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Road World Championships 2012
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:24
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Miguel98 wrote:
Alakagom, Sky is only with 4 elements. 
Sky didn't prepare at all well for this, and they seem not to care too much anyway looking the team they fielded
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| Kirchen_75 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:26
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Sagans face when OPQS crossed the line - Priceless |
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:27
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Phinney is attacking backwards 
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:27
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BMC pulled a Rabobank 
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:29
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they did that on the Cauberg, and still came 2nd.
Wow.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:29
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That was close 
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:34
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So, that's it. Unless Sky use some sort of super-fart power to get there quickly.
There's no point slapping a schleck - Sean Kelly on "Who needs a slap"
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:36
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1 OPQS
2 BMC
3 Orica
4 Liquigas
5 Rabobank
No big surprises at the end.
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| dienblad |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:43
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NIce racing, to me a great addition to the WC!
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:44
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dienblad wrote:
NIce racing, to me a great addition to the WC!
Well.... once the UCI actually decide what happens with it. It seems like they don't really know yet.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:50
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Fun to watch, but still not sure why it's trade teams and not national teams. |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 15:56
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Didn't see much of the race, unfortunately. It was pretty fun to see how the Cauberg cracked some riders though. Especially BMC's climb was pretty exciting.
They should include a climb like that near the end of all TTTs. Would make them much more fun to watch.
Does anyone have a video of Rabobank falling apart? I missed that, but I'd like to see it. 
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 16-09-2012 16:14
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CrueTrue wrote:
Fun to watch, but still not sure why it's trade teams and not national teams. As it doesn't even award a jersey, I guess trade teams would ask their riders to take it easy before the ITT and the RR, which would fuck the results up.
Plus as it's one of the most technical event in road cycling, it probably takes a lot of time for specific training, which national teams don't have. |
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| PCM rulezz |
Posted on 16-09-2012 16:21
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Aquarius wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
Fun to watch, but still not sure why it's trade teams and not national teams. As it doesn't even award a jersey, I guess trade teams would ask their riders to take it easy before the ITT and the RR, which would fuck the results up.
Plus as it's one of the most technical event in road cycling, it probably takes a lot of time for specific training, which national teams don't have.
There is no jersey but OPQS is allowed to put a "flag" or something on there jersey for the whole year (not only TTT but also road race and ITT)
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 16:23
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PCM rulezz wrote:
Aquarius wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
Fun to watch, but still not sure why it's trade teams and not national teams. As it doesn't even award a jersey, I guess trade teams would ask their riders to take it easy before the ITT and the RR, which would fuck the results up.
Plus as it's one of the most technical event in road cycling, it probably takes a lot of time for specific training, which national teams don't have.
There is no jersey but OPQS is allowed to put a "flag" or something on there jersey for the whole year (not only TTT but also road race and ITT)
Yeah, our commentator said they'd get to put a logo (that hasn't been designed yet) on the jersey. But they don't even know where yet. The UCI has said nothing.
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 16-09-2012 16:40
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When it's not national teams, only trade teams and no jersey I can't really see the point of it. To me the WC should be a battle between the nations, not between conventional teams.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 16:50
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MTN-Qhubeka: Faster than Lampre
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| CountArach |
Posted on 16-09-2012 17:05
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CrueTrue wrote:
Fun to watch, but still not sure why it's trade teams and not national teams.
Better publicity for sponsors?
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 16-09-2012 17:22
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CountArach wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
Fun to watch, but still not sure why it's trade teams and not national teams.
Better publicity for sponsors?
Not for the sponsors, for the UCI. The worlds are the one race where they get 100% of the tv money, and it gets very good numbers. I'm sure they were sitting around trying to figure out how to get more racing on television, and somebody came up with bringing the TTT back.
As for it being trade teams? Probably because that's the only way the TTT exists, as trade teams. It would be stupid for the riders with the TTT jersey or logo or whatever to be spread out across different teams. |
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 17:41
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Deadpool wrote:
CountArach wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
Fun to watch, but still not sure why it's trade teams and not national teams.
Better publicity for sponsors?
Not for the sponsors, for the UCI. The worlds are the one race where they get 100% of the tv money, and it gets very good numbers. I'm sure they were sitting around trying to figure out how to get more racing on television, and somebody came up with bringing the TTT back.
As for it being trade teams? Probably because that's the only way the TTT exists, as trade teams. It would be stupid for the riders with the TTT jersey or logo or whatever to be spread out across different teams.
ironic that it's added the year they lose the U23 money
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