Tokyo Olympics 2020 - Cycling

[DieselnDust]

8 minutes ago, Pure Savage said:

What happened to his trade team mate, was just ahead of him I think for most of the race?

Kudos to Alan!

popped and he was supposed to be the guy most used to the conditions.

Alan had two mishaps on the opening start loop. Got pinched at the start then got caught up behind one of the Swiss riders when they stalled on a rock garden. We was way down at the end of the startloop. 

[Eugene Oppelt]

Another solid outing by AH. He is placed consistently now in the top 10 of what is a very competitive and deep field. Great ambassador for Cannondale and South Africa. Proud. ????

[Shebeen]

On 7/24/2021 at 10:06 AM, JCA12 said:

Yup and Slovenia and Slovakia are the same country 

comments are gold!

[INDABUSCHE]

Sorry guys, who on earth was the male commentator for the 2 road events.

 

[TheoG]

18 minutes ago, kosmonooit said:

Tom is an atypical Pom, he doesn't drink and he is not into football. Good lad!

Leeds (where he is from) is a nice place, 

What remains now is downhill.

He certainly doesn't appear to be the typical arrogant POM dumb ass.

Edited July 26, 2021 by TheoG

[kosmonooit]

17 minutes ago, 'Dale said:

Another solid outing by AH. He is placed consistently now in the top 10 of what is a very competitive and deep field. Great ambassador for Cannondale and South Africa. Proud. ????

Best result for Team Cannondale as well

[lechatnoir]

4 minutes ago, INDABUSCHE said:

Sorry guys, who on earth was the male commentator for the 2 road events.

 

they were the regular Euro/GCn commentators, but men's and ladie's events were diffent

[lechatnoir]

32 minutes ago, Dirt Tracker said:

[TheoG]

1 minute ago, kosmonooit said:

Best result for Team Cannondale as well

Imagine how good he would be on a proper bike and not a "half" one ....  ???? (only joking)

[Eugene Oppelt]

What a composed, calculated and cool performance by gold medallist Tom Pidcock. It was a very close contest with the in-form Flueckiger. Serrano's surge in the finalé was impressive. HIs tears at the end, priceless. 

"“Not real, really. It’s pretty crazy that I became an Olympian and I was trying to tell myself at the start of the race it’s special just to be here."

- Tom Pidcock

[Shebeen]

21 minutes ago, J Wakefield said:

he was pinched out on the start into that rock section and came about in 19th. Put his head down and came back to a solid 8th by the end. Was as high as 7th at 1 point and seemed to lose it alittle the last 2 laps. 

 

Great ride and solid from 16th at the last olympics.

he did even better, according to live split

start loop 31st (+ 25sec back)

lap 1 14th(+ 16 sec)

lap 3 8th (+19)

lap 4 7th (+58)

lap 6 8th (+1:19)

fin 8th (+1:19)

You can see he pulled through the field in the opening laps, my thumbsuck is this required some matchbox emptying. lap 4 pidcock and fluekiger basically drilled everyone by 30seconds and that was that for everyone else it was only bronze. Alan seemed to manage it well without blowing and pretty much held it from there, was hanging off the 3rd group by about 20seconds the whole way. Who knows what he could have done with a start like Cooper. Sort of feels similiar to Burry in London, got caught up first lap, worked his way back but this emptied the tank when it came to the final laps. Good news is that despite this disappointment, he is totally up there, on the biggest stage well done to him. Some XCO podiums and even wins are not out of the question.

in contrast, who the hell is Valero? Rides on an obscure BH team so not exactly top tier rider. Here is his way through the field with a very well paced effort from even further back.

start loop 35st (+ 27sec back)

lap 1 22nd(+ 31 sec)

lap 2 17nd(+ 50 sec)

lap 3 12th (+38)

lap 4 8th (+1:12)

lap 5 8th (+1:12)

lap 6 3rd (+1:05)

fin 3rd (+ 55)

 

 

 

 

[Shebeen]

17 minutes ago, INDABUSCHE said:

Sorry guys, who on earth was the male commentator for the 2 road events.

 

there is a reason the commentators don't mention each other by name!

I wonder if he has worked out that Carapaz had already won the second biggest event in the sport yet?

[TheoG]

Just now, Shebeen said:

there is a reason the commentators don't mention each other by name!

I wonder if he has worked out that Carapaz had already won the second biggest event in the sport yet?

You forgot to say Rishaaaard Carapaz ... ????

[Eldron]

1 hour ago, Spafsack said:

This is interesting, the way it looked to me watching live was that it seemed he did not carry enough speed at all. I saw on Cadence last week that Candice was training over and over, every day, on a similar massive drop, so it must be this one. As i said, this is really hectic for the ladies, hope none of them wipe out. Still makes no sense as you said that mvdp did not know this drop was coming. But as i said, he looked wat to slow at the top, like completely unexpected....  

Exactly this - he didn't pop the front wheel at all - just dropped it over the lip like he was rolling down a ramp (that wasn't there!).

It is a little weird that there was a ramp there during training...

[NGM]

35 minutes ago, INDABUSCHE said:

Sorry guys, who on earth was the male commentator for the 2 road events.

 

Based on the accent and steady stream of non-sequiturs, I'm pretty sure it was Murray from Flight of the Conchords.  

 

Edited July 26, 2021 by NickGM

[TheoG]

Anyone know where I can stream the 7s rugby, doesn't look like SS is going to air our game against Kenia at 12:00?