Men Elite Road Race - UCI RWC Doha 2016

[Monte]

http://www.dohacycling2016.com/event/men-elite-road-race/
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/World_Championships_-_Road_Race_2016_Startlist
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFs8ywQfKffC9cKxQbpp3aw

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Sprinters edition it seems,but sprinting after 250km is a special breed and specially in the worlds. There is few favorites in a sprint at this km mark as i see it; the usual suspects are Cavendish, Greipel(Degenkolb), Sagan, Kristoff + 5 more.

Latest weather forecast is 26 celsius from 09:00 to 15:00, coolest day of this entire week. Also just 1m winds from South-East. No echelons!


Best teams are with no doubt, Germany, Italy, Belgium, UK and Holland .. Only germany wants a sprint though (If cav aint there).. Lets hope it will be a battle of no sprint vs sprint nations then. I love that Germany only have 6 riders and Norway has 9! lol, wtf happened?

 

[Valv.Piti]

No echelons and no heatwave? No fun.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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[Valv.Piti]

Dekker_Tifosi with a Quintana-avatar??

 

[Walter Morgan]

NIZZOLO!!!

 

[Red Rick]

I feel very much not excited about this

 

[GuyIncognito]

What time is the bunch sprint scheduled for?

 

[Red Rick]

Re:

What time is the bunch sprint scheduled for?

Somewhere between "hopefully not" and "please Vino, NOOOO!"

 

[Escarabajo]

Are they really cutting it short? how much?

 

[Gigs_98]

This must be the most ridiculous worlds route ever, right? København looked like a high mountain stage compared to this.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Wind or no wind, I'm sure Belgium and Norway will set a furious pace given the characteristics of their leaders.

 

[Squire]

How far from the finish is that 180 degree turn?

 

[BigMac]

I love the fact that there isn't even a profile. Makes total sense.

Swiss police should arrest everyone at the Aigle building. I've seriously had enough.

 

[GuyIncognito]

I love the fact that there isn't even a profile. Makes total sense.

Swiss police should arrest everyone at the Aigle building. I've seriously had enough.

Profile is here

 

[BullsFan22]

Sagan FTW. It's a race for 2nd as far as I am concerned.

 

[TourOfTexas]

Worst thread start I've ever seen. No course profile pic?

 

[spiritualride]

Greipel, Sagan, Cavendish, and Kittel are fairly equal favorites.
2nd tier: Bouhanni, Gaviria, Kristoff, Boonen
3rd tier: Ewan, Groenewegen, Van Avermaet, Nizzolo, Degenkolb, Viviani, Demare, Nielsen, Boasson Hagen, and Bennett.

Everyone else has near 1% chance or less of winning on oddsmaking.

Worst thread start I've ever seen. No course profile pic?

Not even a date, ugh. It's Oct 16th btw. Could this thread be deleted? There are some amazing posters here that make awesome race thread starting posts. The first link doesn't even say what time zone the time is referring to.

 

[Robert5091]

Official website at http://www.dohacycling2016.com/

Schedule of events:

Sunday, October 9
UCI Women’s Team Time Trial at 2:10pm local, 13:10 CET, 7:10am ET
UCI Men’s Team Time Trial at 3:20pm local, 14:20 CET, 8:20am ET

Monday, October 10
Women Junior Individual Time Trial at 9:30am local, 8:30 CET, 2:30am ET
Men Under 23 Individual Time Trial at 11:30am local, 10:30 CET, 4:30am ET

Tuesday, October 11
Men Junior Individual Time Trial at 9am local, 8:00 CET, 2:00am ET
Women Elite Individual Time Trial at 1:15pm local, 12:15 CET, 6:15am ET

Wednesday, October 12
Men Elite Individual Time Trial at 1:45pm local, 12:45 CET, 6:45am ET

Thursday, October 13
Men Under 23 Road Race at 12:00pm local, 11:00 CET, 5:00am ET

Friday, October 14
Women Juniors Road Race at 8:30am local, 7:30 CET, 1:30am ET
Men Juniors Road Race at 1:15pm local, 12:15 CET, 6:15am ET

Saturday, October 15
Women Elite Road Race at 12:45pm local, 11:45 CET, 5:45am ET

Sunday, October 16
Men Elite Road Race at 10:30am local, 9:30 CET, 3:30am ET
Map of course

 

[Robert5091]

Today's TTT course for men and women
at http://www.dohacycling2016.com/events/category/uci-team-time-trial/
Women's TTT: 2:10pm local
(13:10 CET)
(7:10am U.S. Eastern)

Men's TTT: 3:20pm local
(14:20 CET)
(8:20am U.S. Eastern)

Live video from 2:00pm local
(13:00 CET)
(7:00am U.S. Eastern)

Start list men and womens at http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-road-world-championships-2016/

 

[MADRAZO]

Has anyone seen any timesplit-pages for the Team Time Trials ?

 

[pylarz]

http://live.tissottiming.com/?id=00030D02&style=Tissot

 

[MADRAZO]

Re:

http://live.tissottiming.com/?id=00030D02&style=Tissot

Thanks!

 

[BigMac]

Worst thread start I've ever seen. No course profile pic?

There is no profile. OP shouldn't be forced to make one.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

There's no way they can do this at 260km after watching the women's TTT. It would be absurd. Insane heat with no respite sections, dry heat, no moisture. No fans, no racing. I'm pretty angry about it, having seen it. You had Mieke Kröger, who in most circumstances is a TT machine, just hit the wall and have to be helped out before she collapsed. You had two Twenty16 riders implode in the final kilometre. You had riders vomiting everywhere, and worst of all, Anouska Koster clearly passed out from heat exhaustion on the bike and veered into a wall, having a horrible crash where she landed on her face, since unlike Kröger the team only had four riders left and she couldn't let go. The team and the medics, rightly, wouldn't let her get back on the bike, but should never have been allowed to get to that stage. To be doing this at 7 hours, the pace would have to be so relaxed at the start to make it doable that it would be an almost unwatchably dull spectacle.

 

[Red Rick]

Worst thread start I've ever seen. No course profile pic?

There is no profile. OP shouldn't be forced to make one.

Fixed it