THE WOLLONGONG WORLDS... SPOILERS
Hello from a plane above Woolongong.
First, if you were unaware of my Garlicky origin, I have been selected for the French Elite Men's Road Race squad. #proud
I had a lovely flight.
That's the stunning Royal National Park and the road race run in from Helensburgh, over the Sea Cliff Bridge to the mighty Gong.
Woolongong is Middlesburgh. The town has lots of industry, but just outside is absolutely stunning coastline and mountains.
However 1 house on the race route costs the same at Middlesbrough.
This is me crossing the Sea Cliff Bridge last year, 5400km in & on my final day of the Indian Pacific Wheel Race.
Anyway... I'll do a preview of the road race course etc, cannae be airsed doing the TT.
Loads of pics to follow, but tomorrow I go for a ski.
Oh yeah.... Erm TT course is Wout not Gonna or Evenepoel.
First, if you were unaware of my Garlicky origin, I have been selected for the French Elite Men's Road Race squad. #proud
I had a lovely flight.
That's the stunning Royal National Park and the road race run in from Helensburgh, over the Sea Cliff Bridge to the mighty Gong.
Woolongong is Middlesburgh. The town has lots of industry, but just outside is absolutely stunning coastline and mountains.
However 1 house on the race route costs the same at Middlesbrough.
This is me crossing the Sea Cliff Bridge last year, 5400km in & on my final day of the Indian Pacific Wheel Race.
Anyway... I'll do a preview of the road race course etc, cannae be airsed doing the TT.
Loads of pics to follow, but tomorrow I go for a ski.
Oh yeah.... Erm TT course is Wout not Gonna or Evenepoel.
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Oh food...
Bunnings Sausage Sizzle is the most ate cuisine.
It's their B&Q and every day a different charity or sports club have a sizzle to raise funds. $2 a sanga.
Geology
Australia is an enormous flat clay pancake with crumbly bits at the edges.
Any mountains are on the coast.
Everything is clay or radioactive or desired by the Chinese.
Australia has only had 7 dinosaurs discovered on its land , even more rare it has has 4 Paleontologists.
But Western Australia has more Geologists per head of population than anywhere else on Earth.
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During the first hour of road races expect to see lots and lots of aerial shots of folk jumping off this cliff
This is beside the finish lines
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And yes if you look closely that is a Rainbow Striped bidon given to me by Mr Hushovd at TOB many years ago.
Right I'll shut up now. Plane is landing and I have been told no more champagne.3 -
But finally...
NINE HOUR TIME DIFFERENCE
So women will be finished whilst you are asleep
Last men off just after 7am
Event Date Local time CEST BST EST MST PST
Women’s Elite TT Sunday, September 18 09:35 – 12:30 01:35 – 04:30 00:35 – 03:30 19:35 – 22:30 17:35 – 20:30 16:35 – 19:30
Men’s Elite TT Sunday, September 18 13:40 – 17:00 05:40 – 09:00 04:40 – 08:00 23:40 – 03:00 21:40 – 01:00 20:40: – 00:00
Women’s road world time trial championships start times (AEST):
09:47:00 *BAUERNFEIND Ricarda GER
09:48:30 *le NET Marie FRA
09:50:00 le ROUX Maude Elaine RSA
09:51:30 RIZWAN Zainab PAK
09:53:00 *van ANROOIJ Shirin NED
09:54:30 JACKSON Alison CAN
09:56:00 OYARBIDE JIMENEZ Lourdes ESP
09:57:30 FIDANZA Arianna ITA
09:59:00 LETH Julie DEN
10:00:30 BROWN Grace AUS
10:02:00 HARTMANN Elena SUI
10:03:30 SCHWEINBERGER Christina AUT
10:05:00 KOPECKY Lotte BEL
10:06:30 SKALNIAK SOJKA Agnieszka POL
10:35:30 LEUNG Wing Yee HKG
10:37:00 MOOLMAN-PASIO Ashleigh RSA
10:38:30 *WYLLIE Ella NZL
10:40:00 GARIB Rabia PAK
10:41:30 *VARENYK Maryna UKR
10:43:00 KROGER Mieke GER
10:44:30 ROLAND Luciana ARG
10:46:00 ŽIGART Urška SLO
10:47:30 *JENČUŠOVA Nora SVK
10:49:00 *AL SAYEGH Safia UAE
10:50:30 ALONSO DOMINGUEZ Sandra ESP
10:52:00 ZABELINSKAYA Olga UZB
10:53:30 KIRCHMANN Leah CAN
10:55:00 FAULKNER Kristen USA
10:56:30 van VLEUTEN Annemiek NED
11:25:30 *GUAZZINI Vittoria ITA
11:27:00 *HOUILI Nesrine ALG
11:28:30 *SOTO CAMPOS CHI
11:30:00 BAKER Georgia AUS
11:31:30 van de VELDE Julie BEL
11:33:00 *JASKULSKA Marta POL
11:34:30 SHAPIRA Omer ISR
11:36:00 KIESENHOFER Anna AUT
11:37:30 THOMAS Leah USA
11:39:00 GOMEZ HERNANDEZ Lina Marcela Lina
11:40:30 LABOUS Juliette FRA
11:42:00 BJERG Emma Cecili DEN
11:43:30 REUSSER Marlen SUI
11:45:00 van DIJK Ellen NED
Men’s road world time trial championships start times (AEST):
13:42:00 BONELLO Daniel Joseph MLT
13:43:30 NOVAKOVSKYI Vitalii UKR
13:45:00 NG Sum Lui HKG
13:46:30 PLAPP Lucas AUS
13:48:00 DAL-CIN Matteo CAN
13:49:30 NATAROV Yuriy KAZ
13:51:00 ESPINOSA SERRANO Bolivar PAN
13:52:30 ABBDURROHMAN Muhammad INA
13:54:00 AFFINI Edoardo ITA
14:28:00 SMYTH Alexander MLT
14:29:30 XU Changquan CHN
14:31:00 OINGERANG Edward GUM
14:32:30 HOOLE Daan NED
14:34:00 ARNDT Nikias GER
14:35:30 POWLESS Neilson USA
14:37:00 LUTSENKO Alexey KAZ
14:38:30 LEKNESSUND Andreas NOR
14:40:00 GONCALVES ALMEIDA Joao POR
14:41:30 ARMIRAIL Bruno FRA
14:43:00 LAMPAERT Yves BEL
14:44:30 BISSEGGER Stefan SUI
14:46:00 NIELSEN Magnus Cort DEN
14:47:30 SOBRERO Matteo ITA
15:14:00 ALAM Drabir BAN
15:15:30 ERDENEBAT Bilguunjargal MGL
15:17:00 CHRISTOPHER JR Darel IVB
15:18:30 KONONENKO Mykhaylo UKR
15:20:00 LAU Wan Yau Vincent Yau
15:21:30 GEE Derek CAN
15:23:00 LAŠINIS Venantas LTU
15:24:30 HEIDEMANN Miguel GER
15:26:00 LAZKANO LOPEZ Oier ESP
15:27:30 DURBRIDGE Luke AUS
15:29:00 ILIĆ Ognjen SRB
15:30:30 CAHYADI Aiman INA
15:32:00 JURADO LOPEZ Christofer PAN
15:33:30 BASSON Gustav RSA
16:00:00 SHEFFIELD Magnus USA
16:01:30 CONTRERAS PINZON Rodrigo COL
16:03:00 FOSS Tobias NOR
16:04:30 FEDOROV Yevgeniy KAZ
16:06:00 OLIVEIRA Nelson POR
16:07:30 BJERG Mikkel DEN
16:09:00 BODNAR Maciej POL
16:10:30 CAVAGNA Remi FRA
16:12:00 HAYTER Ethan GBR
16:13:30 MOLLEMA Bauke NED
16:15:00 KUNG Stefan SUI
16:16:30 POGAČAR Tadej SLO
16:18:00 EVENEPOEL Remco BEL
16:19:30 GANNA Filippo ITA
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Know those roads backwards. If they come from Helensburgh down the hill from that parasailing spot at Bald Hill they'll smoke a few brake pads. That's quite narrow and steep, with a couple of sharp bends at the bottom. It's a lumpy coast road from there into the 'Gong too, and hilly on the main loop for the race.alan_a said:During the first hour of road races expect to see lots and lots of aerial shots of folk jumping off this cliff
This is beside the finish lines
Your beach shot looks like Austinmer though? Or is it North Beach?
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Coming in from Stanwell tops, they miss the car park at the jump spot by taking the Sharron right down the hill
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Yep that's the one, Lawrence Hargreaves Drive or something it's called. Winds downhill for about a km at probably 10% gradient, then a fairly tight left then right at the bottom.Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS0
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Couple of random questions as I watch the last of the men roll off the ramp.
1: When does the timer starter? Is it really at the end of the beeps or do they go back and check when they start to move? The result is often on split seconds, it did look like Kung started ever so slightly before the last beep, especially compared to Evenepoel I thought.
2: Kit, does Bioracer still have the fastest skinsuit? Do you think Ganna is riding his trade skin suit or a Castelli one (not that I think there is much between those two)?. I would assume that Assos put a lot of development into theirs but there looked to be a little extra material on Kung's sleeves.Scott Addict 2011
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What just happened to Hayters chain? It looked like the entire thing was above the crank axle."Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0
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Magnus Sheffield insisting he's riding on the right of the road."Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0 -
What's happened to Ganna this year? Looked off the pace all year."Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0
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Tobias Foss (who?) of Jumbo Visma pulls out a typical Jumbo Visma performance to win the men's TT."Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0
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How much time did Hayter lose due to his dropped chain? Finished 30 seconds off the podium.0
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Foss has won l'Avenir and got a top ten overall in the Giro, he's not a nobodygsk82 said:Tobias Foss (who?) of Jumbo Visma pulls out a typical Jumbo Visma performance to win the men's TT.
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True. But whilst his TT has always been reasonably decent (12th in U23 world TT champs and Norwegian TT champ for the last 2 years), it's never looked like future world champion level. Definitely a bit of a surprise, as much to him as anyone else I would imagine.No_Ta_Doctor said:
Foss has won l'Avenir and got a top ten overall in the Giro, he's not a nobodygsk82 said:Tobias Foss (who?) of Jumbo Visma pulls out a typical Jumbo Visma performance to win the men's TT.
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Better to stay calm than get your bib shorts in a twist. He did well just to give the bike an annoyed shove against the barriers.gsk82 said:
He didn't look in a rush to get back going again.DeadCalm said:How much time did Hayter lose due to his dropped chain? Finished 30 seconds off the podium.
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Kung beats Ganna & Evenepoel - and still falls short. As for Foss, where the hell did that come from.......nearly as big a shock as Bert Grabsch back in 2008....All Road/ Gravel: tbcWinter: tbcMTB: tbcRoad: tbc"Look at the time...." "he's fallen like an old lady on a cruise ship..."0
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Oh yeah, huge surprise to everyone, including himself. I just got slightly narked by the "who?"DeadCalm said:
True. But whilst his TT has always been reasonably decent (12th in U23 world TT champs and Norwegian TT champ for the last 2 years), it's never looked like future world champion level. Definitely a bit of a surprise, as much to him as anyone else I would imagine.No_Ta_Doctor said:
Foss has won l'Avenir and got a top ten overall in the Giro, he's not a nobodygsk82 said:Tobias Foss (who?) of Jumbo Visma pulls out a typical Jumbo Visma performance to win the men's TT.
He's consistently in the top 5-10 in stage race TTs over the last couple of seasons, but as you say, not obvious wc potential. I think it's probably significant that he's been fairly lightly raced this season, might be a bit fresher than mostWarning No formatter is installed for the format1 -
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Hayter would have been right in the mix there without the chain drop.0
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Does he qualify as a Viking?No_Ta_Doctor said:
Oh yeah, huge surprise to everyone, including himself. I just got slightly narked by the "who?"DeadCalm said:
True. But whilst his TT has always been reasonably decent (12th in U23 world TT champs and Norwegian TT champ for the last 2 years), it's never looked like future world champion level. Definitely a bit of a surprise, as much to him as anyone else I would imagine.No_Ta_Doctor said:
Foss has won l'Avenir and got a top ten overall in the Giro, he's not a nobodygsk82 said:Tobias Foss (who?) of Jumbo Visma pulls out a typical Jumbo Visma performance to win the men's TT.
He's consistently in the top 5-10 in stage race TTs over the last couple of seasons, but as you say, not obvious wc potential. I think it's probably significant that he's been fairly lightly raced this season, might be a bit fresher than most
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Ellen van Dijk won the women’s ITT, ahead of Grace Brown and Marlen Reusser. Vittoria Guazzini was 4th and won the U23 (held in the same race). AvV had an absolute shocker and was 7th, over a minute and a half down.0
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In regards to Hayter's chain drop, is it really quicker to swap the bike rather than just put the chain back on?0
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You don't know how long it's going to take to put the chain back on, whereas you do know how long it'll take to swap bikes.0
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Foss's dad won 5000 kroner, bet of 50. Sounds great until you see the exchange rate! 0.085 or something.
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I was expecting the mens U23 TT to be on GCN.
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Norwegians are happening, again. Hayter currently 2nd fastest, Wærenskjold has just taken the hot seat.flite said:I was expecting the mens U23 TT to be on GCN.
Anyone know whats happening?
For those asking if Norwegians qualify as Vikings... Yes, but they're the wrong sort, so they don't get on the thread 😉Warning No formatter is installed for the format1
