National Championships 2015 Thread

[Flying_Monkey]

I thought it might be good to have a thread to keep an eye on and discuss all the National Championships that are starting about now...

First up, Malori has unsurprisingly retained his Italian TT crown...

 

[User169]

NL TTs were yesterday.

van der Breggen for the women and Kelderman for the men.

 

[raindog]

Coppel is TT champ in France - Chava was "only" 3rd - his career is firmly in decline now.
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-...france-du-contre-la-montre-chavanel-3e/569297

 

[raindog]

Brit championships live here

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxxO-JlIfLY

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Dowsett wins British TT title - Edmund Bradbury (I'd never heard of him either) takes second

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

EBH wins Norwegian TT title for the 340th time

 

[outlash]

Dowsett wins British TT title - Edmund Bradbury (I'd never heard of him either) takes second

Ed rides for NTFO and is local round these neck of the woods (Cambridgeshire), needless to say he's pretty bleedin' quick but I'm quite surprised that he took second in the nationals. Chapeau!

Tony.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Dowsett wins British TT title - Edmund Bradbury (I'd never heard of him either) takes second

I know Dowsett rides best when he's angry but after the race he said he got stung on the inside of his thigh by a wasp. That wasp got him 3 1/2 minutes on Bradbury.

 

[screenman]

I rode out and watched it, in my opinion it should be illegal to go up hills as fast as they did today.

If anyone thinks Lincolnshire is flat pop over and have a poodle around the Wolds, not huge hills but plenty steep enough to hurt the legs.

 

[The Couch]

It's only later today, but you can already note down Vandewalle as the Belgian TT winner

Unless he is hampered by the finger he broke in the Giro, there is just no other "TT specialist" available (especially who is close to his level in a long TT)

 

[MisterStan]

Not a single SKY rider entered in the TT? Wondering what Geraint Thomas could have done....

 

[The Couch]

Not a single SKY rider entered in the TT? Wondering what Geraint Thomas could have done....

He might have had the same problem as Dumoulin anyway... being perhaps still too knackered from the TdS he might not have done so great

 

[The Couch]

It's only later today, but you can already note down Vandewalle as the Belgian TT winner

Unless he is hampered by the finger he broke in the Giro, there is just no other "TT specialist" available (especially who is close to his level in a long TT)

Unless Jurgen VDB proves that his Giro TT performance wasn't a fluke (or at least because it was a climbing TT and during a GT)?!?
At the first intermediate he is leading 12s ahead of 2nd place, Vandewalle is only 7th at 21s

 

[Hont]

Not a single SKY rider entered in the TT? Wondering what Geraint Thomas could have done....

You only get the jersey for coming first (I worked that out for myself )and beating a (comparatively) fresh Dowsett would be a big ask. I guess with the Tour around the corner (assuming he gets selected) it was probably not seen as worth the effort.

I see four Sky riders are lining up for the road race, though, which may (or may not) indicate that they've missed a Tour slot. Fenn, Kennaugh, Rowe and Stannard. Only other WT team riders are Orica's Yates twins and Adam Blythe plus Cav.

 

[Hont]

It's only later today, but you can already note down Vandewalle as the Belgian TT winner

Anyone got an eraser?