2025 National Championships

[Cycling111]

Skjelmose has just won the 2024 Danish TT championship.

2025.
LIDL is sweeping these national championships.

 

[Berniece]

Kopecky is winning Belgian ITT championship easily. Catching 2 riders

 

[Izzyeviel]

2025.
LIDL is sweeping these national championships.

no, 2024. Just UCI things

 

[Cycling111]

no, 2024. Just UCI things

I don't understand. Did he win today?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Kopecky is winning Belgian ITT championship easily. Catching 2 riders

Close battle for bronze, but Lotte showed her Claes once again. I still maintain that SDW should sign her. Especially now that Arkéa is going bust.

I don't understand. Did he win today?

He was awarded the 2024 title for the second time after UCI undermined the previous decision to re-award the title to Johan Price-Pejtersen, who had set the fastest time on the day, but also stupidly ridden on a bike path for a short while.

 

[Berflamand]

Kopecky is winning Belgian ITT championship easily. Catching 2 riders

Looks like it was a matter of close calls and not exactly close calls.

Kopecky one minute ahead of 2nd and two minutes ahead of 3rd while there's only 15 seconds (!) separating third place and ninth place.

Like Samu just said very close battle for bronze but Kopecky simply on another level (with Goossens in between).

 

[Wvv]

Fleur Moors is our next big thing though. Just missed the bronze. Very strong comeback weeks after lots of physical misery.

 

[Cycling111]

At the Spanish Championships, Romeo and most riders on a conventional bike.

What's the point of a national time trial championship for climbers?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Van Wilder and Herregodts sick. They saw Remco doing the recon at 45km/h.

The belgian bullet

 

[Berniece]

At the Spanish Championships, Romeo and most riders on a conventional bike.

What's the point of a national time trial championship for climbers?

To change things up, and give others a chance too. Where do you draw the line between mountain and completely flat

 

[Cycling111]

To change things up, and give others a chance too. Where do you draw the line between mountain and completely flat

But at the world championships, they don't do this. At least there's a flat section to use a time trial bike in a time trial championship.

 

[RedheadDane]

I don't understand. Did he win today?

No, he won the 2024 ITT Championship yesterday.
Just to be clear; he did win it last year, after Price got disqualified for riding briefly on the bike lane.
Then Price got... re-qualified (DCU reasoning that they had a bit of the responsibility for not properly blocking the bike lane) back in the beginning of the year, but UCI went "Oh, no... not so fast, we'll need to look into the whole case. Until further notice, Skjelmose will be wearing the Danish ITT Champion kit."
Yesterday, UCI finally decided that DCU can't just undo a disqualification, and declared that Skjelmose had been the Champion the whole time.
A decision I personally think they could have made earlier, so Price (and Skjelmose for that matter) shouldn't be hanging in that weird limbo.

 

[Cycling111]

Surprise in Spain: a Caja Rural rider, Balderstone, beats Romeo and Garcia Pierna

 

[RedheadDane]

Pretty okay day for Muhammad in Indonesia:

Rnk	Rider	Team	UCI	Pnt		Time
1	SYELHAN Muhammad	ASC Monsters Indonesia	25	15		0:42:06
2	ABDURRAHMAN Muhammad	Jakarta Pro Cycling Team	15	7		0:28
3	MAULIDAN Muhammad		10	2		1:44

 

[Tim Cahill]

Who is Abel Balderstone

It's Juan Ayuso in a mask and a Caja jersey.

 

[Cycling111]

Javi Romo has suffered heat stroke.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

But at the world championships, they don't do this. At least there's a flat section to use a time trial bike in a time trial championship.

Maybe not as much so as this, but of course World's TT courses vary in how much climbing is involved. Ganna and Kung are not relishing Kigali.


And so long as it is still a course on which TT bikes are advantageous, all national championships ought to present a variety of challenges over the course of a number of years. Multiple champions should have to have prevailed on multiple course profiles, otherwise TT just becomes outdoor track riding.

The principle is well established for mass start championships, why should it not also hold for the time trial at national road race championships?

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Who is Abel Balderstone

It's Juan Ayuso in a mask and a Caja jersey.

Someone every team should try and sign before he goes nuclear in the Vuelta

 

[Didinho]

Remco 26” faster than Segaert at T1. Wrap it up already.

 

[Cycling111]

From what I read on X, there's controversy because the chips that record the times failed.

The Spanish Federation initially had published Balderstone´s time, fourth time, and in the end, they shaved 1 minute off his time.

Pablo Torres have been given a worse time than a cyclist he had lapped. LOL

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938596837427916986

View: https://x.com/RFECiclismo/status/1938596837427916986

 

[nightowl]

From what I read on X, there's controversy because the chips that record the times failed.

The Spanish Federation initially had published Balderstone´s time, fourth time, and in the end, they shaved 1 minute off his time.

Pablo Torres have been given a worse time than a cyclist he had lapped. LOL

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938596837427916986

View: https://x.com/RFECiclismo/status/1938596837427916986

That’s so bad it’s actually kinda hilarious. What do they even do at this point can they re-run the race? Or do they declare a winner and everyone deals with it.

 

[RedheadDane]

Withen on the wheel of Pedersen!


(Warming up.)

 

[Sciatic]

Remco 26” faster than Segaert at T1. Wrap it up already.

40 secs over Vermeesh at check 2; although Vermeesch, overcooked a corner and went down. He popped right up but lost a lot of speed there, so Remco's advantage would be 10-20 secs less.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Peak TDF shape Evenepoel turning up to the Belgian ITT against young Alec and Florian Vermeersch who is just here to 'have a crack I guess'

 

[Didinho]

40 secs over Vermeesh at check 2; although Vermeesch, overcooked a corner and went down. He popped right up but lost a lot of speed there, so Remco's advantage would be 10-20 secs less.

He was checking the big screen at the finish line so probably not going full anymore.

He’s catching Segaert, who will end up 3rd today.