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

[greyclouds]

Van Aert already decide to focus on the TT next year.

At this rate, his better chances will be in the mixed relay ITT

Chapeau Remco, the new king of procycling!

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

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

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Director's cut

we missed half of the last lap action

 

[Breezy1985]

2 winners today.

1. Remco Evenepoel
2. Wout van Choke memes

The faces of half the forum members right now

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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

wrong - he did - it was shown on TV

 

[Devil's Elbow]

What's up with his mouth :O Acute herpes infection? Looks weird as if someone beat him up :O

Secretly he was the one who knocked on Van der Poel's door. Tactical masterclasses start before the race.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Sagan gets the top 10 record I think?

 

[Bonimenier]

wrong - he did - it was shown on TV

Remco went to van Aert, not vice versa.

 

[Faserr]

What's up with his mouth :O Acute herpes infection? Looks weird as if someone beat him up :O

That sheds some light on the MvdP story.

 

[Red Rick]

Secretly he was the one who knocked on Van der Poel's door. Tactical masterclasses start before the race.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

wrong - he did - it was shown on TV

He didn't. He congratulated everyone else, and made Remco come to him...don't know if you noticed, but Remco won. Wout should have gone to him, not the other way around.

 

[Cookster15]

Can I go to sleep now?

Now you know how we feel when the grand tour stages finish at 1:30am in Australia

 

[noob]

Hayter 10 not bad!

 

[JRanton]

Biggest winning margin since…?

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

The run for 2nd place is the beauty of no radio contact - just luvit!

 

[Netserk]

Laporte winning that sprint tells you all you need to know about the French tactics.

If France had been all-in for a defensive race, it would have been up to Belgium to make the race hard. It could have played out quite differently, but this was of course a far better race.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Congratulations to Evenepoel. The best rider by far this race. And a well-deserved World Champion.

But boy, what a fail the the 4-man group riding for podium.

 

[Red Rick]

Guys I've changed my mind.

Van Vleuten should get Velo d'Or.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Biggest winning margin since…?

World Championships ME - Road Race 1968

www.procyclingstats.com

 

[Mayomaniac]

The faces of half the forum members right now

Nah, that's Wout and Tom when you tell them they have to work for someone else.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

If France had been all-in for a defensive race, it would have been up to Belgium to make the race hard. It could have played out quite differently, but this was of course a far better race.

Didn't even need to be all in for a defensive race, but you cannot just let your second string ride with Evenepoel and especially not when you have a credible sprint winner behind. They had better learn, because I want to see whether Evenepoel can brute force solo away from the world's best at the biggest race. With Van Aert or Alaphilippe on the same team depending on the race, he won't often simply need to, though.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

What a strange bunch of randomers chasing Evenepoel in a World Championship final here.

Pretty sure already next season you'll regret calling Skjelmose a randomer

 

[Mayomaniac]

Tommy Vs record in the Worlds is actually amazing. Picked up a ton of medals since he took over

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...

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Wow, what a ride by the little Eddy! I got up and turned on TV with 77 kms to go - just in time to watch the decisive (and very early) move of the day. Powered by the Frenchmen attacking on Mt not so pleasant the break consisted of solid guys (typical tier II WC attack) except for one guy - yes, Remco was there, the odd one out. The rest of favourites stayed in the peleton. With 3 Belgians, 3 French and soon 2 Slovanians in the breakaway there wasn't strong will to chase in the bunch initially. Soon they build a substantial advantage of 2 minutes - with 3 laps to go the favourites (among them Pogacar and Van Aert) accelerated on the climb and reduced the gap by half but it wasn't enough as the gap started growing again on descent. Soon afterwards Remco performed the decisive attack, first with Lutsenko (who was attacking earlier as well) and afterwards he flew away performing his solo move. The bullet man didn't look back and won in an epic fashion! Congrats! The guys battling it out for the remaining medals fu**ed up, letting the favourite group catch them due to their sprinting "tactics" or whatever in the last couple of kms.

 

[tobydawq]

My God what an annoying race. What are the major countries thinking, letting a big group with Evenepoel as the only star rider slip up the road? Pfff...

 

[Valv.Piti]

My God what an annoying race. What are the major countries thinking, letting a big group with Evenepoel as the only star rider slip up the road? Pfff...

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