National Championships 2018

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Lol Van der Poel... attack at 50km, attack again later, get a group, get pulled back, still win the sprint easily.

Dude would;ve been like Sagan if he started his road career 2 years ago

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Big win for him.

 

[jaylew]

Re:

Lol Van der Poel... attack at 50km, attack again later, get a group, get pulled back, still win the sprint easily.

Dude would;ve been like Sagan if he started his road career 2 years ago

Agreed. He's one of the most talented cyclists I've ever seen. He could be one the best at just about any discipline he decided to focus on.

 

[RedheadDane]

Mørkøv won in Denmark.
Another beautiful QS jersey.

 

[Bakkie]

Morkov in Denmark.

 

[jmdirt]

Re: Re:

Lol Van der Poel... attack at 50km, attack again later, get a group, get pulled back, still win the sprint easily.

Dude would;ve been like Sagan if he started his road career 2 years ago

Agreed. He's one of the most talented cyclists I've ever seen. He could be one the best at just about any discipline he decided to focus on.

Agreed. The kids is a freak! I like that he's doing different disciplines, but I think that the money from the road will finally pull him in.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Postlberger wins in Austria, so Bora keeps that jersey.

 

[Akuryo]

Jungels with over 3 minutes and 30k to go. Seems like he will take the double again after failing last year in the TT.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Conor Dunne (Aquablue) about to win solo in Ireland

 

[postmanhat]

Group of 18 clear in the British Road Race. Only two WT riders (Swift and Doull), with Blythe the likely favourite. 15k to go.

 

[jaylew]

If anyone finds footage of the Dutch RR, please post a link.

 

[AQETUYIOI]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Up-2Pcjbw

 

[Ricco']

Re:

If anyone finds footage of the Dutch RR, please post a link.

Eurosport will show the highlights later on the evening, at least in Portugal.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Dunne wins. Nice to see a breakaway specialist get his day.

 

[postmanhat]

Down to six riders in GB now. Doull, Blythe and four conti riders. Connor Swift has a 12 second gap with 5k to go

Blythe breaks from the chasing five and tries to catch Swift. Gets within 4 seconds but then falls away. Looks a like a conti rider will be GB champ.

Confirmed! Connor Swift, cousin of Ben

 

[RedheadDane]

Swift won in the UK.
Connor Swift, that is.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Raim wins his second title in Estonia, Neilands in Latvia.

 

[jaylew]

Re:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Up-2Pcjbw

Thanks!

 

[janraaskalt]

Re:

Down to six riders in GB now. Doull, Blythe and four conti riders. Connor Swift has a 12 second gap with 5k to go

Blythe breaks from the chasing five and tries to catch Swift. Gets within 4 seconds but then falls away. Looks a like a conti rider will be GB champ.

Confirmed! Connor Swift, cousin of Ben

Looks like a major f*** up for Sky. Did they even try to win or was Doull supposed to win it on his own?

Props to Connor Swift, winning Nationals as a conti rider.

 

[dick the quick]

Updated list of 2018 national champions (men elite):

Australia:
RR: Alexander Edmondson (Mitchelton), TT: Rohan Dennis (BMC)

Austria:
RR: Lukas Postlberger (Bora), TT: Georg Preidler (Groupama)

Belarus:
RR: Stanislav Bazhkou (Minsk), TT: Vasil Kirienka (Sky)

Belgium:
RR: Yves Lampaert (Quickstep), TT: Victor Campanaerts (Lotto-Soudal)

Canada:
RR: Antoine Duchesne (Groupama), TT: Svein Tuft (Mitchelton)

Croatia:
RR: Viktor Potocki (Ljubljana Gusto), TT: Josip Rumac (Meridiana Kamen)

Colombia:
RR: Sergio Luis Henao (Sky), TT: Egan Bernal (Sky)

Czech Republic:
RR and TT: Josef Cerny (Elkov)

Denmark:
RR: Michael Morkov (Quickstep), TT: Martin Toft Madsen (BHS)

Estonia:
RR: Mihkael Raim (Israel Cycling), TT: Tanel Kangert (Astana)

Ethiopia:
TT: Tsgabu Grmay (Trek)

Eritrea:
RR: Merhavi Kudus (Dimension Data), TT: Daniel Teklehaimanot (Cofidis)

France:
RR: Anthony Roux (Groupama), TT: Pierre-Roger Latour (Ag2R)

Germany:
RR: Pascal Ackermann (Bora), TT: Tony Martin (Katusha)

Ireland:
RR: Conor Dunne (Aqua Blue), TT: Ryan Mullen (Trek)

Italy:
RR: Elia Viviani (Quickstep)

Japan:
RR: Genki Yamamoto (Kinan), TT: Kazushige Kuboki (Bridgestone)

Kazakhstan:
RR: Aleksandr Lutsenko (Astana), RR: Danail Fominykh (Astana)

Latvia:
RR: Krists Neilands (Israel Cycling), TT: Toms Skujins (Trek)

Lithuania:
RR and TT: Gediminas Bagdonas (Ag2R)

Luxembourg:
RR and TT: Bob Jungels (Quickstep)

Netherlands:
RR: Matthieu van der Poel (Corendon), TT: Dylan van Baarle (Sky)

New Zealand:
RR: Jason Christie (-), TT: Hamish Bond (-)

Norway:
RR: Vegard Staeke Laengen (UAE), TT: Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data)

Poland:
RR: Michal Kwiatkowski (Sky), RR: Maciej Bodnar (Bora)

Portugal:
RR and TT: Domingos Goncalves (Radio Popular Boavista)

Romania:
RR and TT: Eduard Michael Grosu (Nippo Vini Fantini)

Russia:
RR: Ivan Rovny (Gazprom), TT: Artem Ovechkin (Terengganu)

Rwanda:
RR: Didier Munyaneza (-), TT: Joseph Areruya (Delko Marseille)

Slovakia:
RR: Peter Sagan (Bora), TT: Marek Canecky (Dukla)

Slovenia:
RR: Matej Mohoric (Bahrain), TT: Jan Tratnik (CCC)

South Africa:
RR and TT: Daryl Impey (Mitchelton)

Spain:
RR: Gorka Izaguirre (Bahrain), TT: Jonathan Castroviejo (Sky)

Sweden:
RR: Lucas Erikson (-), TT: Tobias Ludvigsson (Groupama)

Switzerland:
RR: Steve Morabito (Groupama), TT: Stefan Kung (BMC)

Ukraine:
RR: Oleksandr Polivoda (-), TT: Andrei Grivko (Astana)

United Kingdom:
RR: Connor Swift (Madison Genesis), TT: Geraint Thomas (Sky)

United States:
RR: Jonathan Brown (Hagens Berman Axeon), TT: Joey Rosskopf (BMC)

 

[Valv.Piti]

Postlberger, Lampaert, Impey, Gorka, Kwito and Jungels will show their jerseys in TdF. Sagan won as well, but will wear stripes/yellow/green/whatever.

And Grmay as well!

 

[dick the quick]

Sky - 7 national champion titles (2 x RR, 5 x TT)
Quickstep - 5 (4 x RR, 1 x TT)
Groupama - 5 (3 x RR, 2 x TT)
Bora - 4 (3 x RR, 1 x TT)
Israel Cycling - 4 (3 x RR, 1 x TT)
Mitchelton - 4 (2 x RR, 2 x TT)
Astana - 4 (1 x RR, 3 x TT)

 

[del1962]

Re: Re:

Down to six riders in GB now. Doull, Blythe and four conti riders. Connor Swift has a 12 second gap with 5k to go

Blythe breaks from the chasing five and tries to catch Swift. Gets within 4 seconds but then falls away. Looks a like a conti rider will be GB champ.

Confirmed! Connor Swift, cousin of Ben

Looks like a major f*** up for Sky. Did they even try to win or was Doull supposed to win it on his own?

Props to Connor Swift, winning Nationals as a conti rider.

Doull was working in break while Tao was driving peloton and later when Stannard got close should have just sat in, great win for Connor Swift

 

[Laplaz]

Hoooly s***, Jungels won the RR by 13:52 minutes