Pro Cycling Graph Of Nationalities

[El Pistolero]

Belgium looks cool like that.

I also remember a student next to me watching the Tour of Turkey on his laptop during the course

 

[The Hitch]

I also remember a student next to me watching the Tour of Turkey on his laptop during the course

Ok. now you are just making it up

 

[El Pistolero]

Ok. now you are just making it up

Nope, the stage Petacchi won

Though obviously with ear plugs, it's not like you could hear the commentary. Common thing here to be honest, when I'm bored during a course I watch some South Park episodes or go on this forum. I watched the whole South Park movie once with some friends during a course

Actually, the only reason you ever need to go to a course is to socialize. Following courses is overrated

Plus free internet always comes in handy if you're staying in a "kot".

 

[The Hitch]

Nope, the stage Petacchi won

Though obviously with ear plugs, it's not like you could hear the commentary. Common thing here to be honest, when I'm bored during a course I watch some South Park episodes or go on this forum. I watched the whole South Park movie once with some friends during a course

Actually, the only reason you ever need to go to a course is to socialize. Following courses is overrated

Plus free internet always comes in handy if you're staying in a "kot".

I know how university works

My astonishment was clearly with the fact that someone would stream the tour of turkey.


You must really think that my mother, god bless her, gave birth to a total ***, if you think I was surprised to hear people were not paying attention in class.

 

[El Pistolero]

I know how university works

My astonishment was clearly with the fact that someone would stream the tour of turkey.


You must really think that my mother, god bless her, gave birth to a total ***, if you think I was surprised to hear people were not paying attention in class.

Well, I've been on Erasmus in a university abroad for a semester and the classes were so small you were pretty much forced to pay attention

Cycling is mainstream in Belgium, so no Belgians get astonished about that

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I went to just one lecture last year

 

[greenedge]

Nope, the stage Petacchi won

Though obviously with ear plugs, it's not like you could hear the commentary. Common thing here to be honest, when I'm bored during a course I watch some South Park episodes or go on this forum. I watched the whole South Park movie once with some friends during a course

Actually, the only reason you ever need to go to a course is to socialize. Following courses is overrated

Plus free internet always comes in handy if you're staying in a "kot".

Our high school is not supplied with the government funded laptops, so we don't get time to

 

[lukinox]

Numbers reworked as a percentage relative to population:

ned 14.8
bel 29.9
den 17.2
ger 1.4
ita 6.9
gbr 1.4
rus 0.8
kaz 4.6
esp 8.3
fra 5.1
aus 9.1
usa 0.4

So, the 3 GTs should be in the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark!

If you take this numbers and think about the amount of wins and placements in major races by the riders of each nation, you'll notice that Great Britain and Germany are doing pretty well, while Denmark, the Neatherlands and Belgium should do better.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

If you take this numbers and think about the amount of wins and placements in major races by the riders of each nation, you'll notice that Great Britain and Germany are doing pretty well, while Denmark, the Neatherlands and Belgium should do better.

gotta love how gbr have a good year or two and they think they are the kings of cycling.

And you'll find nations like belgium have much larger depth, and perform throughout different levels of cycling.

 

[PCutter]

gotta love how gbr have a good year or two and they think they are the kings of cycling.

Dont you mean Cavendish

 

[Captain_Cavman]

gotta love how gbr have a good year or two and they think they are the kings of cycling.

And you'll find nations like belgium have much larger depth, and perform throughout different levels of cycling.

Goodness, "doing pretty well" = "think they are kings of cycling" in your world.

Actually there is a point here: GBR are set up to maximise returns from a minimal input. Potentially world class cyclists are identified at a relatively early age and then nurtured with the best training and support that there is; the rest have very few opportunities to pursue their sport. This wouldn't even be possible in the sport's powerhouse countries such as Belgium, because the pool of potential is so much bigger.

So virtually all the current crop of GBR riders are world class pursuiters or sprinters. It should be no surprise that their success rate is higher than other countries'.

Still. why say all that when you can just go for the cheap put-down eh?

 

[El Pistolero]

Our high school is not supplied with the government funded laptops, so we don't get time to

We just take our own personal laptops to school.

 

[Cam...]

Thanks Wilba60, I agree the physiological profiling of riders would add a really interesting dimension to the national stat's, which are pretty dry on their own.

I plan to focus alot of my attention on the UCI Continental road cycling teams, given there's some pretty unique stuff in there - for example, the oldest Continental rider was born in 1967! I'd love to know (and intend to find out) more about him; what he does for a living, how much he trains, cycling background, etc.

 

[swuzzlebubble]

Fun to see the statistics.

I'm not sure about a 3 week GT in Australia in January though

Well I'm fine with it, but I don't think the riders will like it. I'd rather suggest keep the TDU and make it more interesting and add a 'challenging' 1 day race 3-4 days after the TDU.

I agree on the fact that Australia is becoming a cycling nation and that they could use some more racing in their own country, but you can't just start a 3 week WT GT in January.

There was the idea to move the Sun Tour from October to February but it got knocked out.

The other issue with growing events organically is (if I am correct) that UCI regs cap them at 6 days so there is no scope for anything between 6 days and 21 day GT.
Of course they don't want every stage race creeping bigger into mini-GT's but to be able to extend over two weekends would help a lot of events financially I would think.

 

[Magnus]

There was the idea to move the Sun Tour from October to February but it got knocked out.

The other issue with growing events organically is (if I am correct) that UCI regs cap them at 6 days so there is no scope for anything between 6 days and 21 day GT.

Isn't Tour de Suisse 9 stages?

 

[Mambo95]

I plan to focus alot of my attention on the UCI Continental road cycling teams, given there's some pretty unique stuff in there - for example, the oldest Continental rider was born in 1967! I'd love to know (and intend to find out) more about him; what he does for a living, how much he trains, cycling background, etc.

He's a youngster. Malcolm Elliott was a Continental rider (for Motorpoint) until August 2011, when he retired aged 50.

 

[swuzzlebubble]

Isn't Tour de Suisse 9 stages?

Duration
2.6.007 The durations indicated below correspond to the total number of days occupied on the calendar, i.e. both days of competition, including any prologue, and rest days.

UCI WorldTour
Duration determined by the Professional Cycling Council.

Major tours
15 to 23 days.

Continental circuits
The maximum duration of each event shall be that of 2004. The duration of new events in classes
HC, 1 and 2 is limited to 5 days, unless an exemption is made by the management committee.
(text modified on 1.01.05; 1.01.08; 1.01.09).