National championships June 2021

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Van wilder, DSM, the only one starting with amateur aerobars. Even 2nd rate Alpecin fenix and lotto TT'ers have speed bars.

 

[Wvv]

All the Belgian lads are off.

Go Rune!

 

[Samamba]

Van Wilder already lost 28 seconds on Lampaert at the (unofficial) T1.

Evenepoel 2nd, 2 seconds behind Lampaert.

Lampaert flying.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Van der Breggen beat the Trek duo of van Dijk and Brand to the Dutch gold. Van Vleuten came fourth.
Mick van Dijke won the men's U23 title in front of his brother Tim and Marijn van den Berg.

 

[Samamba]

Evenepoel 10 seconds down on Lampaert right now. Van Hooydonck might be the surprising 3rd today.

EDIT: Lampaert increases his gap. 13 seconds to Evenepoel at the unofficial T3. Campenaerts in pole position for 3rd place now (but it's close with 4 guys within 10 seconds).

EDIT2: Van wilder started slow, but looks like he still has a shot at the podium. Campenaerts will probably get that spot tho.

 

[RedheadDane]

Mick van Dijke won the men's U23 title in front of his brother Tim and Marijn van den Berg.

The Battle of the Van Dijkes.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

17 seconds now. Unless Lampaert has started out too fast, he'll (probably) be the Quickest Stepper today.

 

[Samamba]

Well lampaert did not increase his advantage to Vermeersch at T5 (they don't show that intermediate on the broadcast) so maybe he did start a bit too fast. Vermeersch might just be riding a good last part of the TT tho.

EDIT: Campenaerts closed in too. But Evenepoel still at 20 seconds, so its gonna be 1. Lampaert, 2. Evenepoel 3. Campenaerts 4/5/6 Vermeersch/Frison/Van Wilder

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Lampart really emptied himself in more ways than one.

 

[Samamba]

Van Wilders 2nd half of the TT was really good. His first half was pretty bad tho. Podium was probably not possible knowing Campenaerts did a pretty good TT, but 4th place is good for his age. Same with the 5th place for Vermeersch, only 1 year older.

 

[Samamba]

Looks like Covid doesn't exist in Belgium anymore.

 

[Sciatic]

Lotte Kopecky has retained the Belgian ITT title.

Fiona Zimmermann won the junior ITT in Switzerland. I tried to see, if she had any relation to Urs, and I came across a play. in which an Urs Zimmermann wants to send his spoiled daughter Fiona to Africa to discipline her. I don't think it was based on true events, though.

Now this is exactly the level of nuanced understanding of pro cycling that I come to this forum to get!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Lampaert and campenaerts both better than i expected. Van wilder started too slow, Campenaerts didn't bonk.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Marleen Reusser unsurprisingly won her fourth Swiss title.
I guess the men must be en route as well, but I haven't found any coverage of it.

 

[Sciatic]

I’m sure it would be difficult because of the way broadcast rights are held by different media groups in every country, but I would love seeing a broadcaster get the rights to show all the national title races and do an “old-style” ESPN March Madness broadcast (when they carried all the early round games), switching back and forth from one country to another as dramatic events unfolded or final kilometers approached.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Asgreen ahead of nationals:

"I have enjoyed a lot riding in the champions jersey(s) the last 8-9 months, and I hope I can defend both titles, so that I don't have to repack my suitcase, that would be bothersome".

 

[Sciatic]

Asgreen ahead of nationals:

"I have enjoyed a lot riding in the champions jersey(s) the last 8-9 months, and I hope I can defend both titles, so that I don't have to repack my suitcase, that would be bothersome".

Now there’s a highly motivated competitor!!

 

[RedheadDane]

Küng won in Switzerland.

National Championships Switzerland - ITT 2021 Time trial results (procyclingstats.com)

 

[Broccolidwarf]

I’m sure it would be difficult because of the way broadcast rights are held by different media groups in every country, but I would love seeing a broadcaster get the rights to show all the national title races and do an “old-style” ESPN March Madness broadcast (when they carried all the early round games), switching back and forth from one country to another as dramatic events unfolded or final kilometers approached.

Starting from next year, Denmark is doing a "National Championships week", which so far includes 25 different sports, with a total of 100 sets of medals, all doing their championships in the same week, in the same town, creating a festival atmosphere (like a miniature Olympics).

Cycling is going to be part of that too

 

[RedheadDane]

Starting from next year, Denmark is doing a "National Championships week", which so far includes 25 different sports, with a total of 100 sets of medals, all doing their championships in the same week, in the same town, creating a festival atmosphere (like a miniature Olympics).

Cycling is going to be part of that too

I'm sure the international broadcasters won't mind a bit of random shot putting! As long as they aren't shot putting into the peloton, coz that would be... bad...

 

[yaco]

How bizarre was Mader's performance s in the Tour De Suisse ITT and then winning the final stage from the GC group - He was nowhere near it in the National's.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

How bizarre was Mader's performance s in the Tour De Suisse ITT and then winning the final stage from the GC group - He was nowhere near it in the National's.

This was a completely different and flatter course. He was 6h last year and 8th in 2019, so this is his usual level.

 

[Wvv]

All the Belgian lads are off.

Go Rune!

Crashed after 6 km But there will be more chances in the future.

 

[RedheadDane]

Tom is back!

National Championships Netherlands - ITT 2021 Time trial results (procyclingstats.com)

(The old fight finished last.)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Dumoulin gets his first win for JV.