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

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It helps when Alaphilippe is the best rider in the race two years running. Today he wasn't, and they blundered.

but they still contributed more to the win than anyone else (apart from Evenepoel) at least . That useless attack from France with 80k to go perfectly played into his hands.

 

[tobydawq]

Pogacar wasn't on a great day it seemed, Mathieu out, Alaf not 100% still etc etc. Ended up a bit anticlimactic, we needed some more quality riders today

Italy and France just put their weakest riders up there and were satisfied because they were "covered" and "had numbers". Yeah, congrats with that, what good is it gonna do you?

 

[Netserk]

27 riders with the same time in the bunch. 33 riders within 13 seconds.

 

[Red Rick]

Pogacar wasn't on a great day it seemed, Mathieu out, Alaf not 100% still etc etc. Ended up a bit anticlimactic, we needed some more quality riders today

Thanks to about 20 riders losing their mind in the end the top 10 does look respectable

 

[sir fly]

Annemiek is a former footballer too, you know.

 

[Bonimenier]

27 riders with the same time in the bunch. 33 riders within 13 seconds.

34 riders within 2:34

 

[DNP-Old]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1573927957793427456

View: https://twitter.com/thijszonneveld/status/1573927957793427456


This saga is almost as entertaining as the race itself.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I get surprised everytime they do things like this. You have a group of 5 who are aiming for silver and bronze. And yet they *** it up by stopping completely instead of just keeping some pace.
Probably no radios, but I'm sure they knew and could see the guys coming from behind. That was just stupid in every way.

Sucks for Rota, who had almost dropped the others on the final climb.
Looks like Bettiol had great legs, in hinsight not having him or Trentin in the group when Remco attacked was a mistake, but other than that Italy raced decent.

 

[tobydawq]

At least I put a bet on Remco before the race. At odds 9 it felt like a gift. That made the outcome of the race a bit less dull and exasperating.

 

[Breezy1985]

Last year they actually made the race hard, but overall I think that has more to do with the quality of their riders than him...

Still though people questioning the tactics of the team just got silver behind a freak.

 

[Prim]

Wout not going to Remco to congratulate him was poor sportsmanship.

At the end of the Swedish broadcast they did a replay where you could see Wout hugging and congratulating Remco as one of the first people to do so. Remco coming up to him happened later as far as I could tell.

 

[Netserk]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1573927957793427456

View: https://twitter.com/thijszonneveld/status/1573927957793427456


This saga is almost as entertaining as the race itself.

It's even more farcical than sad.

 

[tobydawq]

Still though people questioning the tactics of the team just got silver behind a freak.

Well, that was pure luck, though.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Italy and France just put their weakest riders up there and were satisfied because they were "covered" and "had numbers". Yeah, congrats with that, what good is it gonna do you?

Italy, okay, youre not the favorite, but still could have better riders up there. I think the same goes for Denmark. France yes, I liked how they raced for the most part, but all of the moves they made they didn't once bring one of their 3 best riders which is kinda odd.

Rick: And thank god for that honestly. I don't think this was a bad race, it was super tactical due to a lot of different factors. Next year will hopefully be a lot more 'pure'

 

[Breezy1985]

Well, that was pure luck, though.

Because it suits you.

Did Remco win because of "luck"

 

[Netserk]

Rick: And thank god for that honestly. I don't think this was a bad race, it was super tactical due to a lot of different factors. Next year will hopefully be a lot more 'pure'

I hope it will be messy like this year, just not with Evenepoel winning.

 

[movingtarget]

Pogacar wasn't on a great day it seemed, Mathieu out, Alaf not 100% still etc etc. Ended up a bit anticlimactic, we needed some more quality riders today

End of the season, some riders are already dead and that was the reason some decided not to compete..........you saw the same thing in the Vuelta when teams were letting Carapaz go in breaks on mountain stages. They were basically giving stages away. It worked out perfectly for Belgium but you would think that Remco is going to be marked much closer in the future.

 

[tobydawq]

Because it suits you.

Did Remco win because of "luck"

Huh?

 

[Valv.Piti]

I hope it will be messy like this year, just not with Evenepoel winning.

Messy is good as long as we don't have second and third tier riders contesting the win in a group, and this kinda had the feel of that apart from Remco (if they didn't screw it in the end).

 

[Netserk]

Arndt was the best German finisher at 52nd place.

 

[tobydawq]

End of the season, some riders are already dead and that was the reason some decided not to compete..........you saw the same thing in the Vuelta when teams were letting Carapaz go in breaks on mountain stages. They were basically giving stages away. It worked out perfectly for Belgium but you would think that Remco is going to be marked much closer in the future.

I would have thought he would have been a marked man two years ago.

 

[Cookster15]

Channel 9 getting the biggest races on the Aust cycling calendar has been a horror story............amateurs.

Doubtful Channel 9 had any clue of the gravity of the event they were covering. Also a failure of sports journalism.

 

[Jagartrott]

Hah, so Van Aert apparently thought they were sprinting for 6th or something, so he didn't really go 100%. If he had known it would've been for 2nd (again), he would obviously not tried to sprint at all.

 

[Roku]

When you think you are having a rough day or have made a poor decision, think about how Skjelmose, Rota and Schmid were dumb enough to throw in a once in a lifetime 66.6% chance of winning a WC medal.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Italy, okay, youre not the favorite, but still could have better riders up there. I think the same goes for Denmark. France yes, I liked how they raced for the most part, but all of the moves they made they didn't once bring one of their 3 best riders which is kinda odd.

Rick: And thank god for that honestly. I don't think this was a bad race, it was super tactical due to a lot of different factors. Next year will hopefully be a lot more 'pure'

Yeah, either Bettiol or Bagioli probably should have been in that group. In the end Rota did what he could, but that wasn't enough.