Worlds Sankt-Wendel 2011 (January 29 and 30)

[DAOTEC]

Official webs: [sankt-wendel.de/worlds] & [uci.ch/UCI5]

General Race info: [http://uci.ch/BUILTIN]

Rules of engagement: [http://uci.ch/getObject]

the Track 2.8 k with 49% up, 25% down and 15% road.

Worlds 2005 Sankt-Wendel: [http://youtube.com/watch-final]

1. Sven Nys (Bel) 1u01'34" (Campeón del Mundo)
2. Erwin Vervecken (Bel) á 2"
3. Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) á 13"
4. Francis Mourey (Fra) á 31"
5. Davy Commeyne (Bel) á 32"
6. Tom Vannoppen (Bel) mt.
7. Petr Dlask (Tsja) á 42"
8. Enrico Franzoi (Ita) mt.
9. Michael Baumgartner (Zwi) mt.
10. Wilant van Gils (Ned) mt.

2010
1. Zdenek STYBAR CZE - 1:08:58
2. Klaas VANTORNOUT BEL - 1:09:19
3. Sven NYS BEL - 1:09:36
4. Martin BINA CZE - 1:09:38
5. Francis MOUREY FRA - 1:09:54
6. Martin ZLAMALIK CZE - 1:10:00
7. Christian HEULE SUI - 1:10:05
8. Radomir SIMUNEK CZE - 1:10:16
9. Gerben DE KNEGT NED - 1:10:47
10. Bart WELLENS BEL - 1:11:11

2011 participants known:

USA Elite men:
Jeremy Powers (Easthampton, Mass./Cannondale-cyclocrossworld.com)
Tim Johnson (Topsfield, Mass./Cannondale-cyclocrossworld.com)
Ryan Trebon (Bend, Ore.)
Jamie Driscol (Winooski, Vt.)
Jonathan Page (Northfield, NH

Elite Ladies
Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Planet Bike-Stevens Bikes)
Susan Butler (Portland, Ore.)
Meredith Miller (Fort Collins, Colo./Team TIBCO-To the Top)
Amy Dombroski (Boulder, Colo.)
Kaitlin Antonneau (Racine, Wis./Peanut Butter & Co TWENTY 12)

U23
Daniel Summerhill (Centennial, Garmin-Transitions-Team Holowesko Partners)
Zach McDonald (Bainbridge Island, Wash.)
Jerome Townsend (Princeton, Mass./Mock Orange Bikes)
Cody Kaiser (El Dorado Hills, Calif./California Giant Strawberries-Specialized)
Luke Keough (Sandwich, Mass./BikeReg.com-Cannondale)

Ned Elite men:
Gerben de Knegt, Thijs van Amerongen, Eddy van IJzendoorn, ?,?,?

Elite Ladies
Marianne Vos (WC), Daphny van den Brand, Sophie de Boer, Sanne van Paassen, Linda van Rijen, Arenda Grimberg.

U23
Lars van der Haar, Mike Teunissen, Gert-Jan Bosman, Tijmen Eising, Micki van Empel.

 

[Echoes]

Why is Mourey bolded?


Erwin and his climbing up 3 steps, each leap on the stairs !

Let's remember this too:

U23 Worlds 2005:

1 Zdenek Stybar (Czech Republic) 50.12
2 Radomir Simunek Jr. (Czech Republic) 0.21
3 Simon Zahner (Switzerland) 0.25
4 Lukas Flückiger (Switzerland) 0.28
5 Niels Albert (Belgium) 0.35
6 Kevin Pauwels (Belgium) 0.59
7 Derik Zampedri (Italy) 1.26
8 Steve Chainel (France) 1.27
9 Lars Boom (Netherlands) 1.28
10 Krzysztof Kuzniak (Poland)


Styby pulls out of Pont-Château, focusing on the Worlds. I like him but I think it's a real shame for the audience, the organizers and disrespectful to his opponents.

The French will go with 4 blocks. So probably: Mourey, Chainel, Gadret and Bazin (or Jeannesson).

 

[DAOTEC]

Why is Mourey bolded?

Love You

Belgium 7 pack for worlds>

Sven Nys,
Niels Albert,
Kevin Pauwels,
Klaas Vantornout,
Bart Wellens,
Tom Meeusen,
Bart Aernouts.


Wellens still so-so poss. to replace> Rob Peeters, Dieter Vanthourenhout and Sven Vanthourenhout.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

We'll win(Belgium, preferably Nys)

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Nys yesterday: "it will be hard for Belgium to form one team , I don't see it happen..."

In Hoogerheide 2009, it was Boom vs Belgium. But this year it will be Stybar vs Albert vs Nys, I think...

 

[Echoes]

Love You

OK. Previous post edited.

In Hoogerheide 2009, it was Boom vs Belgium. But this year it will be Stybar vs Albert vs Nys, I think...

As far as I remember, it was rather Albert vs Stybar. Mano a mano.

Team strategy rarely prevails in cyclocross. We've already debated on that, I think.

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

I'm not talking about the race itself, but about the pre-race tactics. Never was the consensus that big in the Belgium team that the next world title had to go to a Belgian.

But also during (the first part of) the race it did was Belgium vs Boom, if I remember correctly...

 

[L'arriviste]

... Styby pulls out of Pont-Château, focusing on the Worlds. I like him but I think it's a real shame for the audience, the organizers and disrespectful to his opponents ...

I agree with the disrespect thing. However, having watched him all season too, I tend to feel like he'll appear in the Clinic someday with his habit of sloping off to Mallorca every five minutes.

 

[DAOTEC]

Coupe du Monde Sankt Wendel

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Nous voila en france !

Hommes-Elite
Francis Mourey (Francaise des Jeux)
Nicolas Bazin (BigMat-Auber 93)
Steve Chainel (Francaise des Jeux)
John Gadret (AG2R-La Mondiale)

Femmes-Elite
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (AC Bazancourt Reims)
Christel Ferrier-Bruneau (Gauss RDZ Ormu)
Caroline Mani (CC Etupes)

Espoirs-23
Matthieu Boulo (Roubaix-Lille Métropole)
Irwin Gras (CC Etupes)
Jimmy Turgis (CC Nogent-sur-Oise)

 

[Echoes]

I'm not talking about the race itself, but about the pre-race tactics. Never was the consensus that big in the Belgium team that the next world title had to go to a Belgian.

More or less OK. Though for me, pre-race tactics, mostly in cyclocross, is rather fun to entertain the media.

However, having watched him all season too, I tend to feel like he'll appear in the Clinic someday with his habit of sloping off to Mallorca every five minutes.

van IJzendoorn was in Calpe this week. Shall we talk about him in the Clinic section?

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Temperature goes down in Sankt Wendel but the pressure goes up. I guess that's communicating vessels.


Hans van Kasteren still seems to have sour grapes about Pauwels' move to Sunweb as he said "he can win race, but is no media personality" and can only say "Yeah, nope or amen". What is a media personality? Playing in a docu-soap like Wellens.

Kevin is very popular here (he has a huge fan club) and the TV comentators like him because whenever he talks, you can always get interesting things from him. He knows his sport and he's very clever.

But if this can boost him for the Worlds, it's all OK !

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Kevin Pauwels for world champion!!

2.Stybar
3.Walsleben

 

[Echoes]

Go Kevin !! I'd never seen him race with so much guts and fighting spirit before !

Shame that the road section in Hoogerheide is very long and hard, that really suited Albert. Well Niels was the best anyway.

 

[DAOTEC]

(Great-Britain)

Elite men
Jody Crawforth
Ian Field
Paul Oldham

U-23
Kenta Gallagher
Luke Gray

Elite Ladies
Gabby Day
Nikki Harris
Helen Wyman

Junior men
Jack Clarkson
Luke Grivell-Mellor
Joe Moses
Hugo Robinson
Ali Slater

 

[Echoes]

Niels is weeping again.

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=GFD35CMN4&subsection=132


In the chase behind Stybar he asked Pauwels to take the lead and Pauwels responded: "He could not". But Albert couldn't care less. And he related that to Pauwels offering last year's World Cup to Stybar.


No Belgian block he says, I'm doing my own race.

Why is he weeping again? He should know that Sankt Wendel is hard enough to prevent any team strategy and that he is the best time-trialist on the road from the pack, anyway.

Nys : "Niels doesn't make himself popular."

 

[DAOTEC]

Latest update from Cyclismactu

Belgique
Niels ALBERT
Sven NYS
Kévin PAUWELS
Tom MEEUSEN
Bart AERNOUTS
Bart WELLENS
Klaas VANTORNOUT
Remplaçants : Rob Peeters – Dieter Vanthourenhout – Sven Vanthourenhout

France
Francis MOUREY
Steve CHAINEL
John GADRET
Nicolas BAZIN

USA
Jeremy POWERS
Tim JOHNSON
Ryan TREBON
Jamey DRISCOLL
Jonathan PAGE

Pays-Bas
Gerben DE KNEGT
Thijs VAN AMERONGEN
Eddy IJZENDOORN

Espagne
Javier RUIZ DE LARRINAGA
Egoitz MURGOITIO
José Antonio HERMIDA
Isaac SUAREZ

Angleterre
Jody CRAWFORTH
Ian FIELD
Paul OLDHAM

Suisse
Christian HEULE
Marcel WILDHABER

République Tchèque
Ondrej BAMBULA
Peter DLASK
David KASEK
Vladimir KYZIVAT
Radomir SIMUNEK
Zdenek STYBAR
Martin ZLAMALIK

Allemagne
René BIRKENFELD
Christoph PFINGESTEN
Johannes SICKMULLER
Philipp WALSLEBEN
Sascha WEBER

En lire d'avantage sur Cyclism'Actu : http://www.cyclismactu.net/news-cyclo_cross_mondiaux_les_selections_connues-11956.html#ixzz1ByOMoHT8

Mourey had a minor crash last week and didn't take it over the limit this weekend cross, but will according to his own words be fine to battle for the rainbow jersey.

 

[Echoes]

Weather forecast in Sankt Wendel

Saturday : between 7 and 3°C below zero (snow storms)

Sunday : between 8 and 1°C below zero (cloudy)

 

[Martina]

Anyone from this forum will be there?

 

[Michielveedeebee]

sven nys for the win

 

[ak-zaaf]

It will be freezing during the night. Mud will be rock hard. Predictions now are a 'speed race'. (/edit: sorry, didn't see echoes post)

Man, I hope Nys wins. But 'anyone but Albert' will also be fine.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

It will be freezing during the night. Mud will be rock hard. Predictions now are a 'speed race'. (/edit: sorry, didn't see echoes post)

Man, I hope Nys wins. But 'anyone but Albert' will also be fine.

why would you say such a thing ?

 

[GreggGermer]

Anyone from this forum will be there?

In St. Wendel at the moment.

The course is very frozen today (Friday) after being chewed up on thursday in non-freezing temperatures. There are some very nasty frozen ruts, but the organization will be smoothing out some of the worst sections which are super dangerous (don't worry, there is still plenty of tough sections with ruts).

Look for a super hard race, especially in the section between the barriers and the run up, it's deceptively hard in that section.

 

[TheDude]

Any news of a planned live video feed somebplace on the web? I'm going to schedule my weekend around this.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Any news of a planned live video feed somebplace on the web? I'm going to schedule my weekend around this.

All over the place.

Cyclingfans.com or procyclinglive.com will have all the links, as usual.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I hope for a Nys victory. I think Trebon is out for the US.

I put Pauwels as a strong possibility. Albert is strong though.

My prediction?

1. Nys
2. Pauwels
3. Stybar
4. Wellens
5. Albert

 

[LugHugger]

Any news of a planned live video feed somebplace on the web? I'm going to schedule my weekend around this.

Both days broadcast here

I'm planning on doing the same thing as you. Leffe. Check. Chips. Check. Cowbell. Check.