Cosmic Kid
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| 08/12/2020 10:11 AM |
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Foooook.
https://www.velonews.com/news/road/uci-road-worlds-in-switzerland-canceled-due-to-covid-19/ |
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Orange Crush
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| 08/12/2020 12:33 PM |
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| They are looking for alternative venues on similar terrain possibly leveraging already scheduled events.The Swiss can be pretty unmoving on set rules. |
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eurochien
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| 08/12/2020 01:15 PM |
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| Maybe they can do it online. /joke |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 08/12/2020 01:53 PM |
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| I don't see any way they can move it somewhere else, even if they reduce the number of events. IN the best of times, it would be a logistical nightmare and the timing is incredibly short. To do it in the times of COVID19....damn near impossible. |
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6ix
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| 08/12/2020 02:16 PM |
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What if you just considered one of the 'fall' classics to also be Worlds? Maybe that would make things a mess with trade teams versus countries.
Just have Tour of Lombardy be Worlds for the year. |
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Orange Crush
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| 08/12/2020 02:18 PM |
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Lombardy is a bit quick. It is Saturday.
Is that the only event that got moved earlier in time? |
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6ix
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| 08/12/2020 02:22 PM |
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| OK, Lombardy is a bad example. Wasn't aware it had been moved so far forward. Well, whatever the last big race of the season ends up being could be Worlds. I don't know...makes sense to me. |
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Orange Crush
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| 08/12/2020 02:39 PM |
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Towards the end we will have Flanders and Roubaix.
It sounds like UCI is fairly set on Sep 20-26 window (which got vacated by Quebec races not happening) and also on having a course that is similar to Switzerland (since that is what racers have banked on), then doing a light version of just men and women pros. Closest I could see is maybe Fleche Wallonne which is Sep 30, or Liege on Oct 4. Ardennes would not be a bad place to hold this. |
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longslowdistance
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| 08/12/2020 07:38 PM |
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Would love it if the Worlds came back to Richmond, 2015 redux! Sorry just sharing a pipe dream. In this hopefully brief pandemic, the race needs to be in the boondocks, not in a city.
OC may have nailed it. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 09/02/2020 09:47 AM |
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Wow....they managed to find another post to host Worlds!
https://www.velonews.com/news/road/uci-confirms-imola-italy-as-new-venue-for-2020-road-cycling-world-championships/ |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 09/24/2020 09:38 AM |
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Crap...Chloe Dygert punctured or lost control on a right hander and flipped over a guardrail in the womens TT and had to abandon.
Anna van der Breggen takes the gold. |
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6ix
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| 09/24/2020 10:48 AM |
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Dang it!! And she was already 30 seconds up after the first intermediate check too. Looks like she punctured while going through that turn. You can see a 'hop' and then the front wheel wobbling violently (I'm familiar with this!) before striking the barrier and going over. If anything, she probably benefited by hitting the barrier and flipping over it rather than it stopping her.
Wish her the best in recovery. She'll win it back next year. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 09/24/2020 10:51 AM |
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Sounds Chole's injuries are pretty gruesome...to the point that no one wants to post them.
Big gash / wound / tear in her leg, it sounds like. |
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Orange Crush
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| 09/24/2020 11:13 AM |
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Cycling is a cruel sport. Yes that very much looked like a sudden wobble due to puncture or blown tire.
Just looked at replay. Those barriers they put in turn. Well intended but they start too early where no one would involuntarily exit turn and they also end too early. Better positioning of barriers further along turn could have prevented the consequences. |
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Orange Crush
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| 09/24/2020 11:25 AM |
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| BTW - the men's TT field is absolutely stacked. |
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