Author Topic: A random racing thread for non Grand Tour stuff. (Read 49124 times)

spesh · « **Reply #125 on:** 10 September, 2018, 01:46:31 pm »

Congratulations to Rachel Atherton, who's won the Women's Downhill World Championships for the fifth time (after winning the World Cup racing series for a record sixth time* last month).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/45465073

* French downhill rider Anne-Caroline Chausson won five consecutive World Cup series (1998-2002), and the senior women's downhill World Champs nine times in ten years (1996-2003 and 2005).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Caroline_Chausson#Titles

Pingu · « **Reply #126 on:** 03 March, 2019, 04:26:41 pm »

Women's cycling race forced to pause after lead rider catches men's race

Karla · « **Reply #127 on:** 09 March, 2019, 03:30:49 pm »

No surprises in this week's results: someone called Anne/Anna won the women's race and someone from Quickstep won for the men.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #128 on:** 08 April, 2019, 05:18:59 pm »

Not a Wiggins interview :
https://twitter.com/RondeVlaanderen/status/1114898860869074945

mattc · « **Reply #129 on:** 12 April, 2019, 06:11:28 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 08 April, 2019, 05:18:59 pm

Not a Wiggins interview :
https://twitter.com/RondeVlaanderen/status/1114898860869074945

Fantastic

[but what's with the Wiggo obsession? ]

Took me a while to check it was the same rider, but Cecilie does indeed have a history of this. A reminder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=VkbyFDrF9kM
(she only finished 4th at La Course!!!)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #130 on:** 16 April, 2019, 10:34:17 am »

I need to call my dentist!

Nuncio · « **Reply #131 on:** 22 April, 2019, 08:27:25 am »

Anyone else’s enjoy an Amstel Gold yesterday?

DuncanM · « **Reply #132 on:** 22 April, 2019, 10:38:15 am »

That was an astonishing race.

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LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #133 on:** 22 April, 2019, 10:52:56 am »

Third generation professional - Poulidor, Van Der Poel, Van Der Poel. Good genes.

It is a little late to be concerned about spoilers.

mattc · « **Reply #134 on:** 22 April, 2019, 04:08:19 pm »

Oh wow. I love those kind of finishes. It's nice to see the bravest rider win; usually it's the smartest rider, but occasionally everyone gets it wrong.

[I didn't know about the Poulidor -> van der Poel link.

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Nuncio · « **Reply #135 on:** 22 April, 2019, 07:43:59 pm »

Ok. 2 points for naming his team, 10 points for any of his team mates on the race (without looking it up)

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #136 on:** 22 April, 2019, 08:13:47 pm »

nul points

andrew_s · « **Reply #137 on:** 22 April, 2019, 09:12:41 pm »

12 points (the same team he's been riding CX for all winter, and the chap with 2 x de Ronde to his name).
When I checked, I recognised 3 other names as fellow CX riders, but wouldn't have associated them with the team

Nuncio · « **Reply #138 on:** 22 April, 2019, 09:21:03 pm »

11 points more than me (I knew 'Circus')

DuncanM · « **Reply #139 on:** 22 April, 2019, 09:39:37 pm »

Correndon Circus. Can't name any other riders.
The women's race was a good finale as well. I'm not at all biased because I have Niewiadoma on my fantasy team (and have learned to spell her name!).

fimm · « **Reply #140 on:** 23 April, 2019, 01:51:04 pm »

Quote from: Nuncio on 22 April, 2019, 08:27:25 am

Anyone else’s enjoy an Amstel Gold yesterday?

Yes, both of them

We watched the women's race first and thought that was exciting, and then we watched the men...

trekker12 · « **Reply #141 on:** 24 April, 2019, 10:08:35 am »

I notice Peter Sagan appears to have had a haircut - and with it the source of all his powers

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #142 on:** 24 April, 2019, 01:21:29 pm »

Crazy P Sagan had a fairly rad hair-loss program after the Tour a couple of years ago and it didn't seem to slow him down much then. Just scuppered his chances of signing for Giant-Alpecin, as far as I could tell.

T42 · « **Reply #143 on:** 30 June, 2019, 03:43:30 pm »

Just watched the men's French cycling championship. Bethany [n+1] will be pleased.

Judging from the results table, gent in question rides for Printed Circuit Board.

spesh · « **Reply #144 on:** 17 May, 2021, 03:26:18 pm »

A rather significant result in Elite-level cross-country MTB racing occurred yesterday:

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Great Britain's Tom Pidcock won his first elite World Cup mountain bike race, beating Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel in the cross-country final in Nove Mesto, Croatia.

It is the first World Cup victory for a British man since 1994.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/57137217

Apart from getting the venue host country wrong, the BBC couldn't be bothered to look up who the last British man to win a World Cup XC race, but off the top of my head, it was either Tim Gould or Gary Foord, at Mammoth Mountain.

<flexes Gargoyle Fu>

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UK cycling phenom Tom Pidcock has just won the Czech Republic round of the 2021 World Cup XC series. This is the first male XC World Cup winner from Britain for 27 years. The last UK winner of World Cup XC was actually only back in 2017 when Annie Last won at Lenzerheide. The last British male World Cup XC winner was the legendary Gary Foord in Mammoth Mountain in 1994, the era of the much longer but far less technically demanding XC racing.

https://www.mbr.co.uk/news/tom-pidcock-world-cup-win-407079

Tim Gould placed 3rd behind Foord in that race: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Gould

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #145 on:** 17 May, 2021, 07:51:07 pm »

He won the Baby ~~Gro~~ Giro last year, shewing that a spell in Vsquared's broom cupboard alongside electricity fanboi Matt Smith did not result in PTSD.

andyoxon · « **Reply #146 on:** 03 June, 2021, 09:39:52 pm »

The Dolphin's shaping up nicely.

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Hopefully this w/e should be good.

Pingu · « **Reply #147 on:** 03 June, 2021, 11:55:01 pm »

Impressed that Thomas and Porte have both made it this far.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #148 on:** 04 June, 2021, 12:02:41 am »

Quote from: Pingu on 03 June, 2021, 11:55:01 pm

Impressed that Thomas and Porte have both made it this far.

R Porte certainly defied expectations in the Tour last year, not for his podium finish but rather because he didn’t go home in an ambulance

spesh · « **Reply #149 on:** 04 June, 2021, 12:30:11 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 04 June, 2021, 12:02:41 am

Quote from: Pingu on 03 June, 2021, 11:55:01 pm
Impressed that Thomas and Porte have both made it this far.

R Porte certainly defied expectations in the Tour last year, not for his podium finish but rather because he didn’t go home in an ambulance

That's it, you've jinxed him now.

ETA - Unless Tom Pidcock falling off his TT bike and borking his collar bone this week was a case of "taking one for the team"...