2020 National Championships

[Mayomaniac]

Can't find him on the startlist.

I just saw that, he'd have been one of the clear cut favourites in the RR. It's hard to look past UAE with Ulissi and Formolo both being in great shape and Conti also being pretty strong atm. They'll try to make the race really hard and send Formolo on the attack on the final climb, while Ulissi covers moves and stays behind. Gazprom has a few riders and Canola +Velasco could be a dangerous duo, but they don't seem to be in great shape. The Sapura duo Celano and Ficara could be dangerous outsiders, no idea what to expect from the.

 

[hayneplane]

Does anyone else feel like De Gendt has significantly declined in ITTs in the past couple of years.

 

[BlueRoads]

Does anyone else feel like De Gendt has significantly declined in ITTs in the past couple of years.

I think he has declined significantly in everything during the past couple of months. Otherwise not so much?

 

[Bonimenier]

Does anyone else feel like De Gendt has significantly declined in ITTs in the past couple of years.

I don't think so. He's just not made for 1 day races, it seems. Have the same TT after 2 weeks of racing and he would do a lot better compared to other riders.

 

[Koronin]

Possible effects from the Covid related stoppage?
At this point I'm wondering if part of why it appears we have two different pelotons right now is more mentality of the individual riders instead of which country they were in.

 

[KZD]

Does anyone else feel like De Gendt has significantly declined in ITTs in the past couple of years.

Last year in the Tour ITT, he and Van Aert were doing almost the same time before the later crashed.

 

[BlueRoads]

Seriously, who's going to wear the European champion's jersey soon? Alex Dowsett?

 

[Bonimenier]

Seriously, who's going to wear the European champion's jersey soon? Alex Dowsett?

TT? I'd say Kung or Campenaerts.

 

[BlueRoads]

TT? I'd say Kung or Campenaerts.

Ah no. I meant the road race. Still have no idea who's going to be there.

 

[RedheadDane]

Ah no. I meant the road race. Still have no idea who's going to be there.

Here's a provisional startlist, if that helps.

https://firstcycling.com/race.php?r=4019&y=2020&k=8

 

[BlueRoads]

Here's a provisional startlist, if that helps.

https://firstcycling.com/race.php?r=4019&y=2020&k=8

Thank you! Oh if only Cosnefroy was in shape! So... van der Poel?

 

[tobydawq]

Thank you! Oh if only Cosnefroy was in shape! So... van der Poel?

I think Cosnefroy was struggling with some sort of injury in the Dauphiné mountain stages. He had looked fine on the Occitanie stage that he won and on stage one of the Dauphiné.

But yeah, van der Poel, although Belgium and Italy look strong as well.

 

[RedheadDane]

Hmm... maybe you should change the title of this thread to 2020 National - and European - Championships

 

[tobydawq]

Maybe I should. Maybe I won't.

Get out of my thread you European scoundrels!

 

[BlueRoads]

I'm sorry. Will only use this thread for what it's for from now on.

 

[RedheadDane]

Get out of my thread you European scoundrels!

NEVER!

 

[Kaptain Kool]

Are both the France Nationals and European Champions both being held on the Bretagne Classic Circuit?
I think holding multiple one-day races in short period of time could be the future. Maybe make the monuments first to 2 wins. Like you could run Paris-Roubaix every three days until someone wins twice. Maybe cap it at 10 races. Then the tie-breaker could be placings among the 10 winners. 10 Paris-Roubaixes per year would be pretty kool. Much better than any of Jonathan Vaughter's gimmicks.

 

[tobydawq]

Are both the France Nationals and European Champions both being held on the Bretagne Classic Circuit?
I think holding multiple one-day races in short period of time could be the future. Maybe make the monuments first to 2 wins. Like you could run Paris-Roubaix every three days until someone wins twice. Maybe cap it at 10 races. Then the tie-breaker could be placings among the 10 winners. 10 Paris-Roubaixes per year would be pretty kool. Much better than any of Jonathan Vaughter's gimmicks.

Maybe a scoring system like in tennis could be applied.

 

[SafeBet]

I'm not sure you guys are serious or trolling.

 

[topcat]

Are both the France Nationals and European Champions both being held on the Bretagne Classic Circuit?
I think holding multiple one-day races in short period of time could be the future. Maybe make the monuments first to 2 wins. Like you could run Paris-Roubaix every three days until someone wins twice. Maybe cap it at 10 races. Then the tie-breaker could be placings among the 10 winners. 10 Paris-Roubaixes per year would be pretty kool. Much better than any of Jonathan Vaughter's gimmicks.

One of the funniest posts in years

 

[Red Rick]

Now that's some Koolaid I'll take

 

[RedheadDane]

France is on Eurosport right now.

 

[DNP-Old]

Although Thomas was faster on the first intermediate, it would seem Remi is having one of those days again (this is based on nothing).

 

[RedheadDane]

Yeah, Remi's on fire!

Figuratively speaking...

 

[DNP-Old]

Some day I hope to see Cavagna and De Gendt in a break together. Once they get going there's no stopping it.