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

[movingtarget]

Seagull muscling in on the Magpie action...........

 

[Volderke]

Looks like a Silver Gull.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Van Vluten makes Roglic look like Sagan

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

NL with all the bad luck in the world. I hope that was it. Gonna be a *** worlds for the Dutch if this luck streak continues

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So the men's medals should be Switzerland-Italy Denmark, and the women's Italy-Switzerland-Netherland.

Anything else (ie Australian medal) is a meaningless aggregation of unrelated performances.

 

[Lequack]

Pogacar got a birthday cake today

 

[Volderke]

Pogacar got a birthday cake today

You can't have your cake and eat it too!

 

[yaco]

I am curious about how juniors will perform with the changes to gear restrictions - I expect some juniors with bigger and more developed bodies will do better ( initially ) on bigger gears - It will add another dimension to talent spotting.

 

[Lequack]

Elbow fracture for AVV unfortunately, but she's still not out officially

https://twitter.com/x/status/1572567038694133761

View: https://twitter.com/kit_e_nicholson/status/1572567038694133761

 

[Nick2413]

I am curious about how juniors will perform with the changes to gear restrictions - I expect some juniors with bigger and more developed bodies will do better ( initially ) on bigger gears - It will add another dimension to talent spotting.

How big of gears were they allowed to ride till now? Are they really completely maxed out on gear during most of their riding? I’m nowhere near as fast but I can’t even fathom having my riding limited by gearing unless I only had a small ring.

 

[Samamba]

So basically rain every day apart from Sunday... Expecting a lot of crashes in the u23, junior and women categories.

 

[Izzyeviel]

From my untrained eye, looks like the tire came off the rim. Can we take a moment to appreciate Ellen Van Dijk's bike handling here? How she didn't crash i'll never know.

Video

Edit: It was quite nice for cycling news to tell the world it wasn't the tire after all but something else, right after I posted this.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Cosnefroy replaces Cavagna in the French super team.

 

[Big Doopie]

You can't have your cake and eat it too!

Oh he can. And does.

 

[Bolder]

Cosnefroy replaces Cavagna in the French super team.

Cavagna has not had a great year, at least individually. Still, I'd have thought the fabled TGV of Clermont-Ferrand would have more useful than Bardet, although Bardet always impresses me with his stamina in hard races.

 

[tobydawq]

Cavagna has not had a great year, at least individually. Still, I'd have thought the fabled TGV of Clermont-Ferrand would have more useful than Bardet, although Bardet always impresses me with his stamina in hard races.

It would be a bit mean to make a rider go all the way to Australia and then not have him do any race.

At least Cavagna did the TT.

 

[jmdirt]

Tire off the wheel is unforgivable (if that's what's about).

That's not what caused the crash.

 

[jmdirt]

What caused AVV's crash?

1. not clicked in the pedal?
2. chain / shifting problem causing her to suddenly lock up or loose torque on the pedal she was pushing?
3. tire problem?

2

 

[Big Doopie]

Cavagna has not had a great year, at least individually. Still, I'd have thought the fabled TGV of Clermont-Ferrand would have more useful than Bardet, although Bardet always impresses me with his stamina in hard races.

he was pretty amazing at the Vuelta. I guess they feel they do not need a workhorse.

i wonder how they get around the rule that the riders competing in the TT also have to do the RR. Fake injury?

 

[tobydawq]

he was pretty amazing at the Vuelta. I guess they feel they do not need a workhorse.

i wonder how they get around the rule that the riders competing in the TT also have to do the RR. Fake injury?

That's not a rule.

 

[greyclouds]

he was pretty amazing at the Vuelta. I guess they feel they do not need a workhorse.

i wonder how they get around the rule that the riders competing in the TT also have to do the RR. Fake injury?

Isn't that rule only at the Olympics?

 

[greyclouds]

2. chain / shifting problem causing her to suddenly lock up or loose torque on the pedal she was pushing?

That makes sense, and it's obviously more of a problem when you are starting up and peddling with more strength to get the speed up, as opposed to when in full speed and you can stop peddling as soon as you feel something different with chain.

 

[Bolder]

What caused AVV's crash?

1. not clicked in the pedal?
2. chain / shifting problem causing her to suddenly lock up or loose torque on the pedal she was pushing?
3. tire problem?

I'm surprised we don't see more crashes on TT bikes. Just because of the relatively narrow position, different drop (some have high bars, some lower)

 

[memyselfandI]

The audience is getting warmed up I think...

So who's going to do a Campagnolo one? AG2r anyone? I've finished my food, got a nice glass of good, cold prosecco - it's made in Italy obviously -and I'm ready to see the Campy one right now.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Pogacar got a birthday cake today

Looks like it's made out of cardboard.

Cavagna has not had a great year, at least individually. Still, I'd have thought the fabled TGV of Clermont-Ferrand would have more useful than Bardet, although Bardet always impresses me with his stamina in hard races.

Theory i've read is so he won't have to chase his teammate. On the other hand, i don't know if Cosnefroy is the answer to that specific problem.