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

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Borders are enforced?! Simply outrageous.
Typically, if you organise a big sporting event, not only do you not make it difficult for the athletes to participate, but you also make it easier for the fans to get to the country to watch it live. That was the case when I was at the last two FIFA World Cups, one country didn't require a visa and the other just required a very quick and easy online registration.
 
After "hearing rumours from several sources" yesterday that Bini didn't have a visa, now the same account states that they've seen some reports that Bini had a visa as of last week. If this is true how come the journalists, before putting online the article, didn't do the basic: talking to the athlete or his team directly. Guess that's too much for GCN.

Tesfatsion, who was reported to be without a visa, has one, but Berhane, who supposedly had one, hadn't but has been given one in the mean time. But Tesfatsion is now injured and as Bini, won't be racing.

The ones left without visas are Kudus and Ghebreigzabhier.

View: https://twitter.com/CyclingAfrica/status/1686999501729337344?t=KkZbWmEQx44WulYaL49eBg&s=19
 
The more I look at the local parcours (because I really don't see anything at all in the route before the parcours that is even a problem for pure sprinters to survive), the more I think it's too curvy for its own good.
There isn't a single stretch of road without a 90 degree curve that is longer than 1.5 km: https://goo.gl/maps/BTFJXEMefokdfG4f9.
I like chaotic and disorganised racing in the finale, but I fear crashes when the big peloton enters the local roads, without too many splits I guess, as the first 100 kms are not hard enough, and the parcours breathes kermesse racing. It will be fun and I don't think it will disappoint as a bike race, but I would rather have a parcours that's a bit more in the country side with a real hill etc., than another Wollongong / Leuven / Richmond kind of suburbs / city parcours.
 
The more I look at the local parcours (because I really don't see anything at all in the route before the parcours that is even a problem for pure sprinters to survive), the more I think it's too curvy for its own good.
There isn't a single stretch of road without a 90 degree curve that is longer than 1.5 km: https://goo.gl/maps/BTFJXEMefokdfG4f9.
I like chaotic and disorganised racing in the finale, but I fear crashes when the big peloton enters the local roads, without too many splits I guess, as the first 100 kms are not hard enough, and the parcours breathes kermesse racing. It will be fun and I don't think it will disappoint as a bike race, but I would rather have a parcours that's a bit more in the country side with a real hill etc., than another Wollongong / Leuven / Richmond kind of suburbs / city parcours.

I also think it will be quite weird.
 
The more I look at the local parcours (because I really don't see anything at all in the route before the parcours that is even a problem for pure sprinters to survive), the more I think it's too curvy for its own good.
There isn't a single stretch of road without a 90 degree curve that is longer than 1.5 km: https://goo.gl/maps/BTFJXEMefokdfG4f9.
I like chaotic and disorganised racing in the finale, but I fear crashes when the big peloton enters the local roads, without too many splits I guess, as the first 100 kms are not hard enough, and the parcours breathes kermesse racing. It will be fun and I don't think it will disappoint as a bike race, but I would rather have a parcours that's a bit more in the country side with a real hill etc., than another Wollongong / Leuven / Richmond kind of suburbs / city parcours.
That was also the case for the 2018 ECRR, and that was exclusively on the city circuit (16 laps, no less).
 
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