UCI Worlds, Zurich 2024, Elite Men's Road Race: Anyone Coming?

One of my favorites in the peloton, Toms Skujins (Latvia) had gotten away from the group of favorites along with Ben Healy (Ireland).  They had already caught and dropped Tadej Pogacar's erstwhile companion Pavel Sivakov but still had to close another 38 seconds up to Pogacar.  Skujins was looking over the support motorcycles of both Shimano neutral support and race marshals to make sure no one was closing on them from behind.  In the Worlds, the riders don't have race radio, so figuring out what is happening on the road gets a bit tough to lay down a race strategy mid-race.

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"Anyone Coming? Z24-12" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Yorkshire 2019 - Elite Men's Road Race: Three More

Up the road, the original break was joined by three more (although it was now only five guys up front), so this trio set off to join in on the chance for a medal at the line in Harrogate.  Toms Skujins (Latvia) was eager for both Gorka Izagirre (Spain) and Carlos Betacur (Colombia) to help him chance down the front of the race.  For Izaguiree, it was important for him to get the country's colors out front.  So many of his countrymen have already abandoned the race, including the defending World Champion.

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Doha 2016, U23 Men's ITT: Rolling Away

The races in Doha were not exactly lined with thousands of fans along the sides of the road today.  To be fair, time trials are not the most exciting things to watch from the side of the road, particularly when it is around a 100 degrees F.  That didn't stop the riders from putting their all into the race of truth today.  Eriks Tom Gavars (Latvia) was another of the early riders to take to the course.  The race order was determined by the rider's ranking with lower ranked riders going first, and the defending World Champion going last.  Some riders did choose to go earlier in the day hoping for better race conditions mainly in regards to the heat out on course.

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