Yes and yes @photos:Tim de Waele/Corbis and CyclingWeekly
Before we move on to the last Monument of the season, let’s reflect on what happened in Richmond. My deeply held fears of the American organizers making a mess of things were unrealized. The two cobbled climbs were spectacles and the resulting road races were pretty damn fine.
Personally, I don’t think the Worlds should ever end up in a bunch sprint. Sprinters should have their chance but the race should be so tough that even a flat course ends up in a fractured gasp for the line. The women’s finish was not a field sprint. Lizzy Armitstead led from the bottom of the last hill and made sure no one got past her for very long. Anna VDB was there but she was not going to win this one. Armitstead was probably the strongest/fastest in her field and kept it together to prove that.
Peter Sagan won from kilometers out, gaining time with each corner. He might not have been the strongest or fastest but he was most definitely the smartest. He sat in the field the whole race and then jumped everyone with a move that won the day.
Neither winner had a strong team for support. When it comes down to the final kilometers, it’s all legs, brains and heart.
It will be a pleasure seeing the rainbow stripes on these two for the next year.
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@PT
If you can't see the difference between a discussion about the accountability of a public figure who has used his position to make a moral commentary and making (as I thought at the time) a direct personal comment about someone's circumstances then I guess where you sit must be with your thumb up your arse.
And BTW, I'm not your mate.
@Darren H
The official new rainbow kit has been announced. Sagan has gone with white shorts and Armistead has posed for a photo in white shorts but apologized and said that black ones are on order. The article notes that Cavendish went with black shorts.
New rainbow Kit
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/peter-sagan-in-full-world-champions-kit-and-hes-gone-for-white-shorts-194208
@Pali65
Love the marvel comics slant to this whole thing!
@ChrisO
Ease 'er back a notch, eh?
If you're not drinking, maybe you should start. If you are, maybe you should stop?
@stupidnoob
yes
Black World Champion's jersey?? No, no, a thousand times no!
@Oli
Agree, Bibs yes, jersey no. the other way is equally as bad, white on white, No !
Back from holidays and DG'd the whole Fkn VSP. Shit happens.
Things escalate quickly round these parts Ive seen.
Watched the reply of the Mens race. Worthy winner.
" replay " that is.
@Oli
Agreed 100%, @unversio's photoshop skills notwithstanding.
I do love Etixx-QS's approach to doing all champ jerseys in black for training and racing in white. There's a nod to that that really hits the spot.
@Stephen Schwartz Yeah disappointed in Sagan (I'm pretty sure he doesn't care what I think though!), although Lizzie knows the score. Seems Cav was the last WC to insist on black shorts, Gilbert, Costa & Kwiatkowski all sadly chose white, or white and black, thought Sagan would have chosen black :-(