Happy to see Vos take the Women’s Dutch national championship! Chapeau!
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Perhaps he could pop over to the Ineos one for a couple of rides.Maybe Van Aert should have chosen to go to the Worlds after all:
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One other option I feel a better approach to the season would've been is to push alot of the races a week or so earlier so that some take up the slots of where the US word cups would be, and so on until maybe mid/late december and then have the Flamanville and Hoogerheide following on from this, with a couple of the other series and non series races taking up the spots on the previous day (e.g Hamme and Zonnebeke). From here, the season runs as normal until after nationals. Following this the US world cups start with the world champs taking up the normal spot at end/start of Jan/Feb. The final races in the season would stay as normal.Feel for the organisers; not a lot you can do if people are focusing on the Worlds. I do wonder why they can't run World Cups after the World Championships, like they do in MTB - never seems to be a problem for them.
Actually that's incorrect as both Baloise Trek and Pauwels Sauzen Bingoal are registered as continental teams. Some of the cross riders for for Alpecin Fenix are riding for the Alpecin Fenix Devo team along which also includes a bunch of road riders and the ones who ride for IKO Crelan in the winter. MvdP is not world tour as he is riding for the aforementioned Alpecin Fenix team which is a pro-conti team that gets to pick and choose which world tour races it goes to due to being the highest ranked pro-conti team. Out of the other two riders, Pidcock hasn't really shown he's a level above the other riders like WvA has this year and MvdP has in years past. WvA is the only one out of the "3 World Tour pros" you mention that has done that this year. In the years before, WvA has been closer to Toon Aerts (although partly due to van aert's tdf injury) with Aerts getter the better on van Aert a few times.Tell me what I'm missing:
Men's elite cyclocross appears to be dominated number of Dutch and Belgian Pro Continental riders who fight it out for wins among themselves, unless one or more of the 3 World Tour pros who also excel at cyclocross compete--in those cases one of those 3 World Tour Pros win. Merlier seems to be the exception that proves the rule.
I assume the point was to suggest that the regular CX field is a bunch of mediocre conti riders who fail to win when their big brothers from the world tour show up…if so, it’s worth considering the other world tour riders that show up to varying degrees of success and mid-pack anonymity - Quinten Hermans, Joris Nieuwenhuis, Heinrich Hausler, Clement Venturini etc
WvA & MvdP (and to a lesser extent Pidcock) win a lot at CX (as they do on the road & mtb) because they’re cycling phenomenons, not because the rest of the CX field is a bunch of second-rate athletes
I get your point, but specifically regarding Iserbyt he always tends to struggle and drop back in races where he has a bad start or issues. This was the situation in the national champs, he alluded to it post race yesterday saying his good start was good for his mind.It was commented upon Iserbyt’s drop out at the Belgian National Championships that it was a smart move and to instead focus and build base for the WC in Fayetteville. Personally I think it always looks bad with riders dropping out just because something/not everything is going their way (in this case a poor start by Iserbyt).
Think that Van Aert would never quit no matter what and that lends him lots of respect and grace. It shows respect towards your team, the organizers, the spectators and your fellow riders. That’s my opinion.
I get your point, but specifically regarding Iserbyt he always tends to struggle and drop back in races where he has a bad start or issues. This was the situation in the national champs, he alluded to it post race yesterday saying his good start was good for his mind.It was commented upon Iserbyt’s drop out at the Belgian National Championships that it was a smart move and to instead focus and build base for the WC in Fayetteville. Personally I think it always looks bad with riders dropping out just because something/not everything is going their way (in this case a poor start by Iserbyt).
Think that Van Aert would never quit no matter what and that lends him lots of respect and grace. It shows respect towards your team, the organizers, the spectators and your fellow riders. That’s my opinion.
From https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/eu...-covid-guidelines-for-uci-cyclo-cross-worlds/The World Championships are headed to a state where only 52 per cent of residents are vaccinated, where COVID-19 cases hit record highs this week and more people are hospitalised with the virus than ever before.
The UCI is leaving it up to the teams to monitor symptoms and mitigate their risks. Even the PCR tests required to fly back to Europe will cost up to $200 per test.
COVID regulations = permissiveFrom https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/eu...-covid-guidelines-for-uci-cyclo-cross-worlds/
UCI putting rider safety first/last again?