Talk:2009 national road cycling championships

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I thought it might be helpful information to include another column to indicate the national champion's current team. Does anyone have any objections to this? Here is an example:

Country	Men's Elite Road Race Champion	Current Team	Men's Elite Time Trial Champion	Current Team
Australia	Peter McDonald	Drapac Porsche	Michael Rogers	HTC–Highroad[template problem]

Malo0178 (talk) 19:40, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That gives the team as much emphasis as the rider which is certainly too much for a national title with limited team support. How about:

Country	Men's Elite Road Race Champion	Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
Australia	Peter McDonald (Drapac Porsche)	Michael Rogers (HTC–Highroad[template problem])

As further thought, it would provide maximum browsing benefit to provide sortable columns. Without team names we would achieve this with something like this (using ({{sortname}}):

Country	Men's Elite Road Race Champion	Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
Australia	Peter McDonald	Michael Rogers
Colombia	Oscar Alvarez	Santiago Botero

This doesn't work with team name in the same field. So, to add an extra sortable field for team names, but not to overemphasise it:

Country	Men's Elite Road Race Champion	Team	Men's Elite Time Trial Champion	Team
Australia	Peter McDonald	(Drapac Porsche)	Michael Rogers	(HTC–Highroad[template problem])
Colombia	Oscar Alvarez		Santiago Botero	(Indeportes Antioquia)

I'm not overly struck with that design though. All I think is we shouldn't overemphasise team and we should make the tables sortable. Severo^TC 23:35, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds reasonable. I've never dealt with sortable fields, so I may not tackle that immediately, but I think for now I'll use your first example. Malo0178 (talk) 12:48, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I totally disagree with the new design, it's a great confusion. The previous design was way better. LegendK (talk) 16:21, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Guillaume Boivin won overall, but was classified as U23 (Canada runs U23 and elite together). Cycling news (http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/2009-national-champions) reports Aaron Fillion (the top placed elite) as the Canadian champion, but the Canadian cycling association (http://www.canadian-cycling.com/cca/media/news/2009/0628_guillaume.shtml) reports Boivin. I'm inclined to go with the Canadians themselves. It would suck to win the race but not be the National Champion because you were too young.Malo0178 (talk) 03:23, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The more I read both sources, the less sure I am either way. It's really not very clear.Malo0178 (talk) 03:25, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused. I don't like the way on the Canadian cycling association website it talks differently about the "national champion" and "men's elite national champion"... Severo^TC 23:28, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]