World Championships 2023: Men's Road Race (August 6)

[MartinGT]

SPLITS!!!!

 

[Salvarani]

If you fall behind it is over.

 

[Red Rick]

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...... you won't get fooled again"

~Mathieu van der Poel

 

[Vino's Mum]

Denmark had enough of this peloton nonsense.

 

[MartinGT]

I thought Sam bennett had retired tbh

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Unless you wanna force every rider to qualify individually you're not gonna make it work like that.

Slovenia have the right amount of top pro's to fill a squad.

Slovenia has 6 WT/PCT riders total...

IMO the amount of spots allocated should not exceed the amount of riders a country has in the top, say, 300 or 400 in the UCI ranking.

 

[Monte Serra]

Meanwhile, Wiebes just nuked Montrose street. Looks relatively more impressive than Van der Poel's effort:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688140416581775360

View: https://twitter.com/jamesmoultrie_/status/1688140416581775360

 

[iBanesto]

These corners are just like the F1 Monaco GP.

"It’s like riding a bicycle around your living room.” - Nelson Piquet.

 

[Salvarani]

Small gaps already. Closing those small gaps will be too much in the end.

Stay at the front.

 

[Martinstranger]

Australia drilling it

Matthews has been saving energy in the group behind for the last 10 years for a big attack today

Denmark joined in and took the lead. Don't wanna give it away on the circuit and need to get rid of riders in the back.

Who is on the Australian team?

 

[Barnacle Bill]

The Polish team move to the front...

 

[rallybanana]

Bennett couldn't handle the Col du Kelvingrove Park

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[Devil's Elbow]

That was Scott Street and not Montrose Street, great graphics once again.

What the break are doing now, on the other hand, is in fact Montrose Street

 

[Red Rick]

Pogacar slowly moving up.

 

[gregrowlerson]

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...... you won't get fooled again"

~Mathieu van der Poel

He seems attentive at the moment.

 

[awavey]

Slovenia has 6 WT/PCT riders total...

IMO the amount of spots allocated should not exceed the amount of riders a country has in the top, say, 300 or 400 in the UCI ranking.

but I thought the spots were allocated based on UCI nation rankings, which are created from the points those nations riders score, so how could they get up the rankings to get the spots if they werent in the top 300/400 ranking to begin with?

 

[magliaroz]

VDP really hates to stay in front of the peloton. Pogacar is almost always in a better position than him despite having no team.

 

[Aimar16]

They should stop showing the break, nobody cares

 

[iBanesto]

Pogacar slowly moving up.

It seems like a circuit Pogacar would enjoy and have fun.

 

[RedheadDane]

but I thought the spots were allocated based on UCI nation rankings, which are created from the points those nations riders score, so how could they get up the rankings to get the spots if they werent in the top 300/400 ranking to begin with?

Slovenia has a few guys who scores a lot of points.

 

[Salvarani]

10 laps to go

 

[Devil's Elbow]

but I thought the spots were allocated based on UCI nation rankings, which are created from the points those nations riders score, so how could they get up the rankings to get the spots if they werent in the top 300/400 ranking to begin with?

Because Pogacar, Roglic and Mohoric score a batshit amount of points (and almost the entire Slovenian total) between them. The next-highest ranked Slovenian is not in the top-200.

 

[iBanesto]

VDP really hates to stay in front of the peloton. Pogacar is almost always in a better position than him despite having no team.

Imagine if he had a Dutch team.

Tadej Van der Pogacar.

 

[awavey]

I cant work out if that red commissaire car can handle the corners at this speed or not, or maybe its just the Shimano car behind it makes it look worse

 

[MartinGT]

Blythe banging on about the Glasgow European champs. Where he and the majority of the GB team was DNF.