Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2018

[heywoodu 15,332]

  On 9/25/2018 at 11:00 AM, dcro said:

So apparently Evenepoel is a football school dropout.

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He played in Anderlecht's youth, then went to the youth of PSV (NED) and back to Anderlecht, meanwhile playing in Belgium's youth teams. At Anderlecht troubles with the coach led to him not being selectd anymore, so he moved to smaller KV Mechelen, where he quickly lost interest in football and decided to start racing (April last year ). Started with a 10th place on a regular road bike in a time trial against guys who had been racing for several years and then went on to destroy every junior  

[hckošice 15,079]

Men´s Junior Individual Time Trial

 

1. Remco Evenepoel    33:15.24

2. Lucas Plapp    +1:23.66

3. Andrea Piccolo    +1:37.62

 

Full Results HERE

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The competitiveness of women's cycling

 

[Monzanator 4,601]

It's still better than when they had Longo and a bunch of no-names

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  On 9/25/2018 at 2:24 PM, Monzanator said:

It's still better than when they had Longo and a bunch of no-names

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Like someone who won more Olympic gold medals than Longo  

[heywoodu 15,332]

The GPS in the end was only around 95% wrong  Saying Van Vleuten was 12-13 seconds faster than Van der Breggen, which turned out to be nearly half a minute

 

[Monzanator 4,601]

  On 9/25/2018 at 2:33 PM, heywoodu said:

Like someone who won more Olympic gold medals than Longo  

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I don't follow cycling on daily basis, you probably means van Morsel - what's her full name? (I never remember that).

[heywoodu 15,332]

  On 9/25/2018 at 4:41 PM, Monzanator said:

 

I don't follow cycling on daily basis, you probably means van Morsel - what's her full name? (I never remember that).

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Leontien Zijlaard - Van Moorsel (I think in that time it was still just Leontien van Moorsel). Who had the 2004 road race gold in her hands with a show of force in that race, until she was in the front of the pack, looked back and clipped a wheel, and fell. Few days later instead of being in the hospital, she won the ITT gold  

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Women´s Individual Time Trial

 

1. Annemiek Van Vleuten    34:25.36

2. Anna Van Der Breggen    +28.99

3. Ellen Van Dijk    +1:25.19

 

Full Results HERE

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in Netherlands they live with bicycle they eat bicycle they sleep with bicycle or what