Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2022

[heywoodu 16,468]

And the TV directors finish their awful work at these championships in style, by missing what is most likely the deciding moment: Evenepoel jumped away from Lutsenko.

Edited September 25, 2022 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,468]

The last time a man took the world title with more than a minute of advantage on the second-placed rider, (a) Van der Poel did finish  

 

Greg LeMond in 1983, with Adrie van der Poel in second.

[heywoodu 16,468]

Not a fan of Evenepoel at all, but yeah, right now there is simply nobody who can challenge him as an overall rider.

[heywoodu 16,468]

Eenkhoorn was gone and on his way to silver, but he didn't realize there was a gap and so he stopped riding  

[hckošice 16,641]

Fuck. Sagan so close. He really unlucky this year 

[Agger 1,843]

Man that was stupid! 

[heywoodu 16,468]

1 minute ago, Agger said:

Man that was stupid! 

Basically every major country (except Belgium but that was coincidence instead of tactic) screwed up  

 

Denmark, France, Germany, France, the Netherlands, France, Spain, France, Italy, France, Australia and France all had incredibly weird tactics that messed up all of their chances.

Edited September 25, 2022 by heywoodu

[Jinzha 703]

What an incident filled championship for the Dutch. Bird attacks, mechanicals, broken elbows, nightly arrests. And all that in a team of like 10 people. 

 

Overall the two best riders did win both road races. One at the very end of a dominant career, the other just at the beginning of one.

[De_Gambassi 1,369]

So Basically, Sénéchal was the best belgian teammate of Remco and WVA the best french teammate of Laporte.

[hckošice 16,641]

Juraj Sagan officially ended his career in this race, After being 200km part of the leading group (just like in Tokyo Olympics) he abandoned the race few km later and officially confirmed to our TV this was his very last race in his life.

 

Thus now only one Sagan remains in the peloton, the younger brother Peter, probably until Paris, to have one last dance for Slovakia and one last try to complete his CV with that missing Olympic medal.