Winning rider's team in World Championships???

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

so dave does that mean we can pick say four sky riders? so long as only two are of the same nationality?

nope. the game logic is all written so that you can only have two riders from one team. so that rule still applies for the worlds.

dave_atkinson wrote:

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

so dave does that mean we can pick say four sky riders? so long as only two are of the same nationality?

nope. the game logic is all written so that you can only have two riders from one team. so that rule still applies for the worlds.

So does that mean the game will stop me from having Cav, Geraint Thomas and Wiggins if that's what I want?

dave_atkinson wrote:

to answer the original question, there will be *no* team bonus in the TT and the bonus for the the road race will be based on *national* teams

No team bonus for the TT is actually quite a good rule and I'd like to see that brought in for every ITT next year.

Gkam84 wrote:

No sorry i haven't, but i looked them up, so Sohrabi races on the UCI Asia Tour, we get NO coverage of that in this country and nor do we get any Africa tour

So it doesn't exist then? Of it has no relevance at all? I see no coverage where I am either but this is the internet age, results are everywhere and whilst yeah, I don't look specifically all the time for stage results from Asia or Africa either, I am open to checking out results of cycling everywhere, not just just focused solely on the World Tour.

Gkam84 wrote:

Are you trying to tell me that Sohrabi is better than Cav??

Did I say that? I said he had more victories than Cav.

Gkam84 wrote:

I didn't mean to insult anyone, it was a genuine question as i dont know much about Iran and Eritrea cycling wise and the later is not surprising because of this

Quote:

In its 2010 Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders classified the media environment in Eritrea at 175 out of 175, the lowest possible rating, and below that of totalitarian North Korea at 174

BUT i looked up the cycling and found this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_of_Eritrea

If it wasn't so damn hot over there, i dare say i could cover 700 miles in 10 stages, not taking away from it, i love to see cycling being the most popular sport in a country and it also says they have nearly 100 professional eritrean cyclists, BUT how many could even cope with a one day race like the Milan – San Remo?? I use that because its not far off the length of the world champ course

You're not paying any attention to what I wrote. You posted that you don't think they have enough riders to fill squads of 6 and 3. I showed it was clearly a belligerent ignorance viewpoint, that these nations have been doing well on their own Continental Tour and have more than enough riders who can race. I gave you an example of Iranian rider who has done well this season and I mentioned that the Eritrean teamhave been racing well on the Africa Tour, not what their countries media standards are, not how many cyclists they have registered with the UCI. Actually get off Wiki and look. The UCI site has all the race for this season here and you can find results on CQRanking like for this year's La Tropicale Amissa Bongo here

Your flippant statements about the heat directly contradicts your your third sentence. Why are you trying to hold them to the same pedestal as WorldTour riders? Again, I was only mentioning them in the context of their respective Continental Tours and being more than capable of filling riders for in the spots allocated, I never got into discussing whether they can last long or at all in the WC with cyclists from the bigger nations but then that's not really the point of the World Champs to begin with, nor the point I was originally raising.

Ever heard of Tarbiz Petrochemical CT? Mehdi Sohrabi who has more wins than Cavendish this year? Bit insulting questioning whether they can fill out a team. Same applies for Eritrea, one of the strongest national teams on the Africa Tour.

Gkam84 wrote:

BUT

Eritrea 5 enrolled of whom 3 starters
Islamic Republic of Iran 9 enrolled of whom 6 starters

Do these country's even have enough to fill them out?

So for the people who had a go, Eritrea only have 4 riders registered and Iran have 3 so i guess they couldn't fill their quota

Gkam84 wrote:

Gkam84 wrote:

BUT

Eritrea 5 enrolled of whom 3 starters
Islamic Republic of Iran 9 enrolled of whom 6 starters

Do these country's even have enough to fill them out?

So for the people who had a go, Eritrea only have 4 riders registered and Iran have 3 so i guess they couldn't fill their quota

Your point being? Do you think there are no riders to take their place or that fiscal reasons take priority?

Are you ridiculing USA as well since they aren't taking a 9th rider, for reasons only known to them. Eritrea will still race with their full quota and guess what, Sohrabi is riding for Iran, with 2 helpers. Guess that's all they can spare? Why do you have to be so judgemental? Not the only nationals teams either, Russia and Venezuela are starting 5/6 and then there's a bunch of no shows from Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Uruguay.

There are many reasons why these nations can't field a team but not having any riders to race would be one of the last.

stewieatb wrote:

Well, you're only allowed to enter as many people in each race as the number of your nationals who have gained World Tour ranking points - so Luxembourg can enter two people if only Frandy have points.

No, Read the rules:

However, a nation with fewer than 9
riders classified in the individual UCI WorldTour ranking on 15 August 2011 shall start
the number of riders that are classified. A nation with fewer than 6 riders classified in
the UCI WorldTour ranking will, nonetheless, start 6 riders

http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=MTkzNg&ObjTypeCod...