The professional cycling thread

[Vocal Minority]

mcelliott said:

Great ride from Wiggo, I'm just trying to think once he stepped off the podium, when he'll be able to don the rainbow stripes again, to show off his win.

Well the BBC implied he will be staying with Sky for one more year, but s unlikely to be seen at Grand Tours (he wants to focus on the track still reckons he'll be too track focussed to do them). He may be able to show it off from time to time, but not on the biggest stage.

[Rocksteadyeddie]

Vocal Minority said:

Well the BBC implied he will be staying with Sky for one more year, but s unlikely to be seen at Grand Tours (he wants to focus on the track still reckons he'll be too track focussed to do them). He may be able to show it off from time to time, but not on the biggest stage.

Can't see him leaving Sky. Not when you look at what he wants to do next year. Remember he's their best performing rider thus year too despite everything.

[spikeyhead]

Chapeau Brad.

I'd love to see him win a classic

[Highway Star]

Question re worlds. What bikes do they ride? Their normal team ones, or does each country have a separate firm sponsoring them just for the worlds?

[mcelliott]

Highway Star said:

Question re worlds. What bikes do they ride? Their normal team ones, or does each country have a separate firm sponsoring them just for the worlds?

No it's just their normal team issue bikes. Gerrans for the win.

[VEA]

They've just reported Froome and Thomas have been dropped from the peleton...

[okgo]

VEA said:

They've just reported Froome and Thomas have been dropped from the peleton...

Looks rock hard out there today. So long

[VEA]

Yeah, doesn't look pleasant. Nice to see Kennaugh out front at the moment.

[JuniorD]

With this course I don't think it's so much getting dropped as just getting too frikken bored to continue

Been a really zzzzz rr championships this one

[okgo]

Yes, too long. 6 hrs 30 mins !!!

[Jonnny]

Kwiatkowski wins! Very happy with that.

[anonymous-user]

pleased for Kwia, thought the UCI officials were appalling trying to drag him straight off at the finish, he was desperate to find someone to celebrate with and they just were literally dragging him away. Anyone know who the guy crossing the line in 12th-ish banging his handlebars was, looked like EBH but couldnt be sure?

[johnxjsc1985]

The World Champs is always a long drawn out affair designed to find the best rider and fk me that was a real war of attrition. I kept switching between the golf and the cycling and as usual it wasn't until the last 40k that it got interesting.

[Gizmoish]

This year was more interesting than usual - the front of the group splintering, seeing whether Kwiato could stay away or get swallowed up.

One thing for sure: the rainbow Jersey will win this year.

[Matt_N]

So, Nicolas Roche to Team Sky along with Andrew Fenn, Leopold König, Wout Poels and Lars Petter Nordhaug.

[anonymous-user]

Interesting, Roche is a classy rider and was punching above his weight even whilst at AG2R so I assume he becomes the GT man for the Giro/Vuelta if Froome is riding le tour? He deserves this ride though and it will be great to see him able to really attack the mountains as there is no doubt he can climb with the best. Fenn is underrated but not in the same league as Roche.

Meanwhile another Astana rider (Iglinsky) is in trouble....

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Yet another Astana rider suspended for EPO...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/maxim-iglinskiy-pr...

http://road.cc/content/news/131987-oh-brother%E2%8...

road.cc said:

Astana rider Maxim Iglinskiy, who in July helped Vincenzo Nibali win the Tour de France, is provisionally suspended after testing positive for EPO, a UCI document reveals. The news comes just three weeks after the Kazakh team sacked his younger brother, Valentin, after he too was provisionally suspended following a positive test for EPO and admitted having used the banned substance.

[johnxjsc1985]

jesusbuiltmycar said:

Yet another Astana rider suspended for EPO...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/maxim-iglinskiy-pr...

http://road.cc/content/news/131987-oh-brother%E2%8...

road.cc said:

Astana rider Maxim Iglinskiy, who in July helped Vincenzo Nibali win the Tour de France, is provisionally suspended after testing positive for EPO, a UCI document reveals. The news comes just three weeks after the Kazakh team sacked his younger brother, Valentin, after he too was provisionally suspended following a positive test for EPO and admitted having used the banned substance.

no excuse anymore they must been banned for life and sanctions taken against the team for turning a blind eye

[HereBeMonsters]

But wait, isn't this the "new" Astana, who are nothing to do with the old team, and therefore have no doping connections whatsoever?

[JuniorD]

Clearly these particuar Astana guys are sticking with the old-school doping practices and not getting with the times.