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too confident and complacent? not looking too good just now... or might be a helluva finish...


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:18 pm
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These johnny foreigners have no manners. We were meant to get a gold here.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:21 pm
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I hope its not gonna go all Pete Tong!

I'm feeling nervous now!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:22 pm
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Don't know about a gold, at this rate there won't even be a sprint.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:23 pm
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some time checks would be nice

edit - 51s


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:23 pm
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Arghhh! COME ON!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:24 pm
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Who's bossing the peloton?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:24 pm
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Can we blame the Germans for this? Let's hope so.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:25 pm
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GB to catch them with 500 yards to go,they are just toying with them!!!! (maybe).


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:25 pm
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It aint over til' the fat lady sings! 😉


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:27 pm
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lead group look to have slowed a bit


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:28 pm
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If Greipel wins after this I'll be mightily p*ssed off. Although quietly respectful of the tactical balls of steel.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:28 pm
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Boardman keeps asking for a time check....................where are they?!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:28 pm
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Release the hounds!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:29 pm
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do you want it to be easy, or exciting,

CRASH!!!!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:29 pm
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😯


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:29 pm
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ouch crashhh


 
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Olympic drinking game. Every time Porter mispronounces a name, you drink.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:29 pm
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Ouch big crash...who's involved?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:29 pm
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Crash!!!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:29 pm
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crash might help


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:29 pm
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Crash at the front?!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:29 pm
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leaders crash


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:29 pm
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Ouch


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:29 pm
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Men down


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:30 pm
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Olympic drinking game. Every time Porter mispronounces a name, you drink.

You can't drink that quickly! It's not possible... 😉

That crash has got to have played back into GB's hands...


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:30 pm
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Olympic drinking game. Every time Porter mispronounces a name, you drink.

This would be a short game before my Saturday is written off. 😆


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:30 pm
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EXCITING !!!!!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:30 pm
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Cancellara out? 😯


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:31 pm
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Come on England 😀


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:31 pm
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Cancellara went down. Interesting.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:31 pm
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Canc looked really twitchy on that corner. What was that about?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:31 pm
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It's Spartacus


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:31 pm
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Spartacus down!

No......! He's injured....


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:31 pm
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Well done the man with the oil can


 
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poor spartacus - unlukcy i mean


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:31 pm
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Honestly, who nerfs the crappy beebs app, when you can access stw 😉


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:31 pm
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Cancellara down!!!

Right back into GB's hands and Wiggo's for the TT...


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:31 pm
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Has Danny Boyle directed the finish of this race?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:32 pm
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That looks sore...


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:32 pm
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Time check? Can someone just make one up for me?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:32 pm
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Anyone know the gap?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:32 pm
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Hi Guys, No stream here cos of work computers, you are my primary source of updates. Who's down? how big is the remain leading group? Could this change things?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:33 pm
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Poor sod, that looks nasty!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:33 pm
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That looks broken.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:33 pm
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Skited on the hash markings oooyah!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:33 pm
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They're on my regular training ride, too!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:33 pm
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BBC..............give us a time check !!!!!!!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:34 pm
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Wiggo for the TT now?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:34 pm
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Feel gutted for Fab. Really nervous for Team GB. Maybe they'll pull it back now?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:34 pm
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Yeah what is happening, how is team gb doing?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:34 pm
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No time gap


 
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lets call it 31secs?


 
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They're on my regular training ride, too!

What are you training for, Flashy? 😉


 
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Proper face plant into the toast racks!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:35 pm
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30+ in the lead group unkle. Looking very tight


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:35 pm
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Cancellara was working on the front of the lead group of around 30 riders, went round a corner, front wheel washed out (should have been running a super tacky) and he went down, possibly taking out a few others. He's of course gone out the back, caught by the peloton, and out the back of that too.

Break away has gotten smaller, GB still driving on the front.

Time is 56 seconds?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:35 pm
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tv says 56


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:35 pm
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56s 😥


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:35 pm
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57s! How the **** have they lost time?!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:35 pm
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wtf 56 seconds


 
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56 seconds


 
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Game over


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:35 pm
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Still 56 seconds - game over for GB


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:36 pm
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coverage is a disgrace.

who is that, which group was he in......


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:36 pm
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This coverage is a shambles.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:36 pm
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Radios, a good or bad idea?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:36 pm
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good if you have a sprinter bad otheriwse


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:37 pm
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no not vino!


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:37 pm
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nasty crash swiss lead guy into barrier!

wtf is up with the commentary.. BBC guys don't even know what country a rider is from n/m his name.. no timings, no idea.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:38 pm
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gwan vino.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:38 pm
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Agreed, the coverage is pretty bad. Boardman is doing his best though.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:39 pm
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ABV!

I don't want an unrepentent doper winning.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:39 pm
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Shame for GB.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:39 pm
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Was it wrong (arrogant) for GB to put all their eggs in one basket?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:39 pm
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cav to win the sprint from 45 places and 45seconds down?


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:39 pm
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Wiggo done 😕


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:40 pm
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It's over


 
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Was it wrong (arrogant) for GB to put all their eggs in one basket?

No, they just made a tactical oversight on that last lap of Box Hill.


 
Posted : 28/07/2012 2:40 pm
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Bad but it doesn't stop someone timing the difference and group size phoning someone else up the road who writes it on a board.


 
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