2011 Copenhagen World Championships: Elite Men Road Race

[The Sheep]

The olympic race will be better than this one.

 

[Ferminal]

Olympic Road Race is going to be terrible no doubt

London will be better than this. Smaller teams - if they race it like today GB might run out of gas. Also gradients over 4% may help a little although I'm not quite sure when the final obstacle is.

The worst thing about this course is that it the most selective aspect was a crash, not the distance, not a climb, not the aggressive racing.

I actually found it rather interesting, given how hard it was being raced. The tension of a full sprint for a worlds is something else.

But I don't overly enjoy the concept. Maybe sprinters deserve a race every now and then which they are guaranteed to win, but if them, should the cobbled specialists get one too, and an MTF for the climbers?

 

[hatcher]

you really want to start this arguemnt? why do you need to bring up things that were discussed ages ago? Get lost you antagonistic little ****.

You don't think you're being antagonistic?

 

[woodie]

you really want to start this arguemnt? why do you need to bring up things that were discussed ages ago? Get lost you antagonistic little ****.

Someones cranky

 

[boomcie]

Piece of sh*t worlds. What a horrible afternoon. This must have been almost as boring as a day in the life of Stephen Hawking.

Deserved win, but who the hell cares. I do not remember experiencing such boredom and annoyance in a long time, only thing I can remember that comes close is watching an episode of "Friends" with people that think it's a hilarious show.

Even worse than advertised.

 

[UpTheRoad]

amen brother.

this really sucks.

i'd trade in cuddles winning next three tours for cav not winning

Now *that* is a bit much for sure. Nothing in cycling is that bad to wish for that result.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

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

My comments were in general like I implied

Because believe me harmon, doesn't need brits in picture to rave on about them.

I merely stated i disliked his style, you guys are defending him and thus continuing the conversation. Maybe just accept that I dislike his style (my opinion) and get over it yourself.

 

[Winterfold]

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

cry then

considering how generous most of the Brits on this forum have been about Cadel winning the Tour i hope you spend the whole year blubbing and whinging

 

[Sørensen]

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 )

Stop it please. This is getting embarrassing... Plenty of things wrong with the little kingdom.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Someones cranky

that's because recently, all he's been trying to do is **** me off.

 

[hrotha]

If we can talk about things that aren't Cavendish... man, Freire, way to screw it up.

 

[Midnightfright]

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.

If they had any other sprinter in the world though they certainly wouldn't of used those tactics.

 

[sublimit]

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.

It was a terrible course and I hope thats the last flat one, Britain did a great job there though and got the job done with some help from Grabsch and Klier early on.
Its not Cav or Britains fault of having such a lame course so you cant slag Cav for winning. I think he rode clever once he lost Thomas's wheel and jumped on to an Aussie. Goss came back a bit but Cav too quick in the end.

Looking forward to next year already..

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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.

2010 was a sprinter's Worlds. That was a course that was just hard enough for other types of riders to think they could do it, but not hard enough to stop the sprint. That was an example of how to do a flat Worlds really well.

This year was an example of how to make the Worlds look worthless.

 

[Ibanez]

you really want to start this arguemnt? why do you need to bring up things that were discussed ages ago? Get lost you antagonistic little ****.

Someone needs their milk bottle.

 

[simo1733]

you really want to start this arguemnt? why do you need to bring up things that were discussed ages ago? Get lost you antagonistic little ****.

Coz u never admit when ur wrong.

 

[mb2612]

London will be better than this. Smaller teams - if they race it like today GB might run out of gas. Also gradients over 4% may help a little although I'm not quite sure when the final obstacle is.

The worst thing about this course is that it the most selective aspect was a crash, not the distance, not a climb, not the aggressive racing.

I actually found it rather interesting, given how hard it was being raced. The tension of a full sprint for a worlds is something else.

But I don't overly enjoy the concept. Maybe sprinters deserve a race every now and then which they are guaranteed to win, but if them, should the cobbled specialists get one too, and an MTF for the climbers?

Final obstacle is about 80km from the finish

 

[hatcher]

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

I disagree (many other nations swamped the front too), but that wasn't your point.

GB did control the race from the start, would have been living a fantasy if they expected to roll into the final 250 metres with no other nations sprinting for the win, and they wouldn't have with any other sprinter.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

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.

That isn't true at all.

i was standing where the action unfolded and hushovd closed a big gap (from like 9th to 8th or something) to get himself back in the race. He had to really work his *** off (like everyone else involved in the end). That climb was hard, and the guys in the end all really battled to duke it out. Exactly why cav was no where to be seen.

 

[Havetts]

If we can talk about things that aren't Cavendish... man, Freire, way to screw it up.

Ok if you want to shift topics:

Not Freire's fault at all, he isnt the fastest anymore and the course wasnt EVEN close to hard enough.

 

[woodie]

that's because recently, all he's been trying to do is **** me off.

Then ignore him, like an adult, instead of reacting to his bait

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Am I the only one that's happy with the result?

 

[Ragerod]

Not the best race but it's only fair to have a sprinters course every so often.

 

[Spare Tyre]

Piece of sh*t worlds. What a horrible afternoon. This must have been almost as boring as a day in the life of Stephen Hawking.

Deserved win, but who the hell cares. I do not remember experiencing such boredom and annoyance in a long time, only thing I can remember that comes close is watching an episode of "Friends" with people that think it's a hilarious show.

Even worse than advertised.

Sure do love your way with words.

 

[hfer07]

I was rushing to get back home earlier to watch the last 50k-I missed the whole race and by looking at the results & the comments here-I'm glad I missed it

in all fairness- Congrats to Cavendish-there is nothing can anyone could do when the parcours was tailor made for him... The only down side of it is how we the fans are going to deal with his hyper-inflated EGO next year?