this crybaby that
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@@apolloniusbeitsman5444 why is she a crybaby?
@@apolloniusbeitsman5444 There's a video of Merckx crying in Italian because he got caught doping.
@@pauljansen1137 cos she cries every race. matter of fact she cries every chance she gets? they even made fun of her yesterday. and it's disrespectful cos marianne vos is dubbed as the cannibal and she's still racing and winning. i'm just the messenger :)
Tadej Vollering
Ratio *protective barriers/spectator* : 300.
she is a killer at the moment
Anna van der Breggen really prepared Vollering to be her proper replacement .. Van Vleuten has some problems i think or maybe she is timing her form for later in year
True, real deal AVB reincarnation. Similar riding style as well.
Well AVV was second today, only three seconds behind. The problem she has indeed is that Vollering is developing into AVDB 2.0, a more powerful version than the original.
Demi Vollering "owns" the World Tour points leader jersey.
And a day later VV blew them all to pieces
AVV performance for being 40 years old is amazing, but her riding style (especially out of the saddle) is hard to watch, especially compared to Vollering.
kinda disappointed with Niewiadoma performance. Oh boy cant wait for the weekend.
What’s going on with AVV
seems like sd are on juice.
She's 40
Not so much. Others are improving and she obviously cannot really improve a lot anymore.
She was still second today, and without the enormous step up that Vollering took this year AVV would still have won this stage.
@@geoffreyholmes5447 and she was 20 last year when she won 3 grand tours, 1 monument and world championship? to put things into perspective, he's asking what happened to 39 yrs old avv frm last year who dominated womens racing for the whole year.
She's as awesome as ever, only to miss out by a few seconds. What's going on with you?
Realini had some really high socks on, eh?
No, they're normal sized socks. She's just small...
The lowest available on the market
AVV hasnt really looked convincing in any race this season sadly, just seems to be lacking something overall....having said that....she's 40 and she's still the one to beat for Vollering, which is pretty damn remarkable anyway!
Awesome seeing Dygert in these races also, huge fan of hers, she is one of those imposing, screen chewing riders!
AVV has got to have the ugliest look on the bike I've ever seen lol
That was some bullshit on hanging her out to dry after a crash. Total bullshit
AVV should learn to ride with her bike, rather than wrestling it up the hill 😅
She's defending her Giro, Tour, Vuelta titles and the world champion's jersey. I think she's learned to ride her bike pretty well.
Realini get fined for those socks yet?
Tomorrow's stage will be far more exciting than the Giro TT. The sport's most boring stage type.
Vollering is crazy. She wins classics, stage races, now even challenging GC for grand tour.
I still want to see AVV win tho!
yeah doesnt look real
@@ReAIex17 thats cause its not !!!! no one has the kinda of performance jump season on season at a elite level without help
@@Steve-jo3cl mate AVV is like 500 years old and has been until this year cooking everyone. Vollering was easily second best last year. Not a surprise for her to be better than AVV this year at all.
@@dcollis1239 Wake up man !
No rights for the Giro? I mean femme is more or less fun, but it feels like a consolation pack... And I can't stand GCN's highlights :)
The Dutch have some good doping!
I just dont get how Vollering can make the tempo for the last 2-3 k and nobody can hold the wheel and she can go even faster the last 200 m and smiles like she just did a easy training
@@ReAIex17 If you can't understand this performance, you damn sure won't be able to make sense of how AvV broke away 60km from the finish and then pulled a 5-minute gap on a chasing peloton in stage 7 of the 2022 TdFF. Or, alternatively, you could go watch professional tiddlywinks instead of cycling, because rather than learning a damn thing about the sport you just say "DRUGZ" when something happens which you did not expect.
@@ReAIex17 Have you seen her legs? Muscle power is better than say VV, so her legs just like the pressure when it gets steeper, VV however then has to go full circus mode to even stay somewhat near. Vollering has the superior build for climbs like this, an she is obviously in form and one the fastest women.
I don't really care about doping but it's refreshing to hear some dope talk with regards to women's cycling!! If Demi V was a man the accusations would be constant.
@@ktakashismith where u live, have the news been out that lance doped to win 7 TDF? i'm curious cos this only happened recently and not everyone is aware.
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Wat een jankerd is die Demi vollering dan moet ze
harder gaan fietsen ze kan gewoon niet tegen haar
verlies ze moet gewoon stoppen met wielrennen als
Ze niet tegen haar verlies kan