USA Cycling Pro Championships

[krebs303]

here's a really bad live stream and chat. there is no audio.
USA Cycling Pro Championships

Scott Zwizanski, Daniel Holloway, and Ben King make up the 3 man break with a 5 min lead

 

[krebs303]

Gap is now 9:10 to Holloway, Zwizanski & King

 

[Jamsque]

here's a really bad live stream and chat. there is no audio.
USA Cycling Pro Championships

Scott Zwizanski, Daniel Holloway, and Ben King make up the 3 man break with a 5 min lead

That ain't a stream, that's a trickle.

 

[krebs303]

That ain't a stream, that's a trickle.

it's embarrassing
the break away with 15 minutes lead over the peloton. They are heading out for their second lap.




No radios today is making the racing interesting.

 

[krebs303]

pjrabice:
Wonder if anyone is watching #USPro race live stream w good success? Almost prefer no feed. [via Twitter]

 

[krebs303]

The nearly seven-mile gap between the pack and break at #USPRO is causing all kinds of logistical problems.

 

[krebs303]

The breakaway has so much time that the course marshals are having trouble keeping the roads closed between the two groups.

 

[maltiv]

National championships are usually pretty weird, with the occasional random breakaway that wins just because the big teams (in terms of how many riders they have in the race) have a guy in the break and the Pro tour teams are too small/don't want to bring them back. Gets even more weird in small countries like Norway, here it's usually like this: Breakaway gets 5-10 minutes, EBH/Hushovd/Arvesen attacks from the peloton and close down the huge gap themselves in a short period of time

 

[royalpig180]

Cyclingnews is doing live text updates...

http://live.cyclingnews.com/10.html

they ain't bad considering the "feed" is a trickle as someone said

twitters pretty good too:
http://twitter.com/USAProCycling

 

[Kennf1]

Looks like King may just pull this off. Unbelievable. The time trial and road race won by a 20 year-old (Phinney) and a 21 year-old (King).

 

[krebs303]

The King is dead, Long live the King

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

King wins it.

Zippo for the Pro Tour riders.

 

[Anonymous]

And gets to be champion for 8 months rather than a year..

 

[TheDude]

And a big thanks to Kirsten Frattini for play-by-play. The official USA Cycling site had the worst live feed I have EVER seen.

 

[Clemson Cycling]

this guy secured his spot in the Pro Tour for next year. Radioshack has to bring him up.

 

[theswordsman]

this guy secured his spot in the Pro Tour for next year. Radioshack has to bring him up.

I read this morning that Bruyneel made that call to him after the race. I followed King on twitter (@BenKing89) last year - he seems like a good kid.

 

[TRDean]

I read this morning that Bruyneel made that call to him after the race. I followed King on twitter (@BenKing89) last year - he seems like a good kid.

He is a great kid!! Great parents and family!! His younger brother (14 yrs old I think) is a pretty darn good rider too...Anyway, couldn't be happier for the young man. He races with abandon and guts.

 

[gttim!]

I was at the race. Great seeing those 3 guys coming through and then King by himself. You could tell he was suffering at the end, but he held on. At the finish he stopped right in front of us, was off the bike and just hit the ground. Lots of other cyclists were very happy for the kid, he seems to be very well liked.

Pics I got before my camera died a very untimely death.

 

[kurtinsc]

I noticed in the interviews that it seemed like Radioshack and Livestrong seemed to ride as one big team. King made comments about how by being up front he was just hoping to be there to help Taylor Phinney or one of the Radioshack guys if they came up... and Hincapie said that Leipheimer refused to work to catch King up the road.

Does that seem a little off? I mean, I know they are a feeder team for Radioshack... but they aren't the same team.

 

[jaylew]

They pretty much raced as one team. Radioshack said before the race that they wouldn't chase down a Trek rider in a break.

 

[gttim!]

Three riders in the break kept 5 teams from working to catch them. King took out Livestrong and Shack. Zwizanski and Holloway took out their respective teams and one of them has already signed with Healthnet for next year, so they were not going to chase. BMG and Garmin were the only big teams left to chase.

When the chase pack came through you had Horner, Levi and Phinney up near the front gumming things up.