Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2024

[heywoodu 15,997]

17 minutes ago, vovanA said:

Swiss cyclist Muriel Furrer has died after suffering a serious head injury at the Road World Championships...

Goddammit

 

According to Swiss Blick, the trauma helicopter landed only an hour after the end of the race...and a motorbike rider in the race said he wasn't even aware it had happened, leading to the second pass there having no safety precautions whatsoever. She was simply laying there out of view  

[hckošice 15,503]

Terrible.

 

RIP

[heywoodu 15,997]

Great attempt by Jan Christen, but Behrens and Svrcek have caught up with him and are looking mightily strong. Behrens is 1,95m by the way and is overpowering this course, damn.

[copravolley 498]

Another medal for Slovakia

[heywoodu 15,997]

Ooff, Svrcek showing the world what NOT to do when going for a sprint. He seemed like with 200m to go he was still not expecting the sprint to begin...

 

Epic race though for Behrens, far and away the strongest in this race today, what a monster of a rider.

Edited September 27, 2024 by heywoodu

[NearPup 3,480]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Goddammit

 

According to Swiss Blick, the trauma helicopter landed only an hour after the end of the race...and a motorbike rider in the race said he wasn't even aware it had happened, leading to the second pass there having no safety precautions whatsoever. She was simply laying there out of view  

The UCI urgently needs to make road cycling safer, the number of deaths we've been seeing over the past few years is simply not acceptable.

[hckošice 15,503]

The Saganmania of the 2010s is bringing some fruits especially with Chladonova who started the sport thanks watching Sagan. Who would have guessed that SVK will have 3 medals in a Road cycling world Championship. Insane.

Edited September 27, 2024 by hckošice

[copravolley 498]

Slovakia has many interesting juniors in several sports. The problem probably begins in the later phase of the career. There is certainly potential for more medals there than in the last few editions of the Summer Games.

[heywoodu 15,997]

13 hours ago, NearPup said:

The UCI urgently needs to make road cycling safer, the number of deaths we've been seeing over the past few years is simply not acceptable.

I honestly wonder how that can be done. Generally speaking, rider behaviour is most likely the first thing one would have to look at. So many bad falls due to riders just not paying attention, taking insane and often even unncessary risks or (hello Jay Vine) coming from the world of things like Zwift and therefore not having basic bike control skills.

 

There's of course also other things, like mass sprints on those super wide and straight roads.

[heywoodu 15,997]

I love the Dutch women's team. They've made the race super tough, and as expected, they're the ones getting in trouble

 

Tactical geniuses. And once a few teammates are almost closing back in, Vollering attacks again  

Edited September 28, 2024 by heywoodu