The Grand 2022 Wollongong UCI Road World Championships Thread, September 18th-25th

[movingtarget]

Norway brought their "magpie fear" with them...........and the salt air doesn't hurt either.........

 

[search]

So did Adam Holm. He had his worst day on the bike ever. The youngsters could be suffering from jetlag.

could be an explanation for sure, but van Dijke at least arrived two weeks in advance, so earlier than most (or all?) elite riders

 

[RedheadDane]

Norway brought their "magpie fear" with them...........and the salt air doesn't hurt either.........

Maybe that's the new "marginal gains"? Just get some magpies to chase your riders, make them go faster.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Yeah, this is the thing. The WCTT is usually about the most predictable race of the season. There are normally about 2 or 3 guys who you could see winning and one of those almost always takes it.

This is what Samu was thinking.

And now he no longer has a roof over his head.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Also, it's not like the brother has known for several years what would happen on that date.

Interesting planning.

I've never gotten married, but I don't think its the man that usually chooses the wedding date.

Just ask SafeBet

 

[Salvarani]

Alright, Norway. I'll make you a deal:
We get the stage races*.
You get the time trials.





*I know that's not World Championships.

What does the Swedes get?

 

[DNP-Old]

* **** Josh Tarling
**** Mathieu Kockelmann, Jens Verbrugghe
*** Emil Herzog, Jan Christen, Jorgen Nordhagen
** Duarte Marivoet, Alex Gustin, Nicolas Milesi, Thibaud Gruel
* Antonio Morgado, Hamish McKenzie, Lewis Bower, Sjors Lugthart, Pavel Novak

Out of all contestants in all disciplines in all age categories, Tarling is the gold medal I am most certain of. He is the top favorite by a mile. Due to never seeing time trials of this length, I took Anadia as the most plausible reference and thus gave Verbrugghe 4 stars. Tried to apply some logic, but in some cases it's just impossible. Guys like Bower, McKenzie and Gustin have little to no experience against the big boys. Morgado on the other hand can't time trial for ***, but is so uber talented he might just have a stroke of genius.

 

[RedheadDane]

What does the Swedes get?

Nothing! As I already explained to sir fly; Swedes are irrelevant!

 

[sir fly]

Nothing! As I already explained to sir fly; Swedes are irrelevant!

Is it unvikingish or unvikingly, then?

 

[Angelo1985]

I'm thinking of the road race already for the pros, who of the favorites will close the gap to Remco with Wout in their wheel. I think Remco has a very good chance to become World Champion.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Never have I ever been this indifferent about the Worlds. I got to see 30 min on Sunday, and will probably only watch the last 4 hours or so on next Sunday. Everything thats inbetween, at that time of the day.. that aint happening (well its impossible, cause work, and Im not waking up hours earlier to watch the women or the U-riders), which is a shame.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Is it unvikingish or unvikingly, then?

Swedes were bad vikings, irrelevant then and irrelevant now

 

[sir fly]

Swedes were bad vikings, irrelevant then and irrelevant now

Unvikingly/ish anyway!

 

[Samamba]

* **** Josh Tarling
**** Mathieu Kockelmann, Jens Verbrugghe
*** Emil Herzog, Jan Christen, Jorgen Nordhagen
** Duarte Marivoet, Alex Gustin, Nicolas Milesi, Thibaud Gruel
* Antonio Morgado, Hamish McKenzie, Lewis Bower, Sjors Lugthart, Pavel Novak

Out of all contestants in all disciplines in all age categories, Tarling is the gold medal I am most certain of. He is the top favorite by a mile. Due to never seeing time trials of this length, I took Anadia as the most plausible reference and thus gave Verbrugghe 4 stars. Tried to apply some logic, but in some cases it's just impossible. Guys like Bower, McKenzie and Gustin have little to no experience against the big boys. Morgado on the other hand can't time trial for ***, but is so uber talented he might just have a stroke of genius.

Tarling can win this with one leg and will already be close to winning the u23 one next year.

 

[memyselfandI]

All I know is Foss is the only World Champ on that list

+11

 

[Berniece]

I'm thinking of the road race already for the pros, who of the favorites will close the gap to Remco with Wout in their wheel. I think Remco has a very good chance to become World Champion.

Only if he's able to ride away. I would imagine that everyone will jump on his wheel if he tries to accelerate.

 

[DNP-Old]

Tarling can win this with one leg and will already be close to winning the u23 one next year.

Indeed. One thing that has surprised me though is how not dominant, perhaps bad even Tarling has been on the track, which normally is the forte of Brittons. In the road race Great Britain will be all in for Jed Smithson. Interesting kid, because 1). he's a swimmer, 2). he looks like he's the twin brother of Marcel Kittel and 3). his eyesight is not bad, it's godawful. He will be recognisable from the get go due to the jam pots he has to ride around with in order to properly see.

 

[yaco]

It was very disappointing that the host nation failed to have a starter in the men's under 23 ITT - Moreso when Australia has a rich tradition in this discipline.

Hamish Mckenzie will do very well in the junior boys ITT - I expect a top ten if not a top five finish - The Aussie juniors are well prepared and should snag some good results.

 

[glassmoon]

Pretty odd timing knowing that marriages and the worlds are planed long in advance...........there are reports that Dennis was unhappy about the TT distance as it was shorter than usual.

yeah... we all know he whines a lot so no real surprise there

 

[Lequack]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1571733527758249987

View: https://twitter.com/UCI_cycling/status/1571733527758249987

 

[Mayomaniac]

So did Adam Holm. He had his worst day on the bike ever. The youngsters could be suffering from jetlag.

Yeah that could be.
Looking at his Strava file Milesi still pushed 411W during this one and he isn't the biggest guy out there, just look that this picture from 2020 of him on the EC ITT podium with Vacek and Brenner (and he has slimmed down since then):

Him having a decent power output makes m think that maybe his cornering was really the problem.

 

[Berniece]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1571733527758249987

View: https://twitter.com/UCI_cycling/status/1571733527758249987

Ticket was already booked before he said he was going to quit. So he thought it would be best to go and support The Netherlands and JV riders.

 

[Norbea]

Is it unvikingish or unvikingly, then?

The Norwegians and the Danes did most of the pulling in the Viking age as well. The swedes did some small raides in the east, but mostly they moped around in Upsala making offerings to Odin and praying for better days.

 

[postmanhat]

* **** Josh Tarling
**** Mathieu Kockelmann, Jens Verbrugghe
*** Emil Herzog, Jan Christen, Jorgen Nordhagen
** Duarte Marivoet, Alex Gustin, Nicolas Milesi, Thibaud Gruel
* Antonio Morgado, Hamish McKenzie, Lewis Bower, Sjors Lugthart, Pavel Novak

Out of all contestants in all disciplines in all age categories, Tarling is the gold medal I am most certain of. He is the top favorite by a mile. Due to never seeing time trials of this length, I took Anadia as the most plausible reference and thus gave Verbrugghe 4 stars. Tried to apply some logic, but in some cases it's just impossible. Guys like Bower, McKenzie and Gustin have little to no experience against the big boys. Morgado on the other hand can't time trial for ***, but is so uber talented he might just have a stroke of genius.

I'm assuming Zoe Backstedt must be one of the favourites in the women's event, a year after finishing second in Leuven. But I know more or less nothing about the other riders. The only one I recognise is Eglantine Rayer, and that's mainly because of her brilliant first name,

 

[DNP-Old]

I'm assuming Zoe Backstedt must be one of the favourites in the women's event, a year after finishing second in Leuven. But I know more or less nothing about the other riders. The only one I recognise is Eglantine Rayer, and that's mainly because of her brilliant first name,

Yeah, I meant the male races. I should have worded that better. My knowledge of women's cycling is 0.