Well the voting is in and the winner of the vote is the course that takes in the Muur de Geraardsbergen. This will no doubt be an exciting course that could go to riders who are good on the cobbles or in a sprint, or maybe it will require skills in both! The course takes in the Muur 4 times in the second half of the race and with a length of 250km that might prove decisive.
[Note: There are about 200m more of cobbles not pictured]
This is for the Elite RR of course and here are the differences with the other courses: U23 RR - Same course, with only three laps of the finishing circuit, but the same start and finish. Elite TT - About 58km and it will take in the Muur once. U23 TT - About 40km and it will take in the Muur once. Nations TTT - Same course as the Elite TT
More details will be made available from roturn within a few days.
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Here are the numbers which each country has qualified for the elite road race:
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9 Riders
Australia
Belgium
France
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Netherlands
New Zealand
Russia
USA
3 Riders
Cuba
Czech Republic
Finland
Kazakhstan
Poland
Slovenia
Sweden
Reserves
1. South Africa
2. Argentina
3. Japan
4. Ireland
And here are the number qualified for the ITT:
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2 riders each from:
USA
Netherlands
Columbia
Moldova
Luxembourg
Germany
Belgium
Spain
France
Switzerland
Italy
Russia
Ukraine
Kazachstan
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
Portugal
Australia
Denmark
Slovenia
Great Britain
Estonia
Sweden
Poland
The first step towards creating the team is the nomination process. Each team may nominate as many or as few of their riders to ride in the world championships. The selectors then choose from the available riders to create the road race, time trial and team time trial squads.
Remember that only nominated rides may be selected by the selectors, meaning that the worlds will only be contested by riders from active teams who nominate them.
Teams who do not have enough riders nominated may be downgraded a level. Further, any teams whose most suitable riders aren't nominated may be withdrawn and replaced by one of the reserve teams. Thus nominating riders for the reserve teams is important.
You can also volunteer to become a selector for a country.
- To do this, you must have a rider in your team from that country
- Once the nominations are in, I PM the selectors for each and every country, they then make their team selections, and the most selected riders are those who get to ride. If there are still any ties after 3 rounds of voting I will provide the tiebreaker.
- The more selectors a country has, the better.
Under 23's
Riders not selected for the Elite Road Race and aged 23 or under as of 26th September 2012 will be available for the U23 Road Race. Likewise riders not selected for the Elite Time Trial will be available for the U23 Time Trial. The startlists for these races will be compiled by Smowz for the lists of available riders. As Taylor Phinney won both the U23 Road Race and U23 Time Trial last year he will not be available for selection in the Under 23 race.
NOTE: Nominations will close at approximately 15:00 on 29th August, British time.
Current Nominees:
Australia (RR/TT) - Selectors: SN, jph, fenian, Smowz, tsmoha, dave92
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Vesuvio - Michael Ford
Rapha - Wes Sulzberger
Dyson - Shaun Higgerson
Colombia - Mick Rogers
Oz - Baden Cooke, Mark Renshaw
Jayco - Christopher Sutton, Simon Gerrans, Adam Hansen
Oz - Jack Bobridge, Luke Durbridge
Hollister - Allan Davis, Zakkari Dempster
Wikipedia - Matthew Goss
Pearl - William Walker
BPost - Nikolas Maes, Pieter Vanspeybrouck, Johan Vansummeren, Niels Albert, Jelle Vanendert
Pendleton's - Phillipe Gilbert, Pieter Mertens
WWE - Leif Hoste
Festina - Geert Steurs, Roy Sentjens, Olivier Kaisen, Kristof Goddaert
Milka - Evert Verbist, Thomas De Gendt, Michael Vanderaerden
Jayco - Jerome Giaux, Svem Vanthourenhourt
Wiggle - Ben Hermans
Carmeuse - Jurgen Roelandts, Wouter Weylandt, Steven Caethoven, Pieter Jacobs
AMEX - Bart Veyt
Sony - Kevin Fouquet
Rothaus - Maxime Vantomme, Frederik Willems
Bacardi - Gert Steegmans, Michael Van Stayen
Hollister - Staf Scheirlinckx
JW - Dominique Cornu, Sebastien Rosseler
Bianchi - Maxime Monfort, Dimitri Claeys
Wikipedia - Kevin Eeckhout
Pearl - Kenny De Haes, Wim De Vocht, Jan Bakelants, Stijn Joseph
Germany (RR/TT) - Selectors: SN, roturn, Kami, Heine, Rin, felix
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WWE - Andre Greipel
Vesuvio - Marcel Kittel, Dietmar Mehr-Wenige
Festina - Markus Fothen
UBS - Stefan Schumacher
Rothaus - Eric Baumann, Artur Gayek, Carlo Westphal
Bacardi - Marcus Burghardt
JW - Marcel Sieberg
Volkswagen - Aleksandar Flügel, Lucas Schädlich
Bianchi - Gerald Ciolek, Andreas Stauff
Trilux - Heinrich Haussler, Markus Eichler, Fabian Wegmann
Great Britain (RR/TT) - Selectors: wackojackohighcliffe, SN, jph, rjc
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Pendleton's - Tom Faiers, Geraint Thomas, Bradley Wiggins
Vesuvio - Ben Swift
Rapha - Adam Blythe, Jonathan Bellis, Peter Kennaugh, Chris Froome, Ian Stannard, Andrew Tennant
Dyson - Simon Gaywood
Wiggle - Luke Rowe, Andrew Fenn, Ian Bibby, Tom Diggle, Steven Burke, Russell Hampton
Vespa - Luca Ascani, Domenico Pozzovivo, Roberto Traficante
Cal Giant - Filippo Pozzato
Festina - Diego Ulissi
Milka - Adrian Malori
Cerne - Elia Viviani, Maurizio Biondo
Venchi - Claudio Corioni, Cesare di Maggio, Franco Pellizotti, Luigi Sestili, Sergio Marinangeli
Wiggle - Simone Ponzi, Moreno Moser
Sony - Alessandro Ballan, Santo Anza
Rothaus - Claudio Cucinotta
Bacardi - Riccardo Ricco, Salvatore Mancuso
Volkswagen - Marco Marzano, Alberto Loddo
Bianchi - Tommy Zaini
Pearl - Jacopo Guarnieri, Enrico Franzoi, Giacomo Nizzolo
Netherlands (RR/TT) - Selectors: jph, roturn, Kami, tyriion, Rin
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BPost - Michiel Elijzen, Remco Broers
Koppert - Sebastien Langeveld, Tom Veelers
Dyson - Marco Brus
Festina - Tim Dees, Daan Rijntjes
Sony - Robin Van Der Hugenhaben
Rothaus - Lars Boom
Bacardi - Martijn Keizer, Mathieu Heijboer
UPC - Rik Kavsek
Saab - Johnny Hoogerland
JW - Robert Gesink, Joost Posthuma, Laurens Ten Dam, Michel Kreder
Volkswagen - Kai Reus
Bianchi - Piet Rooijakkers
Pearl - Tom Leezer
New Zealand (RR Only) - Selectors: Roman, Smowz, tsmoha
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Milka - Sam Bewley
Jayco - Joseph Cooper
Oz - George Bennett, Aaron Gate, Westley Gough, Michael Vink
Rapha - Jesse Sergent
Ekspla - Logan Hutchings
Russia (RR/TT) - Selectors: Mresuperstar, Oleg, mattiasgt
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CSC - Romain Maksimov, Ivan Kovalev
TCS Bank - Dmitri Kozontchuk, Maxim Belkov, Artjom Timofeev, Denis Galimzyanov, Timofey Kritskiy, Artem Ovechkin, Pavel Brutt, Vladimir Efimkin, Sergei Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Kolobnev
Wiggle - Mikhail Ignatiev
Sony - Yuri Trofimov
Hollister - Aleksandr Serebriakov
Pearl - Evgeni Popov
USA (RR/TT) - Selectors: Mresuperstar, Levi, wackojackohighcliffe, Mhaley dave92
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Cal Giant - Taylor Tolleson, Ryan Eastman, Tyler Brandt, Peter Stetina
Jayco - Roman Kilun
Pendleton's - David Zabriskie
AMEX - Anthony Colby
Ekspla - Mike Friedman
Wikipedia - Tejay Van Garderen, Danny Summerhill, Tyler Farrar, Taylor Phinney
Milka - Zdenek Stybar, Leopold König, Roman Kreuziger
Bianchi - Frantisek Rabon
Rothaus - Daniel Vesely, Jakub Novak
Finland (RR Only) - Selectors: Heine
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Volkswagen - Jussi Veikkanen
Pearl - Jukka Vastaranta
Kazakhstan (RR/TT) - Selectors: SN, Roman, roturn
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Vesuvio - Maxim Iglinski
Milka - Alexandr Nepomnyachsniy, Yevgeni Nepomnyachsniy
Sony - Dmitri Muravjev
Rothaus - Valentin Iglinski
Poland (RR/TT) - Selectors: Pellizotti2, SN, Rin
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Ferrari - Przemyslaw Niemiec
Vesuvio - Matiej Paterski
Venchi - Maciej Bodnar
Hollister - Sylwester Szymd
Bianchi - Piotr Mazur
Slovenia (RR/TT) - Selectors: kumazan, Levi
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BPost - Jan Polanc
Piv. Lasko - Matic Strgar, Dean Podgornik, Mitja Sribar
Cal Giant - Kristjan Koren
Bacardi - Jure Kocjan, Matej Mugerli
Sweden (RR/TT) - Selectors: ember, mattiasgt
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Aker - Gustav Erik Larsson
Sony - Freddy Johansson, Alexander Wetterhall
Saab - Johan Lindgren, Thomas Lövkvist
Moldova (TT Only) - Selectors:
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Ukraine (TT Only) - Selectors: Avin, rjc, Kami
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Metinvest - Juri Krivtsov, Vladimir Djudja
Wiggle - Jaroslav Popovych, Vladimir Bileka
Bacardi - Dmitri Grabovski
Volkswagen - Vadim Ratiy
Costa Rica (TT Only) - Selectors: Bushwackers
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UBS - Andrei Amador
Portugal (TT Only) - Selectors: Gustavovskiy, p3druh
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Cerne - Ricardo Martins, Nelson Oliveira
CSC - Rui Costa
Pearl - Jose Mendes, Manuel Antonio Cardoso, Tiago Machado
Estonia (TT Only) - Selectors: Crommy
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Carmeuse - Rein Taaramae
Pearl - Tanel Kangert
South Africa (RR Reserve) - Selectors: Smowz, Avin, roturn, dave92
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Jayco - Daryl Impey
Metinvest - Dennis Van Niekerk, Herman Fouche
Rothaus - Christoff Van Heerden
Wikipedia - Juan van Heerden, Reinhardt Janse van Rensburg
Argentina (RR Reserve) - Selectors: danlima
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UBS - Maximiliano Richeze
Petrobras - Ruben Bongiorno
Pearl - Mauro Richeze
I'm kind of surprised the Muur won it. Only a cobbler has any chance at it - be made marginally more interesting by the fact that Boonen won't be riding.
Got no one worth nominating in either of my teams so I'll skip nominating anyone.
And a question (sorry if it's a dumb one ..): Do those u23-riders have to be nominated for the WC-race to be available for the u23-race? Or can a rider race the u23 without being nominated here? And: If a rider is selected for the Elite TT, can he still ride the u23 RR?
..): Do those u23-riders have to be nominated for the WC-race to be available for the u23-race? Or can a rider race the u23 without being nominated here? And: If a rider is selected for the Elite TT, can he still ride the u23 RR?
