2023 National Championships

[Zinoviev Letter]

Mullen did manage to drag the chase back to 19 seconds behind Healy but he couldn’t sustain it and the gap is back out to 28 seconds.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Really enjoy the woman commentating Spain RR. Whats her name? Not Pippa, the other one.

José Been? She seemed to be caught up in her conversation with Pippa quite a lot, I don‘t think she even said anything about it when Lazkano initially went solo.

 

[Jagartrott]

Quite hot in Belgium today, almost no wind. No-one sliding into a ditch today, I would think.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Wow. Would you look at that. The greatest Spainish young talent in cycling right now wins again easily beating Ajuso. Which equipment issues did ajuso have today? Or he was just beaten fair again by Lazkano.? Lazkano will win the biggest races in cycling

 

[Tim Cahill]

Is Oier going to the tour, if not he should be, Vamos!

 

[KZD]

Wow. Would you look at that. The greatest Spainish young talent in cycling right now wins again easily beating Ajuso. Which equipment issues did ajuso have today? Or he was just beaten fair again by Lazkano.? Lazkano will win the biggest races in cycling

Haha easily, Lazkano's face really showed how easy it was beating a rider without a team behind him...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Not the Gorka I had expected to see in the top 5 in Spain. Euskaltel should sign him immediately.

 

[theyoungest]

Kopecky wins in Belgium, alone with literally a whole peloton on her wheel.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Kopecky got stuck at the front of the Peloton at 500m to go, but nobody did anything and she won a 100 meter sprint at the Belgian Championships.

 

[Jagartrott]

Van Aert is not waiting for a bunch sprint, and is about 2 minutes ahead of the peloton, together with guys like Lampaert, De Gendt and Theuns. 140 km to go...

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Pfeiffer Georgi wins the British Champs for the second time.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Van Aert is not waiting for a bunch sprint, and is about 2 minutes ahead of the peloton,

What? I've seen it all now

 

[Red Rick]

Haha easily, Lazkano's face really showed how easy it was beating a rider without a team behind him...

I mean even 1 day legend Alberto Contador could manage a 2nd place behind Movistar at the Spanish nats.

 

[DNP-Old]

Alaphilippe dropped.

 

[RedheadDane]

Georgi is the new British Champion.

The open FDJ Championships - aka the French Championships - is live on GCN now.

Break in Denmark:

Frederik Muff (coloQuick)
Jeppe Pallesen (HRE)
Matias Malmberg (Maloja)
Daniel Stampe (Suri)
Aksel Bech Skot-Hansen (JS)
Mads Østergaard (Leopard)
Martin Szokody (Give Elementer)

Peloton - lead by Uno-X - at around 6:14.

 

[DNP-Old]

Lenny dropped.

 

[Berniece]

Alaphilippe dropped.

How even... TDF starts in a week

 

[HelloDolly]

In Ireland, Ben Healy has been going full berserker from very early on. He is currently solo ahead of a chase group that includes Ryan Mullen and Sam Bennett. There are 90 or so km to go, he’s been attacking over and over pretty much since the start.

My man has only one mode of racing ...attack, attack, attack ...no matter who is behind

Hope he can hang on as there a few fresher riders in the bunch

Where is Eddie Dunbar today ? has no Irish Champs jersey yet so thought he'd be here

 

[TourOfSardinia]

BC can afford a clock!
Just love Saltburn and its bank

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Just about to catch up this weekend's NC's (sorry late here, busy times).

Just read freak news of Swedish NC's cancelled due to short-sighted race organizers who did not take ordinary consideration of the local population (100kmh support cars in a 30kmh limit sections with homes and small children adjacent, without proper info sounds like something from 1923 and certainly not 2023).

But also vague lines about moving TT's to a 'motorsport arena' without any further mentioning about motorsport track?

A couple of hours ago googled and found pic of sad photo from not exactly a motorsport circuit with at least a tad of soul

https://twitter.com/x/status/1672588907936985088

View: https://twitter.com/AndymanFinest/status/1672588907936985088?s=20

Instead something looking as a drag strip.
Thinking Uppsala, is this Tierp Arena?

Now googled again and I observe in fact results for what must be the ITT part:

Swedish National Championships de Cycling 2023 - Results Women

Swedish National Championships de Cycling 2023 - Results Women

www.the-sports.org

Very dull sourroundings.
But blame is fully to put on the organizers' shoulders!
It's hillarious how Swedish pro cycling has turned into amateurism.

BTW: Been loving pro cycling and motorsports since early 80ies, two of my biggest continous spare time interests.
I hear grumbling her every time pro peleton enters a motorsport track and the new child term 'meh' as conversation stopper. However, stating a motorsport track is just dull is like stating that all of cycling is dull when only watched Doha 2016. Alot of older motorsport tracks delivers endless soul and beautiful sourroundings. while newer tracks and changed layouts and ofcourse drag strips are more towards the 'meh'.

Hope to catch up on today's NRC's this evening.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

BC can afford a clock!
Just love Saltburn and its bank

Judging by the way Matt Stephens was obviously given the command to occasionally having to say it's £26 for membership, I don't think they can!!

 

[Red Rick]

Pinot looks impervious. Will win 2nd place.

 

[Red Rick]

Alaphilippe looks like he completely overheated juding by how much of that bidon is going all over his body

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

In Ireland, Mullen buried himself chasing Healy, with the gap oscillating between 20 and 40 seconds for a long time. He has exploded now though. Rory Townsend and Sam Bennett are now all that’s left of the chase group behind Healy. Townsend in particular is going all in to try to close the gap now.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Pinot attacking multiple times with 95k to go, races are more fun when they race like they've just gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson. I look forward to his complaints after the race.