2024 World Road Championships

[foo on patrol]

The TT was run last night and Grace Brown has capped off an incredible year with winning the Womens TT. How good a year has she had to finish off her final year of riding as a Pro.

Sadly for Jay Vine, he dumped it on the road big time whilst looking at 3rd place. He has owned the stuff up, saying that he came in way to hot to the corner even though he had done e reco ride on the course and knew how tight it was. He was not a pretty picture at the end with plenty of blood over him.

Remco Evenepoel went back to back.

Foo

[MichaelB]

Brilliant ride by Grace, for the 2nd time !

Bugger for Vine. Ganna was close but daylight 3rd !

[find_bruce]

That's an impressive way for Grace to finish her career, a good result on Saturday would just be icing on the cake

[foo on patrol]

She is riding very well this year.

Foo

[stevenaaus]

Totally amazing . If Grace doesn't change her mind about retiring, I hope we see her on TV, commentating.

[MichaelB]

Whilst we wait for the Road Races, spotted that Wil Holmes came 4th (only 8 sec off a podium) in the Junior Category, and Eddy Patrick came 14th in the Under 23.

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/uc ... 024/result

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/wo ... 024/result

[warthog1]

Pat Eddy. He is from Bendigo. Nice young fella

[foo on patrol]

How tuff is Jay Vine!

They took out the Mixed Teams Time Trial.




Foo

[find_bruce]

How tuff is Jay Vine!

They took out the Mixed Teams Time Trial.

Apparently Vine's rainbow jersey is going straight to the pool room - that quote was probably lost on almost every journo. Bling did incredibly well just to hold onto Vine's wheel on the first climb.

If I'm reading the split times correctly, the men had a 7.59 sec lead over Italy & 21.83 sec lead over Germany. The German women really powered home, knocking almost 21 sec off that lead, but the Aus women hung on to win by 0.85

[foo on patrol]

How tuff is Jay Vine!

They took out the Mixed Teams Time Trial.

Apparently Vine's rainbow jersey is going straight to the pool room - that quote was probably lost on almost every journo. Bling did incredibly well just to hold onto Vine's wheel on the first climb.

If I'm reading the split times correctly, the men had a 7.59 sec lead over Italy & 21.83 sec lead over Germany. The German women really powered home, knocking almost 21 sec off that lead, but the Aus women hung on to win by 0.85

I haven't seen the ride, so can't comment on their individual efforts. I wasn't aware of how strong the German women were but that's no mean feat too pull that sort of time back.

Foo

[jasonc]

another jersey for grace brown!

[MichaelB]

Whilst we wait for the Road Races, spotted that Wil Holmes came 4th (only 8 sec off a podium) in the Junior Category, and Eddy Patrick came 14th in the Under 23.

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/uc ... 024/result

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/wo ... 024/result

Brilliant effort for the Mixed TTT by the Aussies. Maybe Grace needs to ride another year !!

Spoke to my boss at work, and his son races with Wil Holmes and knows him well, and describes him as a 'freak' (i.e, damned good). Apparently just finished some track work at the recent Worlds and set a new WR for Junior Individual Pursuit of 3:04:161, beating the previous record by 2.9 seconds !

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 3877672566

[ironhanglider]

another jersey for grace brown!

She's stocking up, because with retirement she's going to have to start buying her own jerseys.

Cheers,

Cameron

[foo on patrol]

Very sad, so young.

https://cycling.today/muriel-furrer-die ... QlcunRTXEw

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[foo on patrol]

Nasty conditions for the racing at these World Championships.

Neve Bradbury got herself 2nd place in the U23 cat of the Womens Road Race. Ruby Roseman-Gannon in 6th spot in the open road a very good race but I feel that she cost herself a chance for a spot on the podium with her attack 1.5Klm to go after just rejoing the breakaway with Chloe Dygert after they were dropped within the last 10klms.

Foo

[Thoglette]

Journalist declares “cycling is dangerous” and that road racing “in the wild” needs to be reconsidered as ..the death even of one rider is one too many.

An off the cuff article? Or was this drafted a long time ago?

[warthog1]

Apparently Vine's rainbow jersey is going straight to the pool room - that quote was probably lost on almost every journo. Bling did incredibly well just to hold onto Vine's wheel on the first climb.

If I'm reading the split times correctly, the men had a 7.59 sec lead over Italy & 21.83 sec lead over Germany. The German women really powered home, knocking almost 21 sec off that lead, but the Aus women hung on to win by 0.85

[davehirst]

I dips my lid to young Mr O'Connor, really has stepped up this year

[fat and old]

Indeed! Solid job pulling ahead of the chasing group

[foo on patrol]

I dips my lid to young Mr O'Connor, really has stepped up this year

It is by far the best that I've seen him ride, so Jayco should be rubbing their hands together for next year.

Pog I feel was very close to bonking before his Team car gave him those gets, because it took hiom a while too rise back up again and not be losing time like he was.

Foo

[Mr Purple]

Journalist declares “cycling is dangerous” and that road racing “in the wild” needs to be reconsidered as ..the death even of one rider is one too many.

An off the cuff article? Or was this drafted a long time ago?

There's a reasonable amount of thought into that article at least.

Unfortunately the first half is written in a fairly infuriating and 'clickbaity' way. The second half is more reasoned, sensible, and suggesting some entirely straightforward measures that could be taken to improve rider safety.

If poor Furrer was not actually discovered for a significant period of time after crashing that needs to be looked at. And I'd agree live GPS trackers possibly with an 'emergency' switch would be very straightforward (hey, my cars have that, why do professional cyclists not?).

My recent crash has reinforced the danger to me of even a solo crash on a straight road at 48km/hr and just how dangerous racing is, so I won't be competing in a group situation again. But that's because I'm self employed, over 40 and just don't need to take that risk - I can absolutely understand why people do it, and honestly it's not even statistically that dangerous.

[stevenaaus]

Pog I feel was very close to bonking before his Team car gave him those gets, because it took hiom a while too rise back up again and not be losing time like he was.

Foo

He looked gone didn't he.

O'Connor.. Oh yes. What a ride.

[stevenaaus]

[find_bruce]

Great ride by Ben, plenty of excellent riders behind him & only 1 in front.

Image of the day has to be Michael Woods chowing down
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[MichaelB]

Wow !!

Looking fwd to watching the last 100km tonight !!

Kudos to Ben O !!