Commonwealth Games mountain biking today from 11:30am

Well I live 5 minutes from the Chase and you seem to have more info on the route and spectator areas than I’ve managed to get – thanks for posting.

It’s a shame they didn’t make it clear from when tickets were first applied for it was only for the start/finish area the rest of the course was free
Wonder how many people failed at in the ballot so made other plans

8 women racers?! Might as well get a load of handy youth and juniors in there for the experience, and maybe a shot at bronze.

Men’s race only has 26 listed starters too…. pah.

Anyway… Richards and Gaze.

So 25% of the woman’s field (2 out of 8) comes from the mtb mecca of Jersey – an island of 100K people. England (56 million), have one. Remind me again why the commonwealth games have any sporting relevance? Sack it off imo.

Shame Bec McConnell has (understandably) bigger fish to fry.

On the iplayer.

got it , i thought i could get it on the pc through the site nill results.

Fair play to the organisers of the race for managing to make Cathkin Braes look challenging

I can’t go today as I’m looking after a grandson with a temperature but if I was there I’d be at the bit of the course that crosses BigJohn’s.

I remember reading that Canada didn’t bother sending any MTB-ers, but did send road/track cyclists. Same for Wales, though I dont know of any decent Welsh XC racers.

I also suspect Evie would normally be riding the World Cups, but as she’s coming back from injury and illness, this is probably a better fit for her future programme. I think Sam Gaze is in a similar situation.

And don’t start me on Rochelle Gilmore as the expert summariser; can’t the BBC find any MTB experts?

“She’s such a strong rider” x 47 being kept in the bag for the women’s race

Well, with only 8 riders in the race, at least she will have 39 left to use on future occasions.

Hopefully they’ll keep the extra rock features they’ve added for the games.

Apparently not… Chase Trails have said they’re not in the right place to keep them safely.

Looks like a pretty old school XC course, I’m surprised they haven’t been able to make it a bit more technical considering what some of the World Cup stages are like nowadays.

Decent race for bronze

Wow. Remove those rocks and it would barely be worth having a gravel bike for the track they’re on.

The braking bumps will sort out the elite riders, though.

There does seem to be a lot of space

Shame it’s dry and not slightly damp so they’d have to contend with the pebbles of doom

Not much of a “race” really is it. What a hard thing to commentate on. Even Warner couldn’t make this exciting!

The arena was a bit of a disappointment but around the course it was packed.

Just come away from there before the rush after watching bits and riding. Not seen any tv yet but it certainly didn’t look too tame 10 foot from the trails.

Those from lesser know mtb countries were struggling in places and a few fell off going over the stegosaurus rocks (taken the wrong way so downhill slightly).

Spose it’s all relative as the riders were mostly on the edge of exhaustion all the time. Of course they’re trained for it etc but it must make obstacles a bit harder than most riders out cruising on a 150mm+ gnar machine.

And don’t start me on Rochelle Gilmore as the expert summariser; can’t the BBC find any MTB experts?

apparently the BBC haven’t used their own commentators but are just using the world feed, Ned Boulting has been commenting on other sports for the world feed as well. He seemed quite surprised as to why the BBC was using him on his podcast.

Some good tunes playing