Except they were talking about those road edges in the previews. Or at least CB was – you certainly can’t say that his POV is from hindsight. It’s the duty of organisers of such events to imagine what might happen (I know when I organised a race including a bike leg I rode the intended route a couple of times, solely in order to try and work out where any hazards were and changed the route slightly as a result, and that was for a race involving ~30 people) – it’s not like it was an isolated incident or a freak occurrence.

Sorry – maybe we should get the mods to shut it for a couple of days and start a new separate thread for discussion of the dangers of the course and crashing? That or just let this one run and start a new thread for the TTs and track, as I don’t think there’s going to be much more discussion of the racing here.

Wrong size water bottles that fell out of cages, moto feeds not numbered so we didn’t know where we were in the race, and a lack of run-off / protection of hard street furniture.

Not highly professional organisation.

I reckon they’re only there to build up tension… “ooh, is it the rider yet?”… “NOOOO,, it’s just another motorbike”

Well, lets just say its a shame we’ve ended up talking about crashes as we were really treated to great racing on both days.

From a Team GB perspective i thought we did great too, with the mens team making some nice agressive racing, and Lizzie doing a good performance too.

Looking ahead, think we are shaping up for a good XC event. If this weekends WC is anything to go by, womens race in particular is wide open with at least 4 potential winners.

No there was definitely some bloke from giant threw his toys out the pram , oh and over the top of Stocksbridge where the tour went there were 12% grades that end in wall, wire fence, immovable object ,20 foot drop ,sheep.

Were there any hay bales on turn three, sounds dangerous. 😉

Geraint Thomas called up for TT duties tomorrow.

One of those who crashed out in the road race.
Nibali, Porte? Spaces have just become available and GB moves up the order for spares.

Thats great news twice AvV and Thomas

Well done BBC, talking about today’s time trial with a graphic showing the MTB course 🙄

Also it’s windy and rainy in Rio which will add a nice extra dimension. And possibly extra crashiness… 🙁

Conditions look hooooorible…

They’re riding like grannies on this first bit. I wonder if there will be carnage on the first descent?

Dumoulin has a broken wrist doesn’t he? That’s got to be a problem on any climbs.

That’ll be for pudding

Emma definitely looking like a triathlete on that first corner 😈

Almost 3 weeks since Dumoulin’s broken arm, and he was reportedly back riding within days, it’s plausible it won’t cause him that big a problem.

As much as I like taking the pee out of things I have to say it looks bloody hairy

Not taking that bet – he is getting something of a reputation