Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2017

[heywoodu 14,953]

4 minutes ago, Agger said:

 

I thought pretty much the same... Hasn't done an ITT since the National Championships last year where he was... 19th!

Yay Russians coming out of the blue  

 

This brings back reminders of Folivorov who destroyed everyone (except for Kruijswijk, who had nearly the same time) in the mountain time trial in last year's Giro 

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=163685

[Agger 1,660]

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yay Russians coming out of the blue  

 

This brings back reminders of Folivorov who destroyed everyone (except for Kruijswijk, who had nearly the same time) in the mountain time trial in last year's Giro 

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=163685

 

Researched a bit more. He was actually 5th in the pursuit at the Track Worlds this year

[heywoodu 14,953]

4 minutes ago, Agger said:

 

Researched a bit more. He was actually 5th in the pursuit at the Track Worlds this year

Oh that explains everything 

[Agger 1,660]

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Oh that explains everything 

 

It's much closer to explaining than before  

[dcro 10,210]

18 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

On a serious note though, what's the lawless part of the race? I've just tuned in. 

 

The fact that UCI is going against their own rules concerning the bike change. Bikes can only come of the following car after it stopped, while here they have bikes waiting at the red carpet.

[heywoodu 14,953]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

The fact that UCI is going against their own rules concerning the bike change. Bikes can only come of the following car after it stopped, while here they have bikes waiting at the red carpet.

If they've got a rule for this race saying they can do it like this, it's not lawless 

[heywoodu 14,953]

Yves Lampaerts is not going to change bikes, "because I have a lack of cyclo-cross skills"  

 

Victor Campenaerts will stick to the plan and change.

[dcro 10,210]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

If they've got a rule for this race saying they can do it like this, it's not lawless 

 

There is no new rule, they just ignored it. Made an "exception", because hosts apparently can decide to do that..

[heywoodu 14,953]

This changing seems better than letting a car stop by the way. Much easier for everyone, no obstructing of other riders or anything, less manouevering from cars and so on. 

[heywoodu 14,953]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

There is no new rule, they just ignored it. Made an "exception", because hosts apparently can decide to do that..

So it's an exception, which hosts are allowed to make --> not a breaking of laws