17Mikkel Bjerg (Denmark)0:02:16
Pretty sure that's not Bjerg. The Danish national team has "PostNord" on their sleves, and he was wearing a red MET helmet.
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17Mikkel Bjerg (Denmark)0:02:16
Wout's hair is looking more and more like Kid'sThis time Remco wasn't ashamed of his uncles (one of them has cool hairstyle after all!)
This post had me make my 10 year old daughter listen to "Sweet Child o' Mine".
I had to hurry and maybe was too quick with my post, am pretty sure I have all of them so will go through my photos tonight and edit if needed!Pretty sure that's not Bjerg. The Danish national team has "PostNord" on their sleves, and he was wearing a red MET helmet.
I had to hurry and maybe was too quick with my post, am pretty sure I have all of them so will go through my photos tonight and edit if needed!
I think it's Peak.
15 | Jan Tratnik (Slovenia) | 0:02:04 |
14 | Rémi Cavagna (France) | 0:01:59 |
13 | Nelson Oliveira (Portugal) | 0:01:55 |
12 | Jos van Emden (Netherlands) |
11 | Max Walscheid (Germany) | 0:01:54 |
10 | Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia) | 0:01:53 |
9 | Edoardo Affini (Italy) | 0:01:49 |
8 | Ethan Hayter (Great Britain) | 0:01:27 |
7 | Stefan Bissegger (Switzerland) | 0:01:26 |
6 | Tony Martin (Germany) | 0:01:18 |
5 | Stefan Küng (Switzerland) | 0:01:07 |
4 | Kasper Asgreen (Denmark) | 0:00:46 |
3 | Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) | 0:00:44 |
2 | Wout van Aert (Belgium) | 0:00:06 |
1 | Filippo Ganna (Italy) | 0:47:47 |
I think it's an Austrian. At least the Austria national team is sponsored by Husqvarna on the MTB.
Or they just never adjust it. I know that in tennis they overestimate hight a lot by measuring in inches then rounding up. Murray confirmed his height 8 years ago and the ATP site still has this wrong, but considering UCI regulations mean the height matters for what bike setups are allowed they should take a lot better care in this.
As a total non-expert, non-professional aka "I probably have no idea what I'm talking about" person merely watching all these races on my TV, I've reached the conclusion in recent TT's that Stefan Kung has it all wrong. Namely the gearing he uses, i.e. he's spinning his legs like he's Chris Froome on the Ventoux when all the other top guys are pulling big gears & putting the power down.
For such a tall, big guy, it looks wrong. Especially on such a flat long TT.
I just don't generally think commentators should be expected to always notice details like that.
I do. The camera zoomed in on the bike frame for ten seconds where you could see that there was no bottle. Seconds after there was a replay where we saw the bottle dropping. I expect a commentator to observe that and at least say something about it. A bit later, there was a similar situation with Van Aert's backwheel sliding during a left turn. There was a replay showing it. The commentator didn't mention it. It's so bad. (And there is absolutely no indication that the tragic accicent yesterday had anything to do with this.)
I do. The camera zoomed in on the bike frame for ten seconds where you could see that there was no bottle. Seconds after there was a replay where we saw the bottle dropping. I expect a commentator to observe that and at least say something about it. A bit later, there was a similar situation with Van Aert's backwheel sliding during a left turn. There was a replay showing it. The commentator didn't mention it. It's so bad. (And there is absolutely no indication that the tragic accicent yesterday had anything to do with this.)
3 Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) 0:00:44
2 Wout van Aert (Belgium) 0:00:06
1 Filippo Ganna (Italy) 0:47:47
I love the looks of the father-and-daughter...!
Wait, what? Lack of concentration is like a text book example on how people react in situations like that. The commentator was clearly affected by CAS' passing the day before - he even said so himself at the very beginning - and for obvious reasons he didn't have time to prepare himself for the broadcast.(And there is absolutely no indication that the tragic accicent yesterday had anything to do with this.)
Yes, they should undoubtedly have settling Internet forum spats as a mandate.Or they just never adjust it. I know that in tennis they overestimate hight a lot by measuring in inches then rounding up. Murray confirmed his height 8 years ago and the ATP site still has this wrong, but considering UCI regulations mean the height matters for what bike setups are allowed they should take a lot better care in this.
Wait, what? Lack of concentration is like a text book example on how people react in situations like that. The commentator was clearly affected by CAS' passing the day before - he even said so himself at the very beginning - and for obvious reasons he didn't have time to prepare himself for the broadcast.
Bit hard to prepare for [Rider X]'s bottle dropping at Kilometer [Y] anyway.
But, honestly, even Chris Anker hadn't passed away, and the originally scheduled guys had been commentating, I still wouldn't have expected them to notice.
Okay that's probably going a bit much in the other direction.
Why? Sure, most of the time commentators probably do notice stuff like that. But if they don't, no big deal. Certainly nothing to call someone horrible at their job over.
There might be other riders, who could have deserved one beer, but these are my final ratings for tomorrow.
Men's U23
Price-Pejtersen. Plapp
Wærenskjold, Vermeersch
Hoole, Van Dijke, Hessmann, Fisher-Black
Ballerstedt, Baroncini, García Pierna, Balmer, Azparren, Vauquelin, Healy
Women's ITT
Van Vleuten, Reusser
Van Dijk
Brennauer, Neben, Klein
Markus, Guazzini, Norsgaard, Thomas, Kiesenhofer, Kononenko, Cordon-Ragot/Labouse, Lowden