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2016 Olympic Cycling (Spoilers likely!)
reggiegasket
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can someone post updates as I can’t get coverage where I am..?

Posted 7 years ago

martinhutch
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Pooley 30-odd seconds down at first check.

Posted 7 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 7 years ago

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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 7 years ago

aracer
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Posted 7 years ago

mikey74
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Van Dijk has just been off, exploring the undergrowth.

Posted 7 years ago

aracer
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http://live.cyclingnews.com/

Crashes on the climb!

Posted 7 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 7 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 7 years ago

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

*EDIT* What Mikey said

Posted 7 years ago

nbt
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Van dijk in fourth at the first timecheck despite her adventyre

Posted 7 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

Posted 7 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 7 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 7 years ago

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

Posted 7 years ago

monkeysfeet
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Looks more like Rochdale than Rio.

Posted 7 years ago

aracer
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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 7 years ago

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

Posted 7 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 7 years ago

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

Posted 7 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 7 years ago

nbt
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van der Breggen 16 secs down at second timecheck

Posted 7 years ago

christhetall
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Looks like the Russian doper is going to win – sounds like Boardman is ignoring her

Posted 7 years ago

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

Posted 7 years ago

nbt
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zabelinskaya takes first by 16.77. only four riders still out

Posted 7 years ago

IHN
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actual doper, or just Russian?

Posted 7 years ago

atlaz
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Actual.

Posted 7 years ago

avdave2
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Real time served doper

Posted 7 years ago

IHN
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Ah

Posted 7 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 7 years ago

nbt
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van der breggen finishes second, 6 secs down

Posted 7 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 7 years ago

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

Posted 7 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 7 years ago

aracer
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Phew, clean rider wins

Posted 7 years ago

crazy-legs
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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?

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 7 years ago

martinhutch
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Thank goodness for that.

Posted 7 years ago

nbt
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Armstrong first by 5.55

Posted 7 years ago

heavy_rat
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Thank goodness for that.

exactly what i thought

Posted 7 years ago

IHN
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Chapeau Armstrong. Not said that for a while 🙂

Posted 7 years ago