2021 Trentino European Championships 8-12 September

[Strawberry_Jams]

Doesn't seem to be a british team?

 

[BlueRoads]

I think it's high on the list of priorities for a European rider, especially on a course that suits. It will prove more popular over the years and seems to have hit a sweet spot on the calendar.

I don't know how it will develop, but right now I think it's only high for very few of the top riders.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Doesn't seem to be a british team?

We're banned because we left.

 

[hayneplane]

Doesn't seem to be a british team?

Probably due to the schedule clash with the Tour of Britain which is the first post covid lockdown race of significant level in the UK. Would have made it hard to raise a team of any useful standard and most team personnel also involved.

 

[hayneplane]

I don't know how it will develop, but right now I think it's only high for very few of the top riders.

For now I think it feels more like a 'nice race to win' but is a prep race for the Worlds unless the respective courses make the two courses have wildly divergent potential winners.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

We are still waiting for a proper mano-a-mano between Tadej and Remco. The Olympics backfired. This race could be a good occasion but there are doubts (regarding Remco's health and Tadej's form).

 

[BlueRoads]

Does anyone know whether Mohoric will do it?

 

[Billie]

Does anyone know whether Mohoric will do it?

Yes he said so yesterday.

Him and Tadej will do the euros and then the guys from the Vuelta will join for the Worlds.

 

[Red Rick]

Is there any half decent reason why the race is so short?

My guess is the new place on the calendar makes it a prep race for the Worlds that shouldn't be too hard.

But then that's more of a "this is why it's not 260km" excuse and not a "can't be longer thn 170km" excuse.

Anyway what's the profile of the climb a lot depends on that.

 

[glassmoon]

You still have to be the fastest of the field. Equally difficult whether it's 4 kms or 80. Just a different type of test.

Not necessarily - short TTs can have surprising winners more often than the proper length TTs. If the jersey is for the best Time Trialist in the EU/World then it should be won on the proper TT course - imho it has to be at least 1 hour effort. I have no problem with shorter (20-30 km) TTs during the stage races but when it is an actual Championships in this discipline, it deservers to be longer imho.

 

[noob]

"Top riders such as the winner of the last two Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar, Tokyo 2020 time trial winner Primoz Roglic and talented Belgian Remco Evenepoel will have a chance to shake things off from distance. The elevation profile of the final circuit is not overly demanding, giving the edge – at least on cards – to strong all-rounders with a fast finish like three-time World Champion Peter Sagan, 2021 Ronde van Vlaanderen winner Kasper Asgreen, Slovenian Matej Mohoric, Norwegians Edvald Boasson-Hagen and Alexander Kristoff and Italians Sonny Colbrelli and Matteo Trentin.

Possible outsiders who could use the Povo climb as a springboard are Dutchman Bauke Mollena, Pole Rafal Majka, the French duo of Romain Bardet and Warren Barguil, 2013 World Champion Alberto Rui Costa, the Spanish duo of Mikel Landa and Luis Leon Sanchez and Belgian Philippe Gilbert.

On Thursday, September 9th, 2021, the time trial will pose a rematch of the Tokyo 2020 challenge. Olympic Champion Primoz Roglic, reigning World Champion Filippo Ganna and the two new-generation phenomena Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel, will be at the start of the 22,4 km time trial.

Frenchman Remì Cavagna, Dane Kasper Asgreen, Dutchman Jos Van Emden, Belgian Victor Campenaerts and the Swiss reigning European champion Stefan Kung cannot be underestimated."

Seems even Roglic is going???? Slovenes probably to crush the competion.

http://www.uec.ch/en/actu/185/time-for-the-road-european-championships-in-trento

https://www.trentino2021cycling.eu/en/trentino-cant-wait-for-record-breaking-european-champs/

 

[johnymax]

"Top riders such as the winner of the last two Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar, Tokyo 2020 time trial winner Primoz Roglic and talented Belgian Remco Evenepoel will have a chance to shake things off from distance. The elevation profile of the final circuit is not overly demanding, giving the edge – at least on cards – to strong all-rounders with a fast finish like three-time World Champion Peter Sagan, 2021 Ronde van Vlaanderen winner Kasper Asgreen, Slovenian Matej Mohoric, Norwegians Edvald Boasson-Hagen and Alexander Kristoff and Italians Sonny Colbrelli and Matteo Trentin.

Possible outsiders who could use the Povo climb as a springboard are Dutchman Bauke Mollena, Pole Rafal Majka, the French duo of Romain Bardet and Warren Barguil, 2013 World Champion Alberto Rui Costa, the Spanish duo of Mikel Landa and Luis Leon Sanchez and Belgian Philippe Gilbert.

On Thursday, September 9th, 2021, the time trial will pose a rematch of the Tokyo 2020 challenge. Olympic Champion Primoz Roglic, reigning World Champion Filippo Ganna and the two new-generation phenomena Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel, will be at the start of the 22,4 km time trial.

Frenchman Remì Cavagna, Dane Kasper Asgreen, Dutchman Jos Van Emden, Belgian Victor Campenaerts and the Swiss reigning European champion Stefan Kung cannot be underestimated."

Seems even Roglic is going???? Slovenes probably to crush the competion.

http://www.uec.ch/en/actu/185/time-for-the-road-european-championships-in-trento


https://www.trentino2021cycling.eu/en/trentino-cant-wait-for-record-breaking-european-champs/

No, Roglič isn't going. Unless there was a last minute change, but I doubt it.

 

[noob]

No, Roglič isn't going. Unless there was a last minute change, but I doubt it.

It was last updated 4 days ago and it's on the official site. It's weird both if true and if false.

 

[Sciatic]

It was last updated 4 days ago and it's on the official site. It's weird both if true and if false.

Given his comments about how he liked those Vuelta stages that ran along the coast because he could see people out enjoying themselves at the beach, I think I have a guess where he might be spending that weekend

 

[noob]

When you realize people from your home town are actually national champions and you didn't even know it as you're not from a cycling nation what so ever.

Given his comments about how he liked those Vuelta stages that ran along the coast because he could see people out enjoying themselves at the beach, I think I have a guess where he might be spending that weekend

Vamos a la playa

But I still wonder why on earth they would say so on their official homepage. He should have known before that he was going to win the vuelta and that he wouldn't have time to go to Trentino too

 

[Ricco']

It was last updated 4 days ago and it's on the official site. It's weird both if true and if false.

They also say Edvald Boasson Hagen may have a edge on a sprint finish.

They probably updated that part 4 years ago.

 

[gerundium]

sad that there is no Monte Bondone loop in the course. It's literally right there next to Trento.

 

[noob]

Now PSC has Roglič on the start list as well. Oh how they are all playing games with me. (Still no official start list.)

 

[RedheadDane]

Now PSC has Roglič on the start list as well. Oh how they are all playing games with me. (Still no official start list.)

PCS is weird in that regard. Just as strict as they are about not adding a rider for the roster for the upcoming years of a team before there has been official confirmation, just as loose they are about adding riders to (provisional) startlists.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Sam Bennett riding apparently. Either his recovery from surgery was faster than expected… or it was as expected but QS aren‘t putting him in race squads. Presumably he will have no form.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

PCS is weird in that regard. Just as strict as they are about not adding a rider for the roster for the upcoming years of a team before there has been official confirmation, just as loose they are about adding riders to (provisional) startlists.

They are not always great at adding riders after the official announcements either.

FirstCycling seems to be more reliable when it comes to startlists, and they have had Roglič on there for at least the last few days, though they do list the full squads and not just the riders who will actually be doing the race.

 

[Billie]

The climb on the local lap is apparently 3.5 km @ 4,7% so somewhere in between Poggio and Cipressa.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Probably due to the schedule clash with the Tour of Britain which is the first post covid lockdown race of significant level in the UK. Would have made it hard to raise a team of any useful standard and most team personnel also involved.

No excuse for not having a women's team though: blatant insult.

 

[hayneplane]

No excuse for not having a women's team though: blatant insult.

True - that is shoddy considering the budget

 

[Nirvana]

When Ulissi saw it's only 179 kms long.