2011 Copenhagen World Championships: Elite Men Road Race

[Havetts]

Timmy loves Rabbo has no flaws, first human ever

well played, dont refute his arguments but instead use ad hominems.

 

[Maxiton]

Cavendish is the best sprinter in the World right now. The team worked like crazy for this not just today but all year to get 8 spots in the race. They all deserve this. It was great to see. This guy is a worthy Champion in my opinion.

The voice of reason.

 

[hatcher]

They certainly didn't control the whole race. They were just lucky Cav was good enough to finish it, after fading hard when the pace got high in the last 5-10km. They did well, but a team with any other sprinter would have been found out-coming up short.

They also would have lost if Australia picked Renshaw in my eyes. Australia were racing for nothing but a sprint, but let GB control it.

If they had any other sprinter they wouldn't have used those tactics. I'm sure they were well aware it was going to be chaos in the last 2k, they just wanted to make sure there actually was a bunch sprint to be had.

 

[Descender]

back it up. loose colored arguments..-for these life is to short..

pat mquaid..also stated that the world championship has newer been so succesfull and have so many spectators and been fullfilled in such a functionel fasion (and that has to be the benchmark, spectators its a show !!)

Denmark is only 5.5 mio.

people and one of the reason why Denmark was choosed is beacuse its the first and only bike city in the world, and a first to have it in a major city / kapital like that..

http://www.streetfilms.org/cycling-copenhagen-through-north-american-eyes/

and offcourse the human aspect of a democrazy works in Denmark ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

http://www.worldaudit.org/polrights.htm

http://www.worldaudit.org/civillibs.htm

http://www.worldaudit.org/democracy.htm


We aint world champs in sport, but if there was a world championship for best country on the interaction human aspect..
Point out a country there is superior to Denmark these years and that Im proud of..


http://www.economist.com/comment/421352#comment-421352

and also the most happy people in the world with highest human rights.

University of Leicester:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/the-first-world-map-of-happiness/305

University of Cambridge
http://news.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/2007/04/17/happydanesarehereagain


has not much to do with cycling, but still proud of these makrofactors, when we aint champs in cycling (yeah we got Saxo bank, but still )

That might be true, but again, if you can't come up with a decent course you shouldn't organise a world championship. Simple as that.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I stopped really following the race until 3 laps to go.
Boring race with a predictable final.

Dutch guys were lost at this course. Mollema, Hoogerland, Tjallingii and Weening attacked but nothing was possible obviously. Boom tried to sprint but is no sprinter. End of

 

[Rudisha]

back it up. loose colored arguments..-for these life is to short..

What do we care about that? All we wanted was an interesting race and we didn't get that. But thanks for looking it all up, i'm sure you had enough time during the race...

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

i am watching eurosport and can ignore his bias as a non brit no prob. It is called maturity. It comes when you grow

Timmy loves Rabbo has no flaws, first human ever

yep because I said I had no flaws. The vuelta was an absolute disgrace-- I just get sick of the constant emphasis on the brits. I could care less what your reaction is, you are obviously a saint and all. Please pm more advice so I can improve myself as a human being.

Brilliant argument and all.

 

[Descender]

About this worthy/unworthy thing... let me put it this way:

Cavendish is a worthy champion of an unworthy world championship.

 

[simo1733]

i want to cry...that world championship was a disgrace but seeing cav win makes me want to cry.

What were you saying about Aus being better at every facet of the sport?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

About this worthy/unworthy thing... let me put it this way:

Cavendish is a worthy champion of an unworthy world championship.

That's fair.

As I said, all a race like that does is devalue the stripes.

 

[Arnout]

back it up. loose colored arguments..-for these life is to short..

pat mquaid..also stated that the world championship has newer been so succesfull and have so many spectators and been fullfilled in such a functionel fasion (and that has to be the benchmark, spectators its a show !!)

Denmark is only 5.5 mio.

people and one of the reason why Denmark was choosed is beacuse its the first and only bike city in the world, and a first to have it in a major city / kapital like that..

http://www.streetfilms.org/cycling-copenhagen-through-north-american-eyes/

and offcourse the human aspect of a democrazy works in Denmark (rank 1 world) ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

http://www.worldaudit.org/polrights.htm

http://www.worldaudit.org/civillibs.htm

http://www.worldaudit.org/democracy.htm


We aint world champs in sport, but if there was a world championship for best country on the interaction human aspect..
Point out a country there is superior to Denmark these years and that Im proud of..


http://www.economist.com/comment/421352#comment-421352

and also the most happy people in the world with highest human rights.

University of Leicester:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/the-first-world-map-of-happiness/305

University of Cambridge
http://news.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/2007/04/17/happydanesarehereagain


has not much to do with cycling, but still proud of these makrofactors, when we aint champs in cycling (yeah we got Saxo bank, but still )

We don't care about all this you know. Be the happiest people on earth all you like, it doesn't make a race more interesting. A cycling race in Amsterdam would be boring as hell too.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I stopped really following the race until 3 laps to go.
Boring race with a predictable final.

Dutch guys were lost at this course. Mollema, Hoogerland, Tjallingii and Weening attacked but nothing was possible obviously. Boom tried to sprint but is no sprinter. End of

Boom made me laugh. I face palmed

 

[Rudisha]

About this worthy/unworthy thing... let me put it this way:

Cavendish is a worthy champion of an unworthy world championship.

True that.

 

[dlwssonic]

Probably true. Can't believe that they're probably moving San Sebastián to make room for that crappy RR.

TT's are never exciting, only in the end of GT's they can be kinda interesting.

TT's are just reading out time checks. It makes me remember ice skating, the ****tiest sport on earth and on Dutch national TV every weekend in winter.

TT's defeat the point of road cycling.

I think Im more interested in seeing Martin vs Canc vs Wiggins. Then GB controlling the whole race and not allowing any attacks. Then Cav coming out from the wind in the last 200m crying and thanking his team.

Still Arnout its better than the flat pan cake crap we are getting in the olympic RR.

 

[royalpig180]

Sure has been interesting reading the hate that's been dished out in the last 10-15 pages...

I'm not too pleased with the result either, but the hate is uncalled for. The sprinters do deserve their chance to fight it out for the rainbow jersey just like the climbers or more versatile riders. Was it an exciting race to watch? Not particularly, but that's your fault for watching it then. It's not like we didn't know that there was a strong chance this could happen. The course was never going to be hard enough to really split things up.

That said, I'm disappointed that more people didn't try to break things up in the last 10k. I guess Australia was setting a really high tempo, but Gilbert, Canc, Gerrans (ok he was working) didn't try anything. Canc almost got a medal, but I can't see why he waited for a sprint with the likes of Cav and Goss still there.

In the end, GB worked their arses off and deserve this win. Was an overhyped-snoozefest though.

 

[3wheeler]

GB look like right numpties keeping the race warm for Australia and Germany.

Yeah Looked that way didn't it

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Worst interview questions to Cav by Danish TV2. Glad it wasn't broadcasted globally

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

yep because I said I had no flaws. The vuelta was an absolute disgrace-- I just get sick of the constant emphasis on the brits. I could care less what your reaction is, you are obviously a saint and all. Please pm more advice so I can improve myself as a human being.

Brilliant argument and all.

They led half the race and finished 2nd and 3rd. Most of his customers are British. Get over it.

 

[auscyclefan94]

What were you saying about Aus being better at every facet of the sport?

you really want to start this arguemnt? why do you need to bring up things that were discussed ages ago?

 

[Poursuivant]

Some of the reponses on here are embarrasing. The best man won. Get over it.

 

[abbaskip]

If they had any other sprinter they wouldn't have used those tactics. I'm sure they were well aware it was going to be chaos in the last 2k, they just wanted to make sure there actually was a bunch sprint to be had.

Wasn't so much chaos as taken over by Australia and Germany.

 

[Broth3r]

About this worthy/unworthy thing... let me put it this way:

Cavendish is a worthy champion of an unworthy world championship.

A good way to put it.

 

[Arnout]

Credit to bbc.co.uk for broadcasting the whole race live. Just give 'em a minute and I'm sure it'll be headline news too...

Edit: Now it is indeed on the front page.

It still under Vettels win without photo. I'm sorry, but Vettel wins every other week. Cav does too, but it's different

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

About this worthy/unworthy thing... let me put it this way:

Cavendish is a worthy champion of an unworthy world championship.

That is fine, I totally agree the guy is a great sprinter. The best in fact.

This course is just terrible tho, it doesn't imo represent a true world champion. Admittedly the fact I don't like cav - and I find him to be one of the most one dimensional riders going around - makes this that much more annoying.

 

[hrotha]

The thing is, a world champion ship should repersent an epic effort. Not an epic effort of the team. Yes the team should play a big part, but it's lame that the first time the winner hits the wind is with 100m to go. Terrible course.

Hushovd didn't have to work more than Cav personally last year, and in his case not even his teammates did any work. But Geelong rocked.

The problem is the course, not that sprinters are lesser cyclists because they're fast enough to fancy their chances in a bunch sprint.