Thomas finishes behind Harry Tanfield. Valverde 8th. Boasson Hagan wins.
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All roads lead to Harrogate: Pro cycling 2019
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The UCI have awarded the 2023 worlds to Glasgow and Scotland. This is the first multi-discipline worlds, which will be held the year prior to the Olympics. So there's going to be a fortnight of cycling, featuring road, track, para-cycling, mountain bike, BMX, gran fondo and indoor cycling. I hope the latter is going to be artistic cycling and cycleball, that'll draw in the crowds.
Presumably the track stuff will be at Glasgow velodrome and most of the road stuff will be in the city too, the championships will be in August which likely would be a problem for having any events in Edinburgh. Guess the mountain bike stuff will be up in the Highlands somewhere.
You wait thirty-odd years for a road worlds in Britain and then two come along at once...
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That's great news re: Scotland 2023.
BTW, if anyone is interested in the UK domestic cycling scene, then may I draw their attention to The British Continental blog?
Welcome to The British Continental, a new blog about British road cycling. The focus will be on British riders, teams and races that operate 'below' the World Tour level. This explains the blog title, The British Continental: British Continental-level teams and riders will be at the heart of this blog's coverage. Readers can expect explainers…
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Glasgow and Scotland to host inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships in 2023
The UCI currently stages annual World Championships in each of its disciplines in different host cities around the world. The new UCI Cycling World Championships will, in a single region, bring 13 UCI World Championships together every four years starting from 2023.
The historic and innovative event will take place over two weeks in August 2023. It will bring together 13 UCI World Championships for different cycling disciplines in one unprecedented event that will see thousands of the world’s best cyclists vying to win the prestigious rainbow jersey.
• UCI Road World Championships
• UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships
• UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot
• UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
• UCI Mountain Bike Cross-country World Championships presented by Mercedes-Benz
• UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Championships presented by Mercedes-Benz
• UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships
• UCI Mountain Bike Cross Country Eliminator World Championships
• UCI Trials World Championships
• UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Championships
• UCI BMX World Championships
• UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships
• UCI Gran Fondo World Championships
https://www.uci.org/inside-uci/press...nships-in-2023
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Was listening to the Test yesterday on TalkSport, and unless I've misunderstood, former England wicketkeeper Matt Prior will be riding the Tour De France this year (perhaps he's just riding the course – but it didn't give that impression, and he's had ambitious cycling plans for a while).
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He's doing the route for charidee.
Prior, who lives in the Horsham district, will be taking on THE 21. A tough event where participants will face all 21 stages of the 2019 Tour de France route whilst aiming to raise £300,000 for Parkinson's UK, Dan’s Trust and Chance to Shine.
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Filippo Ganna, Sky's new signing who has won two world pursuit titles, wins the short Prologue in Provence by nine seconds and takes the La Vie Claire-inspired leader's jersey.
Last edited by ursus arctos; 14-02-2019, 15:42.
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I notice that an Amore e Vita rider managed to get eliminated in the prologue, which is impressive for an 8.9k stage.
Harry Pearson's book on Flandrian cycling is finally out. Interview with him from Rouleur.
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Aficionados of cycling on F1 tracks might want to catch the last 30km of this stage of Tour de la Provence, which finishes on Circuit Paul Ricard.
French stream.
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Degenkolb won the final sprint in Provence; Gorka Izaguirre takes the Mondrian jersey.
Extremely entertaining summit finish of Tour Colombia 2.1. Nairo wins the stage after being taken down by a selfie idiot about 4km from the finish; Superman Lopez holds off Sosa to win the GC. Dani Martinez takes third and best young rider.
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He's not got any better over the winter I see. Found a stream in time to hear him deliver some rambling monologue with two instances of telling us the (third instance) precise distance to go, a couple of military metaphors and blabbing on about helicopters.
Astana looking strong again. Perhaps every team should try doing a rap.
Some reports today that the 2021 Tour de France will start in Copenhagen, with a prologue, two road stages and then a rest day to get back (fourth instance) to France. What's going to happen, Brian?
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