Road Cycling at the Cycling UCI World Championships 2023

[De_Gambassi 1,223]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

obviously I watched in our TV, but I wonder how other commentators spelled Svrček´s name, I imagine it can be a nice one vowel tongue twister 

"Le Slovaque" or 

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,168]

2 hours ago, hckošice said:

yeah, very opportunistic and senseless style of ride... but, yeah, anyway...

 

obviously I watched in our TV, but I wonder how other commentators spelled Svrček´s name, I imagine it can be a nice one vowel tongue twister 

 

Edit: oh, apparently that was not just the case here  

Edited August 12, 2023 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,168]

 

[phelps 7,688]

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Laurance is cooked, but Milesi is acting as a perfect teammate in trying to keep the chasers away  

 

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I swear he has a French passport secretly, it's the only way in which his riding today would make sense (as a teammate of Laurance).

 

3 hours ago, hckošice said:

yeah, very opportunistic and senseless style of ride... but, yeah, anyway...

 

obviously I watched in our TV, but I wonder how other commentators spelled Svrček´s name, I imagine it can be a nice one vowel tongue twister 

I only watched the last 20 kms or so, but I don't think that it was Milesi's fault for not chasing properly the Frenchman

 

apart for the fact that he was also cooked in the last couple of laps (at least, that's what he said), imho it was the Portuguese and above all the Briton that didn't race a single meter in front of the chasing group, it was always Milesi and Svrcek (and a solo attempt by the German, who was also quite out of shape in the final kms and in fact he was caught quickly when he tried to escape)

 

if Svrcek was so strong in the final lap, why he didn't try to escape by himself?

 

imho, Milesi was even too honest trying to keep the small group going together with the Slovak, he shouldn't have gone a single meter in front given what the guys from POR and GBR did 

[hckošice 14,843]

10 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

 

I only watched the last 20 kms or so, but I don't think that it was Milesi's fault for not chasing properly the Frenchman

 

apart for the fact that he was also cooked in the last couple of laps (at least, that's what he said), imho it was the Portuguese and above all the Briton that didn't race a single meter in front of the chasing group, it was always Milesi and Svrcek (and a solo attempt by the German, who was also quite out of shape in the final kms and in fact he was caught quickly when he tried to escape)

 

if Svrcek was so strong in the final lap, why he didn't try to escape by himself?

 

imho, Milesi was even too honest trying to keep the small group going together with the Slovak, he shouldn't have gone a single meter in front given what the guys from POR and GBR did 

Riding for 2nd place rather for the win is for me incomprehensible attitude, sorry. He did everything to prevent anyone chasing the leader and he did it in a fantastic way just tofinish still out of medals. Complete idiot.

[Grassmarket 3,427]

Agree. 20 secs down, two laps to go & four hard climbs per lap.

[Gianlu33 4,586]

Daily update, frist points for Sweden, Macao and Romania meanwhile Honk Kong joins the medal table. 

 

Medal Table After Day 9

 

 11-03-08 [22]

 06-06-05 [17]

 05-03-01 [09]

 05-01-03 [09]

 05-00-02 [07] 

 04-01-03 [08] 

 03-08-07 [18]

 03-02-05 [10]

 02-03-03 [08]

 02-02-01 [05]

 01-03-02 [06]

 01-02-04 [07]

 01-01-01 [03]

 01-01-00 [02]

 01-01-00 [02]

 01-00-00 [01] 

 00-08-01 [09]

 00-01-02 [02]

 00-01-01 [02]

 00-01-00 [01]

 00-01-00 [01]

 00-01-00 [01]

 00-01-00 [01]

 00-01-00 [01]

 00-00-02 [02]

00-00-01 [01]

 

 

Points Table After Day 9

 

 252

 206

 181

 130

 105

 100

96

 89

84

 82

 78

 78

 50

 46

 42

 40

 24

 20

18

16

 15

 15

14

13

 12

 9

 8

 6

 5

4

 4

 4

 4

 3

 3

 3

3

 2

2

 

Tomorrow Elite Finals (7)

• Cycleball - Women's 
• Cycleball - Men's 
• Artistic Cycling - ACT 4 
• Artistic Cycling - Women's 
• BMX Racing - Men's 
• BMX Racing - Women's 
• Road - Women's Road Race

[Vektor 3,326]

I was wondering how the Cycling Worlds medal table looks like in the Olympic events, so here it is:

 

After 19 out of 22 Olympic events

 

 5-2-2

 4-0-1

 3-0-1

 1-3-3

 1-2-3

 1-1-1

 1-1-1

 1-1-0

 1-1-0

 1-0-0

 0-4-0

 0-2-0

 0-1-2

 0-1-0

 0-0-2

 0-0-1

 0-0-1

 0-0-1

[heywoodu 15,168]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

 

 

I only watched the last 20 kms or so, but I don't think that it was Milesi's fault for not chasing properly the Frenchman

 

apart for the fact that he was also cooked in the last couple of laps (at least, that's what he said), imho it was the Portuguese and above all the Briton that didn't race a single meter in front of the chasing group, it was always Milesi and Svrcek (and a solo attempt by the German, who was also quite out of shape in the final kms and in fact he was caught quickly when he tried to escape)

 

if Svrcek was so strong in the final lap, why he didn't try to escape by himself?

 

imho, Milesi was even too honest trying to keep the small group going together with the Slovak, he shouldn't have gone a single meter in front given what the guys from POR and GBR did 

Milesi was all the time basically actively trying to stop the chase from happening. Slovak guy tried to up the pace? Milesi came riding in such a way that it didn't work. German starting to try and increase the pace? Milesi was there to stop him. Morgado and Rootkin-Gray definitely didn't deserve much of a beauty price for their riding neither, but Milesi's riding today was the definition of cowardly racing (he started with that way before 20km already).

 

Of course that whole group just messed up massively, but none had the same portion of poor riding as Milesi did. It's all good, I do think Laurance was the strongest in the race - not surprisingly, considering he is basically a full pro - and Milesi simply helped make sure Laurance would win  

Edited August 12, 2023 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,168]

The women have barely entered the local lap and already an attack with the two big favourites (Vollering and Kopecky) both in it