Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2024

[Grassmarket 4,311]

54 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

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  

And they've let all the big names get back on.....

 

Hoping all this rain is falling as snow in the mountains btw.  

Edited September 28, 2024 by Grassmarket

[heywoodu 16,468]

Haha, Markus in a bit of trouble, and instead of waiting for Markus (who would be very useful on the flat last part) Vollering pulls harder and drops her. Then pulls again and drops Vos as well, who is the main sprinter in the team.

 

Now Vollering is alone against strong sprinters like Roseman-Gannon and Lippert  

 

Oh how I hope for a 4th place for Vollering.

[heywoodu 16,468]

Hahahahaha not even a medal for Vollering

 

Kopecky with back to back titles.

[Grassmarket 4,311]

19 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Haha, Markus in a bit of trouble, and instead of waiting for Markus (who would be very useful on the flat last part) Vollering pulls harder and drops her. Then pulls again and drops Vos as well, who is the main sprinter in the team.

 

Now Vollering is alone against strong sprinters like Roseman-Gannon and Lippert  

 

Oh how I hope for a 4th place for Vollering.

Well, you got it!  

[Grassmarket 4,311]

There we go, 50km left & Pogačar is on his own.

[Grassmarket 4,311]

.......oooh wait a while......gap is coming down.   

[kungshamra71 958]

What a win, and what a year for this guy! 
 
 

[heywoodu 16,468]

Massive win indeed, a 80+ kilometer solo in the world championships, damn  (I mean, Sivakov jumped with him to try and help him of course, but couldn't do anything but sit in his wheel until he got dropped )

[EselTheDonkey 838]

On 9/28/2024 at 4:38 PM, heywoodu said:

Haha, Markus in a bit of trouble, and instead of waiting for Markus (who would be very useful on the flat last part) Vollering pulls harder and drops her. Then pulls again and drops Vos as well, who is the main sprinter in the team.

 

Now Vollering is alone against strong sprinters like Roseman-Gannon and Lippert  

 

Oh how I hope for a 4th place for Vollering.

What did Dutch press make out of it? It was one of the worst "teamworks" I have ever seen in cycling.

[heywoodu 16,468]

1 hour ago, EselTheDonkey said:

What did Dutch press make out of it? It was one of the worst "teamworks" I have ever seen in cycling.

Rather negative  

 

Both towards Vollering and towards the coach, who has been making a mess of this for years now (like Tokyo). Vollering literally said "it was not good for me that Markus and Vos were still in the front towards the end"  

 

One of the most well-known journalists (albeit a bit of a drama queen, but in this case, he's right): "Absurdly bad race by Vollering. Unbelievable."

 

An entire analysis titled "Vollering only thought of herself and threw away and almost certain Dutch medal":

https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/demi-vollering-dacht-alleen-aan-zichzelf-en-verspeelt-vrijwel-zekere-wk-medaille-voor-nederland/

 

Vollering: "They were all riding just to make me lose"  

https://www.gelderlander.nl/video/productie/vollering-mij-laten-verliezen-wk-zurich-772648?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

 

The 100th time Vollering shows she should simply not be in a team like this. It is always trouble, every single time. We need a team with like 6 Marianne Vos clones, she has the experience, she can read a race like absolutely nobody else in the world can and she plays her role, whether that's the team captain or working for someone else, without complaining and to the fullest extent.

 

Vollering is the exact opposite of Vos. Vollering rides for Team Vollering, which consists of Demi Vollering. No matter what.