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

[Devil's Elbow]

I have to be honest, I had never even heard of that guy until today.

It's his first ever top-9 - one-day, stage or GC - in a race that featured WT riders!

 

[jaylew]

Cross Worlds - 1st
MSR - 1st
RVV - 2nd
PR - 1st
Worlds - 1st

And the biggest win of all, the Belgian Tour!

Not a bad campaign

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Wasn't he in the mix up towards Thyon 2000?

He didn't race Romandie, so no. Are you confusing him with Max Poole?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

so people still believe WVA can match MVDP power outputs?

I was beginning to think you were ill or something.

 

[postmanhat]

Most of the riders seem to be saying after that it was one of the hardest races they've ever done, and didn't like it.

In other words, great WC course.

 

[Riek s]

Cross Worlds - 1st
MSR - 1st
RVV - 2nd
PR - 1st
Worlds - 1st

And the biggest win of all, the Belgian Tour!

Not a bad campaign

and now the MTB worlds to make it complete?

 

[titan31]

so people still believe WVA can match MVDP power outputs?

Tbf WVA had a much more involved Tour and then had a baby. Not really as easy of a warm up for today.

 

[peterfin]

Remco said that the accelerations killed him. He couldn't do repeatedly 1000w on the hills so he lost a lot of places every time. So he knew rapidly that it wouldn't be his day. He did try to make the race hard and once he thought he could make a gap but Pogacar reacted.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Glasgow was always for the Hard Men
ask inspector Rebus

Rebus was set in Edinburgh. You might be thinking of Taggart.

 

[fbjim]

really sad i've got work today, i want to take a look at Belgium Twitter

 

[Danskebjerge]

Well he was out of the race at that point anyway, so it didn't really matter. A top 10 would of course not have been a bad result for him.

True, but I was thinking the problems with the turns was maybe a result of him getting tired (not a joke!). I didn't see others stop to let air out. Anyway, it was quite remarkable how a single forced stop meant the end of the race for so many riders. Van der Poel was one of the few exceptions!

 

[Sciatic]

Wout was the real wheelsucker today. Doing nothing at all once VDP got a gap and only saving for his last attack.

For a long stretch Mads and Van Aert rode while Pog skips turns??!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I'd also forgotten that Dinham was a reserve who only started because Ewan pulled out. Best thing Ewan has ever done for the national team.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Cross Worlds - 1st
MSR - 1st
RVV - 2nd
PR - 1st
Worlds - 1st

And the biggest win of all, the Belgian Tour!

Not a bad campaign

And threw in the best sprint lead-outs in the TDF, just as a little side hobby.

Now for MTB...

 

[topcat]

If I won a free ticket for a holiday in Glasgow, I’d douse the ticket in oil and burn it. However it was a brilliant race, up there with Leuven, two of the best one day races ever.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Pedersen’s solo was a lap before Bettiol’s. If he had gotten 30’’, it would have been his golden ticket. I think he did well to seek his winning path.

There was no way Pedersen could have gone solo to the finish line with more than an hour to go of the race. Besides, a good sprinter should ride relatively defensively compared to others. It's entertaining, and he made his country proud, but the end result would have been better if he had constrained himself more (as in numerous other races).

 

[magliaroz]

That bronze medal looks so big on Pogacar compared to the other two.

 

[johnymax]

so people still believe WVA can match MVDP power outputs?

Welcome back, best poster of this forum.

 

[Lequack]

MVDP remembering: "Oh no I've left my group behind, I knew I forgot something!"

 

[yaco]

Matthew Dinham finished in 7th, not to bad for a neopro

An absolute shock - Has found it tough in his neo-pro year and his characteristics should not be suited to this course - Will say that Jayco made a mistake in signing Porter rather than Dinham.

 

[yaco]

I have to be honest, I had never even heard of that guy until today.

He was a last minute addition to the team after the withdrawal of Stannard and Ewan.

 

[magliaroz]

MVDP remembering: "Oh no I've left my group behind, I knew I forgot something!"

"Oops! I forgot Wout again!"

 

[Libertine Seguros]

It's basically a lot like the Krylatskoye Ring, but more technical cos it's not purpose built like that was. There were no major climbs, it was just relentless, with corners all over the place and short ups and downs and never letting the settle into a rhythm for a sustained period of time at any point. It was always going to be selective and you couldn't truly figure out what type of rider it best suited until they either survived or didn't. I wasn't sure about it after the Commonwealths, but with the deeper field of a World Championships and the full distance that that entails, the strengths of the circuit really came to the fore.

 

[Red Rick]

Who is that egghead who's instant reaction to the route reveal was that it would be a boring sprinters race? Mad Rick, Sad Rick or something?

 

[titan31]

It's basically a lot like the Krylatskoye Ring, but more technical cos it's not purpose built like that was. There were no major climbs, it was just relentless, with corners all over the place and short ups and downs and never letting the settle into a rhythm for a sustained period of time at any point. It was always going to be selective and you couldn't truly figure out what type of rider it best suited until they either survived or didn't. I wasn't sure about it after the Commonwealths, but with the deeper field of a World Championships and the full distance that that entails, the strengths of the circuit really came to the fore.

It's only really cos of the length and lack of organisation in the teams. Turn that into a 200-210k one day with 7/8 man trade teams I reckon you get a sprint from a 40 man peleton.