Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2022

[heywoodu 16,465]

And that's it for / Rien Schuurhuis, who stayed in it for over 100km and showed himself nicely early on in the race.

Edited September 25, 2022 by heywoodu

[De_Gambassi 1,369]

Morning Is there a link somewhere with a recap of the first four hours ?

[heywoodu 16,465]

7 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Morning Is there a link somewhere with a recap of the first four hours ?

You can probably scroll down and work your way up here:

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/world-championship/2022/result/live/livestats

 

Although not a whole lot happened in terms of the race yet (Pogacar had a bit of an attack with 200k to go and split the peloton in two, but that was undone a while later), and even now the main story is still the Van der Poel saga  

[NMQ 243]

Is Van Vleuten the best female athlete of 2022? I mean, to win it all at 39yo and become world champion with a broken elbow...

[heywoodu 16,465]

Evenepoel with the first real attack of this race, 60k to go.

[heywoodu 16,465]

26 minutes ago, NMQ said:

Is Van Vleuten the best female athlete of 2022? I mean, to win it all at 39yo and become world champion with a broken elbow...

In road cycling? Yes, absolutely. In sports in general? I would hardly think so, surely there are significantly more competitive sports than women's cycling..

[heywoodu 16,465]

Right, the peloton looks done, which would mean one of these is going to be the new world champion. Evenepoel by far the main favourite, with Bardet, Tratnik, Skjelmose and Lutsenko as main threats I'd say.

 

Edited September 25, 2022 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,465]

Denmark and the Netherlands with unexplainable tactics so far. It's like they are really going to gamble on Skjelmose and Eenkhoorn, by not riding in the peloton and letting Germany and Spain do everything.

[heywoodu 16,465]

Senechal has spent quite some time in the lead group riding on the front there, to increase the gap as much as possible. Now he's back in the peloton and...riding on the front  

 

What on earth are the French doing.

Edited September 25, 2022 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,465]

Meanwhile Lutsenko and Evenepoel finally succeeded in getting a gap, it's still early but wouldn't be surprising if this is the deciding moment.