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If you have a VPN you can follow the official streams of Sporza or RTBFAnybody with a stream for the beligium race today?
Jep, probably the most boring race of the season. Regardless, i think Sweeck was the best today. He had to come back from 15th spot, even though Aerts was trying to strangle everybody. You could also see the chasing group fall apart, so the race was hard enough.Welp, that’s a perfect example of how team tactics can take the excitement straight out of a race, at least for first place. I mean, it was perfectly executed, so kudos to them, I switched off after a while, though.
To be fair, Sweeck looks really strong today, so he might have won it regardless, but the definitive move and subsequent gap was the result of team tactics. It doesn’t help that Aerts crashed yet again when he was maybe starting to chase.
I wonder what Iserbyt is really thinking when he has to abide by team tactics regardless of how strong he might have felt himself on the day. I suppose that it is the same for many riders, but Iserbyt is more of the “team leader”.
I can't really understand why does Ceylin choose to ride the U23 race. She is already one of the best in the World, she should hve the motivation to ride in the elite category.
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Ceylin said today (as in sunday) that she will announce tomorrow (as in monday) the age category where she will ride in Dubendorf, with Wielerflits reporting that she will race the Elites, according to sources they have.
Since she said in November that she would race the U23 and now is saying that she will announce it tomorrow, my bet is that she has indeed change her mind and will go for the Elite title.
Does anyone know why, although Pidcock won the race and is the elite champion, the U23 champ is Ben Tulett?
As strawberry jams said, he registered as an elite at the beginning of the season. However, like last year as the U23 and Senior races are ran together, according to UCI rules, Tulett was only awarded a silver (senior) and gold medal (subsequently he won't be allowed to wear the national stripes in races for the next year). As It wasn't broadcast due to British Cycling "not being able to afford it" i'll give a run down. The course was very muddy and probably 40% of the course was running for a large proportion of the race fields. With the course having a short start straight immediately into an off camber, bank, off camber, steps, off camber, cambered hairpin turn round a tree, that was the most chaotic start i've been in with riders and bikes sliding all over the place.Does anyone know why, although Pidcock won the race and is the elite champion, the U23 champ is Ben Tulett?
In other news, Alvarado will indeed go for the elite title.
Great news for us also, she was going to be the absolute favorite for the U23 title. But now, we should be set for a good battle with Van der Heijden against the Experza trio of Kay, Bakker and Norbert Riberolle and also Kata Vas and Van Alphen.
And it will be interesting how much CX she does next season as she's just signed a contract for the Trek Factory Racing EWS team.Won't make much of a difference for Harnden that she won't be allowed to wear a jersey as U23, will it? As she'll just be wearing it as elite.
The red carpet section on the docks!The race course at the Belgian national championships looked really nice. Would be fun to race there.
As It wasn't broadcast due to British Cycling "not being able to afford it" i'll give a run down.
Not a fan of the spiral of doom personally. It's a bit of a gimmick that has come over from a couple of american courses from a few years ago that only promotes single file racing with a pinchpoint in the centre. Plus it can be quite confusing for both fans and riders to see where a rider actually is in the spiral and gauge the distance.The red carpet section on the docks!
The mega-carousel in the Dutch course was great too.
I don't see it. For me, it's Alvarado, Brand, and Worst in some order with Kastelijn an outside shot depending on the course which I haven't looked into yet. I think Cant is a long shot at best.Cant’s rivals for the WC keep diminishing. First Ceylin, unfortunately choosing to ride the U23 category, and now Vos is out too, due to surgery.
Cant looked good at the BK though, might just pull it off again for the WC. She’s a master peaker.