Franziska Koch

Eighth, Dominika Vlodarček.

Ninth, Maeve Esquivant and Franzi Koch rounding out the top ten.

There we go.

That is a list of who's who in women's cycling.

You've got the Frances where you can go early into an anticipation move to markets, but then you've still got Geri as the final executor, so to say.

You've got Germany where you've got multiple options as well, where Franziska Koch, she's been pretty fucking good this year.

So...

Can she follow holding on multiple climbs like that? I'm leaning more towards the no side there.

But if she's in like a group ahead early, then she's super dangerous.

Is she arguably too known to be too strong this year that she will be marked if she's in a group like that? That's also possible.

The irony is that all these riders we're talking about, Cherie, Volodin, Koch, all part of EDG, is there an element of great team, not necessarily cooperation, but maybe leniency, you think, in the women's race?

Like,

By checkpoint two, she was just three seconds behind the Brit.

By point three, she was in 14 seconds up, and from there to the finish, she put a lot of time into everyone, eventually crossing the line 40 seconds quicker than Bagstett, 45 in front of Germany's Franziska Koch.

In the men's, it was the young Swede Jakob Söderqvist who'd been pushing Evenepoel closest.

Less than 10 seconds down at the first time check, he didn't start to lose more time.

So yeah, there's lots of other ones.

There's again, Franzi Koch, she's had an incredible, incredible year winning the-

Oh, yeah

... uh, women's Paris-Roubaix.

So she broke the Bredewald streak.

Franzi Koch finished third.

So that was the race in a nutshell.

I mean, I found it quite interesting that it came down to a reduced bunch sprint.