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[quote=aracer ]I'm wondering from the pre-race comments whether it was going to be a hillier course and they then changed it to something flatter?
...have found the comments from CB I remember "there's a little bit less climbing than I was expecting", "little bit less climbing than Emma would have hoped for" - don't know whether he hadn't checked before or they've changed it - certainly from what I'd heard before I was expecting a lot more climbing than there actually seems to be.
@martinhutch Looks like it's raining on one part of the course and drying out on another. A shot of someone going over the summit checkpoint, it's dry with the support car not having its wipers on then a shot on the flat section by the cobbles where you struggle to see the rider because of the rain on the lens.
The TT is on the western loop of the Road Race course, which is less hilly than the Vista Chinesa climb on the Eastern loop, but still some nasty steep bits.
Having ridden in Rio a fair bit, they should have used the climb to Christ the Redeemer as a finish, but I guess they wanted a stadium on Copacabana.
Geraint Thomas just started.
Cancellara going well
Froome starting slow 😯
First check (10km)
Spartacus 15:12
Dennis 15:13
G 15:18
Dumoulin 15:27
Panzerwagen 15:28
Castroviejo 15:31
Froomey 15:32
Demoulin and Froome waaaay back...
Start slow, finish fast... Always the best TT strategy.
[quote=shermer75 ]Demoulin and Froome waaaay back...
If 15s and 20s is waaaaay back
Froome was 22s off the best time at the first check in the TdF mountain TT. Just saying.
Looking slippery out there.
G E R A I N T.
Panzerwagen has been shelled
not too worried about Froome yet, it's a longish TT and he had to measure his early effort when he won the tour uphill TT. He'll finish strongly, as will Dumoulin probably.
Hmmm, Froome dog looks to be losing it 🙁
Spartacus has just turned on the afterburners
Cancellara meanwhile looks to be measuring his effort nicely, he's going well.
Sooooo exciting!!
Change of bike for Dennis
Impressive work by the mechanic
What was wrong with his bike?!
It wasn't going fast enough any more
Slow-mo shot showing the left tri-bar broke
Broken tri bar
Broken/snapped tri-bar
I guess the battery ran out with all those hills..
Okay, tri-bar snapping, too much power?
Froomey out of it for the win, though it's all quite tight from 2nd to 5th - gold is Cancellara's if [s]his motor batteries don't run out[/s] he can hold it.
Well that's one thing decided, G stayed upright
'G' well done lad, considering the crash.
Wow, Castroviejo took almost a minute out of G in the last third, having been only 30s up before.
Looking good for Spartacus.
Cancellara riding this so well, a well deserved win if he gets it. Can't see that time getting beaten.
Looking like Spartacus, Dumoulin, Froomey
Love the patronizing 'slow down' marshals at the end. There's about 8 of them!
Great gurning from TM as usual
Bronze
Great for Cancellara. Happy to see him win. Good result for Froome too
Cancellara absolutely demolished them all. Phenomenal ride, great way to sign off his career.
Awesome win for Spartacus
Really chuffed that Geraint was in top 10 🙂
Will Cancellara ride again after that? Got to be hard to get himself up for the rest of the season, when he's just achieved his main target of the year.
The other question is what on earth happened at that second time check where he was shown as being well down?
They're not marshalls, they're scousers..
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Love to see Cancellara win, pure class.
Crowd looked more like the tour of Dubai or a local crit than the Olympics though.
G with pair of 9's for the Olympics, good work lad.
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Sweet jesus, those GB track tops are hideous.