World Championships Discussion (With Spoilers)

[echappist]

Originally Posted by Polyglot

One thing that nobody has mentioned but that the bookies have noticed is the home country advantage. It does not matter where you race, when racing in home, you will always have an additional spur to exceed yourself, even if in nothing more than a support role. I think this is why the bookies give Boassen Hagen such high odds. The weather in Bergen also favors those who are accustomed to rather harsh weather (Dutch, Belgian, Scandinavians, Sagan...). I have been to Bergen and Norway many times and the weather truly is unique

EBH of 2011 would have been great here. EBH of today? I'm not as sure

Originally Posted by cadence90

Yes, surprisingly a long time. The last Dutchman was Joop Zoetemelk, 1985.

wonder which will happen first. Next Dutch winner of the men's road race (Olympic or UCI) or the next Dutch winner of the World Cup or Euro. The Dutch cyclists have a bit of head start, as it'll be at least another three years before the next Euro.

[cadence90]

Originally Posted by echappist

wonder which will happen first. Next Dutch winner of the men's road race (Olympic or UCI) or the next Dutch winner of the World Cup or Euro. The Dutch cyclists have a bit of head start, as it'll be at least another three years before the next Euro.

I think I would have to go with a cyclist. The NED collapse in football is pretty shocking and appears to be continuing. I think the FIFA rankings are a joke, but still...NED are at their lowest ranking ever, and are now behind such powerhouses as Poland, Switzerland, Northern Ireland, Iceland, Ukraine, Iran, Turkey, USA....
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[colbyh]

Originally Posted by ultraman6970

Martin... Dan martin??? IMO Martin is not a classic rider that's why he is not one of the favs for this race, thats why Belgium and Netherlands are always the favs for world cups, in a matter of fact to me Gilbert has more chances than Martin to podium just because of his characteristics.

Dan Martin has won LBL and Lombardia, he might not be a pure classics rider by any means but he can get up the hilly ones when he wants to. And of course PG is a better bet but we were talking about outsiders that we'd like to see wear rainbow stripes for the first time.

[BdaGhisallo]

I am watching the last few km of the Junior Women's RR and some of them are using some really wide bars considering their stature. Interesting.

[echappist]

that was helluva final lap.

[cadence90]

Fantastic Women's Junior TT/RR double for Elena Pirrone, ITA!

[weisan]

Awesome finish at the U23 Men's race today.

[echappist]

Originally Posted by cadence90

Fantastic Women's Junior TT/RR double for Elena Pirrone, ITA!

think the Dutch will take it tomorrow. I think that'll go well next to the Euro Cup their women's team won

[cadence90]

Originally Posted by echappist

think the Dutch will take it tomorrow. I think that'll go well next to the Euro Cup their women's team won

Could very well be. I will try to find it on TV somehow. I don't know much about women's racing, but the NED team does look strong, but ITA and USA do as well, right?

8 BLAAK Chantal NED
9 BRAND Lucinda NED
10 ENSING Janneke NED
11 PIETERS Amy NED
12 VAN DER BREGGEN Anna NED
13 VAN DIJK Ellen NED
14 VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek NED
15 VOS Marianne NED

16 GUARNIER Megan USA
17 HALL Katharine USA
18 NEBEN Amber Leone USA
19 RIVERA Coryn USA
20 STEPHENS Lauren USA
21 WILES Tayler USA
22 WINDER Ruth USA

23 BALSAMO Elisa ITA
24 BERTIZZOLO Sofia ITA
25 BRONZINI Giorgia ITA
26 CECCHINI Elena ITA
27 GUDERZO Tatiana ITA
28 LONGO BORGHINI Elisa ITA
29 RATTO Rossella ITA


Whoa, I just looked on the UCI website...the Dutch women are killer!
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[echappist]

Also Poland with Niewiadoma.

Dutch to take 2 of the three podiums, with Niewiadoma completing the podium
U.S.A. and perhaps Italy to round out top 5/wild card winners

Coverage on Eurosport. Not sure who covers this stateside. You can probably get free coverage by going to the German youtube site (via VPN)

ETA: it's on NBCSN's "Olympic Channel"

[cadence90]

^
Thank you. I don't know the Polish rider.

I don't think I can get the Olympic Channel; I will have to see. If not hopefully I can get RAI or Eurosport through Steephill TV.

[choke]

I think it will definitely be an orange podium. I would think Anna vdB but realisticly pretty much every one has the potential to win.

Kasia could be up there as well....or maybe Elisa Longo-Borghini. I can't really see any Americans but anything is possible.

If you have a VPN, set it to Canada and go to the UCI Channel on YouTube....you can watch all the races live there.

[cadence90]

Originally Posted by choke

I think it will definitely be an orange podium. I would think Anna vdB but realisticly pretty much every one has the potential to win.

Kasia could be up there as well....or maybe Elisa Longo-Borghini. I can't really see any Americans but anything is possible.

If you have a VPN, set it to Canada and go to the UCI Channel on YouTube....you can watch all the races live there.

I am not computer-savvy, and can't figure out how to install a VPN (I even had to look up the term just now), but fortunately I am getting RAI in perfect HD through firstone.tv through steephil.tv.

[weisan]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/saga...r-my-sickness/

[ultraman6970]

With sagan you never know... well could be a bluff