Worlds Team Time trial Race Thread

[User Guide]

aye or a stream,is womens tho so unlikely

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Do you have a live ticker?

Better. I have live timing and live streaming.

RusVelo just smashed BePink's time at intermediate 1, while Hitec have fallen behind Michela Fanini at intermediate 2 (not that these two are likely to be too relevant in the long run with the strongest teams to come).

Edit: indeed, BePink now 44 seconds faster than MFRR at the second intermediate.

 

[labratty]

Do you have a live ticker?

http://static.sportresult.com/federations/uci/CR-node/

 

[Kwibus]

Seems like there's no love for this race on this board?

Allthough not all teams send their best team I'm still looking forward to this.

Like The Hitch allready mentioned in another thread that the TTT is a very nice discipline, but in an GT it really messed up the GC in a negative way imo.

Now there is no GC. Just a 1 day race about a very nice discipline.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

there's a livestream on the NOS page but i don't know if it's geo restricted

 

[Kwibus]

http://static.sportresult.com/federations/uci/CR-node/

Thank you.

10 chars.

 

[Kwibus]

there's a livestream on the NOS page but i don't know if it's geo restricted

Atleast add an link so people can try, allthough I'm sure it's georestricted.

http://nos.nl/dossier/415554-wk-wielrennen-2012/tab/500/live/

 

[screaming fist]

there's a livestream on the NOS page but i don't know if it's geo restricted

http://nos.nl/dossier/415554-wk-wielrennen-2012/tab/500/live/
works for me in Germany

 

[User Guide]

stream must be geo restricted , wont work for me, thx for tickers tho peeps

 

[User Guide]

thx dekker ,works in uk

 

[Kwibus]

Rabobank's challenge may be derailed before it even begins, as Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has a mechanical inside the first kilometre

+26secs for them at the first intermediate.

Fastest at intermediate 1 AA DRINK - LEONTIEN.NL CYCLING TEAM 16:05.5

12 seconds faster then RUSVELO.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Disaster for Rabobank. They're down to 4 already, so must have lost somebody else as well as Ferrand-Prévot's mechanical, and 26" behind at the first timecheck. They can't lose anybody else for the rest of the race, and are going nowhere fast with the two strongest TTT teams following them.

 

[Kwibus]

Orica Greenedge fastest time.

15:50, so 15 seconds faster than AA DRINK.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Specialized-Lululemon fastest at intermediate 1 by less than a second from Orica, AA Drink 16 seconds back. Looks like these will be the three to fight out the win.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Rabo note that the team waited for Pauline Ferrand-Prévot to come back, then she and Iris Slappendal crashed, hence why they're down to four. Sounds like it really isn't their day

 

[User Guide]

AA drink have had their 2 biggest riders behind pooley.I is confused wouldnt it be better too have someone smaller whos getting say 75% of draft than 40%?? lol
greenedge still had full 6 last it showed them spec and AA down too 5,long way to go.
edit spec may have 6 too

 

[Libertine Seguros]

AA drink have had their 2 biggest riders behind pooley.I is confused wouldnt it be better too have someone smaller whos getting say 75% of draft than 40%?? lol
greenedge still had full 6 last it showed them spec and AA down too 5,long way to go.

At the same time, the likes of Wild are sprinters primarily, so their bursts will be short, while Pooley is a former World ITT champion who can pace them for longer bursts and lead them into their turns, so that's probably the reasoning behind it.

Anyway, rumours of Rabo's demise may have been premature, they were 26" down when they got to intermediate 1 (I know they're further down now with Orica and Specialized going through), but only 24" down now.

Skil-Argos dying on the Cauberg.

 

[User Guide]

Orica drilling it

 

[Libertine Seguros]

They (and Lululemon) still have all 6 riders too, which is really going to make a difference in the later running with the Cauberg climb in it. There you go, 13 seconds inside Orica. Lululemon are the strongest TTT team there is.

 

[User Guide]

special ED leading time @21k 15secs too Orica,1 minuite too AA drink

 

[Libertine Seguros]

RusVelo gained some impressive time in the second half of the race there. This is a pretty good course actually, well balanced; enough time on the flat for the pure power types, but with enough punchy climbs to make for a more rounded team effort. Loes Gunnewijk has been dropped from Orica's lineup so they're down to 5, Specialized with 6 still going strong.

AA Drink down to 4, Brand and Blaak dropped. 33 seconds inside RusVelo's time. Pooley had to be careful not to blow her teammates up on the Cauberg. That will probably be enough for bronze.

Yes, Rabobank outside of that. They worked really hard given the losses of Ferrand-Prévot and Slappendal early, but not enough to make the podium.

 

[User Guide]

1 second in it for the gold according to gps tracker

 

[User Guide]

great effort by rabo,all things considered.
Vos looked like shed done plenty of work,looked wrecked on final climb

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Orica puts 1'35 into AA Drink, half of it in that final section. The extra woman really helps there. Rabobank had the problem of Vos trying not to drop everyone on the Cauberg, the same as Pooley had for AA Drink.

Either way, AA Drink will get the bronze, and it's now just down to whether Specialized hold on to their advantage over Orica, although Orica were very strong over that last 13km.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Specialized-Lululemon are YOUR World Champions in the Team Time Trial!