World Championship 2025: Mens U23 and Junior ITTs and RRs

[elguapo]

Martinez sprinting for pride

You mean Hector Alvarez? Went for an early attack, just excited to race high level after his early season injury. and he paid for it. Fourth place is not bad though. He is just 18 years old like Finn.

 

[elguapo]

He really has command like someone in his family is a native speaker and he grew up with English, he wasn't searching for anything he is 1000% proficient. Guy is outstanding on the bike also.. Threw in a compliment about the Kigali locals.. Classy

Father is from UK and mother is Italian.

 

[Red Rick]

tactical ineptness.
Widar said he had cramps pretty early in the race..

In the pre-race interview, Widar said loud and clear that he had a bad night. That fact alone should have been enough for the coach to be prudent with his agressive tactics. But no, they went in, head first like there is no tomorrow.

It's also so dumb to just say that outright.

 

[Sciatic]

Pedaling descents are the bane of any circuit race.

On broad boulevards to boot. While this course may be quite challenging for the riders, it is definitely not very challenging for the viewer. After a few laps II closely watch the action on the two climbs and tune out a bit (or catch on comments here) for the rest of the circuit.

 

[ChasingPotatoes]

It's also so dumb to just say that outright.

True. But to stick to the battle plan after the whole world heard he had a bad night... I call that stupid.

 

[Red Rick]

There was one descent Alvarez was in the attack, doing 360W, and one where he was freewheeling int he group doing 140W

He was only 20 seconds faster on the former.

 

[Sciatic]

Interesting arrow-shooting technique there.

Good thing it's not the NFL--he's have gotten a 15 yd. penalty for weaponry in celebrations

 

[YavorD]

Good thing it's not the NFL--he's have gotten a 15 yd. penalty for weaponry in celebrations

They should have banned Contador straight away then. That Spanish villain.

 

[Sciatic]

They should have banned Contador straight away then. That Spanish villain.

He was fortunate to rider before they put that rule in

 

[Mayomaniac]

Finnish storms of steel!

 

[Unchained]

You mean Hector Alvarez? Went for an early attack, just excited to race high level after his early season injury. and he paid for it. Fourth place is not bad though. He is just 18 years old like Finn.

That is possibly who I saw, didn't see who got 4th place..I thought it was another rider drilling it for a meaningless 4th..out of the medals, off the podium ..prize was pride only.

* I just checked, you are right it was indeed Hector Alvarez out of the saddle going for solid forth*

 

[Netserk]

It seemed to me that he did this race very well apart from his crash.

That's obviously a mistake but also a bit easy to scold him for... Did we ever see the crash, by the way?

We didn't see it, but it sounds like he looked back when gesturing to the others to pull and hit the fence?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1971511798860808227

View: https://x.com/RFECiclismo/status/1971511798860808227

 

[RedheadDane]

Edit: Also, what's going on with that profile pic?

BTW, thank you so much for asking that question.

 

[tobydawq]

We didn't see it, but it sounds like he looked back when gesturing to the others to pull and hit the fence?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1971511798860808227

View: https://x.com/RFECiclismo/status/1971511798860808227

Okay, that's not an ideal way to crash...

Why the hell didn't they show that?

 

[Valv.Piti]

Havent really watched a second of these RRs yet. How's the circuit?

 

[Brullnux]

Havent really watched a second of these RRs yet. How's the circuit?

The climbs are hard and the biggest difference maker is definitely the cobbled one. The rest of the course is quite leg-sapping – fast, shallow descents with a short rise every few hundred metres between the Kimihurura and the golf course. It's twisty but wide, and both the climbs come after slow corners.

All of the races have been quite gruelling and a bit of a survival of the fittest. Finn and Gery were both clearly the strongest, Hudson second only maybe to Noval but better than everyone else. I don't think the circuit makes for particularly tactical racing, but that said all the winners have made good decisions which have put them in race-winning positions. Conditions look hard, too, but it's basically pure Pogacar fodder.

 

[tobydawq]

Havent really watched a second of these RRs yet. How's the circuit?

Very tough.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

He needs to work on his Italo-English. I don't care his dad is English. This perfect accent is utter nonsense. The best English is broken English.

That's where he outdoes Nibali.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Why would an Italian woman marry some guy from Sheffield who eats beans on toast? That can't be right!
Now the new champion will do a few interviews in Italian. Guy is impressive

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPYdnkK9Fqc

 

[Pippo_San]

Finn is the next Evenepoel who's the next Merckx who's the next Kelderman.

 

[gunara]

Everyone's also drooling about another Southern European talent with perfect English not so long ago...

 

[Sandisfan]

Everyone's also drooling about another Southern European talent with perfect English not so long ago...

Which Juan are you talking about.

 

[Andre]

I missed the race. What happened to Widar? I thought he would be the strongest

 

[Red Rick]

I missed the race. What happened to Widar? I thought he would be the strongest

Didn't have legs and collapsed completely, for whatever reason. Lingering bum injury, stress, poor sleep among cited reasons

 

[Andre]

Didn't have legs and collapsed completely, for whatever reason. Lingering bum injury, stress, poor sleep among cited reasons

thank you Rick