UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

So I'd be interested to see if they bring Poggy out or potentially a year after.

I think he'll eventually come to tick off every World Tour one-week stage race.

Um, so that, that'll be exciting.

I think that'll take, um, the tour down to back up to another level again, because obviously it's huge event.

Consistently up there, getting podiums.

And, yeah, McNulty shot off and solid away, one-by-a-minute solo.

Having that white bibs, winning the rainbows, only a couple weeks on from winning the Worlds.

I mean – Whether he takes a whole new step up just because of that belief of having the rainbow or once Pog comes back in, he will fall back in line.

Yes.

Then we had, and then we had the road race, what I had to do, the elite.

And you did also the under 23 women's road race.

Women.

Yeah.

Let's take a, a, a cohort, a, a group of people who we can really rely on to say, "These are people that they, who are really working the extremes in terms of age," I would say that's gonna be professional athletes, professional endurance athletes.

You know what the oldest age is for, if you take all the, the major endurance events in the world, Ironman Triathlon, Boston Marathon, World Championship Cycling, whatever it may be, the, the Tour de France.

Whatever it may be, if you took all the events, the biggest events in the world, endurance events, and try to find what the oldest person is that's ever won one of those, the age is 41.

Oh, right.

Because it had been the kind of last chance saloon for so many big riders, big names, big names win it.

They tend to be the grand tour races that would go there off the back of the Vuelta or something or after the Worlds.

But it had become a monument probably out of the five, the fifth most important.

And it didn't have the gravitas of the others.

He occasionally pulls out these exploits, which are exploits, but they tend to not have the same consistency and stature of what Pogacar does or even what we're now seeing Sex Ass do.

But yeah, it was a super interesting race in that respect because it was open.

It was like we saw at the Worlds.

What's going to happen? But actually it ended up being Pogacar 2.0 that kind of made the show.

Oh yeah.

Oh yeah, and they, they sprint like it's Paris-Roubaix or Worlds.

Like, I love it.

Yeah, it's amazing what those bikes can put up with really.

I think that'd be really fun, you know.

I can see why, why the appeal's there.

There's also Gravel Worlds in Australia, which is notable for actually being on a gravel course and not just, like, a Belgian unpaved sidewalk, which is cool.

Um, I don't know.

But the pace he set up right there from essentially 1K into that climb was crazy fast and nobody can follow it's just for for 19 20 year old kid to have that sort of confidence after 200 some odd kilometers in a monumental race we haven't seen that in a long time and um we saw him get dropped from pogachar and liege um in a similar sort of race situation, but for him to drop the rest of the best of the guys in the world today was incredibly impressive.

And coming off of that huge disappointment from him at the Worlds where he criticized himself very severely, saying that he made a huge mistake, was cramping, and he was so disappointed in himself to come out and win this huge monument is a major deal for him, a major way to to end the season, to go into next season with even more confidence.

I think he can certainly come away really happy with his season.

Yeah, that's my takeaway also.

I agree, Johan.

I think it's underestimating Seixas, how strong he was.

They haven't raced with him in a few weeks since Worlds.

They probably didn't quite expect that, and they were coming off the European Championships win, so they had full confidence.

Motorsports is really significant.

For the first time also, the World Cycling Championship came to the continent of Africa last year, which, uh, Rwanda hosted.

And, you know, we've seen Rwanda trying to build a new track to be able to give them this opportunity to show to the whole world that, you know, they could, um, host, uh, the F1.

And we've seen the likes of former champion Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen backing the African continent during that award and showing interest that it's time for Africa to host F1 again.