General News Thread

[Breh]

Flanders will host the 2021 World Championships.

The road races will start in Antwerp and finish in Leuven. Time Trials will start in Knokke and finish in Bruges.

 

[Red Rick]

Don't *** this up.

Make it legit classic type, not another one for the OMGDURABLESPWINTUS

 

[Alexandre B.]

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Flanders will host the 2021 World Championships.

The road races will start in Antwerp and finish in Leuven. Time Trials will start in Knokke and finish in Bruges.

Every other national team versus the Belgian squad

 

[Alexandre B.]

http://www.uci.org/inside-uci/press-releases/the-uci-awards-a-record-number-of-world-championships-for-the-period-2020-2024
2020 UCI Road World Championships: Cantons of Vaud and Valais* (Switzerland)
This will be the 11th edition of the discipline’s UCI Worlds organised in Switzerland and the first time the major annual UCI event comes to the French-speaking region of the country. The competitions will take place principally in the region of the Rhône valley, in the heart of the Alps, close to the UCI headquarters. The routes for some of the races will have a selective profile.

2021 UCI Road World Championships: Flanders Region* (Belgium)
On this occasion, the UCI Worlds for road cycling will return to one of the major cycling countries, which has not hosted the event since the edition in Zolder and Hasselt in 2002. The 2021 UCI Road World Championships, contested on a typical Flanders circuit, will mark the centenary of the event, organised for the first time in 1921 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

2024 UCI Road World Championships and 2024 Para-cycling Road World Championships: German region of Switzerland*
Four years after the 2020 edition of the event, the world’s best riders will return to Switzerland, this time to the central region, between the mountains of the Jura and the Alps, in the German-speaking part of the Swiss Confederation. The UCI Para-cycling World Championships for road will be organised in parallel.

 

[Breh]

Early rumours about the RR involved WIjnpers, Keizersberg,... Not too dissimilar to the 2010 NC. Other options are Het Hageland or the Brabantse Pijl.
Golazo mentioned they absolutely do not want a (bunch)sprint, they'd rather celebrate the Flandrien. They want a hard a run in from Antwerp to Leuven showcasing various cobbled sectors and some hills.
Mind you, this is what they said half a year ago, who knows what they'll eventually come up with.

 

[RedheadDane]

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2024 UCI Road World Championships and 2024 Para-cycling Road World Championships: German region of Switzerland*
Four years after the 2020 edition of the event, the world’s best riders will return to Switzerland, this time to the central region, between the mountains of the Jura and the Alps, in the German-speaking part of the Swiss Confederation. The UCI Para-cycling World Championships for road will be organised in parallel.

Yes! I've been hoping for this for years!
Hopefully it'll become an annual thing; just because you don't have legs, or can't see, or whatever, you shouldn't be kept from having an annual World Championship.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

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2024 UCI Road World Championships and 2024 Para-cycling Road World Championships: German region of Switzerland*
Four years after the 2020 edition of the event, the world’s best riders will return to Switzerland, this time to the central region, between the mountains of the Jura and the Alps, in the German-speaking part of the Swiss Confederation. The UCI Para-cycling World Championships for road will be organised in parallel.

Yes! I've been hoping for this for years!
Hopefully it'll become an annual thing; just because you don't have legs, or can't see, or whatever, you shouldn't be kept from having an annual World Championship.

It already is

 

[RedheadDane]

^ I meant it should be an annual thing that it's held together with the "normal" - for lack of better words - World Championship. And televised, of course.
Using the same routes as much as possible, though I guess getting a hand-bike up a 10+% ramp might be a bit complicated.

(And of course this is the first post on a new page...)

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

It's a noble idea in principle, but the Para cycling is made up of 19 races over 5 days. In the main event, there does not seem to be much spare time of space in terms of events per day (although the mixed relay rather than two team time trials might allow some overlap on the first Sunday), So to combine it you either:
* Somehow manage to fit 31 races rather than 11 into the 7 days
* Extend the disruption to the host city by a further 4/5 days (which will surely reduce willingness of applicants)
* Sideline the para cycling by putting it in a small satellite town or on a motor racing track.

We'll see.

 

[RedheadDane]

I just want to watch it on television... UCI had some reports on their FB page, but it's no fun when you can't watch it live...

 

[Nirvana]

UCI has published the 2019 calendar, i'm waiting to go in the thread of disappeared races because maybe they are going to update it in the winter but checking with this year one there are some races missing like Sharja Tour, Mallorcan races, Drome Classic, Dwars door West Vlaanderen, Tour des Fjords. Confirmed the new races Tour of Israel, Mount Ventoux race, there are also some minor races upgrading from .12 to .2 like Tour de Mirabelle

Tour of Turkey will return to his usual spot in april, Tour of Belgium will go to mid june (the week of Dauphine), Adriatica-Ionica Race to late july (where there was the Brixia Tour in early 00s), extra stages for Haut Var, Coppi e Bartali, Arctic Race. ZLM Tour returns.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Wait, no Challenge Mallorca or Dwars West-Vlaanderen??

 

[Breh]

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Wait, no Challenge Mallorca or Dwars West-Vlaanderen??

Lack of volunteers for Dwars door West Vlaanderen so they decided to call it a day.

 

[tobydawq]

53.730 km for Mikkel Bjerg in his hour record attempt. New Danish record - only beaten by Wiggins.

 

[Red Rick]

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53.730 km for Mikkel Bjerg in his hour record attempt. New Danish record - only beaten by Wiggins.

Nice.

Where did he ride?

 

[tobydawq]

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53.730 km for Mikkel Bjerg in his hour record attempt. New Danish record - only beaten by Wiggins.

Nice.

Where did he ride?

In Odense, Denmark.

For some reason, it wouldn't have counted as the official international hour record even if he had beaten Wiggins (the commentator mentioned it near the end and had probably explained why earlier in the transmission when I didn't watch).

 

[Red Rick]

Very impressive at sea level. That Wiggins record is destined to fall if Bjerg keeps doing it every year

 

[staubsauger]

Wiggins record is a useless pr stunt anyway.

The true hour record is either held by Chris Boardman or Ondrej Sosenka! Depending on definition of course.

Everything else is just clownesque IMHO!

 

[RedheadDane]

Fun fact:
The last four of Madsen's ITT wins have been ahead of Bjerg. I especially remember being quite impressed that Bjerg chose to ride the elite Chrono des Nations last year, despite the fact that riding the U23 race would have given him the perfect oportunity to debut his new rainbow jersey.
Though I suspect the other U23 riders were quite happy with that choice...

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Turgis, the youngest rider since 1962 to finish Paris - Roubaix, has to give up cycling due to heartproblems.

https://sporza.be/nl/2018/10/05/jongste-roubaix-finisher-in-55-jaar-stopt-met-hartproblemen/

 

[the asian]

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Turgis, the youngest rider since 1962 to finish Paris - Roubaix, has to give up cycling due to heartproblems.

https://sporza.be/nl/2018/10/05/jongste-roubaix-finisher-in-55-jaar-stopt-met-hartproblemen/

That's a real pity. Tanguy had the potential to be the best of the Turgis brothers. Hope he recovers well.

 

[Jagartrott]

Jimmy Duquennoy has suddenly passed away - probably cardiac arrest. He was a 23-year-old pro with WB Aqua Protect Veranclassic.

 

[Robert5091]

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Jimmy Duquennoy has suddenly passed away - probably cardiac arrest. He was a 23-year-old pro with WB Aqua Protect Veranclassic.

First

Belgian pro cyclist Michael Goolaerts has died in hospital following a cardiac arrest during Paris-Roubaix. The rider was airlifted to hospital in Lille but died this evening surrounded by his loved ones. He was 23 years old.

and now Duquennoy ... what is going on?

Condolences to Duquennoy's family, friends, and teammates - they must be in shock.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Jimmy Duquennoy has suddenly passed away - probably cardiac arrest. He was a 23-year-old pro with WB Aqua Protect Veranclassic.

First

Belgian pro cyclist Michael Goolaerts has died in hospital following a cardiac arrest during Paris-Roubaix. The rider was airlifted to hospital in Lille but died this evening surrounded by his loved ones. He was 23 years old.

and now Duquennoy ... what is going on?

Condolences to Duquennoy's family, friends, and teammates - they must be in shock.

See above, Turgis has to stop cycling due to heartproblems. Goolaerts also wasn't the first one IIRC. There have also been some footballers in recent history... Something in the water?

 

[Red Rick]

Do we have a new definitive route for LBL 2019, or if not, when can we expect it?