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Road World Championships 2012
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 11-09-2012 13:27
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UCI Road World Championship 2012 in Limburg, Netherlands
15th to 23rd of September
Main Events
Sunday the 16th, 13.30-16.40: Team Time Trial for UCI teams
Monday the 17th, 14.00-16.25: Individual Time Trial for U23
Wednesday the 19th, 13.30-16.40: Individual Time Trial for Elite
Saturday the 22nd, 09.00-13.15: Road Race for U23
Sunday the 23rd, 10.45-17.00: Road Race for Elite
Profiles
Team Time Trial
U23 Time Trial
U23 Road Race
Elite Time Trial
Elite Road Race
Useful Links
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 11-09-2012 13:39
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Gilbert wins the Road title, Contador the TT and Omega owns everybody in the TTT.  |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 11-09-2012 13:42
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Would love if Gilbert finally managed to pull of a worlds title. I'll be cheering for him and Purito, who'd really deserve a big success after losing all the jerseys on the Vuelta's last day.
I think Gerrans will be really dangerous too.
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| GreenEDGEFan |
Posted on 11-09-2012 13:53
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Just my belief, but I think that this course could be more suited to sprinters than a lot of people believe. The thing is, those with strong, punchy type sprinters are those with teams who won't put all their eggs in one basket and fully support those sprinters, so they might not be in the mix at all (Friere, Boonen, Sagan perhaps)
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 11-09-2012 13:55
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How in god's name did Israel qualify six U23 riders??? Sorry, meant how in Adonai's name...Anyway, I'm all for it. A couple of those guys are actually quality. If they get in the right program, no reason they couldn't race at a high level. Israel needs a real high level pro, not Margaliot...
As for the race itself, I'll ignore the obvious points, and note some other things that catch my eye.
1) Columbia has Duarte, Uran, and Henao. That is a scary, scary trio for this finish. Three matches to burn, and in Uran a guy who would surprise no one with a win.
2) Very dangerous squad from France. Two leaders, five strong helpers, good course for them. Would love to see Chava win.
3) Ireland, Denmark, Switzerland, and Norway all qualify under the, 'would count them as favorites if they had more than 2-3 riders' rule.
4) Spain is just frightening. Maybe a little too frightening. Can't see them riding as a coherent unit with some of the trade team rivalries in there. That squad is insane though, got to be one of the best ever on paper.
5) Said it before and I'll say it again. The US team this year sucks, and I can't see it getting any better in the near future. We have two top tier GT talents (TJ and Joe D), another high quality GT talent (Talansky), and a TT plus maybe classics talent (Mini-Phinney) and no one else. Like, I mean, no one else. Lawson Craddock? Really? I mean, Really?
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| acac |
Posted on 11-09-2012 14:28
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Deadpool wrote:
How in god's name did Israel qualify six U23 riders??? Sorry, meant how in Adonai's name...Anyway, I'm all for it. A couple of those guys are actually quality. If they get in the right program, no reason they couldn't race at a high level. Israel needs a real high level pro, not Margaliot...
the six man is the long list, three will be sent after a race in france. |
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| Abelbaba |
Posted on 11-09-2012 14:42
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ah i hope i can find some time to have a look 
unfortunatly the elite ITT is a no go on wednesday...  |
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| lokytrew |
Posted on 11-09-2012 14:47
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I think I'm going to the road race. It's gonna be a long ride but I will see if I can be there.
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| Bookie |
Posted on 11-09-2012 15:06
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Deadpool wrote:
Very dangerous squad from France. Two leaders, five strong helpers, good course for them. Would love to see Chava win.
Chavanel is there to help, he said himself he's concentrating on the TTT and the ITT. His form is not good enough at the moment. |
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 11-09-2012 16:00
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Well, awesome, my college of next week's wednesday has just been cancelled, guess who's happy now to see Bertie win the ITT?
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| ember |
Posted on 11-09-2012 16:04
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The Worlds will be incredibly interesting this year. Most good puncheurs looks like they're getting into form for the Worlds, and it will be hopefully be an epic battle for the win. Gilbert is my favourite, but it will be very interesting to see how Spain decides to play it.
A shame they won't show the junior and U23 races on television. Will be interesting to see what Norway can do there, especially for the juniors, as the team is really, really strong. |
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| YvesStevens |
Posted on 11-09-2012 16:15
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Who will be coming to Valkenburg this year ? |
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 11-09-2012 16:20
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Valkenburg is still a long trip for me, Friesland should've organised it... But maybe I'll come to Valkenburg.
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| The dj 12 |
Posted on 11-09-2012 16:22
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Gilbert and Purito are the strongest on paper I believe but I wonder if spain really can make their team work enterely for Purito. They got too many world class riders. |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 11-09-2012 16:26
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fjhoekie wrote:
Friesland should've organised it
No please. Never. Did I say never? I don't know if I stressed the word never enough. NEVER. Better this way. 
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| dienblad |
Posted on 11-09-2012 16:32
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kumazan wrote:
fjhoekie wrote:
Friesland should've organised it
No please. Never. Did I say never? I don't know if I stressed the word never enough. NEVER. Better this way.
Why not? A WC RR being decided because of echelons . Something completely different.
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| kumazan |
Posted on 11-09-2012 16:35
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dienblad wrote:
kumazan wrote:
fjhoekie wrote:
Friesland should've organised it
No please. Never. Did I say never? I don't know if I stressed the word never enough. NEVER. Better this way.
Why not? A WC RR being decided because of echelons . Something completely different.
We'll have Qatar for that. Once is enough, the worlds should never be pan flat. Plus if they make a circuit race there wouldn't be echelons.
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| johnnyjur |
Posted on 12-09-2012 00:08
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Is radio communication allowed?
Edited by johnnyjur on 12-09-2012 00:08
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| YvesStevens |
Posted on 12-09-2012 12:09
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johnnyjur wrote:
Is radio communication allowed?
I don't think so |
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| samdiatmh |
Posted on 12-09-2012 13:50
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Orica-Greenedge roster
Sebastian Langeveld, Jens Mouris, Cameron Meyer, Luke Durbridge, Sam Bewley and Svein Tuft
https://www.cyclin...tt-line-up
didn't realise it was only 6 riders for the TT |
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