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

[DJ Sprtsch]

Mother of god. Please, please, please do the exact same course when (if?) Worlds get there again.

Crazy hard year. Only 15 finishers!
The U23 race is getting interesting.

 

[sir fly]

I'm not sure I'm looking forward to Sunday's sunshine.
The circuit looks tougher in the rain.

 

[Samamba]

This race the U23 has a much bigger stronger peloton so a break getting over a minute is not a problem. Leo Hayter Down didn't look like to bad a fall delayed a bit because his chain came off.

Well he looks to be struggling already

 

[Sandisfan]

Earlier there was a team who has a pale jersey that is sort of pinkish purple-ish and when the camera shot came back to the front of the peloton for a second I thought why is he riding without a top LOL

 

[DNP-Old]

Really not a fan of guys like the Van Dijke brothers being at the start of the u23 race. I know there's technically nothing wrong with it but 22 year olds that have basically been riding a full Pro schedule with the best WT team in the world for 2 years now shouldn't be at the start of a u23 worlds. Not that they are the only ones (Waerenskjold for example is also a bit meeh, Fabio Vandenbossche riding for Belgium 2 years in a row as a full time pro is also beyond stupid), but they are probably the best out of them. And Kooij is obviously also a full time pro, he's not 22 years old yet, but you shouldn't be riding a u23 race when you have 14(!) pro wins already. Feels dumb. Go sprint against guys like Philipsen, De Lie, Groenewegen, Ewan, etc. in some .1 and .Pro races instead of racing between little kids.

Van Dijke out with corona apparently, but still, here's an interesting statistic for you: Jumbo-Visma, the pro-team, has the most riders in this race bar Axeon and FDJ Conti. And that's without counting Hagenes and Colby.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Earlier there was a team who has a pale jersey that is sort of pinkish purple-ish and when the camera shot came back to the front of the peloton for a second I thought why is he riding without a top LOL

I think thats maybe the Bermudan rider.

 

[sir fly]

This move of 6 is just faster killing the breakaway of the day.

 

[DNP-Old]

Gregoire got held up at that crash at the foot of the climb. I'd be surprised if he was present in this small groups given all the gaps that opened up in the descent.

 

[RedheadDane]

PCS at it again with their cloning...

Crash by 4 riders

• MESSNER Martin (Austria)
• FETTER Erik (Hungary)
• SVESTAD-BÅRDSENG Embret (Norway)
• MESSNER Martin (Austria)

 

[Sandisfan]

Half of the break has been caught. Now peloton is closing on the 3 left in the break.
Now the regroupment and stall for a while.

 

[ppanther92]

German team constantly riding in the peloton, while having one rider up who is still taking pulls...

 

[Samamba]

German team constantly riding in the peloton, while having one rider up who is still taking pulls...

You mean Jumbo Visma

 

[Sandisfan]

A break from the peloton is getting close to the 3 from the break of the Day. The peloton is not far behind the chasers.
30k remaining.

 

[DNP-Old]

Gregoire still there, thankfully. Kooij only has Van Uden left, if we're not counting Hessman and Hagenes. Also present: fast men Sam Watson, Paul Penhoet, Pavel Bittner and Madis Mihkels.

 

[Sandisfan]

The chasers are closing in they look strong and have puled out a bit from the Peloton.
The chasers are a strong group but the 3 in the front are a hard catch. Thesr is now a significant split from the Peloton.

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay, and people say I'm bad with numbers?
Moberg just referred to the chase group as "The four man group."

 

[Samamba]

This must be one of the worst televised WCs in modern times right? How are there no fixed camera's on Mt Pleasant? Can't see anything with one camera in front.

 

[DNP-Old]

This must be one of the worst televised WCs in modern times right? How are there no fixed camera's on Mt Pleasant? Can't see anything with one camera in front.

Absolutely, and to make matters worse there's no time split on the top of Mt. Pleasant to make up for it.

 

[Sciatic]

Regroupment

 

[Samamba]

Waiting for the Gregoire attack that we won't be able to see.

 

[Volderke]

Absolutely, and to make matters worse there's no time split on the top of Mt. Pleasant to make up for it.

I heard it’s a dutch team producing the footage.

 

[BR2]

I just don't want Kooij to win this.

 

[DNP-Old]

Hagenes having so babysit Waerenskjold is such a waste. Let the kid race, he loves the rain.

 

[Samamba]

I just don't want Kooij to win this.

He has 0 teammates left, he needs a lot of luck to win this.

 

[Samamba]

Belgium not realizing Segaert is struggling. No way he can follow Vacek and Fedorov on the climb.

No idea why Segaert is still doing so many pulls.