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I’m pretty ignorant but . . . seems like a very vanilla course for a Worlds?
From the barriers on isn't vanilla, it seems to me. Higher than usual, on an uphill, followed by a short but very steep ramp. I could envision a very close race that gets blown apart on the last lap right there.
Thanks, I probably didn’t pay close enough attention to the end of the video.
Granted, most of the course seems pretty straightforward. As Tibor said, it all depends on whether it rains or not.
It's just standard Hoogerheide with a few tweaks. Once lines are fully cut in, I'd say from the current look it'll be similar to the conditions (but slightly warmer) of the 2009 worlds, there but without the loop around the town centre.
Relay rider orders are out:
All countries except for GB (Backstedt) have a man starting and finishing. Most going with a M-M-F-F-F-M order.
All countries except for GB (Backstedt) have a man starting and finishing. Most going with a M-M-F-F-F-M order.
Interesting. Possibly the weakest link in the Dutch team is the elite man, Ryan Kamp. And he's still super good!
It looks like Puck Pieterse will ride Strade Bianche, but Fem van Empel won't. Both of them will have very limited race days on the road though. Van Empel has Fleche Wallonne as a semi-target, but her main focus is the mountainbike, as is Pieterse's.
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Fem van Empel en Puck Pieterse, de superheldinnen van de cross: ‘Machtsovername is definitief’
Fem van Empel en Puck Pieterse zijn de nieuwe superheldinnen van de cross. Multitalenten op de fiets, veelwinnaars en beiden nog maar 20 jaar. De regenboogtrui op de WK veldrijden moet de opmaat zijn naar meer. Aan de horizon blinkt olympisch goud.
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Team relay won by the Netherlands. Great Britain could run it quite close, Van Empel had only 2 secs advantage on Anna Kay when she started. She finished with 30 secs advantage and the race was over, all Ryan Kamp had to do was stay upright.
I no nothing about how these riders would fare in a long one-day on the road given that I've only watched them in 1 hour efforts, but I would think Fem van Empel was made for Strade Bianchi. I could also see her as the next Van der Breggen at Fleche Wallonne.It looks like Puck Pieterse will ride Strade Bianche, but Fem van Empel won't. Both of them will have very limited race days on the road though. Van Empel has Fleche Wallonne as a semi-target, but her main focus is the mountainbike, as is Pieterse's.
Fem van Empel en Puck Pieterse, de superheldinnen van de cross: ‘Machtsovername is definitief’
Fem van Empel en Puck Pieterse zijn de nieuwe superheldinnen van de cross. Multitalenten op de fiets, veelwinnaars en beiden nog maar 20 jaar. De regenboogtrui op de WK veldrijden moet de opmaat zijn naar meer. Aan de horizon blinkt olympisch goud.
Sounds like it was an enjoyable race to watch with the ebb and flow.
Best I've managed to see so far are a couple of phone clips of the finish.
I had an inkling the Brits were going to medal, Sweek was very close, but not quite.
The lack of coverage is probably due to the host broadcaster, Dutch public television NOS. They have no love for cyclocross and they don't understand it. Should have just left it to the Belgians, it's only a few kilometers from the border. Most Dutch cycling fans watch it on Belgian tv anyway.
Yeah, it's the same for the MTB Relay; it's down to the host broadcaster to put it on; everything is set up already. Only the Swiss in 2018 have bothered; it was also on the UCI YouTube channel. It should be a condition of getting any Worlds that all races are available to watch.....
That it was shown Live last year in the USA was probably down to the Worlds sponsors, Walmart......money wouldn't have been a problem at all.
And has extended with Tormans until 2025; and is now part of the Wanty development team, which makes sense. Being on another team's development squad was slightly strange.
That was a great video. Double whip! Cameo by Molengraaf and a Shirin’s favourite part of the course
The races since the removal of the overpass seem to mostly have been less muddy, with this one seeming to be the least muddy bar the really cold and frozen one. Could the earth works maybe have changed how the land around the new road way drains?
So van Alphen won't start tomorrow but possibly might in the end be replaced by Bakker if the UCI approve the late change.
Today, Thibau can do something Wout nor Mathieu ever accomplished: become world champion in the junior & U23 ranks.
Crash for Molengraaf, but she'll be back in the lead soon.
But now she's got a puncture. It won't be easy for her now.
It's the Holmgrens to lose atm.
But now she's got a puncture. It won't be easy for her now.
It's the Holmgrens to lose atm.
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