European Road Championships 2022, Munich, August 14-21

[Libertine Seguros]

Marty doesn't seem to have noticed Agnieszka Skalniak's season, she would be the obvious finisher for Poland on form you'd say. Kind of funny seeing Žigart rolling around at the back, this race really couldn't be less suited to her and her usual company in Homage To Moncoutié style, Pauliena Rooijakkers, is obviously not here thanks to the Dutch having approximately 4750 riders who are international calibre, of whom a lot are better suited to pan flat racing in a nervous péloton than Pauliena.

 

[Lequack]

I've just started watching again, has the break formed and been caught already?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Marty doesn't seem to have noticed Agnieszka Skalniak's season, she would be the obvious finisher for Poland on form you'd say. Kind of funny seeing Žigart rolling around at the back, this race really couldn't be less suited to her and her usual company in Homage To Moncoutié style, Pauliena Rooijakkers, is obviously not here thanks to the Dutch having approximately 4750 riders who are international calibre, of whom a lot are better suited to pan flat racing in a nervous péloton than Pauliena.

Žigart did her best to attempt a Kiesenhofer like coup, when she was up the road with Shapira earlier.

The Germans and especially Lippert tried to make the race interesting, but when 16 Dutch and Italian riders want a sprint, it's simply impossible to make the difference.

 

[Lequack]

Well they certainly killed the racing.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Bavaria has always been absolutely dreadful at using the terrain at their disposal, but it's not like there's much in the middle of Munich itself that they could have used. They might not have been able to find a nice punchy finish to suit Liane, but it's just strange they wouldn't try to find a more rolling circuit at least to try to make it suit Brennauer. Though I guess with the men's race they probably felt they had better chances of winning that race with a bunch sprint via Ackermann, Degenkolb or similar at the time they planned the route, and that obviously didn't work out for them.

 

[BR2]

Bavaria has always been absolutely dreadful at using the terrain at their disposal, but it's not like there's much in the middle of Munich itself that they could have used. They might not have been able to find a nice punchy finish to suit Liane, but it's just strange they wouldn't try to find a more rolling circuit at least to try to make it suit Brennauer. Though I guess with the men's race they probably felt they had better chances of winning that race with a bunch sprint via Ackermann, Degenkolb or similar at the time they planned the route, and that obviously didn't work out for them.

Honestly I doubt they had anything like that in mind. I think they just looked for the route they could use most easily/ close and then in the city to show off absolutely everything they have. The cycling race itself and how it could play out seemed of no importance at all for the route planning.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Žigart did her best to attempt a Kiesenhofer like coup, when she was up the road with Shapira earlier.

The Germans and especially Lippert tried to make the race interesting, but when 16 Dutch and Italian riders want a sprint, it's simply impossible to make the difference.

I just assumed, especially as Shapira's a decent climber too, that they just looked at a topographical map of Bavaria and assumed there would be some terrain that would help them

 

[F_Cance]

the most boring rider won again

 

[Libertine Seguros]

A victory for greed over loyalty by the narrowest of margins!

 

[RedheadDane]

Wiebes wins ahead of Balsamo.
Dutch riders take the Road Races.
Swiss riders take the Time Trials.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It was close, but the Italians at least got two medals out of their ridiculous selection.

It would have been a great end for Brennauer to have taken 3rd here.

 

[RedheadDane]

Quite a shame Balsamo didn't win. She could have had a "full set" of jerseys, at least for a little while.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Quite a shame Balsamo didn't win. She could have had a "full set" of jerseys, at least for a little while.

Van Dijk also missed out on that achievement in the ITT, though she still had an EC jersey until today. And Barbieri can travel home with two gold medals, one silver and one bronze.

 

[Netserk]

Quite a shame Balsamo didn't win. She could have had a "full set" of jerseys, at least for a little while.

Sagan could easily have achieved that, but gifted the NC to his brother in both 2016 and 2017.

 

[yaco]

Gotta say the Italian sprint train today was just about the performance of the year.