THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE. SOURCE: BRYN LENNON/GETTY IMAGES EUROPE)
The Road Cycling World Championships are on our doorstep. The USA is hosting, which makes me nervous immediately. How can we fuck this up? Ask Taylor Phinney for starters. This event has not been hosted by the USA since Moreno Argentin won in Colorado almost thirty years ago. We just don’t have the experience to pull off cycling events of this importance. The police are used to impeding cyclists, not protecting them.
But the Americans can’t win either the women’s or men’s road races simply because of the awful kit they have to wear. All V will be drained by the lameness of the jersey. The Rainbow Jersey would refuse to even slip on over such an abomination. Back in the day, Greg LeMan wore the Captain America jersey and won the World Championship at age 22. Going into the worlds as Captain America is a lot more powerful than whatever the hell this new design is. FFS, give these riders a chance. Representing your country in the World Championship should be a highlight of any cyclist’s career.
The Belgians, the Aussies, the Italians, The French: they all have jerseys that say we are here as a select, badass team and we are going to fuck you up. The American’s look like a trade team for a car dealership. It hurts. The Spanish might be in trouble too by the look of last year’s design and the fact they generally refuse to work at crunch time.
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@brett
All black works for me.
Thanks, Brett. WTF happened to my caption??
@Bianchi Denti
All black is indeed awesome, and clearly fast, but ultimately rainbow stripes are the hottest jersey of them all. Fantastic race yesterday
Surprised to see Mr Martin as far down as 7th...
@RobSandy
No kidding. Just as well there wasn't a VSP on this one. I think very few of us would have scored points. That being said, I score very few when there actually is a VSP.
@brett
Great ride, great result. But she's about as NZ as Froome is British. Just sayin'.
@wiscot
Amen to that. We would have seen a lot of "3 points" for both men's and women's ITT VSP. Still, it's good to see an anonymous work horse like Kiryienka get some reward and recognition.
@Harminator
She chose to live in NZ at the age of 16, even though it took her a lot longer to actually gain citizenship - you don't get more Kiwi than actually choosing to forswear your ex-country in favour of ours.
USA kit is fugly. Belgian kit is just classic, timeless badass.
This has a Captain America superhero-ish vibe going for it, which would be appropriate for Team USA. Also a little WW2 reminiscent. Stock jersey design from a Chinese manufacturer.