Race Thread

[ChewbaccaDefense]

A silver of hope?!

OUCH!!!

 

[Unchained]

Dutch destroyer.. He could stop eat breakfast, get a haircut.. And his kit is clean..Wout looks like he has been playing rugby!!

 

[Bolder]

Top 4 either current or former WT road riders...nuff said.

 

[JR1012]

Three road riders beat all the other pure cyclocross riders.

 

[KZD]

A shame Van Aert had to start from the fourth row but Van der Poel would have won anyway because he is by far the best CX rider in the world.

Great race from Nys, the first but likely not the last time that he finishes on the podium of the CX Worlds and I expect him to become even stronger after he does his first GT this season.

Niewenhuis really good too after a difficult season and expected a bit more from Vanthourenhout.

 

[theyoungest]

Seven races, zero gold medals for Belgium... that's kind of ridiculous for the only nation where the sport really matters.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

A shame Van Aert had to start from the fourth row but Van der Poel would have won anyway because he is by far the best CX rider in the world.

Great race from Nys, the first but likely not the last time that he finishes on the podium of the CX Worlds and I expect him to become even stronger after he does his first GT this season.

Niewenhuis really good too after a difficult season.

All of this

 

[jono]

Nobody was capable of coming close to the 7:24 on lap 1. Then MVDP was fastest every lap until lap 6, except the lap he was riding a flat for half of it, then foot off the gas for the final 2 laps.

Untouchable.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Like minds:

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

I actually agree with Mathieu, I think you should have to ride the races to get a better start position. No wildcards. That was actually a stupid question to ask him.

 

[Unchained]

Seven races, zero gold medals for Belgium... that's kind of ridiculous for the only nation where the sport really matters.

Holland?

 

[Sciatic]

Yeah, the tweet is wrong about that. It should say: "Twitter and cyclingnewsforum the only places..."

I know you’re just razzing each other, but honestly aside from the “yes he is. . . . No he’s not” mud fights, CN forums are the most literate and articulate spaces compared to social media or other sports forums.

 

[Barkintheeye]

Easy day for Backstedt and Van der Poel. At least Schreiber and Van Aert had to make a dig to get silver.

 

[Lequack]

Pretty boring race unfortunately, unlike yesterday's women's race. We've been robbed of a proper duel between MVDP and Wout because of the starting order unfortunately. And Pidcock has now grown tired of cyclocross as well.

 

[Flamin]

Remarkable how relaxed MVDP was in the pre-race interview, no matter how titles he already has. As if he was about to go for a Sunday stroll with Roxanne, absolutely zero stress.

Too bad we got robbed off a semi 'duel' due to one maneuver in the first corner. I think we would have seen at least 4 laps of excitement. Van Aert looked strong despite not taking it easy in training this week. Should give him a confidence boost.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

I'm glad both MVdP & Wout got home without compromising their classics season.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Kudos to these kids
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wo...garmin-after-cyclo-cross-world-championships/

 

[jmdirt]

MvdP 7X!

 

[Barkintheeye]

Alpecin needs to invest in a good strength/core trainer for Puck and Ceylin. They both are excellent bike handlers but both lack a little low cadence power. Whereas Fem and Lucinda can grind away with seated power, both Puck and Ceylin have to wrestle with their bikes and stand too much to generate that same power.

Yes, Puck looks very weak particularly off the bike. Her running the stairs looked more like the junior women and I'm sure she lost lots of seonds every lap on those two stairs

 

[jono]

I don't think poor grid position is the only reason we didn't see a real duel, even if only for a few laps. Mathieu had a nuclear lap on lap 1, 16 seconds faster than his next best lap and 20 seconds faster than anyone else's,. Nothing I saw in the race suggested to me that Wout or anyone else was capable of going that fast or that deep and recovering to ride a steady pace afterwards.

 

[theyoungest]

Holland?

The Netherlands doesn't care about cyclocross. Certainly not today, the Worlds was on at the same time as the most important football match of the year, Ajax-Feyenoord.

 

[awavey]

The Netherlands doesn't care about cyclocross. Certainly not today, the Worlds was on at the same time as the most important football match of the year, Ajax-Feyenoord.

so next years champs will be really quiet then

 

[theyoungest]

so next years champs will be really quiet then

They will be held in Hulst, like Hoogerheide a town just over the Belgian border. So even if not a single Dutchman shows up it will still be busy

 

[Hugh Januss]

I don't think poor grid position is the only reason we didn't see a real duel, even if only for a few laps. Mathieu had a nuclear lap on lap 1, 16 seconds faster than his next best lap and 20 seconds faster than anyone else's,. Nothing I saw in the race suggested to me that Wout or anyone else was capable of going that fast or that deep and recovering to ride a steady pace afterwards.

If not for grid position and the traffic and holdups for Wout he probably starts the second lap 10-11 seconds behind instead of over 40. Van Aert has the capability to winch in a lead of that type over the next laps. Van Aert did not have clear track in front of him until nearly half way through the race, and from there on the lap times were pretty even.