Well it wasn’t what we imagined, but the 2024 season will go down as historic and memorable on the Men’s side, and less historic but ultra-competitive on the Women’s side. And while the details can be covered in our other traditional year-end posts, for the FSA Directeur Sportif it looks an awful lot like the year we just watched. You’ll never guess which Men’s rider was on all of the top 10 teams…
[And you’ll never guess who banked hard on vdP/Remco overcoming… and who finished 519th. It seemed like a good idea at the time.]
[Narrator voice: Actually it didn’t.]
Anyway, let’s not quibble over who made what stupid choices last winter, and focus on the people who pushed all the right buttons!
Meet Our Winners!
Congrats to our Men’s podium! DiCenta’s Azzurra took a narrow 250-point win from Team Andmujika with Simpslb’s Grupetto leading home the chase group just a bit off the pace.
And chapeau to our Women’s Comp leaders! The Peluchen Effect, DS dreamer_mg, scored a 1,000-point victory over seriouscharly’s Lotte Finistère, in a 14-point photo finish with Luctor Emergo’s Pride and Prejudice.
Finally, our combined ranking competition was won by Moncassin31, whose dual Pédale! teams eeked out a very tight victory.
As always, we invite our winners to come by and tell their story. Every wnning team has a story! But I will start off with a bit of background.
DiCenta is a first time player! Obviously no novice to the concept though. By contrast, Andomujika has been playing since the competition went digital in 2010. SimpSLB has been involved since 2016.
All of our women’s winners have been around for a while. Luctor Emergo was 13th last year, as well as 6th two years ago. Moncassin31 is another long-time player and was 4th in the combined last year.
Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images
And Now a Win From Our Sponsor…
FSA and Vision have a long list of World Tour athletes and results to brag about, and while Visma came back to Earth this year, there were still wins all over the landscape from EF Education, Israel-PremierTech, Astana, UNO-X, Lotto DSTNY, and Arkea. And it didn’t get any bigger than Kristen Faulkner’s Olympic Road Race gold medal. [They were actually all over Paris this summer.] We don’t talk about their many disciplines…
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