2023 National Championships

[lemon cheese cake]

Wright has gone for it over the top of Williams

 

[Samamba]

Finally a win for Wright

 

[Tim Cahill]

Stop looking around

 

[Samamba]

I thought they were already at the finish lmao, not over yet

 

[DNP-Old]

Knox is coming!

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

What an enjoyable race.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

I thought they were already at the finish lmao, not over yet

I just hope for Wright getting it right.

 

[DNP-Old]

On to USA we go.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Wright in tears on the line as he takes his first win

 

[DNP-Old]

Heavy rains in Knoxville too. The broadcast has been delayed, even.

 

[Samamba]

On to USA we go.

I just see "weather delay"

Does that mean there's just no broadcast or that the race has been delayed as a whole?

 

[postmanhat]

Wright

 

[DNP-Old]

I just see "weather delay"

Does that mean there's just no broadcast or that the race has been delayed as a whole?

Entire race has been delayed and shortened from 17 to 15 laps.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Race speaker in Denmark speaking Dutch... for some reason.

De koers is van ons, sucker!

Sporza keep blocking the dodgy stream for Belgium unfortunately

You're UK right? I'm not sure how Brexit impacted things, but you can watch the official stream on the official (VRT) app within EU as long as you register as a Belgian. Not sure how easy it is to circumvent the application, but if you know people in Belgium well enough to register an account for you, you don't have to be in Belgium to watch. But again, not sure if that still includes UK after Brexit.

 

[Tim Cahill]

De koers is van ons, sucker!


You're UK right? I'm not sure how Brexit impacted things, but you can watch the official stream on the official (VRT) app within EU as long as you register as a Belgian. Not sure how easy it is to circumvent the application, but if you know people in Belgium well enough to register an account for you, you don't have to be in Belgium to watch. But again, not sure if that still includes UK after Brexit.

Nice one, I've got a VPN which is handy for Brexit purposes and happen to know a couple of Belgians so will take a look. I can summon them by asking loudly if anyone knows the difference between an enclave and an exclave.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

It feels like there was an unusually large number of very good National RRs today

 

[Ricco']

You're UK right? I'm not sure how Brexit impacted things, but you can watch the official stream on the official (VRT) app within EU as long as you register as a Belgian. Not sure how easy it is to circumvent the application, but if you know people in Belgium well enough to register an account for you, you don't have to be in Belgium to watch. But again, not sure if that still includes UK after Brexit.

They changed it a few years back. Not UK, but I managed to register a few years ago through that method to watch cyclocross and could watch without restrictions. From a couple of years, they now detect the location and only allow to watch systems located within Belgium. Easily circumvented with a basic VPN tho.

 

[wirral]

Brilliant. When is the draw for the meat tray?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

They changed it a few years back. Not UK, but I managed to register a few years ago through that method to watch cyclocross and could watch without restrictions. From a couple of years, they now detect the location and only allow to watch systems located within Belgium. Easily circumvented with a basic VPN tho.

Nah, i was in Tenerife last summer and have a buddy who has an apartment there, he goes every 2 months and he uses it as his only way to watch TV. So you can 100% definitely still watch VRTnu/VRTmax abroad still.

PS: I think they could make an awesome WCC in Tenerife, even without including Teide. Wide roads, new asfalt, very demanding, never flat, plenty of hotels, good weather conditions...

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Nah, i was in Tenerife last summer and have a buddy who has an apartment there, he goes every 2 months and he uses it as his only way to watch TV. So you can 100% definitely still watch VRTnu/VRTmax abroad still.

PS: I think they could make an awesome WCC in Tenerife, even without including Teide. Wide roads, new asfalt, very demanding, never flat, plenty of hotels, good weather conditions...

Quality of hotels at the World Championships is very important.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Quality of hotels at the World Championships is very important.

Not really. Just ban teenage girls.

 

[DNP-Old]

FloBikes making me feel like I'm reliving the Tour of Utah, Tour of California and US Pro Cycling Challenge at all once. Thunder, lightning and heavy rain. This could very well be a great race.

 

[Boehmand]

Just reading full results list of Danish Elite Men RR.

77 finishers of the 160 starters spread all over with huge time gaps, coming over finish line either in small groups or as solo rides. Which gives thoughts to a Angliru MT finish rather than a punch of smaller hills race design.

What especially strikes me is the complete mixture all the way down the list of top WT riders and semi-amateurs from small teams, like a thoroughly shaken bag of candies.

During my studies in the 90ies I lived different places in the city and the vicinity, and took quite some hill challenges on my bike, and in fact a loop close to copy of final rounds in this race here.
Though hilly circuit, certainly didn't expect the route to shake things up in this extend, even last year (Andreas Kron's victory) would prove, this looks close to the extreme.
I guess high humidity and hot weather played a role today?

Edit: What extreme bad luck for Casper Pedersen (broken collar bone, result from early crash) I was really rooting for him in the upcoming tour to display his lead-out skills learned from Master Yoda Mørkøv.

Kamp, not Kron - last year

As for the time spread, it's both a function of riding in humid heat with no wind - and the race being raced extremely hard from the get go.

High speed from start to finish, and from 100 K from the finish it was more or less non-stop attacks for 70 K.

When a guy like Kragh simply has his legs give out on a small hill 20 K from the finish, despite being poised to fight for gold with Skjelmose, it tells you it's been a tough race.

Many commentators said it was the best Danish Championship race in memory.

 

[RedheadDane]

It's honestly a shame Denz isn't called Denzmann.

 

[Potomac]

50 DNFs at the USA race already?