World Championships preview thread

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Fck this

 

[RedheadDane]

Pieterse takes it.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

That was tight. Reel shame about van Empel 🙁

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I really thought Van Anrooij would take it in the end, but Pieterse held on.
But still a very poor way the race was deciced.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Puck finally gets a race win, and a World title...... Really pleased for her....she's a super talent.

 

[glassmoon]

Fem was like: "What The Puck?" 😉

 

[RedheadDane]

Bunch of Dutchies. Bunch of Belgians. One British guy.
Why do I have a suspicion we'll see something similar tomorrow?

Okay, I was slightly wrong.
I didn't realise there was only two Dutch riders.
And I wasn't expecting a French guy.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Okay, I was slightly wrong.
I didn't realise there was only two Dutch riders.
And I wasn't expecting a French guy.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition French Venturini, but he's doing a great job.

Pidcock is off and away and is making good use of his godlike running abilities.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

A roadracer in a roadrace. The course is even worse than i thought it'd be. Belgium should have brought Evenepoel, lol.

 

[Bonimenier]

Alaphilippe would podium this easy.

 

[PeterB]

The course is so pathetic, that Pidcock even has 2 bottles on his bike with him...

 

[Bonimenier]

Average height of the riders on the podium will be 30 cm less than last year.

 

[RedheadDane]

Average height of the riders on the podium will be 30 cm less than last year.

Indeed. It's shaping up to be a very short podium.

 

[tobydawq]

Is that position reason to disqualify him? Or is that only in road races?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Average height of the riders on the podium will be 30 cm less than last year.

Surely that can't be true when none of them are 30 cm shorter than Van Aert.
20 cm seems about right.

 

[Bonimenier]

Surely that can't be true when none of them are 30 cm shorter than Van Aert.
20 cm seems about right.

I was only half serious 😀

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I was only half serious 😀

Well I'm actually still not sure how tall Pidcock really is, and he did look an awful lot like a small boy while doing the Superman

 

[RedheadDane]

Well I'm actually still not sure how tall Pidcock really is, and he did look an awful lot like a small boy while doing the Superman

I think his height has finaly stabilised at an actually quite respectful 1.70m.

 

[Lequack]

Photo finish

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I think his height has finaly stabilised at an actually quite respectful 1.70m.

I was only (being) half serious 😀

 

[RedheadDane]

I was only (being) half serious 😀

It did flunctuate quite a bit last year...

 

[tobydawq]

Photo finish

A bit clearer than the Amstel one.

 

[Bonimenier]

Well I'm actually still not sure how tall Pidcock really is, and he did look an awful lot like a small boy while doing the Superman

He actually looked like the tallest one on the podium

 

[memyselfandI]

Nice races all of them. Course is good for a change, superfast and same for all. Belges trying to wrestle Pidcock a bit at the first laps but..well. See you in the dusches! This and U23 races were super nice.

 

[RedheadDane]

Nice races all of them. Course is good for a change, superfast and same for all. Belges trying to wrestle Pidcock a bit at the first laps but..well. See you in the dusches! This and U23 races were super nice.

All routes are always the same for all. Some riders just prefer dry and fast, while others prefer wet and slow.
Those who prefer dry and slow might not fare very well.