UCI Road World Championships 21st-29th September 2019 - Yorkshire - Race Thread.

[Brullnux]

Hard to rank Dennis' performance. Aside from him I don't think this is a particularly good field, I mean his biggest rival won in the junior ranks last season. This would look a lot less dominant with someone like dumoulin or froome in top shape as well or Martin, wiggins and cancellara from a few years ago. Phenomenal performance nontheless of course

49.7 km/h on a long, slightly damp and quite rolling course tells you all you need to know. Wiggins did 50 kmh at ponferrada, a course which was flat for 30km and just uphill for 10km with a similar overall altitude gain. This was a great performance.

 

[Escarabajo]

So Dennis beat Alex Dowset was 5th by 2 minutes. His ride was quite impressive.

 

[Bushman]

That was just bad sportsmanship. Let Dennis finish alone and not overtake him in the last 50 meters. Big joke.

Not talking about just the last 500 metres but Roglic’ entire ride after getting caught

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

So Dennis beat Alex Dowset was 5th by 2 minutes. His ride was quite impressive.

Well last year Dennis beat Dumoulin by 1.21 and dumo was already 2nd. So it's nothing new.
Also year before Dumo won by 50s on only 30km and 1.21 to the third Froome, on a TT that was 24km shorter than today.

Just to say, every year it seems the winner is quite dominant. I wonder if we get an exciting TT champs for once?

 

[Red Rick]

Well last year Dennis beat Dumoulin by 1.21 and dumo was already 2nd. So it's nothing new.
Also year before Dumo won by 50s on only 30km and 1.21 to the third Froome, on a TT that was 24km shorter than today.

Just to say, every year it seems the winner is quite dominant. I wonder if we get an exciting TT champs for once?

2015?

 

[Leggitte]

Just out of interest, will the men's road race be the first time that Mathieu van der Poel and Remco Evenepoel are in the same race or have they raced together already?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Just out of interest, will the men's road race be the first time that Mathieu van der Poel and Remco Evenepoel are in the same race or have they raced together already?

They raced together this year, and then Evenepoel finished way ahead of van der Poel...
because Mathieu crashed in the sprint and was taken to the hospital.

 

[Red Rick]

They raced together this year, and then Evenepoel finished way ahead of van der Poel...
because Mathieu crashed in the sprint and was taken to the hospital.

Confirmation Evenepoel is a better sprinter than VdP

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Congrats to Dennis. Another dominant performance at the TT world championships. This year his form was a bit unknown but it's clear that after the TdF he had great preparation for this sole purpose. Congrats to Evenepoel. TT vice-champion at the age of 19, wow! Is this the youngest medalist ever? These young guns (him, Pogacar, Bernal, Van der Poel) seem to be of another breed. Does he really weight only 61 kg? If so his wattage par kilogram must be awesome (yup, mountains stages and GTs). Still, he seems to weight a few kilos more than that.
Congrats to Ganna on his first UCI TT championship medal. As for others Campenaerts would fight for silver if not for his bad luck. Primoż Roglic definitely felt Vuelta fatigue - that's why he lost the gold after a tight finish with Dennis! Oh wait...
Looking forward to the road race. Will another Poel strike this time?

 

[movingtarget]

49.7 km/h on a long, slightly damp and quite rolling course tells you all you need to know. Wiggins did 50 kmh at ponferrada, a course which was flat for 30km and just uphill for 10km with a similar overall altitude gain. This was a great performance.

Not to mention the quality of the road surface........

 

[shalgo]

Congrats to Evenepoel. TT vice-champion at the age of 19, wow! Is this the youngest medalist ever?

I think he must be. Ullrich was third in 1994 at 20 years of age; he was probably the next youngest.

 

[del1962]

Who is Buzz Lightyear on strava?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Chris Boardman suggesting John Archibald for a top 5 place. Hmmm.

14th in the end. Beat many much better known road TTers, but definitely a bit of BBC gilding from Boardman.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Was a rather dour response to being beaten.

In Yorkshire, being dour counts as fitting in with the locals.

 

[Red Rick]

In Yorkshire, being dour counts as fitting in with the locals.

Brb gotta find place in Yorkshire

 

[Gigs_98]

Dumoulin, Canc, Wiggins, yes.

Froome wouldn't beat this.

Nah, but he could have been a lot closer.

 

[Brullnux]

Not to mention the quality of the road surface........

Careful, you’re straying into blasphemous territory here...

 

[Lequack]

That was just bad sportsmanship. Let Dennis finish alone and not overtake him in the last 50 meters. Big joke.

Roglic said morally it was a big hit getting passed by Dennis that's why he wanted to get the same time (so that in his mind he didn't get passed, however crazy it sounds).
He also mentioned that his power levels were as planned, not sure what he meant by that really, clearly he couldn't have planned to win with those levels.

 

[TommyPlus]

Congrats to Dennis. Another dominant performance at the TT world championships. This year his form was a bit unknown but it's clear that after the TdF he had great preparation for this sole purpose. Congrats to Evenepoel. TT vice-champion at the age of 19, wow! Is this the youngest medalist ever? These young guns (him, Pogacar, Bernal, Van der Poel) seem to be of another breed. Does he really weight only 61 kg? If so his wattage par kilogram must be awesome (yup, mountains stages and GTs). Still, he seems to weight a few kilos more than that.
Congrats to Ganna on his first UCI TT championship medal. As for others Campenaerts would fight for silver if not for his bad luck. Primoż Roglic definitely felt Vuelta fatigue - that's why he lost the gold after a tight finish with Dennis! Oh wait...
Looking forward to the road race. Will another Poel strike this time?

Not to take anything away from Evenepoel but I have to take umbrage with the term “vice champion”.

 

[Breezy1985]

Was anyone from this forum in Harrogate today. If so what are the crowds like and have they reopened the fan zone after yesterday's flooding ?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Not to take anything away from Evenepoel but I have to take umbrage with the term “vice champion”.

What's wrong with this? Isn't it used in English? In my country it's a very common term for a silver medalist.

 

[Lequack]

Would be cool to see what watts they pushed for an hour.

 

[DNP-Old]

Insanely hard to make anything of it, but this is what I've come up with for the junior road race:


*: Quinn Simmons (USA)
****: Magnus Sheffield (USA), Marco Brenner (Germany)
***: Sam Watson (UK), Enzo Leijnse (Netherlands), Antonio Tiberi (Italy)
**: Andrea Piccolo (Italy), Andrii Ponomar (Ukraine), Lewis Askey (UK), Hidde van Veenendaal (Netherlands)
*: Gianmarco Garofoli (Italy), Alex Vandenbulcke (Belgium), Frederik Wandahl (Denmark), Axel Laurance (France), Sakarias Løland (Norway)

 

[carton]

Roglic said morally it was a big hit getting passed by Dennis that's why he wanted to get the same time (so that in his mind he didn't get passed, however crazy it sounds).
He also mentioned that his power levels were as planned, not sure what he meant by that really, clearly he couldn't have planned to win with those levels.

Good to know. Personally I would've been more satisfied with a Pantini-like I just went as hard as I could because I wanted it to be over. Still, you gotta take another line those last 100m in that situation, IMHO.

 

[Pricey_sky]

What's wrong with this? Isn't it used in English? In my country it's a very common term for a silver medalist.

Cant recall the term vice-champion ever being used much over here.