2019 National Championships

[GuyIncognito]

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Please, just a tiny little hint?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb7kURNYqsk

 

[tobydawq]

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Please, just a tiny little hint?

You probably also find the team's name hilarious.

Edit: You have nominated my guy in the "coolest names thread", though, I can't find the thread where his name was discussed the first time (it may for some reason have been deleted).

 

[RedheadDane]

I think I got it...

 

[christopherrowe]

I think most of the folks who have commented have figured out the answer to my trivia (but not trivial!) question, but just to make it official...

The Belgian professional cycling team that can boast three reigning national road race Champions on their 2019 roster is the Continental-level squad Tarteletto - Isorex, directed and managed by Peter Bauwens. The three riders in question are:

Kirill Pozdnyakov, Champion of Azerbaijan
Ylber Sefa, Champion of Albania
Polychronis Tzortzakis, Champion of Greece

 

[christopherrowe]

Y'know, I'm kind of surprised by this, but after comparing what I thought I knew of the national champion "population" in the USA-registered teams to what I guessed it was among Belgian-registered teams, I went and checked.

There are seven national champions riding for American teams (all of them time trial champions except for Jonny Brown, road Champion of the USA).

By contrast, cycling-mad Belgium, which, also to my surprise, has exactly the same number of registered professional teams as the USA at twelve (the difference is that Belgium has more Pro Continental teams, the USA has more Continental), can claim to employ nine national champions (seven road, one time trial, and one Luxembourger).

 

[Koronin]

Well Belgium is a much, much smaller country with a much smaller population than the US has.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Well Belgium is a much, much smaller country with a much smaller population than the US has.

But that shouldn't have any effect on the number of national champions.

 

[RedheadDane]

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By contrast, cycling-mad Belgium, which, also to my surprise, has exactly the same number of registered professional teams as the USA at twelve (the difference is that Belgium has more Pro Continental teams, the USA has more Continental), can claim to employ nine national champions (seven road, one time trial, and one Luxembourger).

Luxembourgish Champion is a category all on it's own. :lol:

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

There are, by my count, 36 reigning national road race Champions and 40 reigning national time trial Champions riding in the professional peloton across all three UCI levels (WorldTour, Professional Continental, and Continental). In 7 instances, one man holds both Championships from his homeland.

Here's a question (don't Google! it's trivia!): what Belgian team boasts three national road race Champions on their 2019 roster?

Nice one. I wonder if the team signed them just for that reason...

Well...Ylber and Polychronis were already on the team last year so there goes that theory.

 

[tobydawq]

Yousif Mirza just won both the UAE titles again. Which isn't interesting. But think about which WorldTour race is running simultaneously with the UAE nats...

 

[Akuryo]

Richeze takes his first road race title in his career. Took him until 36 but it finally happened. Also, this makes his 4th year in a row at Quickstep where he had at least one victory. Before joining them in 2016 he won nothing for 4 seasons.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

It looks like no Nationals in Germany this year. Nobody is willing to pay for the road barriers and absurd safety concepts by german authorities.

 

[Sestriere]

It looks like no Nationals in Germany this year. Nobody is willing to pay for the road barriers and absurd safety concepts by german authorities.

To be honest, this wouldn't surprise me. The German Nationals have extremely amateurish for a couple of years now, I think the last time it was broadcasted live was 2014. All you could do was follow a live ticker on the website of the federation that in 2015 when Buchmann won wasn't updated in the final hour of the race. Last year all we got regarding moving pictures was a shaky 6 second smartphone film of the finish where you could hardly distinguish the jerseys. Also, the courses have been as boring as possible to ensure a sprint most of the time. Media coverage on the nationwide networks has been pretty much nonexistant, except for copy-pasting of news agencys.
Regarding all this, its hardly surprising should no city want to come up for the expenses.

 

[PeterB]

It looks like no Nationals in Germany this year. Nobody is willing to pay for the road barriers and absurd safety concepts by german authorities.

Just let them do a couple of laps at the Nürburgring and that's it - no road safety measures needed

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I suspect that hiring the Nurburgring for exclusive use for a day would be of at least comparable cost to the cordoning off and barrier-fitting of a road circuit.

 

[Bakkie]

https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...4065e38e0a16138f307090b414962394&oe=5D7321FA
https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=3be6c7d03e0ab5a4a83212a6a9221713&oe=5D71F9C0

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Finally a host for the German nationals: they will be held on/at the Sachsenring.

 

[RedheadDane]

Now, where would be a good place to put the finish line? Let's be a little creative and not put it in one of those long straight stretches in that "triangle" in the foreground.
Is there anywhere it kicks up a little?

 

[Sestriere]

The strait at the bottom of the picture is the lowest point of the track. From that last corner the track rises towards the finish line. There's a Bundesliga race every year on the track. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it usually ends in a reduced bunch sprint.

 

[roundabout]

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Now, where would be a good place to put the finish line? Let's be a little creative and not put it in one of those long straight stretches in that "triangle" in the foreground.
Is there anywhere it kicks up a little?

Yes

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5_V9c89m9tQ/Vc_KQ1SMZiI/AAAAAAAADSc/KilLxD7hXTg/s1600/Sachsenring-Hoehendiagramm.JPG

Not sure though how it will be incorporated into the overall 12.9km lap

 

[WKA311]

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Now, where would be a good place to put the finish line? Let's be a little creative and not put it in one of those long straight stretches in that "triangle" in the foreground.
Is there anywhere it kicks up a little?

Yes

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5_V9c89m9tQ/Vc_KQ1SMZiI/AAAAAAAADSc/KilLxD7hXTg/s1600/Sachsenring-Hoehendiagramm.JPG

Not sure though how it will be incorporated into the overall 12.9km lap

The 12.9k course could be reminiscent of the old traditional Sachsenringrennen which also hosted the Worlds in 1960. However, it'll have 180m of altitude gain per lap so at least this year it probably won't be a straightforward sprint.

 

[RedheadDane]

Why is Austria having the (ITT) national championships now?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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Now, where would be a good place to put the finish line? Let's be a little creative and not put it in one of those long straight stretches in that "triangle" in the foreground.
Is there anywhere it kicks up a little?

Yes

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5_V9c89m9tQ/Vc_KQ1SMZiI/AAAAAAAADSc/KilLxD7hXTg/s1600/Sachsenring-Hoehendiagramm.JPG

Not sure though how it will be incorporated into the overall 12.9km lap

The 12.9k course could be reminiscent of the old traditional Sachsenringrennen which also hosted the Worlds in 1960. However, it'll have 180m of altitude gain per lap so at least this year it probably won't be a straightforward sprint.

Incorporating as much as possible of the real Sachsenring from the old days? Another old face from the past approves this idea.

 

[Beobachter]

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Why is Austria having the (ITT) national championships now?

Easier that way
I guess it's never easy to find some municipalities willing to host the national championships. And since it's likely the federation is still kind of short of money because of Innsbruck, it was probably even harder this year
As a result the solution has been to make the national championships parts of already existing races; the different cycling events for all offer indeed two advantages: money is not really an issue (much less of an issue at least) and more people are here.
The road race will thus be part of the Mondsee 5 Seen Radmarathon (on the 30th of June, like the Potter countries). But obviously singe there is no Radmarathon there earlier in the week, they had to find where and how to organize the ITT. The selected option was to do it within the Tour de Kärnten (a stage race for all which has an ITT among the stages). Way less trouble to organize it that way

I don't mind them doing that once this time. As long as it doesn't become the case every year, it's fine.
It was a bit of a shame to see Brändle unopposed since Zoidl and Grossschartner couldn't be there...

 

[Nirvana]

Anyone knows why Alaphilippe is missing from French RR startlist?
https://firstcycling.com/race.php?r=1928&y=2019&k=start

Edit: apparently he has decided to skip the race, at least that is said on french media. I wonder if he's going to European Games that are on sunday (RR) and wednesday (TT).