2021 World Championships in Flanders - Time Trials

[Volderke]

Tarling looks like the frontman of a pop/rock band.

... from the early 90s!

 

[Red Rick]

It's probably way more taxing on their aerobic system than just riding a bigger gear on a course like that.

It recruits more fast twitch fibers, so yeah.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Wang (surname) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Meanwhile in English, https://www.etymonline.com/word/wang

 

[Breezy1985]

Serious 90s band stuff going on there

 

[Jagartrott]

Alec Segaert is going to combine being 'espoir' at Lotto-Soudal with a civil engineering study. Must have quite the brains (well insulated and cushioned by the hair).

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Surely if your surname is Tarling you should be obliged to give your children a forename beginning with S

 

[Armchair cyclist]

That very close battle for third would presumably have had another element to it if not for this (or maybe it would simply have been that 4th was closely contested)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1440319401123745802

View: https://twitter.com/UCI_cycling/status/1440319401123745802

 

[RedheadDane]

That very close battle for third would presumably have had another element to it if not for this (or maybe it would simply have been that 4th was closely contested)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1440319401123745802

View: https://twitter.com/UCI_cycling/status/1440319401123745802

Bit rude of them to say that he was "Final(l)y crashing", though...

 

[T-Nielsen]

Tarling looks like the frontman of a pop/rock band.

That insists the group perform something he wrote himself.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Mixed relay tomorrow afternoon

Germany, Italy, The Netherlands
Belgium, Denmark, GB, USA
France, Switzerland

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Doesn't look Chinese at all.

Neither did the guy from Dancehall Days.

are you guys just assuming the wind dropped, or do you have some reports from belgium?

Went outside to check, stuck my finger in the air after licking it.
But there were also reports from the guys on the motorcycles.

 

[Red Rick]

Another photo that pretends to be about a cycling podium but is actually material for the barber shop.
Or is it for the casting of a high school movie? The handsome dude all the girls run to, the super nice guy and the weird friend with the weird jokes...
I know I'm mean, it's just not the best photo you could take of Segaert. After already not having the best wind?

By the way I'm really disappointed, I had hoped Wang has some Chinese anchestors.

These guys aren't in their mid to late 20s so they could never play in a high school movie

 

[Mayomaniac]

Mixed relay tomorrow afternoon

Germany, Italy, The Netherlands
Belgium, Denmark, GB, USA
France, Switzerland

I wouldn't look past the Swiss, they have 2 top TTers on the men's side and Marlen Reusser alongside Elise Chabbey, who is also a decent TTer.
I guess the guys are actually the weak point of the Dutch team, they need Van Emden to do all the heavy lifting.
To me Germany looks like the most balanced team.

 

[search]

To me Germany looks like the most balanced team.

I tend to agree. The men should be able to stay in touch with Italy, and the women are 3/4 from the record breaking Olympic team pursuit. It doesn't translate 1-1 to a TTT of course, but they know each other very well, and Kröger has pulled a far worse unit to best time at the European Championships already.

 

[will-10]

Markedly better field than Harrogate. Sure there's still a couple of countries who are clearly disinterested, but great to see 5-6 big nations all taking it seriously.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

I had been thinking of this as a six legged relay that is effectively ITTs (as last time's 4-person event), but looking again, it seems to be that the three men ride together (Knokke-Heist to Bruges), and then (I'm guessing on arrival of the second male) the women ride a TTT in the loop from Bruges to Dudzele and back. Time to be taken on the second woman to finish.

That might be more interesting than I had thought.

Or have I misunderstood?

 

[SafeBet]

Mixed relay tomorrow afternoon

Germany, Italy, The Netherlands
Belgium, Denmark, GB, USA
France, Switzerland

I'd switch USA and Switzerland, but overall it looks sensible.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I wouldn't look past the Swiss, they have 2 top TTers on the men's side and Marlen Reusser alongside Elise Chabbey, who is also a decent TTer.
I guess the guys are actually the weak point of the Dutch team, they need Van Emden to do all the heavy lifting.
To me Germany looks like the most balanced team.

I'd switch USA and Switzerland, but overall it looks sensible.

I might have been too hard on the Suisse here, but the team just looks a little unbalanced with Schmid and Nicole Koller, who's a MTB/CX rider, who's never even ridden a pro time trial. Of course it's more about how the riders are able to work together here than just their individul TT abilities. But Reusser did ride as fast as the TTT teams on her own in Trento, and if she can repeat that performance without dropping Koller too early, while also keeping her visor clean, then a medal is probably guaranteed.

 

[sir fly]

Maybe the Swiss will fare better on the shorter than individual course.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I tend to agree. The men should be able to stay in touch with Italy, and the women are 3/4 from the record breaking Olympic team pursuit. It doesn't translate 1-1 to a TTT of course, but they know each other very well, and Kröger has pulled a far worse unit to best time at the European Championships already.

Yeah, I find it hard to look past Germany, strong on the men's side and Kröger + the 2 Lisas who finished 5th and 7th in the ITT, they are my nr. 1 favourite.

 

[will-10]

I had been thinking of this as a six legged relay that is effectively ITTs (as last time's 4-person event), but looking again, it seems to be that the three men ride together (Knokke-Heist to Bruges), and then (I'm guessing on arrival of the second male) the women ride a TTT in the loop from Bruges to Dudzele and back. Time to be taken on the second woman to finish.

That might be more interesting than I had thought.

Or have I misunderstood?

Yes, it's 2x 3-up TTTs, same format as Harrogate in 2019.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

OK, I had mis-remembered Harrogate then.

 

[search]

Team Austria collided with a bus during the recon today. One rider is off to hospital (edit: not sure if it was the recon for the TTT though)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1440627644043706377

View: https://twitter.com/rob_televisie/status/1440627644043706377

 

[Bonimenier]

Team Austria collided with a bus during the recon today. One rider is off to hospital (edit: not sure if it was the recon for the TTT though)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1440627644043706377

View: https://twitter.com/rob_televisie/status/1440627644043706377

It happened in Leuven so not for the TTT. They were apparently riding at the wrong side of the road.

 

[Jagartrott]

From where the dent in the bus is, it indeed appears they were riding on the wrong side of the road. Strange.