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

[Lequack]

No way the peloton is bringing the breakaway back. In the junior races they couldn't even bring back 1 minute, much less 8 minutes. The break has this in the bag for sure.

 

[Faserr]

6:20? Gap was between 7 and 8 min.

 

[awavey]

Surely they should have prepared for something like this?

how can you prepare for something like this with 270km of roads to effectively police ?

and with the police doing their softly softly approach to it,offering cups of tea, it just encourages them to carry on doing it, they pick the events where they know theres zero chance of anyone stepping in to stop them, the damn idiots in court last week were claiming they didnt disrupt a cricket match because the prosecution hadnt proven it was a legally held event, at which point youd think the judge would tell them theyd be in contempt of court if they chose that defence line, but no when the case goes to trial the prosecution will have to submit evidence showing the match was a legally held event

 

[Riek s]

Peloton just got gifted two minutes.

is it? the gps is to group2 isn't that the small group that was between the first and the peleton? (i think there was even a group3, or were these 2 caught ?)

 

[Tim Cahill]

Hopefully Jordan Henderson does.

I'm still waiting for Gary Neville to 'spread awareness' in Qatar like he promised us all he was going to do.

 

[Rollthedice]

Peloton just got gifted two minutes.

Disgraceful.

 

[Samamba]

Peloton just got gifted two minutes.

They made up 2 minutes in an hour time, nothing to special?

It's 1 minute btw, it was a little bit over 7 minutes before the neutralization.

 

[MartinGT]

Massive split in the peloton!

 

[roundabout]

is it? the gps is to group2 isn't that the small group that was between the first and the peleton? (i think there was even a group3, or were these 2 caught ?)

The Bennett group was practically caught by the main group when the race was stopped

 

[iBanesto]

Massive split in the peloton!

Looks like Van der Poel is caught out in the 2nd group.

 

[Samamba]

Van der Poel just stupid starting at the back there honestly, but the bunch split because of that car which is also unfair.

 

[iBanesto]

I'm still waiting for Gary Neville to 'spread awareness' in Qatar like he promised us all he was going to do.

Haha whilst accepting Qatari money.

Imbecile.

 

[search]

Go to parliament & protest, or protest outside refineries & oil depots. Go into politics & actually make a tangible difference (which also deals with realistic facts of life regarding how people live).

the Paris climate agreement already exists. It shouldn't be necessary to get into politics yourself for it to be enforced.

 

[Volderke]

What's 'laughable'. The Just stop oil protesters recently have been assualted in the UK for stopping traffic. With messages of 'what happens if an ambulance wanted to get through' etc coming out. Roll back to 2022 when the fuel prices shot up, drivers were doing 'go slow' protests and they were applauded.

It's hypocritical gash. Car is king and that's the end of it. The motorists don't kick off at road closures that divert ambulances 10+ miles around do they? No, but that's ok as they're repairing roads for 6+ weeks.

Anyway. Race is back on.

If you really want to know what I am thinking: I fully support the message. But I don’t want to be associated with these kinds of protests. These cause nothing but anger amongst the general public (the ones they are trying to convince of the message) while the ones in office and within the energy business couldn’t care less.

Ps: I never said anything about this being “laughable”?

 

[Lequack]

Doesn't matter, the peloton is not catching the break anyway once they reach the circuit.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Should learn from the mistakes they made in Flanders when he was a minute behind and try and bury him

Spoiler: They won't

 

[Red Rick]

Between cementing your hands to the road and missing this group split when you're a top 3 favorite, I can't decide which one is dumber

 

[MartinGT]

If you really want to know what I am thinking: I fully support the message. But I don’t want to be associated with these kinds of protests. These cause nothing but anger amongst the general public (the ones they are trying to convince of the message) while the ones in office and within the energy business couldn’t care less.

Ps: I never said anything about this being “laughable”?

I know you didn't mention laughable. I was using '' as I don't think it's laughable at all.

I fully agree with you on that. They should get front bench MP's to travel on public transport on they will soon see how expensive and poor it is then you may see some money poured into it. Instead they fly about in helicopters etc.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

After Flanders, you'd think Van der Poel would have learned to pay more attention early on in the race. To miss a split like this in two of your three main targets of the year is criminal.

 

[MartinGT]

What stunning scenery

 

[MartinGT]

WTF is this time gap now?

 

[Swiss Tony]

I'd like someone to actually explain why protesting oil at sporting events in 2023 even matters, or makes any difference, or is a "worthy cause".

Go to parliament & protest, or protest outside refineries & oil depots. Go into politics & actually make a tangible difference (which also deals with realistic facts of life regarding how people live). What's happening with stop oil protestors is merely a form of intellectual masturbation where a small group of agitators impose their behavior issues on others.

But that's as "political" as I'm willing to get here because the irony is of course I don't even disagree with the concept of a world without fossil fuels. I just know what these groups are & they're so vacuous to the point of representing the worst traits of self-indulgent 'eco warrior' tendencies where their activities harm their messaging.

We all know protesting outside Parliament/Refineries receives zero publicity... Desperate times call for desperate measures. Especially the week this joke of a Government sanctioned those 100 new drilling licences.

 

[Rackham]

Pick a protest, any protest, the argument against them is all the same.

'but the sporting event I was watching was stopped for a short while....'

Oil is not something a logical person would protest in a 2023 bike race, unless they really just want to be a pain in the ass.

But here's the thing, i.e. "stop oil" do not have ownership of attempts to create alternative clean energy & build a world which isn't dependent on fossil fuels.

And harassing motorists in London or messing with the WC bike race really just paints the group as a bunch of insufferable w*nkers.

the Paris climate agreement already exists. It shouldn't be necessary to get into politics yourself for it to be enforced.

I can't even tbh.

Enforced how? Why? Where? Stop all oil right now in 2023? lol

Yeah back in the real world people have to work for a living.

 

[bigcog]

the Paris climate agreement already exists. It shouldn't be necessary to get into politics yourself for it to be enforced.

That ain't worth the paper it's written on, rather than the UK pretend it is one of the worlds most important countries, when it ranks 29th by GDP per capita in terms of wealth and all this "setting an example" b.s. at the expense of the poor primarily, they should go and protest in the US, China and Russia and India the main culprits by percentage of greenhouse gases produced, see how far they get ...

 

[MartinGT]

Hahahha cattle with World Champs stripes