- Apr 3, 2009
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The wind will be around 30km/h and coming from the North, and 2/3 of the race they are riding to the North.
- Sep 12, 2022
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Would make it too easy for Evenepoel. Give Pogacar a chance at least!They should switch and do the RR that day with that amount of wind!
Anyone in Spain or Portugal know what channels are showing the European Champs? Hoping it's not just Eurosport so I can dial in with my VPN!
It’s not showing on RTVE’s schedule of direct streams for this coming week; that is where I usually go for Spanish races.
- Aug 29, 2009
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there's a list of all channels showing the races on the UEC website:
So only Eurosport in Spain and Portugal, but a free-to-watch option would be Rai, for example.
- Sep 2, 2011
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He's a Championship rider and he lives for titles and records.
The TT gives him an opportunity to be the first guy ever to hold all possible TT titles at the same time (National, European, World and Olympic title). The RR gives him an opportunity to be the first guy ever to have won all possible (TT and RR) titles. He gets a lot of motivation out of that stuff I guess.
As someone else has said (I don't remember who or where) in the back of his mind he probably even had the goal of winning and holding all (TT and RR) titles at the same time this year. That could explain some of his disappointment at 'only' coming second at the Belgian RR earlier this year because that immediately screwed up his plan.
He's now at:
- Olympic TT: Gold
- Olympic RR: Gold
- Belgian TT: Gold
- Belgian RR: Silver
- Worlds TT: Gold
- Worlds RR: Silver
- European TT: ?
- European RR: ?
- Aug 29, 2009
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yeah, I think one year those races were on Youtube, but usually there's no live coverage.
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Just bumped in.
If the organizers of this rather new EC puppet wants to be taken seriously and not remain a ridiculous little parenthesis, then they should hire route designers with at least some suitable brain leftovers.
That route and its place on the calendar - I mean right at the tail end of a remote WC - seem like a deliberate provocation against basic intelligence of riders and fans.
Downright horrible.
If the organizers of this rather new EC puppet wants to be taken seriously and not remain a ridiculous little parenthesis, then they should hire route designers with at least some suitable brain leftovers.
That route and its place on the calendar - I mean right at the tail end of a remote WC - seem like a deliberate provocation against basic intelligence of riders and fans.
Downright horrible.
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It's not like they decide its place on the calendar, right? Isn't that the UCI?
- Nov 16, 2013
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Admitted, my use of the term "organizers" was too vague.
The UEC works with the chosen host city and national cycling federation to determine the routes.
So the route fault is on their shoulders together.
The route as well as the placement on the calendar must be approved by the UEC and UCI.
So this one is both on UCI and the UEC.
- Nov 16, 2013
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Good luck to Mads and his two disc wheels.
- Nov 16, 2013
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What's the problem with the route apart from it being to the short side?
The first three years, the ITT was 45-46 kms, but since 2019 it has always been between 22 and 31, so it must be a conscious decision (for reasons I don't really get) to have a shorter length.
- Oct 5, 2009
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My main complaint is ofc the length itself.
IMO anything below 50k for a discipline that is supposed to crown a champion cannot be taken serious.
Moreover this route lacks variety to quite an extent.
In my eyes, a good route design is a route that caters to several different TT specialists - very long flat straights, short steep hills, fast descents, slightly longer climbs (ok not possible for all hosts, fair enough here), technical descents and passages - and so composed that the riders are punished if they push too hard.
Ofc, you can't achieve all this within such a short distance.
Hence, IMO it becomes senseless.
The road race is also insufficient. These competitions should be Monument distances.
- Nov 16, 2013
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You must have a big problem with athletics, swimming, rowing, cross-country skiing and biathlon.
Maybe formula 1 could be your thing?
- Apr 30, 2011
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Like the WCTT next year, a partial explanation is egalitarian signalling. My fear is that the brainrot will wreck the road races as well.
- Oct 5, 2009
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Strange response to my post. I have enjoyed cycling since as ever my memory goes back and I'll not let it slip.
I can't help it that some organizers and organizations - once in a while - are making a mess of things.
Your argument is skewed and imprecise. It's like a cuckoo landing in an owl's nest, insisting that it owns it and tell the owls to abandon.
- Jun 30, 2022
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Honestly, there are quite a few people who think the 50 k in Cross-country skiing is most important. I also mourn the loss of the 50k race walk, especially because I doubt the 35k replacement has any large upside for viewers. It‘s still 2:30 long.
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