2017 Worlds BERGEN, NORWAY, RR ELITE, SUN 24th 277KM!

[winkybiker]

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farcical finish to a poor world championships.

You might want to follow baseball instead.... :sad:

 

[Echoes]

"Booh nobody's ever racing with me. They all suck my wheel because I'm young and beautiful."

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

So at least the Gaviria hype train derailed today.

 

[hoolaparara]

Hmm Gaviria was there but had nothing.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Well that kinda boring..

 

[SKSemtex]

Well done Peter.
Thanks.

 

[DFA123]

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What a ****** race.

Yup. These last 4 worlds have been horrible.

But that's what you get with domestiques getting stronger and courses that are almost always the same year after year. Tighter races and mostly sprints. Next year might be different, let's hope.

It's also what you get when the WC are designed for sprinters who can climb a bit for three years in a row. The courses have been terrible - no serious chance for the Ardennes specialists - which is about half of the elite one day races and no chance at all for climbers.

 

[Vesica]

No, no, no, no, nooo! Damn this result. Great race, really liked it. But in the end such an anticlimax

 

[movingtarget]

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So at least the Gaviria hype train derailed today.

Much harder than a Giro flat stage.

 

[portugal11]

"Booh nobody's ever racing with me. They all suck my wheel because I'm young and beautiful."

Cry less

 

[TMP402]

Swift really is a lesser Freire.

 

[Pirazziattacks]

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Objectively, this was a wheelsucker's win.

Like 90% of WCRR are won by wheelsuckers

*90% of races in general. It's almost like cycling is about tactics and saving your energy :surprised:

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Great crowds, fantastic scenery, terrible race.
Congrats to Sagan.

 

[Ruby United]

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So at least the Gaviria hype train derailed today.

Much harder than a Giro flat stage.

Didn't help that for some weird reason he tried an attack earlier.

 

[d-s3]

Sagan somehow transforms himself to cool headed wheel sucker at Worlds (not meant bad, that's what he should do on such course).
Should he be this cool headed during the season, he would win more.

 

[Billie]

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So at least the Gaviria hype train derailed today.

Sprinting after 250 kms is a different cake

 

[fauniera]

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Frustation x1000

Alaphilippe shouldn't have dropped Moscon. The Italians started riding then and brought him back.

 

[rainman]

Did what he had to without a strong team, fair play to him. Race a bit of a disappointment overall.

 

[Der Effe]

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Rape Culture Poster Boy again...

You must have an interesting life... :lol:

Why? He is right, Sagan is a joke.

 

[SKSemtex]

Belgium did not deserve to win. They had a team to get rid of Peter when he was riding in the back.

 

[Finn84]

The course brings memories of 2006 for me. A very good hill to make gaps but too far away from the finish.

 

[hrotha]

The course was too easy but that doesn't excuse all the teams that chose to wait wait wait and save up cards and domestiques in case of wolf pack attack or meteor impact or whatever. You can't wait until the last 60 km to start making the race hard on an easy course and expect it to be anything but a bunch sprint. That Alaphilippe almost won shouldn't disguise the fact that France raced terribly, as did Belgium.

 

[Richeypen]

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No, no, no, no, nooo! Damn this result. Great race, really liked it. But in the end such an anticlimax

It was woeful. *** course tbf but none of the favs actually tried to give themselves a chance.

 

[Brullnux]

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Objectively, this was a wheelsucker's win.

Like 90% of WCRR are won by wheelsuckers

That just isn't true though is it. Out of the last 10, only 4 have been won by someone who didn't attack once in the entire race. And very few to this proportion, where said rider (and his team) was completely hidden for 276.2km.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

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So at least the Gaviria hype train derailed today.

Not really. Did well to be up there after his knee trouble and missed racing