WC 2012: U-23 Men and Elite Women Road Races

[Descender]

Watching a bunch of young women's bottoms in tight pants.

I might have underrated this discipline.

 

[wirral]

Balls, I've got grass ski jumping from Almaty.

 

[spalco]

Will there be an English language stream? My Eurosport apparently only starts showing the race at 5pm CET.

 

[jens_attacks]

i'm glad that lutsenko won

from what i've read,i hope we 'll have a 1998 weather otherwise this race is doomed to failure tomorrow

 

[User Guide]

reruns of womens world cup,so not so bad eurosport in uk starts in 5 mins.

Surely the dutch need too make the race hard,leaving it till final lap for a Vos attack on the Cauberg a mistake IMO.Teutenberg for one looked strong in the time trial. jnr womens won by a sprinter Lucy Garner who wasnt distanced at all when they attacked on the final ascent.

 

[spalco]

This is quite boring. Do something please, ladies.

 

[spalco]

What the hell happened with the South African there? Some spokes broke or something?

 

[Ferminal]

Wow, massive stack.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

This is quite boring. Do something please, ladies.[/QUOTA]

C A D U T A
massive crash

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Massive pile up

 

[Yingge]

Huge crash, most of the peleton down.

 

[spalco]

Another bizarre crash, no idea what happened.

 

[The Hitch]

Porter too busy bragging about having his photo with tp and tjvg to realise the crash for about 10 seconds.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Pooley, Arndt, Olds, Teutenberg, Guderzo, Cantele, Villumsen among those at least 30 seconds down

 

[User Guide]

pooley and colclough for gb caught in it by the looks
Arndt also

 

[Mellow Velo]

Meanwhile, Eurosport fart arsing about, miss it live and have to play catch up.
Half a dozen riders and on top of tiny Pooley.

 

[spalco]

I honestly hope nobody got hurt, but the big crash did look funny in slow-motion. Almost like domino.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Not much pace on - looks like most will make it back on. Van Dijk was a long way back and chasing alone though

 

[CobbleStoner]

that was a ridiculous number of riders that just easily went down instead of avoiding the crash, women's racing tries to get respect but with bike handling like that, at the top level, hard to watch and take seriously

 

[Mellow Velo]

Colclough's face is a mess.
Other than that, we had a genuine Mexican wave!
Most of the riders are back in the bunch.

Some talk about Van Dijk possibly being out of the race......
....I'm well behind myself, having replayed it all several times.

 

[User Guide]

that was a ridiculous number of riders that just easily went down instead of avoiding the crash, women's racing tries to get respect but with bike handling like that, at the top level, hard to watch and take seriously

wasnt bike handling was the slow speed,was incredibly tightly bunched no avoiding that one(apart from going a lil faster that is)

 

[User Guide]

Colclough's face is a mess.
Other than that, we had a genuine Mexican wave!
Most of the riders are back in the bunch.

Some talk about Van Dijk possibly being out of the race......
....I'm well behind myself, having replayed it all several times.

Van Dijk 1.47 down in a small group

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Gunnewijk Rabo-attack!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Back to square 1 - riding slow in a big bunch
on narrow roads:
mega- crash to be expected now.

 

[wirral]

For those of you listening to Eurosport International, do you think that this week Sean Kelly has been on fabulous form. Much more fluent and articulate than before but still as 'spot on' in terms of analysis of what's going on. I wonder if some of his Belg mates are spiking his coffee with Belgian mix. Eurosport's no 1 cycling 'asset'.