World Championships Innsbruck 2018

[tobydawq]

Langvad ftw.

 

[spalco]

The women are taking it fairly easy it looks like to me. I don't know why the Dutch are so passive, shouldn't they want to make the race as hard as possible?

 

[mb2612]

Lol, there are 25 riders left and they're still on the first circuit

 

[Andy262]

Quite surprised to see Rivera attack..

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Langvad easily...

 

[Cance > TheRest]

It would be funny if a MTB rider beats the roadies like in the junior race

 

[Asero831]

no one will chase

 

[Andy262]

Can't believe nobody tried to chase VdB

 

[sir fly]

Watching VdB destroying opposition, for some reason EC race comes to mind...

 

[jaylew]

I can't either. Honestly, this could be the winning move.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Can't believe nobody tried to chase VdB

They were all cooked by the tempo that Van Vleuten pushed on the climb. Nobody could respond. Or they didn't have the balls to go this early.

 

[sir fly]

Should we expect the rest of the Dutch team to break the pack behind and share the medals like in the tt?

 

[tobydawq]

Re: Re:

Can't believe nobody tried to chase VdB

They were all cooked by the tempo that Van Vleuten pushed on the climb. Nobody could respond. Or they didn't have the balls to go this early.

I agree. It was a pretty incredible attack considering the tempo they were already going at.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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Should we expect the rest of the Dutch team to break the pack behind and share the medals like in the tt?

Naaah. They will only get 2 medals. I don't think Brand is good enough for bronze

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Does anyone have a stream that doesn't come from Tiz? Or maybe a permalink to just the video? I don't know why, but I have trouble with streams from that website lasting more than a few minutes at a time, and I don't see it on any of my usual sites.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Does anyone have a stream that doesn't come from Tiz? Or maybe a permalink to just the video? I don't know why, but I have trouble with streams from that website lasting more than a few minutes at a time, and I don't see it on any of my usual sites.

You can try this one. http://sebn.me/sebn-7.html

If you are from Belgium, you can watch official streams of Sporza. Or if you have a VPN with Belgian servers.

 

[tobydawq]

What a pity for them that they don't have the Gramartboden to make some selection.

 

[sir fly]

Excellent course for comparing female and male standard of competition.
Very selective profile for the girls.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Seriously, after watching all categories race this parcours, I think the inclusion of that final climb for the Elite men can only be negative.

 

[jaylew]

VDB doing VDB things. This is going to turn out to be the most boring race from all the categories.

 

[Red Rick]

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Seriously, after watching all categories race this parcours, I think the inclusion of that final climb for the Elite men can only be negative.

Anyone could vhave seen that as soon as the route was announced.

It's not even race design 101

 

[tobydawq]

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Seriously, after watching all categories race this parcours, I think the inclusion of that final climb for the Elite men can only be negative.

Is it better to just have one rider going solo 50 kms out? That's the most boring thing in cycling if you ask me.

I don't like the inclusion of the hill either, though, but that's more a matter of principle - steep does not equal good or exciting.

 

[sir fly]

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Seriously, after watching all categories race this parcours, I think the inclusion of that final climb for the Elite men can only be negative.

And I was thinking that it could've been interesting if they'd do it twice.
Anyway, once is puzzling choice. Could lock the race.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Re:

Seriously, after watching all categories race this parcours, I think the inclusion of that final climb for the Elite men can only be negative.

Not sure yet. There will be a lot of strong riders that can go uphill, but don't stand a chance if they wait for the final climb. Their only chance is to go early. The guys that can do well on the final climb, is only a select group, and they will not want to respond to early attacks. So it might be up to 2 or 3 teams to try to control the breaks, that could very well consist of many strong rides.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Re:

Seriously, after watching all categories race this parcours, I think the inclusion of that final climb for the Elite men can only be negative.

Is it better to just have one rider going solo 50 kms out? That's the most boring thing in cycling if you ask me.

I don't like the inclusion of the hill either, though, but that's more a matter of principle - steep does not equal good or exciting.

Yeah, I'd rather watch a race with full-on racing from 50+ km out, than a closed race until the final ascent.