2021 World Championships in Flanders: Road Races

[Pantani_lives]

And Cecilia's niece has done it!

 

[Red Rick]

Slipstreaming clearly not part of the junior womens meta.

 

[sir fly]

Congrats to Backstedts.

Schmid started just a bit earlier than she should for the strength she managed to save.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Magnus speechless

 

[RedheadDane]

Zoe does the thing her dad never managed!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Zoe does the thing her dad never managed!

Beating an American in a sprint?

 

[RedheadDane]

Beating an American in a sprint?

Becoming World Champion, silly...

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[Jagartrott]

Slipstreaming clearly not part of the junior womens meta.

That was very weird indeed. Schmid's chances would have been clearly higher when starting from behind Backstedt. No idea what the tactic was there.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

It would be so funny seeing Schmid and Evenepoel on a tandem, be like 2 peas on a drum. Put one on top of the other and they'll still be shorter than Conor Dunne.

 

[vladimir]

Amazing ride by Zoe, especially bearing in mind she was 16 two days ago! Also very positve for the future of women's cycling that there were 10 different nations in the top 18 today.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

How many different spellings do Americans have for Michaela? We have Mikaela Shiffrin, MiKayla Skinner, McKayla Maroney and now Makayla McPherson?

 

[Pantani_lives]

Favorites for this afternoon:

Anyone from the Netherlands
Nobody
Nobody
Kopecky, Uttrup, Bastianelli, Niewiadoma
Deignan, Longo Borghini, Norsgaard, Rivera, Brennauer

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Favorites for this afternoon:

Anyone from the Netherlands
Nobody
Nobody
Kopecky, Uttrup, Bastianelli, Niewiadoma
Deignan, Longo Borghini, Norsgaard, Rivera, Brennauer

I would probably give the next bests four stars instead of three and let Rivera join them with Balsamo getting her place among the two stars instead.

And also I can't see Van der Breggen wanting/being able to win this, so I wouldn't give her five stars.

 

[RedheadDane]

I would probably give the next bests four start instead of three and let Rivera join them with Balsamo getting her place among the two stars instead.

No! Only one start per rider.

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And meanwhile the graphics tried to turn Dideriksen Norwegian! That is unforgivable!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Time for the last race of Van der Breggen's career. It's also the last race for Ruth Winder and Karol-Ann Canuel and the penultimate race for at least Sara Penton of Sweden and maybe also Jolien D'hoore. It's also the last WC for Chantal van den Broek-Blaak.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

And meanwhile the graphics tried to turn Dideriksen Norwegian! That is unforgivable!

Yeah, why would they ever feel the need to do that?

 

[sir fly]

Time for the last race of Van der Breggen's career. It's also the last race for Ruth Winder and Karol-Ann Canuel and the penultimate race for at least Sara Penton of Sweden and maybe also Jolien D'hoore. It's also the last WC for Chantal van den Broek-Blaak.

None of them at PR?!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

None of them at PR?!

No

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I've ridden through both the Kennedytunnel and the Sint-Annatunnel on my bike, but the Van Eycktunnel was sadly not a possibility that day.

 

[BlueRoads]

Looks like they are still in the neutralized zone...

 

[tobydawq]

Becoming World Champion, silly...

As if that's the only thing he never did...

 

[sir fly]

Have you already learnt all the landmarks on the course, folks?

Repetitio mater studiorum est.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Not usually a fan of biased commentary but in specific circumstances it can be really great.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1441721717576159232

View: https://twitter.com/GcnRacing/status/1441721717576159232

"Where were The Germans, and frankly, who cares"