Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Thoroughly enjoyed that.
National Championships **Spoilers**
- Thread starter Noodley
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Apollonius
Guru
- Location
- South Staffordshire
Superb effort by Kennaugh. He timed that to perfection, having JUST drained enough out of Swift to get him on the line.
Apollonius
Guru
- Location
- South Staffordshire
Just seen the end of the women's race. (On TV). Trott just sat in and then used her finish speed. Another great performance from Katie Archibald.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I just caught up with the race on ITV4. Dani King and Queen Trott! I can't believe Trott's still so young - she's been winning races for ever. And very canny racing from Kennaugh.
Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Pentlands & West Lothian
I watched the men's race on Eurosport, looked a cracking race. It was a shame though that in Gary Imlach's introduction he told us who had won the women's race. Hasn't he heard of spoiler alerts ?
Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Pentlands & West Lothian
Was also trying to follow the Belgian championships on the internet, found live pictures but no commentary. OPQS' s tactics in the closing k's looked bizarre, they had two riders in the break with about a minute on the bunch. In the break one of their riders was clearly chasing down attacks to allow his teammate a good crack at winning the sprint, but then the rest of OPQS went to the front of the bunch and caught them, with Boonen being outsprinted for 3rd. I read now that it was Steegmans lining up to sprint from the break and he's not a happy bunny.
Yep, OPQS royally screwed that one up
(No team had the number of troops or willingness to chase that group down but them... of course Steegmans could have still been beaten by Boeckmans)
They should have gone for the Boonen-sprint much earlier (and would have had a more organized sprint) or stick to the Steegmans-plan
Managers claim that bad communication (lack of earphones and no OPQS-signal men along the road) was the reason
But Steegmans is very p****** (and will probably leave the team at the end of the year) and even Boonen is mad cause he didn't want to ruin it for Steegmans or at least would have a better chance himself to win it with a better organization
Still the 18-rounds-around-the-churchtower was a pretty entertaining race because of it...only grabbing the escape with about 400-500m to go.
MikeonaBike
Senior Member
Gary Imlach, what a chump; watching the finish of the women's race would have been much more enjoyable if the fool hadn't told us what the result was at the beginning of the programme. Are there any sports presenters/commentators who are any good, for any sport?
