Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2022

[hckošice 14,836]

Bauke Mollema and his new pet

 

[dcro 10,210]

10 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Bauke Mollema and his new pet

 

[hckošice 14,836]

Just now, dcro said:

My favorite movie

 

I´ve seen it about a hundred times. i know i´m weird

 

btw back to Mollema and his pet, chapter II, the sad end of the birdie

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,147]

12 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Drama in the team TT - red hot favourites  suffer a mechanical to Mollema in the men’s leg, then van Vleuten crashes straight off the ramp in the women’s.  So going to be an unexpected winner.  
 

AvV looking in a bad way, has to race again on Saturday.

To be fair, Switzerland with a male dream team and a very strong female team is in no way an unexpected winner, and Italy with silver can hardly be called surprising as well  

Edited September 21, 2022 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,147]

Can someone tell the TV directors we don't need to see a full minute of coastline pictures every 2 kilometers in the deciding stages of a world championships race? We've seen the same thing roughly 75 times now, it's been enough.

 

And today it's fantastic weather for a race like this, but during the men's race tomorrow it will be all dry. Life is unfair  

[heywoodu 15,147]

Main riders back together after a strong group of five has been caught, but now Marlen Reusser is on the attack with 11k to go. Big question is how she'll go up Mt Pleasant, but otherwise she can be incredibly hard to catch.

Edited September 24, 2022 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,147]

This will be the first world championships (women) without a Dutch medal since 2014, and only the second since 2005  

[heywoodu 15,147]

Five riders gone, same five as a lap earlier  

 

Almost getting caught by a group, and there's another group behind them. Super tense race  

[heywoodu 15,147]

Oh wow, what an insane attack by Van Vleuten with her broken elbow in the last kilometer, without even standing up, straight to the world title  

[Dennis 712]

26 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

This will be the first world championships (women) without a Dutch medal since 2014, and only the second since 2005  

 

But yeah, even at the start of the last km, I would have placed a serious bet on no Dutch rider finishing in the top 10 today, and then this happens.  

 

What a crazy finish and once again, what an amazing season for Van Vleuten.