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  • Ming the Merciless
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    Apparently 3rd place is a medal position……..

    Posted 8 years ago
    chakaping
    Full Member

    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
    Full Member

    Can pendrel keep that effort up?

    Posted 8 years ago
    vondally
    Full Member

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

    Posted 8 years ago
    chakaping
    Full Member

    iPlayer on computer Michaelmcc?

    Posted 8 years ago
    MSP
    Full Member

    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
    Full Member

    channel 606 freeview or blue button on bbc 4

    Posted 8 years ago
    michaelmcc
    Free Member

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

    Posted 8 years ago
    MSP
    Full Member

    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
    Free Member

    Cracking race.

    Posted 8 years ago
    bikebouy
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    I enjoyed that a lot.

    Posted 8 years ago
    chakaping
    Full Member

    Worthy winner.

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

    Posted 8 years ago
    PJ266
    Free Member

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

    Posted 8 years ago
    Kuco
    Full Member

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

    Posted 8 years ago
    reggiegasket
    Free Member

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

    Posted 8 years ago
    fifeandy
    Free Member

    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
    Full Member

    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
    Full Member

    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
    Free Member

    Scott helmet looks good.

    Posted 8 years ago
    reggiegasket
    Free Member

    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
    Full Member

    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
    Full Member

    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
    Free Member

    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
    Full Member

    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
    Free Member

    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
    Free Member

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

    Posted 8 years ago
    crazy-legs
    Full Member

    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
    Free Member

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

    Posted 8 years ago
    ferrals
    Free Member

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

    Posted 8 years ago
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