General News Thread

[Rob5091]

Thanks, that’s interesting

There was a whole lot about the French riders having to pay French taxes even though they lived in Monaco over at the Inner ring blog. As was mentioned in the post, there's a bunch of UCI regulations on minimum wages for riders.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Mads Pedersen moved to Switzerland, (partially) because the Danish tax authorities wouldn't recognise him as being self-employed.

 

[joe_papp]

Anyone planning on following Tour of Poland and have any favorites for overall and today's first stage?

 

[RedheadDane]

Anyone planning on following Tour of Poland and have any favorites for overall and today's first stage?

Eeh... due to some miracle (Danish TV paying some money I'd guess) it's actually gonna be shown live in Denmark.
However, I think they finish quite early, so I might not get home from work before they're done, and I'm definitely gonna prioritise the Tour anyway.
As for favourites: Who knows?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Anyone planning on following Tour of Poland and have any favorites for overall and today's first stage?

And I think that establishes a new record for the smallest amount of pre-race interest for a WT event ever.

 

[yaco]

It also shows a misplacement in the race calendar. There should never be a WT race which overlaps with a GT. Actually, Poland has a good field, especially on the sprint side.

 

[Rob5091]

Poland thread now at https://forum.cyclingnews.com/threa...ogne-august-12-to-18-2024.39870/#post-3075909

 

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Some teams apparently consider not to take part in the 2025 Kigali World Championships - or send a reduced contingent only - due to astronomical hotel prices. In total, the travel costs are approximately double as high as for Australia 2022.

Kigali 2025 - National Federations consider participation at Rwanda Worlds due to sky-high costs

'If no affordable solution is found, I fear that we will have to make decisions' says Belgian Cycling General Director

globalpeloton.substack.com

 

[Izzyeviel]

A cycling race has been shortened and rerouted due to Wales' 20mph default speed limit, organisers have said.

Three of the five stages of the Junior Tour of Wales, which starts on Friday, have been changed as support vehicles would not be able to keep up with the riders without speeding.

The race's finish has also been moved from Nantgaredig, Carmarthenshire, the home of three-time Olympic cycling medallist Emma Finucane.

The Welsh government said it had worked with organisers to make sure the race could go ahead safely.

"Even though there was only seven miles of 20mph across the whole 237-mile, four-day race, and even then split into a number of very short sections, we couldn't guarantee to manage all of them safely."

Cycling: 20mph speed limit reroutes Junior Tour of Wales

The Junior Tour of Wales changes three of its five stages, cutting the length of the race.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Van der Poel to start in the European Championships some time in September. With his schedule, we'll see the jersey about as much as we did with Sagan as EC.

 

[yaco]

Van der Poel to start in the European Championships some time in September. With his schedule, we'll see the jersey about as much as we did with Sagan as EC.

To lead out Kooij.

 

[JR1012]

No Wiebes for the Worlds:
https://www.knwu.nl/nieuws/sterke-n...ite-vrouwen-en-junioren-naar-wk-weg-in-zurich
Selectie Elite vrouwen

Demi Vollering
Puck Pieterse
Marianne Vos
Riejanne Markus
Pauliena Rooijakkers
Shirin van Anrooij
Mischa Bredewold

Tijdrit

Demi Vollering
Ellen van Dijk / Riejanne Markus*

Is the course that hard that Wiebes would have no chance to win?
https://www.procyclingstats.com/ima...ionship-we-2024-result-profile-9933ef7f6c.jpg

 

[Samu Cuenca]

No Wiebes for the Worlds:
https://www.knwu.nl/nieuws/sterke-n...ite-vrouwen-en-junioren-naar-wk-weg-in-zurich
Selectie Elite vrouwen

Demi Vollering
Puck Pieterse
Marianne Vos
Riejanne Markus
Pauliena Rooijakkers
Shirin van Anrooij
Mischa Bredewold

Tijdrit

Demi Vollering
Ellen van Dijk / Riejanne Markus*

Is the course that hard that Wiebes would have no chance to win?
https://www.procyclingstats.com/ima...ionship-we-2024-result-profile-9933ef7f6c.jpg

It should be too hard for Wiebes, yes. They will presumably ride for at the EC in Belgium, which suits her a lot better.

 

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The men's ITT of the Zürich World Championships is now confirmed to start on the Rennbahn Oerlikon

Endlich Klarheit über den Zeitfahr-Start der Rad-WM

Öffentlich nicht bekannt war bisher, wo genau der Start des Männerzeitfahrens der Rad-WM ist. Jetzt ist klar, dass der Start im Oval der Offenen Rennbahn in Oerlikon stattfindet.

zuerich24.ch

 

[Libertine Seguros]

No Wiebes for the Worlds:
https://www.knwu.nl/nieuws/sterke-n...ite-vrouwen-en-junioren-naar-wk-weg-in-zurich
Selectie Elite vrouwen

Demi Vollering
Puck Pieterse
Marianne Vos
Riejanne Markus
Pauliena Rooijakkers
Shirin van Anrooij
Mischa Bredewold

Tijdrit

Demi Vollering
Ellen van Dijk / Riejanne Markus*

Is the course that hard that Wiebes would have no chance to win?
https://www.procyclingstats.com/ima...ionship-we-2024-result-profile-9933ef7f6c.jpg

There's probably a reason Bredewold is the only (other) SD Worx rider on the team if they're backing Vollering.

 

[Brullnux]

Simone Roganti has sadly passed away from a cardiac arrest at his parents' home, aged 21. Was riding for MG Kvis - Colours for Peace this season in the u23 ranks.

 

[JR1012]

There's probably a reason Bredewold is the only (other) SD Worx rider on the team if they're backing Vollering.

Well apart from Wiebes there are no other riders from SD Worx who would have made the team anyways.

 

[Rob5091]

Simone Roganti has sadly passed away from a cardiac arrest at his parents' home, aged 21. Was riding for MG Kvis - Colours for Peace this season in the u23 ranks.

CN reported that an autopsy was to be done. For his famliy and friends sake, I hope they don't find anything "unusual".

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

No Civiglio in Il Lombardia

Giro di Lombardia senza Civiglio, il sindaco: «Da lì non si passa»

Nessuna deroga in vita della gara in programma il 12 ottobre

www.laprovinciadicomo.it

But no evidence that the routes currently shown in Tweets are anything other than "Well I guess this is an option in that case"

Edit: I see now that the newspaper article is three weeks old, so old news, but some Twitter activity over a La Flamme Rouge prediction last night:

 

[Red Rick]

No Civiglio in Il Lombardia

Giro di Lombardia senza Civiglio, il sindaco: «Da lì non si passa»

Nessuna deroga in vita della gara in programma il 12 ottobre

www.laprovinciadicomo.it

But no evidence that the routes currently shown in Tweets are anything other than "Well I guess this is an option in that case"

Where men cried moment

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The finale RCS should be doing with Civiglio unavailable (ignore the start in Milan, this was for a race design challenge):

Map

 

[tobydawq]

The finale RCS should be doing with Civiglio unavailable (ignore the start in Milan, this was for a race design challenge):

Map

How is that better than the one in Armchair's tweet?

No climbing after Ghisallo seems too little for this race.

 

[Brullnux]

How is that better than the one in Armchair's tweet?

No climbing after Ghisallo seems too little for this race.

Yeah that race would just be a Pogacar 40km solo, but it is a shame not to have the Muro in the race and a triple ascent of San Fermo di Battaglia is quite boring.

Honestly, best option might be same route as normal but with no Civiglio. San Fermo isn't hard enough to wait for, but is hard enough for a final move, so there might still be action from Sormano and definitely from the Madonna del Ghisallo.

Sad news about Civiglio, but at least it's not a organiser choice and will be back once the road is clear.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

How is that better than the one in Armchair's tweet?

No climbing after Ghisallo seems too little for this race.

1) it means it's firmly a climber's race rather than being closer to an Ardennes one, as Lombardia should be
2) it makes the finale about four times as long
3) there are actually some decent kickers after Ghisallo - that first hill is 850 metres at 9%
4) with a start in Bergamo, you can include more climbing before Ghisallo/Sormano/Ghisallo than in the profile

Of course, Pogacar is heavily favoured on any possible Lombardia route, but that doesn't mean you should go for 2014 levels of lame route.

 

[tobydawq]

1) it means it's firmly a climber's race rather than being closer to an Ardennes one, as Lombardia should be
2) it makes the finale about four times as long
3) there are actually some decent kickers after Ghisallo - that first hill is 850 metres at 9%
4) with a start in Bergamo, you can include more climbing before Ghisallo/Sormano/Ghisallo than in the profile

Of course, Pogacar is heavily favoured on any possible Lombardia route, but that doesn't mean you should go for 2014 levels of lame route.

You're right, sometimes my brain still lives in the early 2010s where such a route was much more likely to be a disaster than these days.

I still don't love it, though, because, yes, the finale would be long but if it's just an 80k Pog solo, then long does not equal exciting.