2014 National Championships

[Libertine Seguros]

Surprised the commentators had Swift as such a strong favourite for the sprint. Kennaugh isn't a bad sprinter and he'd softened Swift up on the inclines.

Kennaugh's reputation is as a guy who gets over climbs at least to medium size and might be decent in a sprint afterward, and does a good TT.

Swift's reputation is as a sprinter who can get over an increasing number of obstacles en route.

 

[Afrank]

any updates in Croatia for Kiserlovski?

1. ROGINA Radoslav
2. KISERLOVSKI Emanuel
3. KVASINA Matija RSW 07'28"
4. DURASEK Kristijan LAM 07'28"
5.KISERLOVSKI Robert TFR 07'28"
6. UGRINIC Juraj - 24'01"
7. ROSET Pavao

 

[LaFlorecita]

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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what happened to Sam Bennett in Irelands RR?

I presume he just missed the move. No teammates = no way back.

 

[happytramp]

So`, big question....... how good is Mullen? are we looking at a seriously big deal here in terms of WT level cycling? He's so young, who the hell knows what he's capable of??

 

[willbick]

i cant help but suspect swift went a bit 'easy' on the final sprint today. he followed kennaugh's attacks comfortably on the last lap and really should be able to win a sprint between the two of them. I kinda get the feeling he knew Kennaugh had come close several times before in the british road race and was kind enough to gift him the win, perhaps thinking that it would mean more to him

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

So`, big question....... how good is Mullen? are we looking at a seriously big deal here in terms of WT level cycling? He's so young, who the hell knows what he's capable of??

I don't think you can really tell with a 19 year old.

He will certainly be good enough to hold down a WT contract. But there is a whole lot of room between being a decent WT rider and being the next Cancellara. He could be a freak talent or he could be a good rider who happened to be an early developer, or any point in between. My gut feeling is that he will be very good indeed, but it's just a guess. Let's see where he is in four years time when he's a venerable 23.

 

[Parrulo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5OnVznQYJU&feature=youtu.be

Highlights of the portuguese road race championships.

Both Machado and Oliveira looked strong but Machado completely miss timed his effort and was caught in the last km's completely on foot.

 

[De Snelle Duif]

1. ROGINA Radoslav
2. KISERLOVSKI Emanuel
3. KVASINA Matija RSW 07'28"
4. DURASEK Kristijan LAM 07'28"
5.KISERLOVSKI Robert TFR 07'28"
6. UGRINIC Juraj - 24'01"
7. ROSET Pavao

Is Robert related to Emanuel?

 

[Afrank]

Is Robert related to Emanuel?

They are brothers.

 

[jaylew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5OnVznQYJU&feature=youtu.be

Highlights of the portuguese road race championships.

Both Machado and Oliveira looked strong but Machado completely miss timed his effort and was caught in the last km's completely on foot.

Thanks. That song was horrible though.

 

[Broth3r]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5OnVznQYJU&feature=youtu.be

Highlights of the portuguese road race championships.

Both Machado and Oliveira looked strong but Machado completely miss timed his effort and was caught in the last km's completely on foot.

Ouch, caught in the last 200m. What a shame.

 

[Pippo_San]

HOLY **** WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT FRAKKIN BEARD???

Puts Paolini's one to shame

Norway

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Thanks. That song was horrible though.

Cycling videos mostly have horrible song but i once saw a video where who made who by ac/dc was used, i think it was a ll Giro video....up the kronplatz IIRC

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

HOLY **** WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT FRAKKIN BEARD???

Puts Paolini's one to shame

But in the photo of him, sans beard, on PCS, he is even more baby-faced than Formolo.

 

[Vino's Mum]

HOLY **** WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT FRAKKIN BEARD???

Found on Tormod's Twitter...

https://twitter.com/TormodJacobsen

 

[Rajna31]

Despite the panflat parcours, the Hungarian RR was a very entertaining race, mostly because Utensilnord wanted to exhaust Lovassy and Kusztor by always attacking. Shortly after the start, Zoltán Lengyel and Gergely Kiss made a move that had to be covered because of Lengyel. The break was caught with about 70 kms to go. Right after that, another young Utensilnord rider (Bernard Bendeguz) launched an attack broke away with Jozsef Hartmann. This move proved to be very strong and the peloton chased so hard that it split.

With about 30 kms to go, an elite group that consisted the main favorites caught up with the escapees and a group of 8 was formed (the 2 escapees, Lovassy, Kusztor, TT champ Fejes and 3 other guys from Utensilnord). In order to prevent Utensilnord to control the race by another attack, Kusztor made his own move but never gained more than a 20 s advantage, but the chasing the move caused Utensilnord to lose most of their riders. With a little over 10 km to go, Lovassy and Utensilnord's leader (Zsolt Der) caught Kusztor and the trio seemed like a sure thing to make it to the finish.

However, they looked at each other too much, nobody wanted to lead and 3 youngsters (Fejes and 2 guys from Utensilnord (Rozsa and Pelikan)) caught them. These 6 finished together and surprisingly, Balazs Rozsa won the sprint ahead of Kusztor, even though Der and Lovassy are considered the best Hungarian sprinters.

So Rozsa is the champ with a very good ride (he did a lot of work covering the move of Kusztor and than in order to catch up to the leaders and still won the sprint) and he is only 18. Funnily, he is not the U23 champ for some reason, that became Janos Pelikan who finished 6th. Anyway, he is another hope for Hungarian cycling, hopefully he can make it to WT some day.

 

[mastermind]

Does someone have some footage of the Spanish RR? Interested in how it played out.

 

[jaylew]

Here you go. http://www.cyclingfans.com/node/13358

Not only did Valverde gift it, he bridged and pulled for Ion when he was in danger of being caught.

 

[Pippo_San]

We need MOAR of these BEARDS at World Tour level!!!!

Found on Tormod's Twitter...

https://twitter.com/TormodJacobsen

 

[Beech Mtn]

HOLY **** WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT FRAKKIN BEARD???

Puts Paolini's one to shame

The beard is so distracting that nobody even noticed the name of the dude who finished 3rd. Odd Christian Somebodyorother.

 

[BeagRigh]

Anyone seen any of the new jersey designs? Guess many teams are waiting officially until the presentation at the tour but there are often leaks on twitter etc before, also plenty of National Champions not doing the Tour...

 

[De Snelle Duif]

Apparently Lefevre is not happy at all with the critique of Steegmans after the Belgian National Championships. He has said that the chance of Steegmans and Vermote staying with them next year has not become bigger at all, which, considering how good a helper Vermote is and how good Steegmans was riding these last weeks, just shows that Lefevre can handle no critique.

 

[Akuryo]

Apparently Lefevre is not happy at all with the critique of Steegmans after the Belgian National Championships. He has said that the chance of Steegmans and Vermote staying with them next year has not become bigger at all, which, considering how good a helper Vermote is and how good Steegmans was riding these last weeks, just shows that Lefevre can handle no critique.

What about Boonen? He was also very harsh. He said the he did not know that they had guys in front and he would have never chased them down if he was informed. And he also said that things like that could only happen once. But apparently Boonen is allowed to make such comments ...

 

[mastermind]

Here you go. http://www.cyclingfans.com/node/13358

Not only did Valverde gift it, he bridged and pulled for Ion when he was in danger of being caught.

Thanks,
Never been a big fan of Valverde, the hatred i felt for him after the last worlds... But he gained a little, little, littleeee bit of respect from me.