World Championship 2019 Yorkshire......

[rich p]

The BBC has, as far as I’m concerned an appealing track record of ignoring various sports, the Vuelta, the Giro, grudging mention of the Tour of Britain, Tour de Yorkshire & Tour de France, passing mention of Rugby League games, however football is rammed down your throat, they can waffle for hours about tennis, golf or Rugby Union, I think it speaks volumes about those in charge of the sport section at the Beeb.

I agree about the BBC but they're hardly going to devote much time to a sport that even the vast majority of cyclists don't care about.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Also, given that the coming generation of wunderkinder are Not British, the BBC will naturally lose interest. Even the Grand Tours tend to get reports mentioning the position of the leading Brit and ignoring everyone else.

 

[rich p]

On to more important matters!
Rohan Dennis would be hot favourite if he hadn't been unraced since his TdF hissy fit.
Maybe he still is.
Roglic, Campanaerts, maybe.
Evenepoel would be a sensational winner but surely no this year?

 

[Adam4868]

I quite fancy Roglic to take this.Whats the weather forecast there today

 

[Dogtrousers]

I quite fancy Roglic to take this.Whats the weather forecast there today

Overcast and a low-ish chance of rain. Fantastic weather for Yorkshire.

 

[Adam4868]

Overcast and a low-ish chance of rain. Fantastic weather for Yorkshire.

Tropical ! I was intending to go, but off to Italy in a week or so to Lombardia.So under orders to work....meanie Mrs Adam

 

[rich p]

Dennis smashed it!

 

[Adam4868]

Dennis smashed it!

Didn't get chance to watch today,point to prove there for Dennis ? Evenpoul 2nd is a good result.

 

[roadrash]

I think he was happy..


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[Legs]

Gutted for the Colombian lad Gomez who wasn't able to get a wheel from neutral service in the junior race...

 

[mjr]

Gutted for the Colombian lad Gomez who wasn't able to get a wheel from neutral service in the junior race...

Wasn't watching there but heard some mention of it. Why not?

Very wet again today for the junior men. Loads of crashes, mostly skids and overshoots.

Racing update:

Spoiler

USA hammering the peloton, Netherlands were lurking, but now two USA (Simmons and Sheffield) one GBR (Askey) and one Czech (Bitner) broken off the front. A Spanish rider (Rodriguez) bridges. 55km to go. Maybe the pivotal move. Italy chasing but not enough of them.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Junior womens race has been a crash fest

 

[Adam4868]

Anyone see the fiasco of the U23 men's yesterday.Disqualified for drafting after winning the race.To say he was gutted is a understatement.Not saying rules should be broken but why wait until so long after the race finished ?

View: https://twitter.com/mwkeenan/status/1177705038887546885?s=19

 

[mjr]

Anyone see the fiasco of the U23 men's yesterday.Disqualified for drafting after winning the race.To say he was gutted is a understatement.Not saying rules should be broken but why wait until so long after the race finished ?

View: https://twitter.com/mwkeenan/status/1177705038887546885?s=19

Speculation was that commissaires didn't spot it at the time, only after protests from other nations who didn't draft or sticky-bottle after crashes did the jury then spend 20mins scrobbling through the raw feed recordings to find it.

 

[tom73]

No live feed was available report not done till ofter race by out on course officials.
His team have admitted they allowed him to stay with the car for 2 mins.

if it’s rules then that’s how it go’s. Don’t know enough to say. But it looks a bit wrong to me.