2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby MichaelB » Tue Sep 25, 2018 8:32 am
Anyway, the Elite Womens and Mens RR will be telecast (the last bit anyway) on SBS.
Apparently the other races are available on streaming of SBS On-demand.
I can't imagine what it would be like to try and keep moving up that last hill after almost 250km of racing !!
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby find_bruce » Thu Sep 27, 2018 7:09 am
Gee the time gaps have been big this year in the time trials - the only one that was close was the junior women
Mens 1:21.09 & 1:21.62
Womens 0:29 & 1:25
Mens U23 0:33 & 0:38
Mens junior 1:23 & 1:37
Womens junior 0:06.80 & 0:17.94
Remco Evenepoel's win in the mens junior was impressive & at 18 has already signed a pro contract with Quick-step for 2019
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby MichaelB » Thu Sep 27, 2018 8:54 am
I think many will cope with not seeing the Aussie Champs TT jersey for a few months.find_bruce wrote:It's happened often, but I rarely take as much pleasure in being wrong. Just a shame the Australian jersey won't be worn for 12 months
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Remco Evenepoel's win in the mens junior was impressive & at 18 has already signed a pro contract with Quick-step for 2019
RE's win in the Junior ITT was huge. Be interesting to see if he copes in the PT or it's too early ?
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby find_bruce » Fri Sep 28, 2018 7:11 am
find_bruce wrote:Remco Evenepoel's win in the mens junior was impressive & at 18 has already signed a pro contract with Quick-step for 2019
It is unfair that one kid has so much talent - crashes & loses a couple of minutes, chases back & on wins his own by a 1:25MichaelB wrote:RE's win in the Junior ITT was huge. Be interesting to see if he copes in the PT or it's too early ?
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby MichaelB » Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:16 am
Double HUGEfind_bruce wrote:find_bruce wrote:Remco Evenepoel's win in the mens junior was impressive & at 18 has already signed a pro contract with Quick-step for 2019It is unfair that one kid has so much talent - crashes & loses a couple of minutes, chases back & on wins his own by a 1:25MichaelB wrote:RE's win in the Junior ITT was huge. Be interesting to see if he copes in the PT or it's too early ?
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby find_bruce » Fri Sep 28, 2018 5:17 pm
It seems Brad McGee gets his ideas from Australian Cycling ForumsMichaelB wrote:Maybe Haig’s or Clarke’s chance ?
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby MichaelB » Sat Sep 29, 2018 10:08 am
If it works, I’ll claim the credit.find_bruce wrote:It seems Brad McGee gets his ideas from Australian Cycling ForumsMichaelB wrote:Maybe Haig’s or Clarke’s chance ?
If it fails, I’ll blame McGee
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby MichaelB » Sun Sep 30, 2018 11:25 am
But AvdB - WOW.
Wonder if there will be similar gaps in the Men’s race.
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby find_bruce » Sun Sep 30, 2018 12:23 pm
It was a really interesting race from 80k to go until about 40k when AvdB put her foot down & blew them all away. Good 40k time trial from Spratt to hang on to silver. Igls did a good job whittling the field downMichaelB wrote:Silver for Amanda Spratt - we’ll done
But AvdB - WOW.
Wonder if there will be similar gaps in the Men’s race.
But it’s only the elite men that face the monster at the end
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby fat and old » Sun Sep 30, 2018 6:27 pm
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby Derny Driver » Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:49 am
Great ride by the French and Spanish teams.
Allaphillipe unfortunately dropped when his teammate Bardet pulled a hard turn on the final climb.
They reckon Bardet cant sprint? He did well to get 2nd.
Good race. Plenty of the big favourites got shelled.
Jack Haig was good I thought, just couldnt quite maintain contact on the final attack, final hill.
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby fat and old » Mon Oct 01, 2018 1:12 am
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby find_bruce » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:32 am
Because he had burnt all his matches catching them & piti would have followed. Dumoulin did try & jump them at 1k to go, but piti was watchingfat and old wrote:Not that I’m upset but why did Doumalin pull up when he caught them? He had some serious impetus going on.
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby MichaelB » Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:37 am
Haven’t watched it yet, but for Haig to Top 20 is brilliant.
Surprising that some didn’t do well yet others did. Was surprised that TD did so well especially after ITT result.
Oh well ....
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby fat and old » Mon Oct 01, 2018 1:04 pm
Yeah, I read Doumalin’s comments on that. He really looked to be bearing down on them at the time.
Kudos to Bardet. A Frenchie worthy of respect. I was impressed with his showing at Strade and am more so now.
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby g-boaf » Mon Oct 01, 2018 1:23 pm
I'm watching it now - very nice to have the whole thing online. So many places they are going through I remember riding through there myself.MichaelB wrote:Bugger re 1st place, but good and interesting Top 4.
Haven’t watched it yet, but for Haig to Top 20 is brilliant.
Surprising that some didn’t do well yet others did. Was surprised that TD did so well especially after ITT result.
Oh well ....
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby MichaelB » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:07 pm
I’m an Aussie, and a Brit won that race. But for an Aussie team at least.fat and old wrote:Meh, your man won Valverde’s home race, be content
Yeah, I read Doumalin’s comments on that. He really looked to be bearing down on them at the time.
Kudos to Bardet. A Frenchie worthy of respect. I was impressed with his showing at Strade and am more so now.
Interesting that Kennaugh was the top Brit !
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Postby fat and old » Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:12 am
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby MichaelB » Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:22 am
The ride by Woods was a brilliant one, and I hope that he get's his chances. Maybe iL Lombardia ? As others have nmentioned, Bardet impressed as well.
Watched it last night, and that climb up the Holl was &^$(&^&*^$%&%.
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby find_bruce » Tue Oct 02, 2018 12:18 pm
Yep now that he has rainbow stripes, piti won't be riding for anyone but himselfMichaelB wrote:Poor old NQ & MLM are now going to play 2nd fiddle to AVB whenever the two ride
Watching live I saw it as a planned move, but Alaphilippe didn't have the legs to stay with it. Yes the result would have been different yes if Bardet had waited, but not to the extent of Alaphilippe winning -Woods & Dumoulin wouldn't have been spent & Moscon would have been in the mix. As I saw it Bardet was trying to drop piti on the way up & on the descent but couldn't have achieved it.vosadrian wrote:Great race! Anyone think the result would have been different if Bardet had not rode Allaphillipe off the back. Valverde had no more team support, but had Bardet riding for him anyway!!
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby MichaelB » Tue Oct 02, 2018 1:03 pm
And to see big TD paperboying up the climb was amazing.
Can’t imagine what that would be like to even attempt fresh, let alone after 250km of racing !!
And Haig averaged 37km/hr for 7 hours !!
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Re: 2018 WRRC - who's gonna win ?
Postby vosadrian » Tue Oct 02, 2018 1:58 pm
I'm sure it was a planned move, and Allaphillipe did not have the legs he hoped he would have. But it took Bardet a while to realise that and by that time he had just done what Valverde would have asked a team mate to do had he had one! I would have thought the best chance the French had of winning was to get Allaphillipe into the final against Valverde... particularly if Bardet was also there. Ideally the fastest pace that Allaphillipe could manage to limit the selection, but Bardet went too hard for him. Still... a silver is nothing to sneeze at!find_bruce wrote:Yep now that he has rainbow stripes, piti won't be riding for anyone but himselfMichaelB wrote:Poor old NQ & MLM are now going to play 2nd fiddle to AVB whenever the two ride
Watching live I saw it as a planned move, but Alaphilippe didn't have the legs to stay with it. Yes the result would have been different yes if Bardet had waited, but not to the extent of Alaphilippe winning -Woods & Dumoulin wouldn't have been spent & Moscon would have been in the mix. As I saw it Bardet was trying to drop piti on the way up & on the descent but couldn't have achieved it.vosadrian wrote:Great race! Anyone think the result would have been different if Bardet had not rode Allaphillipe off the back. Valverde had no more team support, but had Bardet riding for him anyway!!
At the end when Valverde went long, I thought he was making a mistake, but he had the legs to pull it off... It was impressive to see him control that finish from the front.
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