World champion

shuttle_cock

Sorry this is going to be an annoying question from someone new to cycling, but how does the worls champion (Cav), become so. Is it points accumulated during the year like say, Formula 1, or soemthing different?

Sorry just curious how it works.

Thanks in advance,
Graham

RichN95.

There's a World Championship race. It's held in September, is raced as national teams, not the usual pro teams and is at a different location each year, with a different types of course each year. This is the end of last year's race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oze48Z0FDdo

There's also the World Tour ranking, which is done on a points system (won by Gilbert last year), but no-one really cares about that.

LeicesterLad

Shuttle Cock wrote:

Sorry this is going to be an annoying question from someone new to cycling, but how does the worls champion (Cav), become so. Is it points accumulated during the year like say, Formula 1, or soemthing different?

Sorry just curious how it works.

Thanks in advance,
Graham

Theres an annual World Championships one day race. Whoever wins is crowned the champion.

LeicesterLad

Rich beat me.

Tusher

Welcome to the forum Shuttle Cock......and don't worry, any question worth asking is worth answering. We've all been newbies once.

takethehighroad

Tusher wrote:

We've all been newbies once.

I wasn't, I was born with an in built knowledge of who won the Peace Race in 1982*, and all other cycling trivia

*Olaf Ludwig, for those wondering

Tusher

You have 3 seconds- Who won it in 1981?

No_Ta_Doctor

Tusher wrote:

You have 3 seconds- Who won it in 1981?

Sorry I'm late. Remember it well. Shakhid Zagretdinov of the Soviet Union.



























*Removes Wikipedia from browser history....*

finchy

And when you watch the Tour de France you'll see that for the time trials, Tony Martin is WC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI_Road_W ... mpionships

alan_a

Tusher wrote:

Welcome to the forum Shuttle fool......and don't worry, any question worth asking is worth answering. We've all been newbies once.

Mr C0ck... Rusher ain't being rude, it's the forum swear filter that doesn't like the word for a mae chicken or a Derbyshire female.

rick_chasey

There are certain fans who prefer one-day racing (where the only thing that matters is who crosses the finish line first) to stages races, who get very over-excited about the Worlds as you can imagine!

OffTheBackAdam

Many years back, there was a near-equivalent to the way the F1 Championship was decided, the old Super Prestige Pernod. Points were awarded at different races, if memory serves me correct, they were various of the Classics (Paris-Roubaix etc), stage races (Both the lesser ones, like Romandie & the Grand Tours), plus some oddities like the Grand Prix de Nations timetrial.
http://www.raydobbins.com/derosa/pernod
The current holder is Steven Roche, he's the longest holder too, since the series finished in 1987!

Tusher

Alan A wrote:

Tusher wrote:

Welcome to the forum Shuttle fool......and don't worry, any question worth asking is worth answering. We've all been newbies once.

Mr C0ck... Rusher ain't being rude, it's the forum swear filter that doesn't like the word for a mae chicken or a Derbyshire female.

Well, that's a relief- couldn't work out why that happened.

greasedscotsman

Alan A wrote:

Tusher wrote:

Welcome to the forum Shuttle fool......and don't worry, any question worth asking is worth answering. We've all been newbies once.

Mr C0ck... Rusher ain't being rude, it's the forum swear filter that doesn't like the word for a mae chicken or a Derbyshire female.

So what went wrong here?

alan_a

greasedscotsman wrote:

Alan A wrote:

Tusher wrote:

Welcome to the forum Shuttle fool......and don't worry, any question worth asking is worth answering. We've all been newbies once.

Mr C0ck... Rusher ain't being rude, it's the forum swear filter that doesn't like the word for a mae chicken or a Derbyshire female.

So what went wrong here?

Thick fingered iPad typing.

shuttle_cock

No offence taken, and thanks for the info, it all seems a bit clearer now.

Thanks again,
Graham