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A bit shitty to cut out Pogacar like that.
A bit shitty to cut out Pogacar like that.
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Best podium in cycling. Three absolutely scary riders in their own rights. Massive!MVDP said he wanted to take revenge on the teenagers from the hotel last year, and he delivered.
- Mar 13, 2009
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- Apr 30, 2011
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Yes, if only Bettiol and Pedersen could have gone together, but then they would have been closed down immediately.
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Bettiol said that he raced to win and went on the attack because he feared that otherwise someone else would have taken the initiative and he'd have been on of the chasers.
The past 15 years or more of BC not giving a xxxx about the road race world championships even when its hosted in the UK 😆
Team selection in the past has been in issue, I'm not excised about it this iteration, but same with the men's team, they picked a team of riders to do...what exactly ? Make up the numbers ultimately, Doull got in the break and the plan from there was ? to help Fred Wright ? But he DNF's early enough to say he knew he hadnt the legs today, So what was the point, Doull could have stayed with the MvP,WoutPog,Remco group instead.
They just rode basically as a team of riders who kind of went let's see how the race plays out , we might get lucky. Not a team of riders who went this is our plan/goal of the season like MvP has said was his to win it.
- Jan 11, 2010
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Because Wout and Mathieu don't battle with Pogacar that often, and with each other a lot. Also, Van der Poel is Dutch, and Jumbo is Dutch. It's really not that difficult.
Dont know why you are making it such a big deal or if this "proves" anything more than him saying MVDP was really strong today and congratulating him.
It was a great/smart attack, no one is questioning that. I am not saying Pog would have been able to follow, just maybe that he could have if not been in the position he was when it happened. Pog didnt see attack if you watch the actual images. It came on his blind side and WVA/Pedersen were the first ones to respond. Had he been in their position MAYBE he could have stayed on the wheel or he gets dropped anyway and if he doesnt get dropped here, maybe MVDP drops him later anyway since he was clearly the strongest today.
You are arguing about nothing. Since Im not disagreeing with you.
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In an alternate universe Pog stayed on his wheel and rode off to win solo after MVDP’s crash
That would have been pretty crazy, but today there is no one more deserving winner than MVDP. A beautiful ride.In an alternate universe Pog stayed on his wheel and rode off to win solo after MVDP’s crash
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2011 was the only year they've ever talked about focusing any effort to win it, project Copenhagen I think they called it, but you had one of the pre-eminent sprinters of the time on your team,plus they were looking towards London 2012.
2016 I don't know it didn't feel like it had the same intensity of focus, an Olympic year also where BCs attention wanders to the track
Didn't they do that with photos at the CX worlds too or am I misremembering
In an alternate universe Pog stayed on his wheel and rode off to win solo after MVDP’s crash
Has no one mentioned even with his crash the gap was the same at the finish line on that lap, unless the GPS timing was getting mucked about.
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People have mentioned it but it’s back and forth on what the gap was. I don’t know if the crash occurred at the same time or if it was even accurate gaps but I know on PCS the gap went from 35-40 seconds down to 15-20 seconds and I thought the group was coming back.
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Wout was 35sec later in that corner. Mathieu was pretty fast on his bike again and maybe lost 10-15sec but was still out of sight. The other 3 were recovering and riding for 2nd place (didn't know about the crash) so the gap went up again.
Edit: Wout was 25sec behind at the top of Montrose Street a minute after the crash.
The simple answer, like a majority of countries, was that GB did not have good enough riders to cope with a course like this.
They finished two riders, look at the countries with zero finishers.
Putting a rider in the early break was the right thing to do and he held on to finish 18th. A really good effort.
Wright was the best bet to support, but he was only ever going to be an also ran. Connors Swift was I believe the other protected rider and he finished.
Obviously you have a downer on BC and I'm not going to attempt to understand why.
- Jul 27, 2009
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Yes, indeed!
But Dinham was attacking as a rabbit for the chase group up towards the Albulapass to help Bardet. That's where I saw him before.
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Italians rode a great race, shame there was no reward for that. Belgians on the other hand wanted to control uncontrollable course. There were 5 of them in the group of 20, and they let Bettiol rode away, then chase him, burned their guys and being left with only Van Aert, who is maybe a big reason for this ride of the Belgian team. I have a feeling he always thinks he can handle Van Der Poel and others mano-a-mano, and instead of sending riders up the road constantly, they try to keep things together only for Van Aert to being dropped by Van Der Poel constantly. He must use his team to beat this guy, this way it ain't working.
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exactly what i said in another place. I don't get why Belgium controlled when they should have used their other guys to attack
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hm id say a flanders list. Comes close to that anyway. Only a bit shorter climbs even.
Roubaix is more sustained efforts than this. This was a pure interval madhouse
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