Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2021

[heywoodu 15,145]

44 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Yeah, I’m  as one of those teams that goes all-out in the first 5km of the World Champs, gives up at the first railway bridge.

Dutch commentators were wondering how much of a junior team they'll be able to build  

[heywoodu 15,145]

USA's Kaia Schmid and Great Britain's Zoe Backstedt, who is at least twice Schmid's size, for the junior women's world title.

[Dunadan 1,103]

Yeah, this looks like a thirteen against a thirty year old.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

Zoe!  Just a great ride.  Proud dad Magnus lost for words in the comms box!  

[Grassmarket 3,409]

11 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

Yeah, this looks like a thirteen against a thirty year old.

In fact Schmid is the older one, but she is indeed tiny.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Three road races, nine medals....nine different countries  

[dodge 1,024]

This is great 

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

Following her victory of the ages, Anna Kiesenhofer is sadly becoming somewhat annoying. Now she suddenly races only time trials and looks for an excuse when she ends up placing far away from the podium (at least according to her social media). She was a surprise and very much an unexpected gold medal winner period. Can't she just own that?

 

And what's up with skipping all the road races? Stage fright?

[Grassmarket 3,409]

Trouble for Oranje as Demi Vollering has a mechanical at the worst possible place on the whole circuit.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

Following her victory of the ages, Anna Kiesenhofer is sadly becoming somewhat annoying. Now she suddenly races only time trials and looks for an excuse when she ends up placing far away from the podium (at least according to her social media). She was a surprise and very much an unexpected gold medal winner period. Can't she just own that?

 

And what's up with skipping all the road races? Stage fright?

She was always only a time trialist, only ended up in the Olympic road race because Austria did not have enough UCI points to place her in the TT.