2025 Races with Spoilers.
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wakemalcolm
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Yeah, but it's a once a year opportunity to represent your country and ride for the people who don't pay your wages....ok, I get it.
It's embarrassing. Are they skint? Don't we have any decent women riders anymore? Where's our male tt talent all gone? Do none of the men want to waste their autumn riding for selfish Pidcock?
Archie from BR
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Don't panic, Zoe Backstedt will come home with a nice rainbow outfit from the Women's U23 ITT, a race that is not on the BBC watch list.
But then the beeb are not showing any U23 or Junior races by the look of things .
No Ta Doctor
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Wow, UK squad for World Road Worlds is lacking numbers, especially for women (One TTer and no road race entries!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/crmek1d2mvzo
Similar situation for Denmark - not talking the full women's squad (just two), no TTers at all, and no jnr or u23. They'll be focusing on a
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DeadCalm
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Massive shame that they are not taking a junior team. Noah Lindholm Møller Andersen would have been a strong favourite.
No Ta Doctor
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Yeah, not sending men's juniors and u23 feels like giving up the guaranteed medals - especially in TT. The Danish youth success has been ridiculous there. That was the very start of the Vikings thread back on BR - a challenge to the received wisdom that the Danish kids were just better schooled and organised and that they'd be overtaken later when they got to the pro ranks, as they'd basically done all the developing they could already, while others were still progressing. I think the current crop of pros showed there was still more to come.
DeadCalm
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Genuine question. Have any of Bjerg, Price-Pejtersen and the fellow before Bjerg whose name escapes me, won a significant TT at pro level? It seemed like Bjerg, in particular, was going to dominate TTs but, off the top of my head, I can't recall a single pro win.
No Ta Doctor
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Bjerg's only top level win was in the Dauphine, though he's still only 26 and has clearly taken the UAE shilling to drag Pog/Almeida round GTs.
JPP hasn't ever won a pro TT - he won/didn't win/won the DK Nat Champs last year but never got to wear the jersey. He's got podiums in T-A and the Chronos des Nations. His career went a bit pear-shaped really but looks like it might be coming back together (that said, he's been WT for the last four seasons, so pear shaped is a little over-exaggerated).
Mads Würtz Schmidt is the rider you're thinking of, who never won a top level TT either.
All of them suffer just a touch on their specialist subject from living on the same planet as Remco and Ganna
DeadCalm
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Wow. Bjerg is only 26! He seems to have been around forever. Mads Würtz Schmidt. That's the fella. Didn't he win Junior Paris Roubaix also? I just checked. Yes he did. Bizarrely, Ganna was 13th the year MWS won the U23 TT.
