British best chances in the Worlds?

pottssteve
pottssteve Posts: 4,069
edited August 2012 in Pro race
OK,

So Wiggins isn't riding the TT. The TTT is being ridden in trade teams. The men's RR is a 265km rollercoaster with a hill at the end. Any Brits in with a chance?

Steve
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  • dave milne
    dave milne Posts: 703
    froome outside chance maybe. JTL perhaps
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    JTL :D (except he's never ridden a race of this distance or class before, but the kid does have talent)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Not a year for the brits in the worlds.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Emma Pooley?
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  • KentPuncheur
    KentPuncheur Posts: 246
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
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  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    I can't see anybody British having much of an impact....Froome maybe the best bet?
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Tom BB wrote:
    I can't see anybody British having much of an impact....Froome maybe the best bet?

    Think Inseine is right, Pooley has a pretty good chance in the TT if not the RR.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    It's a big ask after 3 Vuelta weeks.
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  • KentPuncheur
    KentPuncheur Posts: 246
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    Does anyone know the profile of this year's TT course? Surely Froome would be prefering a lumpy one no?
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    Does anyone know the profile of this year's TT course? Surely Froome would be prefering a lumpy one no?

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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    Does anyone know the profile of this year's TT course? Surely Froome would be prefering a lumpy one no?

    Maybe but he did ok at the Olympics which wasn't exactly mountainous. Surely, on current form El Perro Malvado is the fourth best TTer around?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
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  • KentPuncheur
    KentPuncheur Posts: 246
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    Providing LLS looses his chain and punctures again!?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    Providing LLS looses his chain and punctures again!?

    Nah.

    Won't even be top 5.
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    It's a big ask after 3 Vuelta weeks.
    Fair point, which is why I think he may not do it at all. But if he does, he's got to be in with a shout.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    DeadCalm wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    It's a big ask after 3 Vuelta weeks.
    Fair point, which is why I think he may not do it at all. But if he does, he's got to be in with a shout.

    He'll do it, but he'll do well to make the podium.

    Martin's got this in the bag, save for some more punctures.
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  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    DeadCalm wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    It's a big ask after 3 Vuelta weeks.
    Fair point, which is why I think he may not do it at all. But if he does, he's got to be in with a shout.

    I'm not sure Froome will do it either but the Vuelta was decent prep for Wiggins' challenge for the World TT last year.
  • KentPuncheur
    KentPuncheur Posts: 246
    Paulie W wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    It's a big ask after 3 Vuelta weeks.
    Fair point, which is why I think he may not do it at all. But if he does, he's got to be in with a shout.

    I'm not sure Froome will do it either but the Vuelta was decent prep for Wiggins' challenge for the World TT last year.

    And the TdF for the Olympics!
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    KentPuncheur wrote:
    Froome for the TT if another car can mow Martin down and someone pushes Canc off his bike again!?
    Cancellara is out. Froome, if he does it, ought to be a shoe in for the TT silver.

    It's a big ask after 3 Vuelta weeks.
    Fair point, which is why I think he may not do it at all. But if he does, he's got to be in with a shout.

    He'll do it, but he'll do well to make the podium.

    Martin's got this in the bag, save for some more punctures.
    I agree on Martin but who do you see beating evil Froome for the other two podium spots?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Bobridge, Westra, and possibly Larsson.
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bobridge, Westra, and possibly Larsson.
    Not sure what to think about Bobridge but Larsson and Westra were both more than two and a half minutes down on Froome at the Olympics. That's a fairly hefty gap in a race where they were all presumably trying. Will a combination of his form dipping and their possible improvement be enough to close such a gap? Don't know. If, as I suspect will happen, he comes in second / third in the Vuelta behind Contador and possibly Valverde I can see him being super motivated though.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Dan Martin ;)


    For the Road Races it looks like slim pickings.

    Pooley could do well, the loop is a bit like Plouay where she's beaten Vos twice - but then, it's on home soil for Vos...
    How's Lucy Garner's climbing?

    None of the elite men really has anything to suggest they could be in contention on this loop.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    FJS wrote:
    Dan Martin ;)


    For the Road Races it looks like slim pickings.

    Pooley could do well, the loop is a bit like Plouay where she's beaten Vos twice - but then, it's on home soil for Vos...
    How's Lucy Garner's climbing?

    None of the elite men really has anything to suggest they could be in contention on this loop.


    Read an interview with Lucy Garner the other day after she won the European Junior title - re defending her Junior title at the Worlds, she says its not a great course for her
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Sorry if I've missed this but what's the reason Wiggins isn't doing the TT ?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    dsoutar wrote:
    Sorry if I've missed this but what's the reason Wiggins isn't doing the TT ?

    CBA.
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  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Ooops - just saw the thread related to this after I posted. Heavy night last night and brain still purging itself of the alcohol methinks

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