gerriemtb Posted February 21 Posted February 21 New season started. Maddie le Roux from South Africa is a finalist. HdB, Sandro, shaper and 3 others 5 1
Sydd Posted February 21 Posted February 21 This should be pinned for the next few days 😁 - I hope that everyone gets behind Maddie and follows the episodes as they are shown on the Eurosport YoutTube page. Fingers crossed for her! Flemish Lion and mecheng89 1 1
Shebeen Posted February 21 Posted February 21 5 hours ago, gerriemtb said: New season started. Maddie le Roux from South Africa is a finalist. https://www.instagram.com/p/C3mv6LKKSPS/
BuffsVintageBikes Posted February 22 Posted February 22 The w/kg on those laaities are mind blowing 😲 gerriemtb 1
Andymann Posted February 22 Posted February 22 20 hours ago, Sydd said: This should be pinned for the next few days 😁 - I hope that everyone gets behind Maddie and follows the episodes as they are shown on the Eurosport YoutTube page. Fingers crossed for her! I've met Maddie a few times - my Wife used to coach her during her Triathlon days and we were all in Avilles together for Duathlon. She's really cool and I hope it works out for her. My gut feeling tells me though that the Team is looking for decent all-rounders and not specialists so I don't know if she's what they want.
Headshot Posted February 22 Posted February 22 Awesome - I enjoyed the first show and was wondering if it had been canned in the big GCN WBD mess. Some inspiration for the fun ride world champs in three weeks time.
gerriemtb Posted February 22 Author Posted February 22 2 hours ago, Andymann said: My gut feeling tells me though that the Team is looking for decent all-rounders and not specialists so I don't know if she's what they want. If I remember correctly it also seemed that the team had their mind made up on what kind of rider they wanted with the men in the previous season. Kind of defeats the purpose of the finals of the academy. But that is me without ANY expertise looking in from the outside. They sure look like they know what they are doing.
Akon Posted February 22 Posted February 22 48 minutes ago, gerriemtb said: If I remember correctly it also seemed that the team had their mind made up on what kind of rider they wanted with the men in the previous season. Kind of defeats the purpose of the finals of the academy. But that is me without ANY expertise looking in from the outside. They sure look like they know what they are doing. There is a pre-episode in which they said the finalists are selected to fit in with what the teams are looking for, for that particular year, so all should have a fair change, at least in that regard... gerriemtb and Sydd 2
Andymann Posted February 22 Posted February 22 So last year my Wife made it into the last 10 of the Zwift Academy Tri and we were pretty sure she stood a good shot of making it into the team based on what we thought were what they were looking for - everyday people who were good enough to race in KONA but had never had the opportunity to be coached correctly. The final ladies that were selected were all semi-pro, were all already sponsored and I think if I recall 2 had already raced at KONA and won their Age groups. What they weren't were amateurs that had never been offered an opportunity. ZA is marketed as an avenue for everyday people who are good enough to make it to a pro team, but really everyday people don't stand a chance - I think they know from the start who they want. ZA Tri was cancelled for this year, and I see the ZA Run team was also not announced. gerriemtb 1
gerriemtb Posted February 22 Author Posted February 22 44 minutes ago, Akon said: There is a pre-episode in which they said the finalists are selected to fit in with what the teams are looking for, for that particular year, so all should have a fair change, at least in that regard... Thanks, didn't watch that episode. mecheng89 1
Bub Marley Posted February 22 Posted February 22 1 hour ago, Akon said: There is a pre-episode in which they said the finalists are selected to fit in with what the teams are looking for, for that particular year, so all should have a fair change, at least in that regard... Not sure how this correlates with the men this year. All three are GC contenders and Alpecin are not a GC team so a bit of a strange selections there.
W@nted Posted February 22 Posted February 22 I still cannot get my head around the numbers these "semi pros" are pushing.
Frosty Posted February 22 Posted February 22 Her not being here for the last year makes sense after she explained where she was... boom bada bing, she ended up in Switzerland. I've done one race in A-bunch, which I see she was in the bunch, that was before she rode with the Cycle Nation ladies team.
mecheng89 Posted February 23 Posted February 23 15 hours ago, W@nted said: I still cannot get my head around the numbers these "semi pros" are pushing. Especially the ginger. They were even baffled as to why no one picked him up before. gerriemtb 1
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