World Championships: Rainbow Jersey for Tony Martin
by Jen See on Sep 21, 2011 11:14 AM EDT
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Tony Martin of Germany has won his first World Championship title in the time trial. Martin's victory marked the second time trial win for Germany, after Judith Arndt won the women's event. It was also the second rainbow jersey this week for the HTC-Highroad team, who failed to find a new sponsor and will disband at the end of this year.
"The course was pretty flat," said Martin, "I normally would prefer a few climbs, but I was able to find a good rhythm and really push myself at every opportunity to accelerate."
"It was cloudy, looking like it could rain at any moment, but we were lucky the road stayed dry and I could hit the corners faster."
"I was able to catch up to David Millar (GB) which was motivating, but my morale going into the race today was quite high. I felt great from the start."
Martin won Wednesday's event by a solid margin over second placed Bradley Wiggins, who won a gold medal in the pursuit at the Beijing Olympics. Since Beijing, Wiggins has turned his full focus to the road and has found success in the grand tours. This season, Wiggins finished on the podium at the recent Vuelta a España and carried his form to a second at the World Championshp race.
Pre-race favorite Fabian Cancellara slipped to third after he overcooked a corner and brushed the barricades. It was a disappointing ride for Cancellara, who has owned this World Championship time trial for the past few seasons.
Martin has twice finished third in the time trial at worlds. Born in East Germany, Martin and his family escaped to the west shortly before the Berlin Wall came down. This season, he had a string of successes against the watch and won time trial stages at Paris-Nice, the Tour de France, and the Vuelta a España. In 2010, Martin was the German national champion in the time trial.
With the end of the HTC-Highroad team, Martin is reportedly headed to Quick-Step next season.
Young American Taylor Phinney, riding his first elite world championship race, finished 15th at 3:52. Phinney has not found the transition to elite road racing especially easy, despite his stellar results as an U23. Still, the 21-year-old Phinney has plenty of time yet. Another U.S. rider for the future, Andrew Talansky finished directly behind Phinney in 16th.
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Is fabian doing 'blue steel'?
All posts are at altitude. Acclimation may be necessary
by mr. rogers on Sep 21, 2011 4:14 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
HAHAHA
I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it
by plinytheelder on Sep 21, 2011 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions
VDS updated!
http://www.podiumcafevds.com/results.php?y=2011&event=10
Top 10 scoring teams:
1. soigneur Pack fodder 1190
2. dkunce Team Hurt Locker 1125
3. Dale Goodwin Riding Lunch 1100
4. bikepig Action Potential 1090
5. To2011ol To2011ol 970
6. Team Rototuna Team Rototuna 950
EvSnow MoMENTUM Cycling Project 950
8. MaestroDon Dito’s faves 925
9. sudoroso Guildvosges 900
10. eats_mountains Les Singes Volants 895
New VDS Team Ranking Top 25
http://www.podiumcafevds.com/teams.php?y=2011
1. Cyclemania Cyclemania JH 14653
2. Davey H Burgi’s Glorious Bastards 13922
3. discolite die mensch-maschine 13733
4. Le Fabe Les Fabelettes 13432
5. franck feneon VC Musette 13401
6. Reeppp TEAM FRIGGIN USE CAPS! K? [TEAM FUC!K?] 13375
7. father_figure CultOfFoamy 13334
8. PrinceBuster alhorno_noforno 13247
9. itswells Komanda Dobrodetelʹ 13194
10. Spot of Bother Helligen Hooligans 13164
11. dallsopp Maxpower 13065
12. Smallplatypus1 Ride of the Valkyries 13021
13. mh11mh Hägerlinge 13019
14. Javi Polo Lasterketa Burua 12860
15. team top Team top 12805
16. pedros benfarrim azul 12763
17. ike2112 Wash Your Socks 12760
18. ontherockz Points on pedals 12719
19. Uphill Downhill From Here 12698
20. Chris Alfred Put Me Back On My Bike 12679
21. Vinnie1 Vinnie Vedi Vici 12667
22. edredonbrowny Ed’s Wheel Nuts 12664
23. ckdallas ckdallas 12581
24. Drad Max011 12574
25. PMNL NL4ever 12571
"Beer helps." -- Ant1.
Phinney
must be tired after the Vuelta. People need to wait a few years on the expectations. I have him and Sep as the early favorites in Richmond.
Any dumb f#*k who looked at Garmin’s roster could figure that out, it wasn’t exactly rocket-science. Hell, it wasn’t even lutefisk-science.
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 21, 2011 11:31 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
What a great race!
Fantastic starting order, kept it thrilling til the end.
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Medal Tally now:
Gold Silver Bronze
Australia 2 0 2
Germany 2 0 1
Denmark 1 1 0
Great Britain 0 2 1
New Zealand 0 2 0
Switzerland 0 0 1
Healthy rival going on there for top spot :D
by RollinRollinRolland on Sep 21, 2011 11:54 AM EDT reply actions
In the other thread
Someone stated that this is a passing of the torch. I disagree. T-Mart is not as supple a rider. I think we will see some leg problems over the years that will prevent him form being the next many-times-champion that Fabian was/is.
Not sure about T-Mart's leg problems, but I do think Cancellara will come back
and be more competitive the next couple of years. Will it be enough be beat the Panzerwagen? Only time will tell.
What are you basing that on?
And by no means is Cancellara finished – I didn’t mean to suggest that. Just that he’s no longer A-#1. Cancellara and Martin are a lot closer in age than I thought (Cancellara is 30, Martin is 26), so they could have a fair bit of a rivalry for a few more seasons.
Chapeau to Wiggins. What a season
Overall win in Dauphine and podiums at Paris Nice, Vuelta and Worlds TT.
I picked Riccardo Ricco for my 2011 VDS team, and submitted said team well before the submission deadline. I fully understand the error of my ways, and plead with the VDS Gods to allow me to resubmit my team.
+1
Wiggins ride has a metronome like quality to it. Only rider can spot across all TTs this week that did the second half of the time trial quicker than the first (and then only by a second). He just turns the gear on and on and on.
More than a second tho, 2nd lap a bit longer than the first
A few hundred meters, where the start/finish area was. The “flying” start of the 2nd lap shouldn’t make up the difference.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Sep 21, 2011 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Apparently he tried to hold a steady watt the first lap
and then go harder the second.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Sep 21, 2011 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Prima!
I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it
by plinytheelder on Sep 21, 2011 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions
haha!
Ohne Holland fahr’n . . . ;)
I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it
by plinytheelder on Sep 21, 2011 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Full result sheet
including all splits, average speeds etc
http://www.sportresult.com/sports/cycling/WCH2011/results/2011/CRM00501.C73T.ENG.1.0.pdf
Bobridge did well on this course, 5th +2:13.86.
(note to self: always keep record holders on VDS team. Don’t fire them and take some unknown rider instead).
As someone who did keep him...
Not sure the eventual points were worth all the waiting and wondering and 150th place finishes. Obviously he has a huge engine… but I start to wonder if he’ll ever make a big impression other than in TTs and on the track. Sometimes when a guy is SO good at one thing, it mean’s he’s not that great in other areas. Should we be seeing more signs of ability in classics and/or breakaways?
(whining allowed in the 300s, right?)
Start fast, finish fast, and hope you're fast enough-- Cadel Evans
a one trick TT pony can deliver 200-400 points imo.
I get the feeling Bobridge was held back by Garmin due to the Greenedge rumours early on.
I was going to start with some defense of Garmin
But the kid has only raced 40 days this years. Who knows whether it was sidelining or Garmin letting him focus on the track.
Maybe it’s a lesson for future riders, don’t de facto sign with another team in March.
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
Jasper Hamelink got his TT bike back
And the story is amusing. The thief took the bike to Christinia and tried to sell it, but the people there “confiscated” the bike and gave it back to Hamelink. It’s hard not to like Christiania.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
Thanks for the story, I have learnt some most excellent Danish today...
From the comments about the bike thief, rendered in gnomish:
Søren P.
Haha, what a klaphat when, believing he can steal such a svinedyr bike, and then stand and try to sell it on the street:)
The word “klaphat” has now entered my vocabulary, literally this…
and according to Danish Wikipedia, slang for a “less gifted or unsmart person”.
No idea what makes a bike svinedyr, but I think I’d like my bike to be that.
by straw dog on Sep 21, 2011 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
In Denmark, as in Sweden
svin (=pig) is used as an “amplifier” (there’s a better word for it I’m sure, in Swedish it’s called a förstärkningsord), so “pig expensive” actually means very expensive
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Sep 21, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions
ah, right
thanks
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Sep 21, 2011 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes, of course
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Sep 22, 2011 6:20 AM EDT up reply actions
So, do you think Cancellara cares about overcooking the turn coming out of the cobbles?
Do you think it matters to him that he got bronze and not silver? I mean, when you’ve won the thing four times, does the difference between second and third really even exist?
Part of the passing torch thing
His motivation just can’t be the same. He has won this over and over. The change from non-world champ to World Champion is a lot different than the change from 4-time world champ to 5-time world champ.
yeah, there’s a story up somewhere about how when he heard the last split, he lost all his intensity, knowing he wasn’t going to finish 1st
I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it
by plinytheelder on Sep 21, 2011 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Any info yet on what happened with the guy who got tackled by the police?
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nope, Jens hasn't checked in yet...
by JustJoshinYa on Sep 21, 2011 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
HaitchTC Hegemony
Ina Teutenberg and Cav with good chances on the next few days.
Somewhere Stapleton is laughing…..or not.
Just imagining that you could have 4 elite rainbows on a team that will no longer exist gives me wtfface.
Cadel!
by perezbike on Sep 21, 2011 3:41 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Not I should think.
I’d be pretty fed up if I was him.
"These are my principles and if you don't like them....well I have others." Groucho Marx
long time lurker here
had to pipe up to say that Martin’s ray gun fingers in that picture really capture the “PEW PEW I just tore everybody’s legs off PEW PEW PEW” feeling he must be experiencing.
yeah it's quite a shot
I was just going to comment about how he looked all sidewindy, how does he do that
I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it
by plinytheelder on Sep 21, 2011 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Don't sell the man short
“This season, he had a string of successes against the watch and won time trial stages at Paris-Nice, the Tour de France, and the Vuelta a España.”
Also the Volta ao Algarve and the Tour of the Basque Country. Really, he was the favorite the whole time in my mind. Cancellara had “only” two TT wins this year, Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of Switzerland.
Martin was not the underdog
I’ve seen his sad face waiting on the leader’s hot seat for Cance to finish too many times. not this year though.
I really think this was a new generation type event. Cance may be off form, but Martin has beaten him in the biggest races all season.
All hail T-Mart
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
Ha ha, not this time ;)
I have been known to prewrite on occasion, but not this time. Hee!
~ Gavia ~
I wonder about the bikes
Maybe this has been discussed elsewhere but I wonder if one of the differences with Cancellara from last year to this is the change in bikes.
Fabian certainly had a great season, just not the kind of peak season he had last year, or that Gilbert is having this year. You don’t expect that to be sustainable. And I’ve always assumed that at this level the bikes themselves wouldn’t make much difference. But I wonder if maybe he just wasn’t as comfortable or the Trek just didn’t deliver as much as the Specialized or Cervelos did in years’ past. HTC’s record was compiled on both Scott and Specialized, but I wonder if their winning percentage increased when they switched.
Curious what people think.
(snarky comment on change of battery in 3 - 2 - 1 .... oops, I did it myself)
Seriously though, 2nd at MSR & PR, 3rd at Flanders, & win at E3. Disappointing year only because he was a notch better the year before – and I think he had a larger bullseye on his back this year. I think the switch of teams DID hurt him, but not the equipment – the support. He had shit for support in PR and Flanders where it counted. No team helpers in the last 90km or something…hard to do it all himself, and he still almost did it…
My opinion is the Tour TT performance was hurt more by his work done in the Tour and TMart becoming stronger. His 2nd at MSR might have indicated his form was better earlier this year then it was last year – and perhaps that was what hurt him a bit at Flanders & PR. That said, at both of those races, he was marked like a mother-trucker…and as I said, no help to be found anywhere. My opinion – I am usually wrong, but I think the team hurt him worse then the bike.
by JustJoshinYa on Sep 21, 2011 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions
All true.
And wasn’t implying it was a disappointing season. And you’re absolutely right about the support. Certainly the bikes aren’t going to make winners—or else Astana would have a lot more wins. I was just wondering if at this very elite level and if evenly matched, it might make some difference. Maybe not. But FC certainly didn’t look as comfortable in the first half (watching replay now). So maybe the fit was off just a bit.
I don't think the fit was off...rather Cance said himself that he couldn't get into a good rhythm
which would lead to a lot of shuffling around on the bike to try and keep the speed up
Interesting note though…Apparently T-Mart and Grabsch rode clincher HED wheels today which apparently saved them 9 watts over riding tubies
by Vlaanderen90 on Sep 21, 2011 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Interesting bit about the clinchers
Focus on easy first. If that's all you get, that ain't half bad - Caballo Blanco
He did seem to be rocking from left to right
perhaps visually amplified by the stripe on the length of his back. More like Boonen than the Cancellara of old.
"Beer helps." -- Ant1.
some evil part of me
certainly wants this to be true ;)
I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it
by plinytheelder on Sep 22, 2011 6:42 AM EDT up reply actions
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