Official National Championships thread

[auscyclefan94]

26/06 NC1 National Championships France (Boulogne-sur-Mer) R.R.
26/06 NC1 National Championships Belgium (Hooglede-Gits) R.R.
26/06 NC1 National Championships Spain (Castellon de la Plana) R.R.
26/06 NCT1 National Championships Italy (Catania) I.T.T.

26/06 NC2 National Championships Switzerland (Kirchdorf) R.R.
26/06 NC2 National Championships Great Britain (Stamfordham) R.R.
26/06 NC2 National Championships Netherlands (Ootmarsum) R.R.
26/06 NC2 National Championships Germany (Neuwied) R.R.

26/06 NC3 National Championships Ukraine (Chernivtsi) R.R.
26/06 NC3 National Championships Czech Republic (Olomouc) R.R.
26/06 NC3 National Championships Slovakia (Olomouc,Cze) R.R.
26/06 NC3 National Championships Portugal (Pataias) R.R.
26/06 NC3 National Championships Ireland (Knockatallon) R.R.
26/06 NC3 National Championships Poland (Zlotoryja) R.R.
26/06 NC3 National Championships Luxembourg (Diekirch) R.R.
26/06 NC3 National Championships Norway (Skien) R.R.
26/06 NC3 National Championships Denmark (Nyborg) R.R.
26/06 NC3 National Championships Russia (Ufa) R.R.
26/06 NCT3 National Championships Slovenia (Solkan-Plave) I.T.T.

26/06 NC4 National Championships Turkey () R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Uzbekistan () R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Latvia (Smiltene) R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Brazil () R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Bulgaria () R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Morocco (Ifrane) R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Lithuania (Alytus) R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Venezuela (Anzoategui) R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Croatia (Hun/Cro) R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Belarus (Mazyr) R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Austria (Eisenstadt) R.R.
26/06 NC4 National Championships Japan (Hachimantai) R.R.

26/06 NC5 National Championships Neth.Antilles/Curaçao (Willemstad) R.R.
26/06 NC5 National Championships Mexico () R.R.
26/06 NC5 National Championships Zimbabwe R.R.
26/06 NC5 National Championships Romania () R.R.
26/06 NC5 National Championships Greece () R.R.
26/06 NC5 National Championships Hungary (Hun/Cro) R.R.
26/06 NC5 National Championships Serbia () R.R.

 

[auscyclefan94]

a lot of other teams have failed to do so to. its not as easy as you think.

yep, liquigas and lampre performed far worse. They were poor. BMC had 3 riders in the finale. Liquigas and Lampre had 1 each. They had far bigger numbers at the start. Good to see that the Italian BMC riders are showing form.

 

[ansimi]

Svein Tuft has won the Canadian road championships after also taking the TT

Spidertech 1,2,3 with Bell and Routley

 

[dlwssonic]

yep, liquigas and lampre performed far worse. They were poor. BMC had 3 riders in the finale. Liquigas and Lampre had 1 each. They had far bigger numbers at the start. Good to see that the Italian BMC riders are showing form.

yes its good to see that santamorita has good form I hope he can use it to support cadel in the mountains. Hope they win the suisse RR. maybe burghardt can spark a surprise in the german RR.

 

[auscyclefan94]

yes its good to see that santamorita has good form I hope he can use it to support cadel in the mountains. Hope they win the suisse RR. maybe burghardt can spark a surprise in the german RR.

Yep, German nationals are on a hilly circuit. Might be difficult for Marcus but we'll see.

 

[dlwssonic]

Yep, German nationals are on a hilly circuit. Might be difficult for Marcus but we'll see.

who you think will be the leader for the suisse RR for BMC.

 

[auscyclefan94]

who you think will be the leader for the suisse RR for BMC.

I am pretty sure it is a hilly course so maybe Frank, Kohler or Morabito. It is hard to say because most of those guys have good form. They have a lot of cards to play with this team...

Frank, Kohler, Morabito, Schar, Wyss, Zanher & Tschopp

 

[dlwssonic]

I am pretty sure it is a hilly course so maybe Frank, Kohler or Morabito. It is hard to say because most of those guys have good form. They have a lot of cards to play with this team...

Frank, Kohler, Morabito, Schar, Wyss, Zanher & Tschopp

hope morabito wins so he gets to display the suisse colors in the tdf. they have to win this one would be pretty ****ed if they dont

 

[auscyclefan94]

hope morabito wins so he gets to display the suisse colors in the tdf. they have to win this one would be pretty ****ed if they dont

yeah, bmc have gone well so far in the nationals as they have got results in the us, swiss and italian nationals. I wonder if MOinard is competing in the French nats?

 

[dlwssonic]

yeah, bmc have gone well so far in the nationals as they have got results in the us, swiss and italian nationals. I wonder if MOinard is competing in the French nats?

Yup it has been pretty good. He should be.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Visconti - final sprint from 1 camera - video

skip to 1min 30 secs here http://www.settimanatricolore2011.it/video.aspx
to see Visconti cross the line a head.

Did any one capture the Rai video - I'd love to see the last few kms?


Edit:
You tube and you find: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFF98yta2rI

 

[craig1985]

I noticed that Freddy Bichot won the French Elite Amateur RR, I guess he will get a contract now, or at least got his name out there.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Yeah, he won Paris-Roubaix in sort of the same way. He did everything right in that last lap, strong and clever guy. I hope he gets a spot at Rabo Pro.

I think we'll see one more youngster make the jump this season.

Sinkeldam (22yo) or Jetse Bol (21yo) I would suspect to move up.
IMO Bol will get a contract.

Tom Dumoulin is another I like, I believe is still only 20, although I like him he wont be moving up.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Belgian Nats today! Go Tomke ! Although he'd rather not wait for a bunchsprint to win; wants a select group.

Don't think that's going to work out though, not a lot of wind here in West-Flanders

 

[dlwssonic]

Go van avermaet. seems like the course suits him.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Go van avermaet. seems like the course suits him.

If he wants to wait for a sprint it does, but Tomke, Steegmans are faster. If those 2 go to the line together + a group, Tomke takes it with Steegmans as the leadout man

 

[hrotha]

If he wants to wait for a sprint it does, but Tomke, Steegmans are faster. If those 2 go to the line together + a group, Tomke takes it with Steegmans as the leadout man

Yeah, I was wondering about that when you said Boonen didn't want a sprint. Who exactly could beat him, other than Steegmans? Keukeleire out of nowhere? Sadly, with Weylandt gone there's not much else (I don't expect any of the Lotto fast guys to beat Boonen).

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Yeah, I was wondering about that when you said Boonen didn't want a sprint. Who exactly could beat him, other than Steegmans? Keukeleire out of nowhere? Sadly, with Weylandt gone there's not much else (I don't expect any of the Lotto fast guys to beat Boonen).

"Ik houd serieus rekening met een zege van een outsider. Het is gevaarlijk om op het BK op mijn spurt te rekenen, maar ik doe dat wel als het moet. Ik heb er vertrouwen in dat mijn spurt, zelfs internationaal, nog goed genoeg is."

He says it's dangerous to wait for a sprint; but in the newspaper of today - De Zondag- he claims that he doesn't want to wait for one...

 

[theyoungest]

"Ik houd serieus rekening met een zege van een outsider. Het is gevaarlijk om op het BK op mijn spurt te rekenen, maar ik doe dat wel als het moet. Ik heb er vertrouwen in dat mijn spurt, zelfs internationaal, nog goed genoeg is."

He says it's dangerous to wait for a sprint; but in the newspaper of today - De Zondag- he claims that he doesn't want to wait for one...

What an inspired name for a Sunday paper He doesn't sound very convincing though. What's up with the low countries and real sprinters? We don't seem to have them.

 

[hrotha]

"Ik houd serieus rekening met een zege van een outsider. Het is gevaarlijk om op het BK op mijn spurt te rekenen, maar ik doe dat wel als het moet. Ik heb er vertrouwen in dat mijn spurt, zelfs internationaal, nog goed genoeg is."

He says it's dangerous to wait for a sprint; but in the newspaper of today - De Zondag- he claims that he doesn't want to wait for one...

"Yeah, in theory my sprint is still good enough, even at an international level, but... you know, I don't want some nobody to come out of nowhere and beat me, that'd be embarrassing. Much better to try from afar and be able to justify my defeat by saying I lost too much energy before the sprint!"

 

[Michielveedeebee]

What an inspired name for a Sunday paper He doesn't sound very convincing though. What's up with the low countries and real sprinters? We don't seem to have them.

Bring back Freddy Maertens! Boonen just pusies out when it comes to a sprint :/ Gent-Wevelgem proved he still had the speed...

 

[theyoungest]

Dutch nationals live ticker

 

[dlwssonic]

Dutch nationals live ticker

is there a startlist

 

[bjaelkesex]

Danish nationals live video

Goes live in 1 hour.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Andrei Mizourov (Astana) wins the Kazakh road race.