UCI World Championships
 

Does anyone know where we can watch this weekend? Flobikes has it blocked in the US. I thought NBC owned the rights but it is not listed in their Cycling Pass calendar.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Is there a way for you to get the BBC stream from the UK? They are showing the men's race on Sunday.

It turns out
 

that it is on the Olympic Channel that NBC owns. Thurs-Sun events.Not as good as when the juniors an U-23's are racing but I will watch ( commercials and all)

One would need an account linked to an actual British address. They solved the VPN end-run years ago

might be worth it not having to listen to Bob Roll and Phil Liggett

Tiz

UCI World Championships
 

I paid for FloSports to watch the Tour here(Canada).
I was a little ticked because I thought it would’ve been about $15 for the month, but I was charged a full year...and in Canadian so it was $200.

I’m very happy now though...I got the Tour, now I get World Championships, Giro, Vuelta...and a few others.


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Both the women's and men's time trials and road races are listed on the NBC Sports app for live coverage starting this Thursday. This will be the perfect remedy for my TdF hangover :banana:

Greg

My British address is the London Hilton...

Tiz cycling works great

Do you have access to the BBC? The requirement may even be that you need to pay the licensing fees, although I'm not sure.

Funny enough, one could get BBC1 in Amsterdam

It and my Eurosport get billed annually. Never been an issue.

It will be broadcast live on the Olympic Channel.

https://www.nbcsports.com/cycling-schedule

Was it only one year ago that the U23 guy was disqualified for drafting? Tempus fugit.

Is it a full schedule of events this year?

What kind of course is it this year, and what type of rider does it favour?

Only Elite events this year, no Junior or U23, although there are a couple U23 riders doing Elite. It's a super hilly course, with 2 climbs that are 6 and 11%. It could favor the punchier climbers, or some of the classics guys who can climb, a la WvA. And in what is a great turn of events, there is parity between the men and women's course. The men it's 260 km, and the women it's 160 km.

https://www.uci.org/road/news/2020/T...-Championships

I'll probably watch on either Sporza or NOS.nl with a VPN.


Re: the women's road race. Last week Annemiek van Vleuten broke her wrist during the Giro Rosa. For any normal human that would have ended a chance to defend the jersey but AvV doesn't give up easily. She was also scheduled to do the TT but has decided not to race that event.

Press release here: https://www.knwu.nl/nieuws/30345

Google translate:

Women's TT is currently underway.

For VPN users, I found English commentary at the 'via this link' here - https://twitter.com/CyclingCentral/s...06368356040705

I can't believe that Dygert crashed - hope she is OK.......

That was a big wheel wobble. Might have been better to have deliberately hit the padding and not the metal barrier.

Heartbreaking! Hope she's OK. Haven't seen the video yet, but the Cyclingnews report said there was some spotty rain on the course. A wet corner on a TT bike is certainly not a forgiving circumstance.

Greg

Lots of wobble....I think maybe a flat front tire.

She stayed down on the TT bars around a tight right hand bend and the front wheel started to wobble. She lost it out to the left and disappeared over the barrier. The front wheel may have hit something in the road. It all looked a bit weird. Don't know how she is.

gcn race pass with vpn works well

Video of Dygert's crash: https://twitter.com/CiclismoInter/st...083138560?s=20

WOW, that was absolutely terrifying! Fingers crossed that she wasn't seriously injured.

Greg

She was lucky not to hit that metal pole. It looked like a softer landing than for Evenepoel. Apparently she's conscious and talking.

sounds like Dygert's injuries are bad.

from Caley Fretz's post on Twitter:
"Photos from the accident show a major wound to Dygert's left leg, skin/muscle damage from mid-thigh down to her knee. Looks like she got bit by a shark. Honestly way too gross to post."

Ooch. Sounds like a Wout Van Aert type of leg wound. Left thigh caught the barrier's two bolt heads.

https://twitter.com/CiclismoInter/st...083138560?s=20

Left thigh catches the two bolt heads on the top of the barrier at 10 seconds;

Yikes. You can find pictures of her injury through a twitter search. I don't recommend it.

That's the worst pro cycling injury I've ever seen. Hopefully it's just a 'degloving' of skin from muscle and bone.

Trying not to think of Taylor Phinney and what a leg injury can do to effectively end a world-beating career.

really bad
 

Yeah this injury is pretty bad hopefully not as bad as Taylor's.

Ya, hopefully more of a WvA injury than a Mini Phinney injury

Sure looked like some form of mechanical failure. Not sure how she could have ridden that out any better than she did.

I know everything is sooooo easy from the couch, but I have to get this off my chest.

How do they decide on the placement of the padded barriers in cycling? Maybe it makes sense but I don't get it. Have you EVER seen a cyclist go straight, dead straight into a corner so that they hit the first 10 meters of barriers?

I haven't. I can only imagine that almost every crash is going to be slightly pre apex to 90+% exiting the corner... and the barriers barely cover the exit.... like 2 meters of the exit of a turn. Why not take all those dozens of first entry barrier pads and place them at the exit where they will be useful?

:confused::confused::confused:

Does what I'm saying make sense? Or is it like this in all races for a reason I don't understand?

Oh man.. that looks very painful. It does look like a mechanical with the front wheel.

If I were to guess, some volunteer who has no experience riding bikes at race speed is told to "put up barriers on the corner" and they drive out to the corner and put barriers around the point where the road bends the most, without understanding the path that riders will take through it.

It really was a tragic injury that could have been greatly reduced if only the barriers had been positioned better.

Never cared for Zipp wheels and even less so now.