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  • reggiegasket
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    can someone post updates as I can’t get coverage where I am..?

    Posted 8 years ago
    martinhutch
    Full Member

    Pooley 30-odd seconds down at first check.

    Posted 8 years ago
    aracer
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    I’m thinking that as above, the conditions really aren’t suiting her 🙁 – she isn’t looking good technically and doubtless losing time on those bits.

    Posted 8 years ago
    nbt
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    Tara Whitten from Canada is leader on the road, Pooley in thrid behind Mooman-Paseo (I think that’s the name)

    Posted 8 years ago
    aracer
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    Posted 8 years ago
    mikey74
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    Van Dijk has just been off, exploring the undergrowth.

    Posted 8 years ago
    aracer
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    http://live.cyclingnews.com/

    Crashes on the climb!

    Posted 8 years ago
    whitestone
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    Van Dijk just rode off the road on the climb!? From the replay (I’ve no commentary on) it looked like one of her shoes unclipped

    Posted 8 years ago
    mikey74
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    She just wasn’t paying attention and tried to cut the corner, which found her on a bit of broken, cambered tarmac at the edge of the road.

    Posted 8 years ago
    IHN
    Full Member

    Nah, she just got caught on dodgy surface and had a bit of a wobble

    *EDIT* What Mikey said

    Posted 8 years ago
    nbt
    Full Member

    Van dijk in fourth at the first timecheck despite her adventyre

    Posted 8 years ago
    FunkyDunc
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    Van Dijk has just been off, exploring the undergrowth.

    If only there had been straw at the side of the road, she wouldn’t have come off :mrgreen:

    Posted 8 years ago
    aracer
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    I’ve just replayed it, and she just rode off the edge of the road, not a technical problem

    Posted 8 years ago
    mikey74
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    Pooley’s probably regretting coming out of retirement for this one, so far at least.

    (hoping for commentator’s curse)

    Posted 8 years ago
    richmars
    Full Member

    I see there’s a few old mattresses taped to the lamp posts.

    Posted 8 years ago
    monkeysfeet
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    Looks more like Rochdale than Rio.

    Posted 8 years ago
    aracer
    Free Member

    Armstrong takes the lead (at first check) – where’s that form come from?

    40s or so up on Pooley, who apparently lost more time to the second check – I think hoping for her to get a medal is now wildly optimistic

    Posted 8 years ago
    martinhutch
    Full Member

    She’s clearly had some of Hillary Briss’ special stuff.

    Posted 8 years ago
    crazy-legs
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    Looks more like Rochdale than Rio.

    Geraint Thomas tweeted a picture of the beach earlier and said he felt more at home now cos it was exactly like Barry Island!

    Weather is atrocious. I’d be surprised if Pooley is even inside top 10 by the end of this.

    Posted 8 years ago
    nbt
    Full Member

    Pooley finishes in third 1.30 down on Tara Whitten, so she’s only going to go down the rankings

    Posted 8 years ago
    atlaz
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    Can someone explain why we had someone who wasn’t good in the road race and arguably couldn’t do enough to get a medal in the TT rather than our women’s national TT champ?

    Posted 8 years ago
    nbt
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    van der Breggen 16 secs down at second timecheck

    Posted 8 years ago
    christhetall
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    Looks like the Russian doper is going to win – sounds like Boardman is ignoring her

    Posted 8 years ago
    nbt
    Full Member

    Van Dijk first by 3 secs, longo borghini 2nd, whitten down to third. Emma pooley well out of it 🙁

    Posted 8 years ago
    nbt
    Full Member

    zabelinskaya takes first by 16.77. only four riders still out

    Posted 8 years ago
    IHN
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    actual doper, or just Russian?

    Posted 8 years ago
    atlaz
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    Actual.

    Posted 8 years ago
    avdave2
    Full Member

    Real time served doper

    Posted 8 years ago
    IHN
    Full Member

    Ah

    Posted 8 years ago
    aracer
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    How wasn’t she good in the RR? The national TT champ wouldn’t have ever got anywhere near the top on that course, whilst Emma stood a chance given her pedigree and capabilities.

    Posted 8 years ago
    nbt
    Full Member

    van der breggen finishes second, 6 secs down

    Posted 8 years ago
    martinhutch
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    Did the UCI get the final call on her participation? Would have thought that should’ve been an easy call. 🙄

    Posted 8 years ago
    vondally
    Full Member

    That podium gazebo looks grim in the weather,…..

    Posted 8 years ago
    atlaz
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    Time served… heh

    In July 2014 it was reported that Zabelinskaya had tested positive for octopamine at an international race in the spring.[6] In February 2016, she accepted an 18 month ban, which she already served and which expired in September 2015

    Posted 8 years ago
    aracer
    Free Member

    Phew, clean rider wins

    Posted 8 years ago
    crazy-legs
    Full Member

    Can someone explain why we had someone who wasn’t good in the road race and arguably couldn’t do enough to get a medal in the TT rather than our women’s national TT champ?

    Emma was 4th in the British Cycling National TT Championships, about 40 seconds behind Hayley Simmonds. HS is a specialist TTer who would have been no good at all in the road race.

    Claire Rose (2nd in the TT Champs) would have been a reaosnable shout, she’s a good road racer but she’s completely untested at that level – at least Emma Pooley is a former World TT Champion and an Olympic silver medallist in Beijing so out of everyone she was the best shot. And we only qualified 3 riders in the Women’s Road / TT anyway so it didn’t exactly leave a lot of choice…

    Posted 8 years ago
    martinhutch
    Full Member

    Thank goodness for that.

    Posted 8 years ago
    nbt
    Full Member

    Armstrong first by 5.55

    Posted 8 years ago
    heavy_rat
    Free Member

    Thank goodness for that.

    exactly what i thought

    Posted 8 years ago
    IHN
    Full Member

    Chapeau Armstrong. Not said that for a while 🙂

    Posted 8 years ago
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