Winning rider’s team in World Championships???

This would be a good time to
This would be a good time to raise the limit of riders from one team to 3 or 4 🙂

Quote:Sorry, got a little

Sorry, got a little confused as team bonuses will be done by nation but limits are in place by team

not as confused as i’ll be when i do the scores, no doubt 🙂

yes you will.
yes you will.

dave_atkinson

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?

drheaton – duly noted.
drheaton – duly noted. doesn’t really make sense in an ITT

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

Gkam84 wrote:No sorry i

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 [i]more victories[/i] 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

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 [i]team[/i]have 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 [url=http://www.uci.ch/templates/UCI/UCI2/layout.asp?MenuId=MTUyMjQ&LangId=1]here[/url] and you can find results on CQRanking like for this year’s La Tropicale Amissa Bongo [url=http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/tour.asp?tourid=1960]here[/url]

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.

stewieatb wrote:Well, you’re

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:

[i]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, [b]start 6 riders[/b][/i]

http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=MTkzNg&ObjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=NjY2OTc&LangId=1