Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2018

[dcro 10,210]

Dutch gold is almost a given in women's road cycling these days. Beyond ridiculous when looking at comparative randomness of men's races.

[heywoodu 16,004]

7 minutes ago, dareza said:

@heywoodu

 

what is the secret? how your team are good like this? Children probably have very good working conditions?

 

Near-perfect generation (Zijland-Van Moorsel was great, Vos was great, but they didn't have a team with 5-6 women all capable of winning a medal), women's cycling being more of a 'thing' than in other countries (not very big, but still), more available money, very poor international strength in women's cycling, and so on. 

 

I think it's mostly a mix of Dutch women's cycling being good and international women's cycling being painfully weak  

[heywoodu 16,004]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

Dutch gold is almost a given in women's road cycling these days. Beyond ridiculous when looking at comparative randomness of men's races.

Yes because no country dominates for example men's Grand Tours  

[heywoodu 16,004]

10 minutes ago, dcro said:

And we go above 3:24.

 

Possibly biggest winning margin ever.

Nope, Marsal won by 3:24 in 1990, but a year earlier she lost to Longo by 4:05

 

Second biggest margin ever.

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Yes because no country dominates for example men's Grand Tours  

 

Thanks for reminding me of the very existence of the Grand Duchy of Sky.

[Майкл 561]

Dutch girls dominating the top 10

[heywoodu 16,004]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

Thanks for reminding me of the very existence of the Grand Duchy of Sky.

 

You're welcome. Tomorrow a world title for Kwiatkowski, Poels, Geoghegan Hart, Stannard, Henao, Henao or Kiriyenka to top it off  

[heywoodu 16,004]

3 minutes ago, Майкл said:

Dutch girls dominating the top 10

With Brand winning the sprint for 9th with one hand in the air while the rest was trying everything to beat her

 

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1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

With Brand winning the sprint for 9th with one hand in the air while the rest was trying everything to beat her

 

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 At least it was her hand, and not the leg

[Monzanator 4,768]

Van der Breggen finaly gets that rainbow jersey. Long overdue IMO.

 

It's clear the strenght of the Dutch team enables them to dominate.

 

What the hell happened with that Deignan though? Since missing those drug tests and barely escaping a ban, she's been struggling for results. Coincidence?