A random racing thread for non Grand Tour stuff.

[spesh]

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]

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

[Karla]

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]

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

[mattc]

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]

I need to call my dentist! 

[Nuncio]

Anyone else’s enjoy an Amstel Gold yesterday?

[DuncanM]

That was an astonishing race.

(click to show/hide)

I'm surprised the Astana and Decunink sports directors weren't yelling into the earpieces saying they had to ride - they messed about from 2km to go - if they had ridden together to 500m then one of those 2 would have won.
I was also surprised at how it seemed that Van Der Poel pulled the bunch behind him across to the leaders seemingly on his own, and yet none of that bunch could match him in the sprint.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

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

It is a little late to be concerned about spoilers.

[mattc]

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.  ]

[Nuncio]

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

[LittleWheelsandBig]

nul points

[andrew_s]

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]

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

[DuncanM]

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]

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]

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

[Mr Larrington]

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]

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.