2017 National Championships discussion

[Laplaz]

Moscon wins in Italy.

 

[Breh]

Zakarin wins in Russia

Gained some weight after Giro, thank god. Probably was abit too skinny to put up a decent performance in the closing TT.

 

[carolina]

Surprising results in Portugal:

1 - GONÇALVES Domingos RP - BOAVISTA 0:42:19
2 - REIS Rafael CAJA RURAL - SEGUROS RGA 0:42:24 a 5
3 - PAULINHO Sérgio EFP - EFAPEL (POR) 0:42:39 a 20

Nelson Oliveira didn't show up to defend his title.

 

[Blanco]

Castro wins in Spain. Landa 2nd , ahead of Herrada, Soler, Izagirre!

 

[Valv.Piti]

Landani will win next year on a Canyon!

Edit: Jasha improving even more, only losing by 15 seconds to Tony Martin.

 

[Squire]

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Castro wins in Spain. Landa 2nd , ahead of Herrada, Soler, Izagirre!

In some Giro stage thread back in May I was trying to argue that Landa is not a bad TTist after he went to Sky, but it fell on deaf ears, I think. His Giro TT last year was excellent, and he was among the best of the GC guys. He lost 22 second to Dumoulin, 7 to Nibali, and beat everyone else. I'm not surprised by this.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Izagirre has really regressed as a time trialist after moving to Bahrain... wouldn't be surpised to see Quintana beating him in Dusseldorf.

 

[ice&fire]

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Landani will win next year on a Canyon!

Edit: Jasha improving even more, only losing by 15 seconds to Tony Martin.

Castro might as well win next year on a Pinarello... and wear a decent national champion jersey

 

[carolina]

Re: Re:

Landani will win next year on a Canyon!

Edit: Jasha improving even more, only losing by 15 seconds to Tony Martin.

Castro might as well win next year on a Pinarello... and wear a national champion jersey

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Preidler won ahead of Brändle in Austria

 

[carolina]

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Nelson Oliveira didn't show up to defend his title.

It seems I was wrong:

Nelson Oliveira, unable to even take the start in Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal) as a change in the start times - not conveniently notified to him - prevented the man from Aveiro to compete for a fourth win in the event.

(from movistar's website)

So, after screwing Daniela Reis, the portuguese federation decided to screw Nelson. Let's see what they'll do to José Mendes on sunday...

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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Izagirre has really regressed as a time trialist after moving to Bahrain... wouldn't be surpised to see Quintana beating him in Dusseldorf.

Maybe he's lost a little bit in the time trials, but it also seems like he's become better in the mountains compared to previous years. He needs to make those adjustments given that the Tour, which will be decided in the mountains, is his main focus. In any case, a really poor performance in the spanish nationals - more than 3 minutes behind Castoviejo is not normal. But strange things often happen at the nationals

 

[RedheadDane]

Something strange about this...

 

[Laplaz]

Tony Martin not happy that he has beaten the second one, who was Sütterlin, by only 15 seconds.

 

[DNP-Old]

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Izagirre has really regressed as a time trialist after moving to Bahrain... wouldn't be surpised to see Quintana beating him in Dusseldorf.

Simple explanation: bikes. Year in, year out we see riders either improving or declining drastically with just a transfer. Just look at Jumbo or FDJ for that matter.

 

[the delgados]

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Something strange about this...

Yeah, Cannondale never wins.

 

[May0maniac]

Great performance by Moscon and Felline, pretty bad by Ganna, over 4min behind, but as far as a know he really suffers in the heat and his power output just drops a lot.
Monster performance by Sütterlin, only 15seconds behind Tony Martin who rode an 48km long ITT at over 53km/h.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

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Something strange about this...

I'm guessing (but only guessing) that they are not UCI registered, and therefore have no official cycling nationality, but if they were to have one, they would be eligible for Ireland. On what grounds PCS allocate them a nationality is anyone's guess (and they have now changed Alexis Roche to Irish).

Lambert seems to be trying his luck though, having been in the Aussie U23 championships in January and the Oceania championship in 2015 and 2016. If it is the same guy: PCS now have 2 Connor Lamberts (rider ids 210791 and 193924).

 

[alexix7]

Please, has someone startlist of tommorrow´s British NC Road Race ? I have been searching for 30 minutes but i was not able to find any...

 

[kev1n]

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Please, has someone startlist of tommorrow´s British NC Road Race ? I have been searching for 30 minutes but i was not able to find any...

Entry list..not sure whether all will start
https://www.velouk.net/2017/06/12/british-road-championships-startsheets/

 

[Nicosix]

Does anybody knows what is going on with Adrien Costa?

He was supposed to race on US ITT but isn't anymore
And he hasn't race since february

 

[GuyIncognito]

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Does anybody knows what is going on with Adrien Costa?

He was supposed to race on US ITT but isn't anymore
And he hasn't race since february

Last I know a few weeks ago there was some controversy because he was supposed to race the Tour de Bretagne and instead he went off to the PanAm games....but I'm not sure he ever started those either

Haven't heard anything since. He missed the Girobio too.

A lot of people have been wondering but there's no news afaik.

 

[rick james]

what was the Spanish TT course like?

 

[May0maniac]

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what was the Spanish TT course like?

The hill at the end probably helped Landa a bit.

 

[rick james]

doesn't look that hard a hill