World Road Cycling Championships 2024

[largebus]

Grace Brown goes out the TT champion.

Meanwhile, Jay Vine crashes and SBS say **** all about it.

 

[largebus]

A good ride from Vine considering he looked like he just survived a zombie apocalypse. Bloke just cannot descend.

Remco wins despite Ganna getting a blatant draft off Roglic.

 

[eth-dog]

Nice win by Brown. No rainbow jersey in the TT's next year for the women.

I thought Gee and Rogliç would do better than they did. Well done on fifty from Vine despite the crash.

 

[Orange Agent]

Ganna and drafting... He's becoming a repeat offender. Technically, unless they change the wording of the rules, he isn't breaking them. But when races are decided by less than 10 seconds, there needs to be some more stringent rules as start order plays a big part in who gets the biggest advantage from this.

What a way for Brown to finish her career. Late starter, in 2017 she was racing club level in Melb before going overseas with the National development squad. To achieve what she has in a relatively short space of time is incredible.

 

[yaco55]

It's a pity that Brown can't parlay her ITT form into the RR. She's been leader at the last four champioships and has failed miserably each time. There is no excuse for her not to get a decent result on saturday.

 

[eth-dog]

Mixed relay TTT on Kayo right now. Italy the big favourites but we're a good medal chance

 

[eth-dog]

We're ahead of everyone at the halfway mark. Everyone. And our women are the stronger half. We are a big, big chance at gold.

 

[eth-dog]

If we lose this it's because our women broke up on the climb.

 

[eth-dog]

5.6 seconds separating first (us) and third (Germany) at the final split. Italy are 2.5 seconds behind. This is really really tight.

 

[eth-dog]

GOLD FOR AUSTRALIA

 

[largebus]

So Muriel Furrer was killed in the junior women's RR and may have been lying there for an hour for she was found. I know it was raining but seriously, that's criminal incompetence from the UCI

 

[largebus]

Vollering just dropping her Dutch teammates. She might still win but jeez louise they have some terrible tactics

 

[largebus]

Dutch absolutely blew that. Kopecky was gone for all money with 10 km to go. Roseman-Gannon did well for 6th place, probably shouldn't have gone early though, and 11th for Steve, I mean Neve Bradbury

 

[yaco55]

Yet again Brown fails when the Aussie leader for the RR. It's amazing how she avoids scrutiny.

 

[eth-dog]

Dutch absolutely blew that. Kopecky was gone for all money with 10 km to go. Roseman-Gannon did well for 6th place, probably shouldn't have gone early though, and 11th for Steve, I mean Neve Bradbury

Second in the under 23's though unfortunately behind Puck Pieterse.

 

[eth-dog]

Pogi: "I'm bored, can you shut these guys down so I can attack?"
Rogla: "Yeah, sounds good."

 

[largebus]

Belgium caught asleep when Pog went up the road. Most likely cost them any shot at the race, though it may not have made a difference with how he's pulling away on every climb and has trade teammate working with him.

 

[eth-dog]

Belgium caught asleep when Pog went up the road. Most likely cost them any shot at the race, though it may not have made a difference with how he's pulling away on every climb and has trade teammate working with him.

Eh. If they shut it down straight away or Remco went they might have been a chance.

 

[eth-dog]

Remco coming off as a bit of a whinger here tbh.

 

[99 Problems]

I know there are no radios and it’s not their usual teams but the tactics from some of these nations after Pog attacked are almost worse than the Netherlands yesterday.

They had 100km to chase him down and power in numbers. Then suddenly some start attacking and some stop helping. The worst thing any of them could do would be to get in a 2 man break with Pog, you would basically need him to crash to win. Let him ride solo while burning your teammates for as long as possible then try and bridge across to him.

He’s clearly the strongest rider but he made himself a bit vulnerable with that attack and the others immediately blew it.

 

[largebus]

Eh. If they shut it down straight away or Remco went they might have been a chance.

You're basically repeating what I said but yeah we agree.

I know there are no radios and it’s not their usual teams but the tactics from some of these nations after Pog attacked are almost worse than the Netherlands yesterday.

They had 100km to chase him down and power in numbers. Then suddenly some start attacking and some stop helping. The worst thing any of them could do would be to get in a 2 man break with Pog, you would basically need him to crash to win. Let him ride solo while burning your teammates for as long as possible then try and bridge across to him.

He’s clearly the strongest rider but he made himself a bit vulnerable with that attack and the others immediately blew it.

Except he wasn't solo, Slovenia put Tratnik in the break ensure that he wouldn't be. Of course without radios they didn't know how long Tratnik was working for him but they knew he was up the road.

The biggest mistake as I and ethdog have said was letting him go to begin with. Although I think 1974 Merckx or 1996 Bjarne Riis would struggle to beat him.

 

[largebus]

It's almost like we've gone back to the bad old Skybot days when the outcomes of races were rather predictable. I still prefer this era to that though.

 

[eth-dog]

Pogi cracking?

 

[99 Problems]

You're basically repeating what I said but yeah we agree.

Except he wasn't solo, Slovenia put Tratnik in the break ensure that he wouldn't be. Of course without radios they didn't know how long Tratnik was working for him but they knew he was up the road.

The biggest mistake as I and ethdog have said was letting him go to begin with. Although I think 1974 Merckx or 1996 Bjarne Riis would struggle to beat him.

It’s not easy to hold the wheel of the guy with the most explosive attack in history. Tratnik was always going to be a limited factor given he cant hold off a committed group by himself and Pog wouldn’t be able to go full gas without dropping him as well.

The gap is still below 90 seconds now with all the time they wasted. Remco and MVDP could easily be within 30-45 seconds now having sat in the wheels and ready to launch at a tired Pog.

 

[largebus]

Hmmm, he's definitely riding a smaller gear. If there were radios they'd be hearing it behind to go and attack

Hirschi riding like it's 2020 when the doping controls had to be relaxed for COVID reasons.