Road world championship (Spoilers!)

[ColinJ]

Matthews won the two big races in Canada - Quebec and Montréal

I think that he had a point to prove... ("Why didn't you select me, you b*st*rds?"!

 

[roadrash]

maybe his seatpost slipped

 

[mjr]

maybe his seatpost slipped

Have you been riding in negative gravity again, RR?

 

[roadrash]

I meant his saddle may have slipped down 8mm so allowing him to win as mentioned by @brommers

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Canyon win the Women's TTT ahead of Boels and Sunweb

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

QuickStep win the men's TTT ahead of Sunweb and BMC

 

[smutchin]

Live stream of all races will be here:

View: https://youtu.be/IyFZn_et_sI

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Magnus Backstedt will be a proud father tonight with his daughter taking bronze in the junior women's.
Mum Meg (track bronze medallist) will be just as proud with her daughter's performance.

Ethan Hayter currently in silver position but it's still early days...and I need to do some shopping now....

 

[brommers]

Remco Evenepoel won the men's junior TT today. Has anyone seen his record this year? He's signed for Quick-Step.
https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/remco-evenepoel

 

[mjr]

Astonishing margin of victory by Evenepoel, though.

And what about that clean sweep of the ITT medals by the Dutch women. Is this a world's for the favourites?

 

[brommers]

In the mens ITT all the competitors seem to be seeded so the top ones in the World rankings go last - except for Wilco Kelderman who's first down the ramp! He could be in the hot seat for quite a while.
https://www.innsbruck-tirol2018.com/fileadmin/About/ITT_ME_StartList.pdf

 

[Legs]

Remco Evenepoel won the men's junior TT today. Has anyone seen his record this year? He's signed for Quick-Step.
https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/remco-evenepoel

Have you seen his winning margins in road races and stages? This was the European Champs:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/european-championship-mj/2018/result
Nearly all of his wins have been solo and by fairly substantial margins. He's an absolute animal - I can't see past him for the road race.

 

[smutchin]

In the mens ITT all the competitors seem to be seeded so the top ones in the World rankings go last - except for Wilco Kelderman who's first down the ramp! He could be in the hot seat for quite a while.
https://www.innsbruck-tirol2018.com/fileadmin/About/ITT_ME_StartList.pdf

Interesting. I did think about picking Kelderman for the punditry - unlikely to win, but an outsider for the podium - but if he's going first, he won't have a time to aim for which might hamper his chances.

You're right though - he will at very least set a time that is unlikely to be beaten until quite late in proceedings.

 

[Legs]

I really hope Darel Christopher Jr gets to the top of the climb...

EDIT: He made it - nearly 20 mins down at 35k :-)

 

[roadrash]

dumpmoulin has his work cut out after losing a minute to dennis on the climb