UCI Road World Championships Doha 2016

[brommers]

To start the conversation, who do members think should be in the GB team given that the course is completely flat?

 

[coffeejo]

To start the conversation, who do members think should be in the GB team given that the couse is completely flat?

Singer, artist or architect?

 

[rich p]

Cav will be the main man one assumes so he'll need strong support during the race and a lead out.
Stannard, Swift, Rowe, Cummings, Thomas...

 

[brommers]

Singer, artist or architect?

I was going to google them, but couldn't be bothered, knowing what a person of knowledge and culture you are.

 

[coffeejo]

I was going to google them, but couldn't be bothered, knowing what a person of knowledge and culture you are.

Yup, yup that's me.

 

[brommers]

Cav will be the main man one assumes so he'll need strong support during the race and a lead out.
Stannard, Swift, Rowe, Cummings, Thomas...

Yes. I think that Froome will be left to focus on the TT. What about McLay/Blythe as a back-up for the sprint, or will that be Swift?

 

[rich p]

I don't think Froome is going to ride again this year.

 

[themosquitoking]

He's not really that British is he? Whatever that means.

 

[coffeejo]

He's not really that British is he? Whatever that means.

 

[oldroadman]

He's not really that British is he? Whatever that means.

And Mr Tchmil was not really what nation? Now a naturalised Belgian and resident there for years. Mr Froome has British parents and entitlement to a British passport. Just like a case I know of a person born in Paris with one British and one Russian parent. Three passports technically possible. this person chose to ride as British.

 

[oldroadman]

On the proper subject, worlds, just have two sprinters (just in case, and GB should get a 9 rider team on UCI points) and seven big engines. Obvious picks G, Yogi, Luke Rowe, Steve Cummings for a start, Swift and Cav as finishers. Add more big diesels of your choice. If the team is 9 then up to 14 can be nominated, 9 to ride. Alex Dowsett in there somewhere and also riding TT, though current form does not go far past Martin and Kiryenka as top step picks.
Women clearly Lizzie, Molly Weaver, Dani King, plus any two other diesels again. Team is, 5 I think.
Pan flat it may be, but heat and wind will play a big part in the outcome.

 

[brommers]

Pete Kennaugh was strong in the Vuelta. I don't think that the Yates boys are workhorses, so wouldn't take them. I was impressed with James Shaw's efforts for Lotto Soudal at the front of the peloton in the ToB, but at only just turned 20, too much pressure on his young shoulders. Tao GH will probably go in the u23. Hugh Carthy needs a rest, as his form has badly tailed off.

 

[Legs]

Unlike at the Olympics, Hayley Simmonds should be a shoo-in for the TT.

 

[Legs]

(unless she burned her bridges with her reaction to non-selection for Rio.) It would be highly unprofessional of BC to permanently blacklist riders like Jess Varnish, Dani King, and Hayley for their outspokenness (rather than dealing with the issue), but I wouldn't rule it out.

 

[brommers]

I know it's nothing to do with this thread, but does anyone know why GB are not sending a team to the European Championships this coming week?