Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2018

[Agger 1,663]

1 hour ago, Gigs said:

A well organized peloton can easily catch the break. The dangerous thing is, what if the race splits on the descent or some favorites go really early before the break is caught. For the same reason Paris Roubaix is so often won by the break as the peloton thinks it can easily close a 3 or 4 minutes gap until suddenly the peloton blows up in arenberg and nobody is able to organize a proper chase. If something unexpected happens this could be dangerous for the favorites. 

 

Also you never quite know how well organized they'll be in teams with several potential winners.

[heywoodu 15,141]

2 hours ago, dcro said:

When was the last time that a break won the WCh?

2013 I think? When there was a lead group and the Spaniards refused to help each other so totally fucked up their almost certain gold and let Rui Costa ride away to the gold  (which was awesome because I had money on him at odds of 63)

[Gianlu33 4,568]

And Sagan is out

[dcro 10,210]

5 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

And Sagan is out

 

Damn... Probably got depressed after he saw hckosice's complete lack of belief here.

[heywoodu 15,141]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Damn... Probably got depressed after he saw hckosice's complete lack of belief here.

Luckily Sagan anticipated this by becoming Slovak champion, so yet again he won't have to ride around in a regular sponsor's jersey  

Edited September 30, 2018 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,141]

Schachmann in trouble, Benoot in trouble. 

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Schachmann in trouble, Benoot in trouble. 

 

And some thought Schachmann was a bigger favorite than Sagan...

[heywoodu 15,141]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

And some thought Schachmann was a bigger favorite than Sagan...

Indeed, beyond ridiculous  

[heywoodu 15,141]

Sagan DNF's and 15 minutes later Pöstlberger is out, that's no coincidence  

[heywoodu 15,141]

Crash Roglic