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They think its all over.................it is now...... 🙁
Was it wrong (arrogant) for GB to put all their eggs in one basket?
I thought they'd put Stannard in break
Please not the junkie vino....... 🙁
CaptJon - Member
Was it wrong (arrogant) for GB to put all their eggs in one basket?
No, I think what killed "us" was all the other sprint teams thinking they could just rely on GB bossing the race and nick it at the end
****ed up 😥
Trying to follow the progress on line and the commontators are saying the tv work and on-screen updates are hopless.
sheesh.
Anyone but Vino...
come on Henao sit on Vino!
Come on Henao just sit on Vino!
Right what time is the women's volley ball on......goes off to route out the 3D glasses..... 8)
Really don't want to see Vino get gold.
But if you help a team with cav in it you help yourself to loose so why would they?
No knighthood for Brailsford then.
Ugh Vino 🙁
But if you help a team with cav in it you help yourself to loose so why would they?
coming second to Cav better than coming 43rd ?
Serves cav right, he has done bugger all to deserve it
its Uran, sorry
Great camerawork..
crap
Not happy.
Jeez was that Columbian asleep?
wow what an error looking around like that!!!!
caught napping bigtime
Shite 👿
Balls...
lets wait for thr dope test first 🙂
meh!
EDIT: No need for such cynicism.
WTF was Porter talking about 4th place?
Right, that wasn't supposed to happen. Time to pack everything up and take our Games home.
🙁
"Was it Spain, Denmark or Netherlands in third? "
commentator doesn't have a clue....
Bugger
mickey mouse cup any way
Wonder what they will find with Vino in doping?
That aint dopping.....just bad team cycling.... 😉
Bugger ! 🙁
Porter is a plonker!!
Does this make us look a bit daft with those stealth one off bikes?
If Cav was good enough then he would have gone with one of the breaks.
WTF was Porter talking about 4th place?
Considering they'd been on the home straight for the last 25km, nothing should be a surprise...
What stealth one off bikes?
Steve - have you watched cycling before?
that was crap coverage.
Did team GB turn up?
Vino - Just about the worst possible result? Maybe Valverde could have been worse, possibly.
stevewhyte - Member
Serves cav right, he has done bugger all to deserve it
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Real shame to see Vino winning. Unlike Windy, he was an unrepentant doper.
Waiting with interest to see how Vino's doping test goes.
🙄If Cav was good enough then he would have gone with one of the breaks.
"In [s]our[/s] my [s]excitement[/s] mind numbing stupidity...."
Vino - Just about the worst possible result? Maybe Valverde could have been worse, possibly.
LOL at convert
Got to feel for Spartacus.
Yeah, I would have felt better if [i]literally[/i] anyone else had won it.
Well done to Fab for finishing. Waiting for him to tell the cameraman to **** off!
must remember to have my own stop watch for the tt.
great post race interview......is he on drugs? oh, wait
Does this make us look a bit daft with those stealth one off bikes?
No it makes the Germans a laughing stock for not chipping in.....Greipel pretty much guaranteed a medal in a bunch sprint, but his team not prepared to work.
Right, that wasn't supposed to happen. Time to pack everything up and take our Games home.
And put that torch out it will driving the gas bill right up...
I actually quite like Vino, never shy to make an attack. Good on him.
Come on Nicole Cooke!
If you ask me we lost it cos Cav couldn't follow the attacks on the final climb. Other teams knew this and attacked en masse, knowing that they could then hold a gap with lots of riders in a group. Can't believe that slimy cheating b*stard Vino won it though.
+1 On the terrible coverage. Shambolic. Hugh Porter hasn't got a clue, didn't even know the teams, let alone the riders.
The director needs a good kick in baws
Is Cav doing anything on the track?
So the peleton were happy to sacrifice their own chances in case they were beaten in the sprint if they helped GB get the break back,is that what happened? road racing is a strange one sometimes.
mikey3 - Member
So the peleton were happy to sacrifice their own chances in case they were beaten in the sprint if they helped GB get the break back,is that what happened?
yeah, "anyone but Cav"
As a mate of mine said: Germany risked nothing, to gain nothing. They'd obviously rather win nothing that risk Cav winning it.
Doesn't show much faith in Greipel.
Stannard is a proper machine though.
So the peleton were happy to sacrifice their own chances in case they were beaten in the sprint if they helped GB get the break back,is that what happened? road racing is a strange one sometimes.
I think they wanted team GB to chase it down knackering themselves out, so they could swamp them in the last 8k with a solid lead out for their sprinter. But by the time they realised GB weren't able to chase it down, it was too late. No radios.
Vino...innocent until proven guilty?
I suspect this is the start of a pattern we'll see a few more times in the next 13 days.
^^ road racing is a bit boring, IMO...
Poor result, was surprised Team GB made no effort to get someone into one of the breakaways, the strategy of protect Cav at all costs only works if everyone else plays along
Cav a victim of his own success, as others said nobody willing to help GB get the breaks back as they're terrified of a Cavendish sprint finish.....left Vino to pull off a shock, strange sport sometimes.
Who's that blonde guy in the Studio?
Vino "A popular winner"
Idiot.
Hmm, with the benifit of hindsight, having 4 Tour stage winners and the Tour winner, then sticking to one, well advertised, obvious as an obvious thing strategy just made life easier for every one else.
Poor show for Cancellara.
On idea why everyone on here seems to think cav should have been handed it on a plate, clearly he is not good enough to win gold, otherwise he would have.
I just hope that it doesn't affect wiggins chances on Wed.
PSA - the women's beach volleyball is back on... 🙂
Poor result, was surprised Team GB made no effort to get someone into one of the breakaways, the strategy of protect Cav at all costs only works if everyone else plays along
This was the only strategy they could have had. Noone else in that British squad stood a chance in a break but if it had come to a sprint Cav was pretty much a dead cert.
I don't think we can be to critical.
Spin - Member
Who's that blonde guy in the Studio?Vino "A popular winner"
Idiot.
This is the problem with the BBC's coverage - a bunch of generic presenters who aren't specialist, and dumb down the coverage and uncritically reproduce the hype.
If Fab had not crashed then I think he would have done the biz.
It sure was a strange crash mind.
CFH that just makes you look like a cock.
Sweeeeeeet