UCI Road World Championships Doha 2016
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Strathlubnaig
Guru
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- Alberta
$$$$$Why are they having a world championship in city where no-one appears to live.
Strathlubnaig
Guru
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- Alberta
Apparently Cookson said he has not heard of any issues at all regarding the heat, completely problem free event. He ought to get his head out of all that sand.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Ha! Even Gilmore on the BBC preview was saying you have to get used to drinking warm water because it's nastily hot even at 9am. Maybe Cookson can't see any coverage with his head in the sand?
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Why are they having a world championship in city where no-one appears to live
10 million of them was it not? Good ol' Uncle Pat.
Why are they having a world championship in city where no-one appears to live
The people are there. London is the only city in the UK with greater population. They either have no interest or do not want to stand in that heat for hours...probably both.
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
I saw 2 people walking along with shopping bags during the Junior Women's RR and another bloke looking as if he was thinking about crossing the road.
He was very careful with his choice of words.He said cases of heat exhaustion or heat stroke, which presumably have specific medical definitions and come at the extreme end of the heat related continuum.
That will be my mate trying to get to work. Most of the racing has taken place on the Pearl...one road in and out and closed from 8am to 4pm every day. Causing havoc locally apparently.
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
There was one of the TTs that had an ambulance on the course (Junior men?), which was not race related but a local ambulance that needed to get to someone in an emergency.
edit - it was U23 TT
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news...collide-world-championships-time-trial-289237
I don't understand what Qatar get out of this apart from bad publicity.
The conditions are ludicrous, the parcours ugly and uninspiring, the Qataris are uninterested, even the cycling fan struggles to find much joy in it.
Does it persuade anyone to visit there, invest there?
The conditions are ludicrous, the parcours ugly and uninspiring, the Qataris are uninterested, even the cycling fan struggles to find much joy in it.
Does it persuade anyone to visit there, invest there?
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Some mega-rich sheikh will probably have got a wee thrill out of it. And gullible twats in the west will look on and think "aww, they're nice arabs/muslims..." or something like that
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
And they're off!
Along a boring four lane highway with no one in sight... just cars queueing waiting to use the roads as soon as they reopen. It's quieter than the middle east tours. More like the tour of Beijing crowd levels.
Along a boring four lane highway with no one in sight... just cars queueing waiting to use the roads as soon as they reopen. It's quieter than the middle east tours. More like the tour of Beijing crowd levels.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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Teklehaimanot is clearly aiming for the polka dot jersey.
