G really is a crash magnet, can pretty much guarantee that he’ll be off the road on 50% of descents.

Gutted for Majka

G is back on and rolling in.

Cracking race that, nailbiting finish.

Brilliant race, and a worthy winner in GVA, great performance from him staying with the climbers on a climb as long as that.

Blimey.

Great race but there is some real hatred of Froome & any SKY riders on the streaming link that lightman posted up on page2?
I would say I’m ambivalent over SKY etc but the level of hatred is almost KKK EDL level!!!

Congrats to the winner.

So disappointed for G, I was really hoping to see him win.

Crazy end to the race, but GVA is a worthy winner.

Why was Steve left to do the long turn at the front by himself 😕 the spanish would have maintained the gap to the breakaway.

Good finish that, and GVA a worthy winner. Great move to drag himself and Fuglsang clear. See a few questioning if it really would have been too hard a course for Sagan now.

Now on to the ladies. Can Armitstead put the past week behind her and grab a medal…?

Stunning race, fantastic shame for so many crashing out.

Does anyone have any news on how the fallers are fairing today, hopefully nothing too serious. Wishing all a speedy recovery.

Agree with all the other comments on the course providing a lot of possible scenarios and a really good finish

I think he’ll be very much kicking himself, especially given the winner and how it played out. If the MTB course really suits him more than the RR then Nino and co really had better watch out 😉

Nibali broke both collarbones according to CyclingNews. I’m not really a Nibali fan but he really didn’t deserve that and he was racing brilliantly up to that point.

TV coverage was pretty poor, I don’t understand how events like this can’t take the methods used for successful events like the tour etc and implement them to make the most of the show.

Even the commentators were complaining about the lack of information such as time gaps. I suspect it’s down to the games organisers not having contracts with companies like Dimension Data or ASO probably because of existing contracts with whoever does the timing for other sports in the games. (Not a cynic me, no)

Shame for the fallers, but they were always going to take risks on the descent to open a gap or close a gap. It’s part of the race, making those decisions in a split second – it’s just those big kerbs gave no run offs and i wonder if injuries were caused by hitting them rather than the ground. But it’s not that they were a surprise or they hadn’t seen them on previous circuits, so have to be factored in just as you’d factor in a wet road on another day.

Of course you don’t want to see injuries, and also with the Henao / Nibali incident, did one bring the other down (I suspect so – unlikely to both crash simultaneously in the same spot but independantly) – in which case one guy got robbed, and if it had been Majka +1, maybe they’d have held on.

I fancied G to get back on after the crash and be a contender again….. ah well. Ifs, buts and maybes.

Can’t see EA contending today – too hilly I think. But if she’s sufficently angry, maybe.

Nibali was working super hard and was looking hungrier than anyone and it is very possible he’d be left to work on the flat run in, or at least the other two would be taking some soft turns… Majka is the guy I really feel for. He did almost everything right but just didn’t have anyone to share the work on the flat with. Cruel irony of working and finding yourself at the head of the race only for the events that put you in that position damage your chances of holding on

I notice Geraint Thomas became a Welsh rider after his fall… 🙂

What the **** is with the stupid TT ruling that you must also do the road race? Seems as dumb as the old mtb days where everyone ended up doing trials even if they were DH specialists