Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2022

[dodge 705]

8 minutes ago, Dragon said:

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...

Magnus quick to point out he's the only one without a world championship medal in the family. Megan won bronze at track as a junior

[Dragon 1,701]

1 minute ago, dodge said:

Magnus quick to point out he's the only one without a world championship medal in the family. Megan won bronze at track as a junior

Was he doing the commentary overnight?

[dodge 705]

I don't know tbh. He did it last year when Zoe won the road race. He got quite emotional then (obviously enough!)

[heywoodu 13,560]

28 minutes ago, dodge said:

I don't know tbh. He did it last year when Zoe won the road race. He got quite emotional then (obviously enough!)

I'll give Eurosport Player a listen later to check this, but I can imagine this time he wouldn't have been that emotional given that anything less than a win with at least 45+ seconds of advantage would have been underwhelming  

[Edvid 22]

It was Rob Hatch and Michael Hutchinson on comms duty overnight.

 

Whoever named the Australian state of New South Wales obviously had today's winners in mind, seeing as they hail from Pontyclun and Aberaeron if my Googling is up to snuff.  Though Aberaeron - on the western coast - is perhaps south Wales in the broad sense only.

[heywoodu 13,560]

I love the beginning of tomorrow's mixed relay start list  

 

 

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[AsensioWillemsen 123]

There will be some furious faces back in the Dutch camp.

[Grassmarket 2,757]

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.

Edited September 21, 2022 by Grassmarket

[Grassmarket 2,757]

11 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I love the beginning of tomorrow's mixed relay start list  

 

 

https://www.tissottiming.com/File/0003140113030101FFFFFFFFFFFFFF01

Tahiti do have a velodrome, albeit one of the old Roubaix-style ones.  But looking at the names, a few Togolese canoeists in there.

 

Well done  - they were a strong team by any standards, would have been contenders.

Edited September 21, 2022 by Grassmarket

[dodge 705]

More relevant to the general cycling thread but good day in the relegation battle for EF and BEX…