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2016 Olympic Cycling (Spoilers likely!)
Ming the Merciless
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Apparently 3rd place is a medal position……..

Posted 8 years ago

chakaping
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The pole looks strong there

Posted 8 years ago

senorj
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Yes ,building into exciting finale… Come on Sweden. 🙂

Posted 8 years ago

michaelmcc
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Why aren’t any of the main BBC channels showing the women’s XC 👿 …. As in BBC 1,2,3,4 etc. Have an old sky box so can’t tune in the fancy channels.

Load of *&^£$$$!!!!

Posted 8 years ago

chakaping
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Can pendrel keep that effort up?

Posted 8 years ago

vondally
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Go Canada……and Sweden……go Poland……

Posted 8 years ago

chakaping
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iPlayer on computer Michaelmcc?

Posted 8 years ago

MSP
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Rissveds mechanical broke up the pack, and is now working to her advantage.

Can Pendrel close that gap on the last lap, she does look strong.

Posted 8 years ago

Kuco
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channel 606 freeview or blue button on bbc 4

Posted 8 years ago

michaelmcc
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Anyone know if it will be on Iplayer for the next few days? Cheers

Posted 8 years ago

MSP
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Batty chasing back for the bronze now.

Posted 8 years ago

Ming the Merciless
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Bloody good effort to the woman that finished 19th in Atlanta!

Posted 8 years ago

tang
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Cracking race.

Posted 8 years ago

bikebouy
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I enjoyed that a lot.

Posted 8 years ago

chakaping
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Worthy winner.

Batty could have done with the course being 200m longer eh?

Posted 8 years ago

PJ266
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Very good coverage I think, looking forward to the mens!

Posted 8 years ago

Kuco
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Shame Batty couldn’t quite do it but it was a good race.

Posted 8 years ago

reggiegasket
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+1 good race. Impressive from Rissveds. Course could be tougher though. The men will flatten it.

Posted 8 years ago

fifeandy
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Anyone else notice in the slow-mo’s that shock on Rissveds bike seemed to be doing almost nothing? Wondering why you’d take weight penalty over a hardtail if you are going to lock out (or crazy high pressure) the rear even on downhill sections.

Posted 8 years ago

MSP
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Shame about the commentary being so crap, absolutely no insight into the race apart from the blindingly obvious.

Posted 8 years ago

reggiegasket
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I mean technically tough. It was obviously ‘hard work’ tough but there didn’t look like that much to really separate the skillful riders from the fit.

Interesting to see how Sagan goes though. There’ll be nothing to worry him technically but those XC boys are super fit.

Posted 8 years ago

nickc
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10? 12? laps for the men?

Posted 8 years ago

sirromj
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Excellent race, glad I caught it.

Posted 8 years ago

vondally
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The commentary was awful, even made me miss rob warner…

Posted 8 years ago

jambalaya
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I will say that MTB course was better than London/Essex.

Posted 8 years ago

reggiegasket
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Scott helmet looks good.

Posted 8 years ago

reggiegasket
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not quite a ‘rock garden’ mate…

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
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not quite a ‘rock garden’ mate…

Aside from the commentary being cringeworthy and dire throughout, that course looked ferocious, I think the cameras flattened it out a lot. No one has yet worked out a way of making XC MTB racing look exciting but I suspect those rock sections would have had more than a few riders off here thinking twice about it, especially on a carbon hard tail with an XC stem/saddle position.

I saw the XC course at Hadleigh and in spite of the slagging it got on here at the time for “looking tame”, it was actually properly hard racing with some bad crashes.

Posted 8 years ago

retrorick
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I also thought the rear shock was locked out on Rissveds bike. I enjoyed watching the race and am looking forward to the mens race.

Posted 8 years ago

chakaping
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Course looked pretty challenging to me.

Posted 8 years ago

6079smithw
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Glad Maja Wloszczowska got a medal, makes up for that World Champs heartache.

Will anyone stop Schurter is the question for tomorrow

Posted 8 years ago

dirtyrider
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Posted 8 years ago

DanW
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I also thought the rear shock was locked out on Rissveds bike.

It is almost as though there may be some marketing factors at play with bike selection…. 😉

Posted 8 years ago

jambalaya
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And for all the French whining, surely if they’re upset about investment in sport, they can give up all the money that’s going in to their rugby!

TV said today this is France’s most successful summer games ever.

Posted 8 years ago

vondally
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I thought it was a good course, plenty of chances to overtake, some nice uphill sections especially over the rocks, going down was definitely flattened by the camera.

Pretty good advert for the sport.

Posted 8 years ago

CaptainFlashheart
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It is almost as though there may be some marketing factors at play with bike selection….

Pros riding a bike because they’re paid to? No! That could never happen! Especially not with a Vitus…. 😉 (See Planet X/Giant TCR thread…!)

I thought it was a good course, plenty of chances to overtake, some nice uphill sections especially over the rocks, going down was definitely flattened by the camera.

Pretty good advert for the sport.
Agreed. Looked a very good course overall. A little too much helicopter camera for me, however, which flattens things even more. That said, some of the techier sections looked brilliant fun.

Posted 8 years ago

CaptainFlashheart
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He hasn’t even got a set of the Olympic blue SIDs!

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
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He hasn’t even got a set of the Olympic blue SIDs!

Being Sagan, I expect he also doesn’t care!
That picture puts the bike at a weird perspective, the wheels look different sizes and slightly oval.

Posted 8 years ago

andyl
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Well Rockshox’s blue fork promotional stunt fell flat as the winner had DT Swiss 😀

Posted 8 years ago

ferrals
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Hammering down in Rio apparently, guessing the course is weather resistant but some of the rocks might be slippy

Posted 8 years ago