Jewbacca Posted July 28, 2021 Share I reckon they should all ride the ITT in the same IOC issue speedo on the same model bike. BOOM! Edited July 28, 2021 by Jewbacca Pure Savage, TheoG, TNT1 and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoG Posted July 28, 2021 Share 3 minutes ago, TNT1 said: It makes a huge difference. Over a course like today's, the latest skinsuit technology is probably worth around 30 seconds. Just stress the fact again that we as a nation is unprofessional when it come to the Olympics. Its up to the pure brilliance of the individual to get a medal, our teams are very unlikely to succeed simply because they depend a lot on the support team which seem to be MIA. Vetplant, TNT1 and CraigT48 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselnDust Posted July 28, 2021 Share 1 hour ago, FootballingCyclist said: And ofcourse what's a world sporting event without a little bit of "racism" thrown in to the mix..???? https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/german-coach-apologises-for-racist-remarks-made-during-time-trial-at-tokyo-olympics aaah the old it was the heat that made me do it <the heat brought out the true person for sure...> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Savage Posted July 28, 2021 Share 2 minutes ago, TNT1 said: We should do a comparison between those, and me with clip on tri-bars from 1993 and a skinsuit even older than that. Everyone LOVES See through baggy lycra! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Savage Posted July 28, 2021 Share 3 minutes ago, TheoG said: Just stress the fact again that we as a nation is unprofessional when it come to the Olympics. Its up to the pure brilliance of the individual to get a medal, our teams are very unlikely to succeed simply because they depend a lot on the support team which seem to be MIA. Like our entire nation, if you want anything, has to be private, health care - private, airline - private, schooling - private. Poor athletes being paraded around by political vulatures a week before olympics. CraigT48, Vetplant and TheoG 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNT1 Posted July 28, 2021 Share 1 minute ago, Pure Savage said: Everyone LOVES See through baggy lycra! I think I actually have my old man's skinsuit he used in the 1980 olympics somewhere. I'll use that. Pure Savage 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FootballingCyclist Posted July 28, 2021 Share 10 minutes ago, babse said: still see posts on Jeans IG stories... no F8ks given Yeah but i See his tweet was removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewbacca Posted July 28, 2021 Share 3 minutes ago, DieselnDust said: aaah the old it was the heat that made me do it <the heat brought out the true person for sure...> That is pathetic.... Cool, it's ok to be an outright racist but if you are stressed and it's hot and you apologise, it's ok. Pffft..... Scratch the Germans. Racism definitely does not fit in with the 'Olympic spirit' TheoG, justinafrika, DieselnDust and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselnDust Posted July 28, 2021 Share 9 hours ago, babse said: still see posts on Jeans IG stories... no F8ks given argh you know its the same pooh every time we have a major tournament. Athletes deflecting from failure to deliver. Now we have a situation where the awol mchanic will be blamed for us not bringing home a medal. I'm so over excuses. We're just not good enough so participation itself is a blessing and a privilege. I don;t who falls for the following: my skinsuit was too short my mechanic wasn't here to tell me I can ride my bike my tyre lost 2psi so I couldn't ride faster my skinsuit only has 27 panels and I normally ride with a 27,5 panel skinsuit my helmet was twisted slightly to the left so it made turning right really hard my team manager doesn't like me so he gave me 0,5gr too much protein At the end of the day winning and losing requires a team of aligned people and by posting pooh about your team and federation on social media but you cant go tell them face to face makes that oke a coward and therefore doesn't deserve the tax payers money that sent him there. They sound like they're at a Tryathlete convention Why don't they just take up the issues internally and get aligned? Instead its like a bunch of school lighties bickering across Whatsapp without the people they should be bickering about, knowing. Stupid! PS: Thanks Ashleigh and Nic for representing SA with exceptional grace and humility. <Huge Applause> Edited July 28, 2021 by DieselnDust inserted words to complete sentence TheoG, Sid the Sloth, CraigT48 and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosmonooit Posted July 28, 2021 Share 5 hours ago, Spafsack said: I think Yolanda was and still is a better rider in heavy tech stuff, did you see how smooth, fast, fearless she was, that is what made that race. All the other xco races were about pure fitness, strength, but this one was different. They should really all just kiss and make up ???? Agreed - she is fearless and you could see the hesitations of PFP. Weren't they on the same road team at one stage? Liv? DieselnDust 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosmonooit Posted July 28, 2021 Share Some context: Spafsack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilipV Posted July 28, 2021 Share The support staff seems to be a tight knit community. Edited July 28, 2021 by PhilipV DieselnDust 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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OVERDRIVE Posted July 28, 2021 Share 20 hours ago, Mountain Bru said: Neff is maybe justified in being annoyed if PFP braked super hard before the drop. It's probably the worst place for someone to brake in front of you if you're trying to carry speed and not just roll down the ramp. And at the front of the race on lap 1, I don't think you'd expect the person in front of you to be slowing down for the drop. The men all just cruised over it at speed on lap 1 until MVDP came along. And I think PFP has a wrong perception of what happened when she was overtaken though. Neff was miles from her on a completely different line and left a gap for her on the little uphill kick. Looks more like PFP made a mistake and went a bit off the course, or pulled her front brake and lost the front a bit. Either way, her comments look more like sour grapes to me than anything else. Things happen fast though, so maybe she hasn't seen the replay and just knows how she felt when it happened. Those screen grabs make it even worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid the Sloth Posted July 28, 2021 Share 10 hours ago, babse said: dennis is a chjop, other than a TTT he would be no use for TJV Did you miss the Stelvio stage of the Giro last year? DieselnDust 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted July 28, 2021 Share Kudos to Tom Dumoulin who had to battle some demons and return to top flight racing. ???? Getty Images Mountain Bru, kosmonooit, Shebeen and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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