The Worlds 2104 - Junior Womens and U23 Mens Road races *no spoiler tags required*

Beasty

There you go - spoil away....

Youtube Channel here

MB Lacey

Thanks Beasty, forgot the women's was on so early.

MB Lacey

Does anyone know if Josie Knight started? after her crash in the TT and I can't see her?

What an experience at 17 yrs old

Beasty

Yes she's racing. She's No 76 on the Start List

jimm

According to this http://static.sportresult.com/federations/uci/CR2014/ she has pulled out after 1 lap????

pelevin

U23 Mens preview:

http://espoirscentral.blogspot.ie/2014/09/u23-world-road-race-preview.html

Beasty

Just checking all those start lists - they already have one for the men's RR on Sunday so perhaps they can't be relied on too much....

MB Lacey

jimm wrote: »

According to this http://static.sportresult.com/federations/uci/CR2014/ she has pulled out after 1 lap????

What a huge shame

neris

phil got himself a friend for the day

MB Lacey

neris wrote: »

phil got himself a friend for the day

Yeah Jose Been, volunteered on her day off.
I like Jose a lot - very knowledgable and enthused by what she sees, makes listening more interesting.

simonrooneyzaga

hows ryan getting on?

MB Lacey

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

hows ryan getting on?

Well he wasn't in the top 40 at the 87km (?) mark, but Conor Dunne was 38th or similar

REBELSAFC

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

hows ryan getting on?

All three Irish lads are safely in the peleton after 6 out of 10 laps

neris

MB Lacey wrote: »

Yeah Jose Been, volunteered on her day off.
I like Jose a lot - very knowledgable and enthused by what she sees, makes listening more interesting.

yeah shes good some good bits of useless information at dull times during the race makes it a bit more interesting.

bazermc

God this commentary on the UCI channel is awful

QueensGael

I love how Phil refers to them as "youngsters" :P

DDC1990

Lol, one of the Dutch riders is called Lennard Hofstede (like your man in the big bang but said in a Dutch accent :P )

EDIT: All the Irish in the peloton 18 seconds behind a 11 rider breakaway. Aussies in control at the front of the group.

neris

wouldnt have thought road cycling in eritrea was a popular past time

REBELSAFC

One lap to go....18km...Ryan Mullen and Connor Dunne are still in the peleton with a french rider 20secs dangling out the front

Darkglasses

Where'd the Aussies go? Burnt themselves out too early?

Love that French kit, one of the few national kits that doesn't look completely naff

rab!dmonkey

The Worlds 2104

Can I have the plans to the time machine, lads?

neris

Darkglasses wrote: »

Where'd the Aussies go? Burnt themselves out too early?

Love that French kit, one of the few national kits that doesn't look completely naff

one of the aussies took a tumble.

neris

italian style

QueensGael

Ouch! some nasty spills there

joker77

What's left?

Appalling coverage

DDC1990

9km to go maybe?

Awful graphical coverage.

None of the Irish guys to be seen. Probably in the Peloton, but don't look like they have a chance of winning.

EDIT: 5km to go.

neris

5km

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joker77 wrote: »

What's left?

Appalling coverage

At least there is some :pac:

neris

1k left norway in lead

QueensGael

Cracking race, great day for Norway!

neris

norway
australia
norway

neris

was the aussie guy the guy who won the TT?

Chips Lovell

No. That was Campbell Flakemore

Chips Lovell

LOL

Darkglasses

I think we may need to test one of our riders for age doping...

Beasty

Darkglasses wrote: »

I think we may need to test one of our riders for age doping...

The guy's had to wait nearly 44 years and eventually gets his name in the spotlight. Don't detract from his achievement by speculating there may be shenanigans at play...

Subpopulus

neris wrote: »

wouldnt have thought road cycling in eritrea was a popular past time

Keep an eye on them. The main nations for cycling in Africa are South Africa, Eritrea and Morocco, in roughly that order. There's several Eritrean lads in MTN Qhubeka, and Natal Berhane of EuropeCar won the Tour of Turkey last year. They also seem to have a decent set of youngsters coming up through the ranks.

Hi Ho

Anyone Tweeting from Junior Worlds tomorrow?

neris

Subpopulus wrote: »

Keep an eye on them. The main nations for cycling in Africa are South Africa, Eritrea and Morocco, in roughly that order. There's several Eritrean lads in MTN Qhubeka, and Natal Berhane of EuropeCar won the Tour of Turkey last year. They also seem to have a decent set of youngsters coming up through the ranks.

south africa i can understand having an interest, morroco i can see but eritrea was just a suprising. Though at the same time froome is kenyan and dan craven on europcar is namibian but there was probably some bloke in the low countries in 1987 saying the same thing about irish cyclists and they all laughed at le monde when he came to europe.

Mr. Grieves

neris wrote: »

south africa i can understand having an interest, morroco i can see but eritrea was just a suprising. Though at the same time froome is kenyan and dan craven on europcar is namibian but there was probably some bloke in the low countries in 1987 saying the same thing about irish cyclists and they all laughed at le monde when he came to europe.

Part of it was a colony of Italy, I think that's where the influence came from. There's a Giro d'Eritrea. There's a bit of discussion on it in that book on the Rwandan cycling team.

http://www.amazon.com/Land-Second-Chances-Impossible-Rwandas/dp/1937715205

Beasty

Eritrea are currently 2nd in the UCI Africa Tour ranking, 2 places ahead of SA