National Championships 2018

[GuyIncognito]

Re:

Women's: Eider Merino

And now we wait to see if Movistar will have a proper champion's jersey or the same abomination as the men

 

[DNP-Old]

https://static.yosoyciclista.com/documentos/smartweb/noticia/14180/documentos/doc_5b27a92ed5ca67.83262466_documento.pdf

147 is going to smash this race.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Belgium nats very entertaining;
Current breakaway has 3 lotto girls in them along Cant (CX world champ) Hannes (2016 champ) Duyck (5 times national TT champ and bronze medal during the European championchips) and Sofie De Vuyst.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

This is Cant's race to lose

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

1. Annelies Dom
2. Valerie Demey
3. Sanne Cant
4. Sofie De Vuyst

Lotto-Soudal on 1 and 2 !

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Re:

1. Annelies Dom
2. Valerie Demey
3. Sanne Cant
4. Sofie De Vuyst

Lotto-Soudal on 1 and 2 !

Heartbreak for De Vuyst, the fastest in the break who broke a spoke and lost her chain during the last 300 meters.

 

[Nirvana]

According to Sky TV guide Spanish championship will be live at 13:03 on Eurosport 2.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Re:

According to Sky TV guide Spanish championship will be live at 13:03 on Eurosport 2.

It's on now - started at 11.30 uk time

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Break with over 4 minutes and 50 km remaining as they tackle the climb on the penultimate lap : Barbero, Erviti, Torres, Amezqueta, Luis Mas, S. Rodríguez, Samitier, Diego López, Cantón, Mancebo, Trueba, Cobos y Armillas

Cofidis have been doing most of the riding behind but attacks coming on this hill

Gap down to 3:30

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Erviti got a gap at the front on the descent and leads the rest of the break

Fraille and Castroviejo attacked the hill and have been joined by Ion Izaguirre and Rueben Fernandez on the descent. They are 3 mins back

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Erviti caught
Fraille group caught
1:15 back to 30 rider peloton including all Movistar, Gorka, Herradas

1 lap to go

 

[Dr. Watson]

Sagan P. alone in the break from 180 k out, 60 to go now for czech and slovak nats

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Re:

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Pablo Torres proves to be the best of the break which is getting mopped up by a new attack from Ion with Fernandez again sitting on

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Valverde moved up

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Valverde attacks near the top of the climb, followed by Gorka and Jesus Herrada and bridges to the Ion group. 20 km to go. Torres dangling in front

 

[Rollthedice]

It's basically team Izagirre against team Movistar.

 

[DNP-Old]

Gorka is going to win this.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Gorka has a 30 sec gap having attacked the descent but it's a bigger group behind now

 

[Rollthedice]

Gorka looks good for the win.

 

[DNP-Old]

Don't *** this up, Bahrain.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Gorka 1 Valv 2

 

[Rollthedice]

Big big win by Gorka against 11 Movistar.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Well deserved. The Izagirres looked the two strongest riders in the race

 

[RedheadDane]

I know it's terrible, but I found myself hoping a Movistar rider wouldn't take it solely because of the terrible jerseys...










For similar reasons I'm pretty glad the "Astana Danes" aren't riding their national championship; if Astana, which has a pretty strong Italian flavour, couldn't even make proper Italian jerseys - and for their two biggest stars - it would be naive to think they would be able/willing to make a prober Danish one, and I've seen previous examples that DCU doesn't care about the design...