THE WOLLONGONG WORLDS... SPOILERS

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  • Right. Up.

    MvdP out already apparently
  • … and have just caught up with the MvdP story
  • 2 questions about the commentary

    Who is "Tom" who seems like a new addition?

    What's wrong with Brian's voice?
  • The graphics are rubbish and it's difficult to know which group is which.

    In the most difficult race of the year for rider identification, this is annoying
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,550
    Myself and a T-rex have just been arrested and charged for running up the road beside the backmarker.

    Feckin police state.

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    Right I’m up for the final hour.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    Group in front looks like 20 people. Has amongst others Bardet, Hindley and evenepoel there. 1.41 gap at 36km to go.

    Very reduced peloton. Lots of attacks to bridge but nothing sticking.
  • Pog and Madouas pushed the pace in the peloton and brought the gap down to 70 seconds, but then they stalled again so the gap is 2 minutes with 2 laps to go
  • Remco and Lutsenko swapping turns at the front.

    10 second gap to the group they left and 2:13 to the peloton
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    OK so MvdP got into some argie bargie with some teenage girls who were banging on his door.

    They accuse him of pushing one against a wall. He denies. Rozzers arrested him I think. Either way his passport has been taken off him.

    Have to say the coverage of this whole world champs in Holland and Belgium has been how stupid they all think it is that it is in Oz.

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    Evenepoel and lutsenko are in the lead as a pair with a group of 4 chasing.

    Peloton looks lost. Can’t work out yet what’s going on but I think they’re realising it’s not for them.

    They’re now 2.20 behind the pair.

    Evenepoel is going so fast Lutsenko can’t take over hah
  • Remco dropping Lutsenko

    I'm calling it, he'll ride to the win from here

    25k to go
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,621
    Big miscalculation by the Pog/Ala/WvA group.

    This could be all over.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    Evenepoel rides Lutsenko out of the wheel. At 25km to go

    2.24 on the peloton.

    1 mins on the big break.

    48s on the chase.

    All the numbers are going out
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    edited September 2022
    WvA accelerates out of the peloton on the hill and the Belgian commentators are not happy.

    He gets to the top and suddenly stops the effort haha

    But now he’s back on the front!!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    At 20km to go the gap to the peloton is still 2.24
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    At 19km to go it’s 2.27
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    edited September 2022
    At 18km 2.24.

    They need to go a lot faster quite soon.
  • #FreeAlan_A
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    edited September 2022
    Peloton has given up the chase

    Belgians are pretty much celebrating in the booth and telling each other to not go overboard
  • There's a disappointing lack of crowds, contrasted to last year

    The race for 2nd is on, Rota, Schmid, Skjelmose and Eenkhorn in a group chasing Lutsenko
  • The only way Remco won't win from here is if he gets eaten by a T-Rex
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,907
    Everyone knows what Remco will do but stopping him is another matter.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    edited September 2022
    He’s living up to the hype tbf.

    Vuelta, LBL, Worlds in the same year.

    He’s 22
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,907
    Year after year the organisation of the World's is shambolic in one way or another.
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 5,846
    edited September 2022
    Oops. WTH? The Dutch rider pulled up having passed the four pootlers playing games for silver.
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  • Absolute lolz

    Laporte 2nd Matthews 3rd, as the rest of the break get themselves caught on the line
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,873
    Matthews snatches 3rd I think.

    Watched the last 75 k ...


    What happened overnight with MvdP ?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740

    Matthews snatches 3rd I think.

    Watched the last 75 k ...


    What happened overnight with MvdP ?

    See above. Teenage girls making a racket and banging on the door in the night. He gets annoyed. They accuse him of pushing them. He denies. Is arrested