Rio Olympics XCO

[Benjamin]

Interesting stat from the entry sheet. Pete Sagan is the heaviest rider in the field.

[CogitoErgoSum]

Interesting stat from the entry sheet. Pete Sagan is the heaviest rider in the field.

Bouchard from Canada comes in at 81kg. But at 1,93m ! Both are real fatties ???? And Gaze is at 79kg as well

 

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[Gen]

Interesting stat from the entry sheet. Pete Sagan is the heaviest rider in the field.

All power.

 

 

Not sure how accurate it all is.

 

But from all the pics we've seen the last day they all look in great shape.

[kosmonooit]

So lets start talking who's going to make the medals

 

 

I'll start with the women

 

Yo!anda, Catherine and Emily 

[Guest notmyname]

Yolanda, Jenny, Pauline.

[Benjamin]

Yolanda Annika Yana

[teampeanut]

Hoping for Anika, Pauline, Emily

[Gen]

This is such a good article about how the locals experienced Sagan rocking up to their races.

 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/rio-2016-peter-sagans-usa-mountain-ride-1471464288

[Bicycle Supply Chain]

We definitely had ladies in the form of Mariske Strauss & Cherie Redeker (Vale), I think both were fresh from recent European racing stints. Mariske reclaimed the SA title last month, so we definitely had the ladies available unless of course they were told to pay their own way. This was from a CSA newsletter heading earlier this year "Strauss ready for first XCO Cup with Rio Olympics in mind"

 

 

This is a mystery. 

 

btw Ashleigh is a very capable mountain biker.

the Elite ladies did not finish with 120% of the elites lap times. this lead them to not qualify for the olympics

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Still amazes me how these okes can be comfortable at that speed in those tech areas with a saddle up their asses. Tremendous skill. 

 

Mens - Schurter / Absolon / KoooooolHarvey

Ladies - Yolanda / Catharine / Emily

[Meentb]

Just a quick question. I see the ladies and men's races are at 17:30. Is this Rio time?

[Gen]

Just a quick question. I see the ladies and men's races are at 17:30. Is this Rio time?

SA time

[NicoBoshoff]

I have a dirty suspicion that Kulharvey is going to upset the apple cart in Rio...

[Gen]

I have a dirty suspicion that Kulharvey is going to upset the apple cart in Rio...

Kulhavy retaining his Olympic title wouldn't upset the apple cart..only upset Nino[emoji6].

[NicoBoshoff]

Kulhavy retaining his Olympic title wouldn't upset the apple cart..only upset Nino[emoji6].

Ja but it's been the Nino show for how long now and everyone seems to forget "that" race earlier this year where Kulharvey dropped Nino on a climb making Nino look like he snapped a chain.

[mornevg]

Anika/Jenny/Catherine

 

Breaks my heart though not to have Miss "makes me batty" there

 

Nino/Absolon/Koolharvie!

Secretly hoping for Koolharvie win