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UCI Road World Chanmpionships

  • 27-08-2012 9:44am
    #1
    GetWithIt
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    Looks an interesting course.

    Irish team announced.
    Elite Men
    Nicholas Roche
    Dan Martin
    Final road rider to be one from Ronan McLaughlin / Matt Brammeier / Philip Deignan

    M Hutchinson & D McCann both for TT
    Interesting that Hutchinson can represent us in the TT and no decision has been made with regards to the 3rd spot on the RR team. Hard to see what they're waiting on. Maybe just hanging Brammeier out to dry.

    Will also be interesting to see how Caroline Ryan fares and whether she maybe should have ditched the Olympic track aspirations earlier in the hope of making the Olympic RR.


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  • #2
    morana
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    GetWithIt wrote: »
    Looks an interesting course.

    Irish team announced.


    Interesting that Hutchinson can represent us in the TT and no decision has been made with regards to the 3rd spot on the RR team. Hard to see what they're waiting on. Maybe just hanging Brammeier out to dry.

    Will also be interesting to see how Caroline Ryan fares and whether she maybe should have ditched the Olympic track aspirations earlier in the hope of making the Olympic RR.

    "Hanging Brammeier out to dry" ridiculous


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    Beasty
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    GetWithIt wrote: »
    Will also be interesting to see how Caroline Ryan fares and whether she maybe should have ditched the Olympic track aspirations earlier in the hope of making the Olympic RR.
    Given she managed a bronze medal in the World Championships Points Race it's clear to me that she did the right thing sticking to the track over last Winter. She may have managed to qualify for the Olympics with a different strategy, but I suspect her medal chances would have always been remote if she had.

    Hutchinson in the TT will be very interesting though


  • #4
    morana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭morana


    Beasty wrote: »
    Given she managed a bronze medal in the World Championships Points Race it's clear to me that she did the right thing sticking to the track over last Winter. She may have managed to qualify for the Olympics with a different strategy, but I suspect her medal chances would have always been remote if she had.

    Hutchinson in the TT will be very interesting though

    The Womens Olympic RR required the person to be ranked in the top 100. It was almost impossible for Caroline to get into th top 100 because she would have needed to be racing at the same level as siobhan and getting points. Hutchinson has an IRL code on his licence so is good to go. I think NR and DM are almost shoe ins looking at their form. For the other lads its probably a case of who gets the nod based on current form. its a hillyish course so you will need to be able to get over the lumps.


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