Elite male WC road race

[Bernie's eyesore]

Why?

What action should be taken that hasn't already been taken?

Moderators need to hand out severe warnings to anyone posting in this thread about raceday action.

 

[Netserk]

Moderators need to hand out severe warnings to anyone posting in this thread about raceday action.

What rule would that be against?

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

What rule would that be against?

Come on, let's not fall out, we're all cycling fans here.

 

[Captain Sensible]

Looks like I will have to wait for BBC tv coverage to start at 1.20pm to get rid of Liggett.

It's on the red button on BBC2 the full race.

 

[meat puppet]

they are not going awfully fast, are they?

non-ozzies better start riding...

 

[rghysens]

they are not going awfully fast, are they?

non-ozzies better start riding...

Ozzies too, if they want to get rid of the likes of Bouhanni and Degenkolb.

 

[BigMac]

Please post in the appropriate thread about the race. It's stickied. Thanks.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Please post in the appropriate thread about the race. It's stickied. Thanks.

It's the topic names. They seem to indicate the opposite.

 

[RedheadDane]

Please post in the appropriate thread about the race. It's stickied. Thanks.

Actually. I thought this was the appropriate thread. Bit like how you might make an overall thread for the TdF as well as separate threads for each stage. In that way it's not so much the fact that there's a separate thread for the Elite Men's RR (and ITT) that's sorta weird, but that fact that there isn't one for all the other events.

But, if we're supposed to post in the big World Champ thread, then I stand corrected.

 

[greenedge]

Who was the Austrian rider on the climb off the bike just then?

 

[MellowJohnny]

Having done watched a few laps of the race on TV - I think this will be Degenkolb's day

 

[MellowJohnny]

Great attack by Kwiatkowski - a deserved winner

 

[cineteq]

Congrats!
Kwiatkowski 12 votes for 6.78%

 

[Race Radio]

......Poland

Good post Race

 

[del1962]

Called it

No I wasn't one of the two post race votes

 

[shalgo]

Congrats!
Kwiatkowski 12 votes for 6.78%

LOL at the three people who have voted for Kwiatkowski since then.

 

[richo36]

Is this the strategy for Italy and Spain to deliver a Kwiatowski win?

Turns out it was the strategy for kwiatowski to win, well at least Italy did what I said.

 

[MellowJohnny]

Thought the BBC were quite biased towards Ben Swift - not sure what the rest of the world thinks?

"Oh where is Ben Swift? oh where is he"

"Ben Swift looks really good, I've only seen him grit his teeth once"

From 50 km from the finish he was gritting his teeth in every camera shot. He did well to finish where he did, but he was holding on for quite sometime.

Adam Blythe the better Brit sprinter on current form.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Congrats!
Kwiatkowski 12 votes for 6.78%

Called it again, wish I'd have put money on it!

Have to LOL at the ones voting post-race.

 

[MellowJohnny]

Dave Brailsford needs to realise that he needs to start developing multi terrain riders - like the Belgians and Spanish do so well.

At the moment they have the most gifted sprinter of a generation, despite being on the downward spiral in Mark Cavendish.

Other than that they could turn Geraint Thomas into an allrounder.

The rest seems to be turned into pack fodder for team sky.

There is hope for GB with the Yates twins, ironically being developed as better riders by an Australian team.

 

[Parker]

Dave Brailsford needs to realise that he needs to start developing multi terrain riders - like the Belgians and Spanish do so well.

At the moment they have the most gifted sprinter of a generation, despite being on the downward spiral in Mark Cavendish.

Other than that they could turn Geraint Thomas into an allrounder.

The rest seems to be turned into pack fodder for team sky.

There is hope for GB with the Yates twins, ironically being developed as better riders by an Australian team.

To be fair to GB, they are not a traditional big player in cycling.

They only have 15 World Tour riders.

Of those 15:
2 have won the Tour de France
2 have been World Champions
3 have Olympic Gold medals
5 have won GT stages
9 have won races at HC or higher.

The French and Dutch have 50+ World Tour riders. And what have they won? Three third paces between them in the last twenty Men's World road races.

 

[arvc40]

Thought the BBC were quite biased towards Ben Swift - not sure what the rest of the world thinks?

"Oh where is Ben Swift? oh where is he"

"Ben Swift looks really good, I've only seen him grit his teeth once"

From 50 km from the finish he was gritting his teeth in every camera shot. He did well to finish where he did, but he was holding on for quite sometime.

Adam Blythe the better Brit sprinter on current form.

BBC, what do you expect. Fact is that when the hammer went down, none of them where there. Year in year out.

 

[Pricey_sky]

BBC, what do you expect. Fact is that when the hammer went down, none of them where there. Year in year out.

It's only 3 years since Cav was world champion, other countries have waited much longer.

 

[Afrank]

Good, except maybe Kwiatkowski instead of Gilbert. Or even Boonen.

Good thing I took your advice on the poll options.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Thought the BBC were quite biased towards Ben Swift - not sure what the rest of the world thinks?

"Oh where is Ben Swift? oh where is he"

"Ben Swift looks really good, I've only seen him grit his teeth once"

From 50 km from the finish he was gritting his teeth in every camera shot. He did well to finish where he did, but he was holding on for quite sometime.

Adam Blythe the better Brit sprinter on current form.

You didn't watch BBC expecting anything other than a UK-interest-then-major-acheivers-if-we-have-to commentary did you?

If anyone joins their commentary team, in any sport, any disinterested sense of the value of the sport and importance of the result is surgically removed.

Although they dedicated several hours of broadcast time to the event, there was no mention of Ponferrada in the daily sport headlines through the evening, because Swift didn't make top ten.

If British competitor didn't do well, it didn't happen.