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  • So whose gonna win the Olympic MTB XC on Sat & Sun?
  • qwerty
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    I’m going with a rather safe bet with Jolanda & Nino.

    Be interesting to see what damage Sagan can inflict.

    Place your bets…

    MSP
    Full Member

    Nino in the men’s, just can not see him getting beat.

    The women’s is wide open IMO, Jolanda’s period of domination has faded and she is a bit more affected by the heat than the others. I am going to go for a relative outsider Lea Davidson.

    senorj
    Full Member

    Absolon.
    I am planning on cheering Grant Ferguson. Maybe he can shock everyone.

    MrPottatoHead
    Full Member

    Nino is going to do everything right but go out with a mechanical leaving Absolon to pick up Gold and retire.

    Dahle in the womens.

    mintimperial
    Full Member

    Schurter, Absalon, Kulhavy. Sagan 17th, but wheelieing the whole way round, so fair play.

    Ferguson top 10 if he doesn’t have a mechanical or crash.

    No idea with the women, it’s wide open I reckon.

    Kuco
    Full Member

    I reckon Nino for the men’s and it be good to see Emily Batty get a medal.

    Blazin-saddles
    Free Member

    It’s pretty hard to see past Nino for the men and I’ll go Jenny Rissveds for Women.

    fifeandy
    Free Member

    Nino in the mens.

    Womens should be a great race, so many potential winners.
    Rissveds is the favourite for me.

    Nobeerinthefridge
    Free Member

    It’s between Jamba and ninfan.

    MSP
    Full Member

    xc course looks a lot better now than the first helmet cam shots.

    FunkyDunc
    Free Member

    When is it on ?

    MSP
    Full Member

    now

    sirromj
    Full Member

    how to watch?

    somafunk
    Full Member
    qwerty
    Free Member

    HTF do I watch it?????

    sirromj
    Full Member

    Thanks!

    gwaelod
    Free Member

    its on one of red button channels on Freeview – channel 607 or something

    noncycler
    Free Member

    xc course looks

    like a Blue/green graded trail centre loop (with one or two simple Red graded TTFs).
    Let’s hope Segan brought his roadbike.

    PJ266
    Free Member

    I reckon that course gets significantly trickier when you’ve been racing for an hour or two.

    Its certainly no CX course.

    qwerty
    Free Member

    Bollocks – I’m at the mother in laws in rural Devon, no WiFi and an ancient tv, poo. I thought it was on a main channel.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    Excitable , enjoyed that.

    jonnytheleyther
    Free Member

    What was the result? Stuck at work.

    nickc
    Full Member

    great race, really enjoyed that! Good course

    gerti
    Free Member

    27.5 ftw

    robowns
    Free Member

    That was quite lame, course was a bit too boring.

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    Why weren’t they riding gravel bikes? Probably better suited to the cycle paths they were riding on

    fifeandy
    Free Member

    Would love to watch the people slagging the course try to ride it.

    m0rk
    Free Member

    What is that? Like three spectators for the medals?

    Hard racing though

    howsyourdad1
    Free Member

    Sverige! Was it a 27.5? Just caught the ceremony

    scc999
    Full Member

    fifeandy – Member
    Would love to watch the people slagging the course try to ride it.

    Couldn’t agree more. It’s not a downhill course – but it’s not supposed to be!

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    would love to watch the people slagging the course try to ride it

    I could easily, I’d not win because I’m not fit enough, but that’s the issue, it’s all about fitness not technical ablility on a bike & fitness which mtbing should be

    PJ266
    Free Member

    I could easily, I’d not win because I’m not fit enough

    But would you be faster than the professional racers down the descents? I guess we will never know.

    Some of the ups looked a bit tricky too to be fair.

    howsyourdad1
    Free Member

    I’m with rocketdog, watching replay and it does look a little tame

    dragon
    Free Member

    Looked fine to me, plenty hard enough when you are riding flat out. Course designer did a good job some interesting sections both on the ups and downs, plus good for covering on TV.

    whatnobeer
    Free Member

    Looked ok for an entirely man made course on the side of a hill. I guess the measure of how hard it is would be to see how many of the competitors took the B or C lines vs the A lines.

    justinbieber
    Full Member

    I managed to miss this when it was on TV earlier – does anyone know where I can watch a replay online?

    genesiscore502011
    Free Member

    Most long term mtb weekend warriors could ride the course at a pottle pace …. but simply not at that pace for that length of time under racing pressure without making mistakes. It is a simple fact…. Otherwise you would not be posting on here you would have just finished racing or preparing for tomorrow depending what sex you are

    nickc
    Full Member

    I think most of us could ride the course, but that’s not the point is it? Most of us couldn’t ride it at threshold for 6 laps in a hour and a half.

    telly flattens out the course anyway, that hill looked plenty steep

    Trimix
    Free Member

    Its like the Olympic course we had in the UK. Looked easy on the TV. I rode it and it was hard. Almost as if it was designed to have no flow and obstacles just to hinder you and make it harder at a race pace. I really enjoyed riding round it and it was nothing like the TV pictures. The Rio one is quite likely the same.

    There was some good footage of a practice race on YouTube from the riders perspective. It looked bloody hard at a fast pace. Easy if you ride it like a trail center, but not if your flat out.

    Anyone who has messed about with a GoPro will know filming trails so they look like they do in real life is pretty impossible.

    I enjoyed the race and was surprise by the result. Rissveds was in a category all on her own. WTF happend to Neff ?

    Oh, and Nino will be throwing whips off every obstacle on his way to winning 🙂

    Sagan will go back to road riding once he realises mtb’ing is harder.

    MSP
    Full Member

    I think most of us couldn’t ride up the hills fast enough to get over some of the obstacles on the steep technical climbs.

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