Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2022

[heywoodu 13,549]

Oh damn, Foss' incredible final part even beats Küng  

[heywoodu 13,549]

And that's it, Tobias Foss is world champion

 

And with Küng, Evenepoel and Ganna he straight-up beat the big three (with Van Aert not being there to complete the big four), so yeah, that is a truly, truly deserved world title  

[Grassmarket 2,757]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

And that's it, Tobias Foss is world champion

 

And with Küng, Evenepoel and Ganna he straight-up beat the big three (with Van Aert not being there to complete the big four), so yeah, that is a truly, truly deserved world title  

Just too bad for Ethan Hayter, lost his chain & had to switch bikes - but still fourth.  

[heywoodu 13,549]

53 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Just too bad for Ethan Hayter, lost his chain & had to switch bikes - but still fourth.  

Yep, he would at least have been closer. Still hard to say if he'd have made the podium, half a minute seems like more than what he lost. But yeah, that wasn't nice.

[IoNuTzZ 289]

Rien Schuurhuis  is on the men’s road race start list. I think it is for the first time when Vatican is set to participate at a world championships.

[heywoodu 13,549]

44 minutes ago, IoNuTzZ said:

Rien Schuurhuis  is on the men’s road race start list. I think it is for the first time when Vatican is set to participate at a world championships.

Yep. Guy from  Groningen, who is the husband of the Australian ambassador in  and - like Bauke Mollema, but at a lower level - got his love for competitive cycling by racing to school as a kid  

 

He has had some articles in Dutch newspapers these days  

Edited September 18, 2022 by heywoodu

[Grassmarket 2,757]

Can’t sleep so watching the Junior Women. / Zoe Bäckstedt absolutely dominating at halfway.

 

And wins by over 1:35 in a 14km race!

Edited September 20, 2022 by Grassmarket

[Grassmarket 2,757]

Double for  as Josh Tarling takes the win.  Contender Hamish McKenzie does well over three hoursin the leaders’ seat only to be beaten at the very last.

[heywoodu 13,549]

8 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Can’t sleep so watching the Junior Women. / Zoe Bäckstedt absolutely dominating at halfway.

 

And wins by over 1:35 in a 14km race!

That was an utterly insane, if not also entirely expected performance  She is 15 levels too good for the women's junior field, just check the insane gap she managed to get in a three (!) stage race in the Netherlands very recently, with most of the top juniors present:

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/watersly-ladies-challenge/2022/gc

 

It's the female version of what Remco Evenepoel did in his junior days, basically. Depending on whether or not he'd want a day alone, he would just attack 5km into a 120km race and get a 10 minute lead.

 

Also kind of ridiculous that the distances are so short, at least make the women's junior race 20k or so (and the men's senior race really should not be anywhere near sub-40km, but more like 50-55km).

[Dragon 1,699]

12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

That was an utterly insane, if not also entirely expected performance  She is 15 levels too good for the women's junior field, just check the insane gap she managed to get in a three (!) stage race in the Netherlands very recently, with most of the top juniors present:

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/watersly-ladies-challenge/2022/gc

 

It's the female version of what Remco Evenepoel did in his junior days, basically. Depending on whether or not he'd want a day alone, he would just attack 5km into a 120km race and get a 10 minute lead.

 

Also kind of ridiculous that the distances are so short, at least make the women's junior race 20k or so (and the men's senior race really should not be anywhere near sub-40km, but more like 50-55km).

The breeding policy is working well.

You take a winner of the Paris Roubaix and a British road race champion, look them in a room together and a world champion is the result...