2021 World Championships in Flanders - Time Trials

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

Happy for the result. Much better that a specialist takes the jersey, even if VA was still insane.

 

[Red Rick]

Gotta say, that was a pretty entertaining TT. Really happy for Ganna and Remco though I do feel for Wout a bit. A TT gold medal would really add a lot to his palmares.

I just want footage of Roglic, Dennis and Dumoulin bantering Van Aert about that on the winter training camp of Jumbo

 

[F_Cance]

Good that the cheater did not win. And before you guys think this is about another part of the forum, no, it's not. Aert is actually 1.86 tall or so and when he transfered to jumbo he somehow grew 4cm (literally was added to the UCI list out of nowhere) to be able to abuse the UCI rules for TT bike geometry.

 

[limak_]

Btw, I'm still amazed how fast have WVA made it to the top of the road racing and being a favourite of any type of the race (also taking his injury into account).

I mean, I still remember him cramping up on that last climb in SB '18 like this was yesterday and how everyone was impressed by his performance on that day as a CX guy in a road race.

 

[RedheadDane]

Good that the cheater did not win. And before you guys think this is about another part of the forum, no, it's not. Aert is actually 1.86 tall or so and when he transfered to jumbo he somehow grew 4cm (literally was added to the UCI list out of nowhere) to be able to abuse the UCI rules for TT bike geometry.

You don't believe someone could have a random 4cm growth-spurt? Nothing like the random growing (and then shrinking, and then growing again) Pidcock did!

 

[yaco]

The result of the ITT reinfoces my opinion that the Olympics having the RR before the ITT, skewed the results of the ITT.

 

[Open Horizon]

Good that the cheater did not win. And before you guys think this is about another part of the forum, no, it's not. Aert is actually 1.86 tall or so and when he transfered to jumbo he somehow grew 4cm (literally was added to the UCI list out of nowhere) to be able to abuse the UCI rules for TT bike geometry.

Interesting. Source?

 

[johnymax]

Amazing from Ganna! Honestly didn't expect him to pull it off after I1. But he showed once again he is the best time trialist. After Roglič, Dumoulin and Dennis of course as we saw in the Olympics

 

[BlueRoads]

Good that the cheater did not win. And before you guys think this is about another part of the forum, no, it's not. Aert is actually 1.86 tall or so and when he transfered to jumbo he somehow grew 4cm (literally was added to the UCI list out of nowhere) to be able to abuse the UCI rules for TT bike geometry.

Actually that belongs into the barber shop thread.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Van Aert is disappointed "the silver medal too many" he said.
Evenepoel is happy with his bronze all things considered.

 

[BlueRoads]

Gotta say, that was a pretty entertaining TT. Really happy for Ganna and Remco though I do feel for Wout a bit. A TT gold medal would really add a lot to his palmares.

I will feel for him when he gets second again next week. But for now I'm still assuming he wins that and honestly in my eyes a road race win is worth more than a tt win.

 

[RedheadDane]

Actually that belongs into the barber shop thread.

You're implying he just has a really tall hairdo?

 

[BlueRoads]

You're implying he just has a really tall hairdo?

I think his hair is definitely 4cm high!

 

[Carols]

You don't believe someone could have a random 4cm growth-spurt? Nothing like the random growing (and then shrinking, and then growing again) Pidcock did!

One measurement to his head the other including his hair?

 

[Salvarani]

It was the last ITT for Tony Martin and 6th was a good result for him.

Mixed relay will be his final race.

 

[tobydawq]

I will feel for him when he gets second again next week. But for now I'm still assuming he wins that and honestly in my eyes a road race win is worth more than a tt win.

I would think that would be the case in everyone's eyes.

 

[tobydawq]

It was the last ITT for Tony Martin and 6th was a good result for him.

Mixed relay will be he his final race.

Nice to finish your career with a gimmick race...

 

[postmanhat]

While it's a surprise Hayter is the bigger one to me.

Me too. He's done pretty well at some 10-15K TTs, but don't remember even riding one of this length before. He seems to be developing the same skillset as Van Aert

And Dan Bigham leaves a calling card as the best conti-level rider in 16th place

 

[limak_]

Interesting. Source?

If you google 'Wout van Aert height" you get 187 cm.
And now he's indeed on the UCI list of 190+ cm riders list.

https://www.uci.org/docs/default-source/equipment/uci-list-riders-1-90m-tall-or-taller8cf6a298b6c8418d9284ce9a51edd94d.pdf

Of course, a simple google search could be not so credible, although 187 cm still appears on many different sites as Wout's height has been updated to 190 cm in some places at some point, could be actually the moment of joining of Jumbo as @F_Cance stated.

Honestly, I rarely hear of anyone growing up 3cm at the age of 25.

 

[Red Rick]

Tbh UCI restrictions on TT bike sizes are utterly ridiculous anyway.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Cut the man some slack. His colleague died yesterday.

Cut the censorship. It has nothing to do with that. It was a comment about the lack of professionalism which was in no way influenced by anything else.

I've seen people say that we shouldn't watch cycling today because of what happened yesterday. My response is: don't spend so much energy on controlling what other people are doing or are saying after sad occurences. Or go to church.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

If you google 'Wout van Aert height" you get 187 cm.
And now he's indeed on the UCI list of 190+ cm riders list.

https://www.uci.org/docs/default-source/equipment/uci-list-riders-1-90m-tall-or-taller8cf6a298b6c8418d9284ce9a51edd94d.pdf

Of course, a simple google search could be not so credible, although 187 cm still appears on many different sites as Wout's height has been updated to 190 cm in some places at some point, could be actually the moment of joining of Jumbo as @F_Cance stated.

Honestly, I rarely hear of anyone growing up 3cm at the age of 25.

Pidcock grew 12 cm in one day, at the age of 21. Then he shrank 12cm. And then he grew 12cm again at the age of 22.
But i'm sure google and PCS are very reliable.

(lol)

As for Van Aert, he was a late bloomer physically (he was a lot shorter than van der Poel throughout most of the youth ranks), so it's not at all that farfetched that he kept growing at a later age. And it's also not that far fetched that the information of him being 1m86 was from when he was 18 years old, and never got updated until he changed teams.

 

[IndurainsTdF1994]

The result of the ITT reinfoces my opinion that the Olympics having the RR before the ITT, skewed the results of the ITT.

Ganna not racing the RR caused him to be worse than Roglic and Dennis who did race the RR? Or something else?

 

[RedheadDane]

Cut the censorship. It has nothing to do with that. It was a comment about the lack of professionalism which was in no way influenced by anything else.

I've seen people say that we shouldn't watch cycling today because of what happened yesterday. My response is: don't spend so much energy on controlling what other people are doing or are saying after sad occurences. Or go to church.

I just don't generally think commentators should be expected to always notice details like that.

 

[roundabout]

I randomly picked one relatively old wiki page revision

Wout van Aert: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

so, yeah he was 1.87 then and it sources the team, not pcs or whatever