The GP de Plouay-Bretagne is always one of the best races on the calendar, and the 2015 edition didn’t disappoint – NON-stop attacking, non-stop action, and we have a LOT of videos to watch!
Here’s the full last 50 kilometres on the UCI youtube – click through and watch, it’s glorious! And here’s the highlights – from the UCI and from Wiggle Honda.
Results and photos below, and I’ll add more videos as I see them – anything you see and like, leave me a comment, or tell me on twitter, and I’ll add them in
If you want more, the full race, team edits, and all the videos from the rest of the week’s MTB, track, TTT and road racing, on 4 continents, are over here – and don’t forget, we can watch the last round of the 2015 women’s road cycling World Cup, the GP de Plouay tomorrow, 29th August – here’s how.
It’s the last round of the 2015 women’s Road Cycling World Cup, the GP de Plouay-Bretagne, on 29th August – and we can watch the last part of it live!
This is always a really exciting race, and part of a fantastic four day festival of cycling, the 4 Jours de Plouay. The route is 4 circuits of a 26.9 circuit (in red) and then a final run of 13.9k, the same course without the northern loop – 121.5k in total. You can read more about the course on Velofocus’ 2014 preview, as it’s the same. There’s a provisional startlist on the website, but that’s likely to change.
The race starts at 13:40 Euro CEST (12:40 UK BST; 7:40am N American EST; 9:40pm Aussie AEDT) but the tv starts later on France 3 (stream here, geo-restricted) and Eurosport at 15:30 CEST (2:30 BST, 9:30am EST, 11:30pm AEDT) and international Eurosport (not British)… and best yet for non-French people, on the UCI website – here’s the stream!
If THIS is blocked for you, or you want to watch the French stream, try Tunnelbear or another VPN solution (paying for Witopia is my recommendation) – if you use Tunnelbear, set yourself to somewhere like the UK, & then turn the TB off as soon as the stream starts, to save your allocation (use at your own risk of course)
To follow the first part of the race until the tv starts, I recommend twitter. The 4 Jours has a twitter here, and of course I’ve updated my live race tweeting list. The official hashag is #GPP15 for other updates too. The festival also has a great facebook, and they’ll put up videos on their Plouay TV page too.
There’s been SO MUCH racing this last week, all over the world, in so many disciplines.
On the road we had the Cresent Vårgårda World Cup in Sweden, the USA Pro Challenge and the Sam Miranda Tour of the King Valley in Australia. In MTB it was the Four Cross World Championships and the final rounds of the MTB World Cups in Val di Sole. And over in Kazakhstan it was the Junior Track World Championships – and there’s (so much!) video, photos & news about all of it. Grab a coffee/fire up the trainer/open a beer etc, and get ready for some really great cycling!
Let’s start with the World Cups, move through the World Championships and then hit the stage racing…
The road race on Sunday was in beautiful sunshine, and a new-ish course. You can watch the full race replay here on the UCI Youtube, and there are highlights and team videos below:
First of all, the TTT…. this has been dominated pretty consistently by Specialized-lululemon/Velocio-SRAM for the past few years… as every TTT has… but would their run continue? Watch and find out!
I love this time of year – it’s when we get all kinds of live women’s cycling, and it makes me very happy. This weekend we’ve got three live races to watch – the Downhill and Cross Country Mountain Bike World Championships in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada, and the Prudential Ride London GP, a crit in the heart of London that passes Buckingham Palace. And as well as that, we can follow the 2015 Para-Cycling Road World Championships. Do you feel spoiled? I do! Here’s how to watch the MTB and crit live, and how to follow the Paracycling, and the Sparkassen Giro Road World Cup as they happen.
The race is part of the Olympic legacy weekend of racing, and while I’m sad the women don’t get to ride the Olympic road race course like the men (& sportif riders do), it’s an excellent event. The race starts at 6pm UK BST (19:00 Euro CEST, 1pm North American EDT, 3am Aussie AEDT) and it’ll be shown and streamed live – I recommend watching Rochelle Gilmore commentating on BBC2 from 6pm – and you can watch online here if you’re in the UK…. while I’m doing something super-scary, commentating my first official race, with Hugh Porter, for the international feed, which I think is on Eurosport and British Eurosport, Eurosport Asia and SKY NZ. Aaargh!
The course is the same finish as the Olympic road race, down the Mall, then round St James’ Park. If you happen to come to the race, come and hang out with some women’s cycling fans from twitter afterwards, in the ICA Café on the Mall.
