2017 Worlds BERGEN, NORWAY, ITT ELITE Wednesday 20 Sept

[wirral]

Where are the thousands and thousands of fans that were predicted?

 

[jarvo]

I thought the mechanics could use the length of the carpet to push? it seems they are allowed about 2 steps only

 

[Jagartrott]

That's a proper climb. Everything can be lost or won there.

 

[Gigs_98]

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Where are the thousands and thousands of fans that were predicted?

There they are

 

[Red Rick]

Atmosphere reminds me of the Zoncolan

 

[Ruby United]

What a mess.
If you are going to allow bike changes at least let them change their bike wherever they want, like all GT TT's.

 

[Red Rick]

Sutterlin dropped heaps on the climb despite having a 10s+ better bike change.

Winner not gonna average 40kph

 

[Popchu]

Sütterlin really lost a lot of time on Lutsenko on the climb: 33 seconds (including that bike change of Lutsenko).

I think De Plus will go strong on the climb.

 

[hoolaparara]

I sense a marketing opportunity for the official catapult of the UCI.

Change your bike at the bottom of the hill in a TT? Struggle to get going again? Use KAPOW(TM) the official catapult of the UCI!

 

[Pharazon]

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Sütterlin really lost a lot of time on Lutsenko on the climb: 33 seconds (including that bike change of Lutsenko).

I think De Plus will go strong on the climb.

well... Lutsenko is a pretty decent climber

 

[wirral]

Typical UCI lack of clarity over the rules regarding where the mechanic may push. Nobody knows.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

De Plus is doing a really nice negative split. +24s at inter 1, +2at inter4

 

[Der Effe]

Beautiful climb, great crowds, but why in an ITT

The crowd cheering that Syrian guy like he was the home favourite was absolutely amazing to see. This climb should've been in the road race ffs.

 

[Pharazon]

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De Plus is doing a really nice negative split. +24s at inter 1, +2at inter4

showing him 25 secs up coming into the last km

 

[Frankschleck]

Lasse norman even punctured, that was a pretty solid preformance

 

[wirral]

Beautiful climb, great crowds, but why in an ITT

The crowd cheering that Syrian guy like he was the home favourite was absolutely amazing to see. This climb should've been in the road race ffs.

It is probably too narrow for the road race.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Laurens de Plus destroyed the rest on the climb.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Beautiful climb, great crowds, but why in an ITT

The crowd cheering that Syrian guy like he was the home favourite was absolutely amazing to see. This climb should've been in the road race ffs.

Someone said it was a dead end. Even if it wasn't, they most likely wouldn't have included it because Kristoff and Boasson Hagen. But it would have opened up for a longer distance.

 

[hoolaparara]

Wait? so now they have a guy waving people not changing the bike away from using the carpet? So the carpets like a break for smokers only?

 

[jens_attacks]

intermediate times site plz?

 

[HelloDolly]

Climb not too narrow for RR....great opportunity to divide the field up .....should be in RR

 

[StephenC2020]

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intermediate times site plz?

http://www.uci.ch/road/uciroadworldchampionships/bergen/livetimingbytissot/

 

[Netserk]

Actually, I don't mind an ITT like this once in a while. I would have preferred a more hilly ITT instead of a MTF ITT but it's ok. We're still talking about Dumoulin, Froome, Dennis, Kiryienka etc. as the biggest favorites, so it's not like it skewed towards climbers who can TT well anyway.

It's only a 3rd category climb. Not exactly an MTF.

It's a 2nd cat climb without a doubt.

When you do the Length*Grade^2 it scores 280, where 2nd cat is usually in the 200-400 range.

 

[jens_attacks]

thanks.

tvetcov 4 gold.

 

[Gigs_98]

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Climb not too narrow for RR....great opportunity to divide the field up .....should be in RR

I think it's a dead end.