Viviani

inseine
inseine Posts: 5,788
edited February 2015 in Pro race
Just watched Viviani in sparkling form at the world track champs.
Wonder what his next road race is?
(I know there's a track section but no one seems to post on it)
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,290
    I saw the elimination race and that was a cracker - especially when it got down to the last four. Gaviria looks the class act though. Are GB really going to go with Dibben at the Olympics? He's OK, but it's annoying that we can't see Cavendish have a crack.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Did Gaviria win anything? These trackie road racers annoy me. Same as these cyclo cross road riders.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,290
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Did Gaviria win anything? These trackie road racers annoy me. Same as these cyclo cross road riders.
    Gaviria, you may remember, outsprinted Cavendish twice in Argentina last month.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Gaviria is leading the elimination because although Viviana smashed the scratch and elimination apparently can't TT. Gaviria rode a really good pursuit, Viviana less so and unfortunately Dibben only managed 15th.
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Did Gaviria win anything? These trackie road racers annoy me. Same as these cyclo cross road riders.
    You should have been around to see Roger De Vlaeminck. :roll:
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    RichN95 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Did Gaviria win anything? These trackie road racers annoy me. Same as these cyclo cross road riders.
    Gaviria, you may remember, outsprinted Cavendish twice in Argentina last month.

    Yes. I meant in the track races this week.
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Gaviria is going for tests at EQS next week.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,290
    frenchfighter wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Did Gaviria win anything? These trackie road racers annoy me. Same as these cyclo cross road riders.
    Gaviria, you may remember, outsprinted Cavendish twice in Argentina last month.

    Yes. I meant in the track races this week.
    He's doing the Omnium (along with Viviani). He's currently leading and looking good doing it.

    Edit: He's now World Champion.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    frenchfighter wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Did Gaviria win anything? These trackie road racers annoy me. Same as these cyclo cross road riders.
    Gaviria, you may remember, outsprinted Cavendish twice in Argentina last month.

    Yes. I meant in the track races this week.

    World champion good enough?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I am asking for information sake not for being facetious.

    Thanks Rich.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I am asking for information sake not for being facetious.

    Thanks Rich.

    I see, so he's still annoying then?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    In general yes I find them annoying.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    frenchfighter wrote:
    In general yes I find them annoying.

    fair enough 8)
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    I like to see roadies and cross riders doing track. The disciplines were never mutually exclusive back in the day and for a road sprinter it may help sharpen the saw so to speak.
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,841
    Etixx must have the most riders on their team who have been World Champion?

    Kwia, Gaviria, Stybar, Cav, Martin, Boonen, I'm sure there's more
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,290
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Etixx must have the most riders on their team who have been World Champion?

    Kwia, Gaviria, Stybar, Cav, Martin, Boonen, I'm sure there's more
    Gaviria hasn't joined them yet has he?

    They've been World TTT Champions twice, too.
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,841
    Haha I'll post again next week.... It was a list off the top of my head as well.
  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Did Gaviria win anything? These trackie road racers annoy me. Same as these cyclo cross road riders.
    How often do they have to ride track or cross to be annoying? Or are they permanently annoying if they've ever ridden on anything other than the road? Is Cavendish still annoying? Wiggins? Stybar?

    Interesting that Viviani is now widely considered a roadie who rides the track, whereas I still had him down as a trackie that rides on the road.

    That elimination race was bloody brilliant by the way.
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  • Omar Little
    Omar Little Posts: 2,010
    I think its quite refreshing seeing riders being involved in more than one aspect of cycle sport. :)


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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Didn't reaslise he had gone to Herne Hill as well as the talk at Dulwich College. Quality guy.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,290
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Didn't reaslise he had gone to Herne Hill as well as the talk at Dulwich College. Quality guy.
    He went round to your house for a cup of tea and a chat too, but you were out.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Shame too as I had been hanging onto to my cardboard banner.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Photos from Contador at HH:
    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... ery-145355

    Unfortunately majority of the people there were Saxo staff and guests.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Shame too as I had been hanging onto to my cardboard banner.

    This one? 2014-07-07203930_zps19b343de.jpg

    It was a cracking thread. Well worth a reread.

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  • ai_1
    ai_1 Posts: 3,060
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Did Gaviria win anything? These trackie road racers annoy me. Same as these cyclo cross road riders.
    Marianne Vos must really irritate you! If only she would pick a discipline so she could get properly good at it instead of being mediocre at them all...... :roll:

    Seriously though. Why would it be annoying that a rider competes in more than one discipline? Sounds a very strange idea to me!
  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    What the French call a coureur complet. Having seen Hugh Porter, for example, race cyclocross and road as well as track and being, just about, old enough to remember tv coverage of Simpson on the track it used to be the norm for everyone from club riders to pros to have a go at everything.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Coppi was a multiple track champion.

    Just saying...
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    It is worth noting that different eras are not exactly comparable particularly when many of those riders from years gone by rode the track to earn some extra cash.
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  • ai_1
    ai_1 Posts: 3,060
    frenchfighter wrote:
    It is worth noting that different eras are not exactly comparable particularly when many of those riders from years gone by rode the track to earn some extra cash.
    That doesn't explain why you object to current riders participating in multiple disciplines.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    And neither do I need to explain.
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