2016 Worlds *spoilers*

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  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    Bit worried if they don't shorten the race, we will end up with some seriously ill people out on the road, I just can't see them doing the full distance and not being overheated
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Big pile up 3k in apparently.

    Probably not caused by spectators
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Qatar paid $10m to host, double the usual price.

    Apparently Tony Martin rode the ITT faster than 9 of the TTT teams

    Italy win the ladies U23 RR - Elisa Balsamo.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    coriordan wrote:
    Qatar paid $10m to host, double the usual price.

    Apparently Tony Martin rode the ITT faster than 9 of the TTT teams

    Italy win the ladies U23 RR - Elisa Balsamo.


    Pedant alert....Womens Junior RR, not U23...no Womens U23 races at the Worlds, much to some irritation
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Oh sorry. I presumed it would be the other way around?
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    coriordan wrote:
    Oh sorry. I presumed it would be the other way around?


    Nah. Gap in U23 Womens races has been an ongoing issue. This year the UCI introduced the first U23 Womens CX comp at the Worlds in Zolder (won by Evie Richards) . It will surely end up extending to the road, but not there yet
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    Is the mens race live on TV at all - can't see it in the listings - is it a red button job ?
    [Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    Is the mens race live on TV at all - can't see it in the listings - is it a red button job ?

    I haven't researched it, but I presume so.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    coriordan wrote:
    Qatar paid $10m to host, double the usual price.

    I don't really understand Qatar's obsession with hosting sporting events. The locals seem ambivalent, so perhaps it is to draw in tourists, but they look to host everything. They had the 100km road race recently which is hardly a well known event.

    coriordan wrote:
    Apparently Tony Martin rode the ITT faster than 9 of the TTT teams

    That is quite amusing although I wonder if it reflects a lack of effort from a lot of teams.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TheBigBean wrote:
    That is quite amusing although I wonder if it reflects a lack of effort from a lot of teams.

    Or different wind conditions
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    TheBigBean wrote:
    coriordan wrote:
    Qatar paid $10m to host, double the usual price.

    I don't really understand Qatar's obsession with hosting sporting events. The locals seem ambivalent, so perhaps it is to draw in tourists, but they look to host everything. They had the 100km road race recently which is hardly a well known event.

    coriordan wrote:
    Apparently Tony Martin rode the ITT faster than 9 of the TTT teams

    That is quite amusing although I wonder if it reflects a lack of effort from a lot of teams.


    Re the Middle East, and the grab to host sporting events. Its all about soft power

    http://intpolicydigest.org/2015/09/23/t ... -glitters/
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,436
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    Is the mens race live on TV at all - can't see it in the listings - is it a red button job ?

    Saturday: 10:35-14:45, Cycling - Road World Championships, women's elite road race, BBC Red Button, Connected TV and online (14:30-16:30, highlights, BBC One)

    Sunday: 08:20-15:00, Cycling - Road World Championships, elite men's road race, BBC Red Button, Connected TV and online (14:30-17:00, highlights, BBC Two)
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    That is quite amusing although I wonder if it reflects a lack of effort from a lot of teams.

    Or different wind conditions


    There were only 10 WT teams, the rest were Conti - with the exception of CCC Sprandi

    Not really that surprising. Pretty sure there's been a similar factoid re Tony Martin's ITT time vs TTT teams times before.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    Friebe in the podcast

    "<sigh> I felt the world's <deep sigh> championship time trial this year really had the setting that event deserves....very atmospheric...an atmosphere becoming of the spectacle itself....no fans....no trees....no vegetation...no nothing. Nothing of any real interest"
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Young Belgian men collapsing in the heat.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    FFS
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pity the Kiwis in all black.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    @cyclingbetting is worth a follow on twitter. He does excellent previews and retweets mostly interesting/amusing bits and sometimes tweets updates of races which aren't televised.

    I think he did some pretty good predictions on the ITT results.
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    Gotta love this guy

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    coriordan wrote:
    Young Belgian men collapsing in the heat.
    Rick Chasey wrote a page back wrote:
    More Belgians getting ill with the heat.

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    Body temperature went up to 40 degrees.

    Doesn't remember anything about the finish. But I guess it's OK 'cos drugs wouldn't help ;).

    http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrennen/WK/1.2792424
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Adam Blythe just tweeted his SRM showing temp of 46.2

    Not very bling
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    In Dutch, hot weather is referred to as "blood hot" - a bit literal over there...
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Its so hot there is no one out and about it looks like a ghost town


    Correction just saw someone under a tree
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    another crash
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    good on bike cam coverage.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    where you watching? does the mobile app do red button?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    https://www.firstonetv.eu/en/stream/it/27
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Basically being ridden like a long crit.
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    coriordan wrote:
    where you watching? does the mobile app do red button?


    Its live on the UCI youtube channel
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5xxvz2trZE
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Thanks RR. Got it up. How many entrants? I see about 30-40 on the road and a 3 man breakaway. French guy poured most of his bottle down his back/legs. Must be excruciating.

    USA rider on the recalled S-Works Vias.

    What was that the French guy just did with a sponge or something?

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