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National Championships Megathread (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 week ago by EvilCartyen@feddit.dk to c/procycling@lemmy.world

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... dunno how mega it will turn out to be, but in any case; this is the thread to talk about national championships in!

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[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Those times mean that the distances are getting ridiculously short, especially for a speciality trial!

It looks like these 'girly' distances are in fact truly so, as they are apparently justified by forcing an equality of distance between men and women.

France 26.5 km:

Bruno Armirail (Decathlon) 32'16''
Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa) +21'' (I heard he crashed ??)
Paul Seixas (Decathlon) +44''

Armirail isn't truly a specialist any more, he's become more of an all-terrain rider since he started training a lot for mountain and lost weight a few years ago. Vauquelin is good at TT, but he shone on the Tour of Switzerland, as a puncher/puncher-climber there. Seixas who did very well on the Critérium du Dauphiné is more of a climber.

First FDJ is Cavagna at 50''.

Several club riders did better than Benjamin Thomas (Cofidis and Olympic champion of omnium)...

This is getting so ridiculous that, inside the Tour of France, one ITT for non-specialist riders will be longer than the one granting the National TT Champion title...

Meanwhile in Great-Britain (Wales), the course took close to 1 hour to complete...