How to watch Olympic mountain biking this Sunday & Monday

Isla is good though.

Surprised to see an insert on that destroyed wheel. I figured they would be running such high pressures and insert wouldn’t be much use.

I would think this course might suit Pidcock pretty well.

She was unconscious! ?

I don’t think she was unconscious even after the bike hit her. I think she remained stationary as she wouldn’t know which way to go to avoid being hit by another rider?

I am not a doctor.

Are they not allowed to have a spare bike? Rather than changing the wheel.

I would of thought that the bike mechanics would have used power tools and a spare axle for wheel changes? Must be a powered torque wrench that’d do the job quicker than an Allen key?

Nice win for PFP.

Surprised Candice Lill finished in the top 20.

Great ride from PFP.

I’m always amazed when I see elite athletes looking so fresh at the end. There didn’t appear to have been a single bead of sweat on her!

Only watched the 15 min highlights on the iPlayer, which wasn’t great in terms of showing the narrative of the race.

I’m agnostic on the course, yes at first glance the obvious gravel bike comments came to mind, but the tech features were pretty severe and all that room for overtaking is a good thing IMO.

Eurosport was woeful with the ad breaks. Missed PFP’s initial breakaway, Puck’s puncture, Keller’s puncture? or otherwise dropping off the pace.

They only ever showed the top 5 or so racers, which at a one off race, I understand that there’s not really any point showing the rest – but thats the French broadcaster’s descision, not Eurosports.

Got no issue with Ric and Ollie on the mic (alhough I spotted Batten’s falt typre before they did) but they themselves seemed unaware of the commercial breaks – there was no “welcome back, here’s what you missed” eather orally from them, or highlights from the broadcast. we just skipped 3 minutes of racing and had to try to work out what happened. Might try BBC tonight, assume I can watch full replay after the fact?

People I think are really downplaying Loana’s crash. She was lying there motionless in a really unnatural position for the whole time she was on screen and Rissvets rode past her. That wasn’t a “god this hurts” lying on the floor position or even a “I’ve just blown my medal chance” position; it was a complete ragdoll/sack of spuds face down in a rock garden.

There’s an Olympics broadcasting team, it’s not led by the French broadcaster.

Sorry that was what I meant – there’s one feed, everyone else just buys it then gets to talk over it, run ads etc as they choose.

Well done to Evie on her performance, 5th is a good result, particularly so soon after suffering concussion!

I actually dont mind Ric and Oli but I think ill give BBC a go this afternoon.

Half an hour till broadcast starts.

(I secretly want N1N0 to win…)

I watch it on Discovery then switch over to BBC when the ads come on then back.

I’d also love Nino to win but doubt he will, hopefully he does medal.

BBC 2 from 1300.

I think BBC2 for the men’s at 1pm today, where did 12:10 come from…?

I’m excited, but doing virtual training today! I’ll get the first 5mins, then will be double screening and not paying attention to the training! Come on Tom!

Er the race has started on Discovery/Eurosport whilst BBC are still chatting rubbish!