There is an official Flemish (Dutch), French and Germam version. The earliest version was French. It's still has the French title "La Brabançonne".
She’s her own trainer. She lost weight during the break up. As she went through a difficult period, she took the opportunity to improve her physical and mental side and came out much stronger.The relationship with her trainer, which caused her to switch trainers. So it's probably not the breakup itself that helped her
I thought her flamboyant gesticulating about a lack of assistance driving the group was really weird from the stretch from 20k to 15k to go. They had an exhausted Chabby right in front of them whom they could catch whenever they wanted and no one with miles of catching them, so it didn’t matter to the rest of the group what speed they were going. So was she demonstrating a) “ I really don’t have much racing intelligence” or b) I’m going to be bossy and demanding because I can”?
Mixing the u23s in doesn’t help with making it longer, but I agree, I’d like to see the WCRR stretched out.
Only understood some 6 words, but still nice to see:
sport.tv2.dk
What about them prioritising interviewing Deignan, assumedly for the local audience, over either of the minor medallists? I mean, I know I'm always going to be barracking hard for ALL races to interview Cille, but how about Demi? Feel it's a shame that we didn't get to hear from anybody at the pointy end of the finale but the winner; I get why they wanted to interview Deignan and van Vleuten, but feel that not hearing from Vollering and Uttrup is a disappointment for more than just the "omg Cille interview" reasons.
I don't believe it's a) because even if she rides for SD Worx and gets some mad instructions from the car sometimes, and even if she is so stupidly strong this season as not to have to really worry about tactics because she can win on sheer bludgeoning strength, you don't amass the palmarès she has across endurance track events without some tactical know-how. I think it's b) not necessarily because I think it's her being bossy or what-have-you, but perhaps as an intimidation tactic. Which obviously may be counterintuitive because demonstrating that you're that much stronger that you feel you can bully others into working is also going to run the risk of making them even less keen to collaborate because they need you weakened before they can fight on an even playing field.
The old Primavera Rosa that ran in the 2000s started out at about 180km but shortened down to around 120km I believe? Or it might just have been proposed at 180km and eventually was only 120km when they started racing. The idea was for it to be as overlong on the women's calendar as Sanremo is on the men's. I feel like major Classics, Olympics and Worlds should be in the 160-180km ballpark at this stage with the rapid recent development of women's cycling.
It could be gradually increased. A separate U23 circuit for women could also be helpful, to keep the gap with junior races manageable.
Only understood some 6 words, but still nice to see:
Uttrup rørt til tårer over VM-medalje
Danske Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig vandt VM-bronze i linjeløbet.
At least they showed the sprint for 5th.... Didn't happen in the men's race. I still don't have a clue how Küng won me 80 euros.
Was that Jose on the mic? She obviously hasn't got the memo that now obviously everybody is supposed to criticise her racing, lol.
Not really. It's far from universal, and you will frequently see when race routes are released, lots of criticism of not enough distance, not enough TT mileage, too many short stages. The point in both genders' races is to have variety. If all the stages are short, riders just treat them as the new normal and racing reverts to formula, just over shorter distances. Just like when they change the course of a classic, you'll have a few years of different racing as people get used to the new course, then people will learn how best to maximise the course and racing will normalise and start to follow certain predictable rules. It's an endurance sport, we need longer stages even where there are periods of downtime when little happens. A lot of the time those short stages that have been great have been great specifically because of fatigue accumulated from previous stages. The whole short stage fad came about after the Alpe d'Huez stage in 2011 which came about because the (better) stage the day before was a 200km mountain stage which was raced hard, so all the domestiques were already half dead before they started.
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