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[peasy23]

Superb ride by Carapaz to take gold in the Olympic road race, he broke away with about 30km to go with Brandon McNulty, then broke again on his own just as the bunch were closing in on them.

Adam Yates was in the bunch battling for silver and bronze, but was well beaten in the sprint. Van Aert and Pogacar got the places, with the Belgian getting silver by the width of a tyre.

[buddie06smfc]

Looked a brutal course with the temperature. Carapaz showing what he can do when Movistar aren’t there to sabotage his effort.

Thomas continuing his current trend of crashing in each race he participates in, I guess he will be reserving his energy for the time trial on Wednesday.

[kiddy]

Looks like the same tech, as used in Amstel Gold, is in Tokyo?

 

Edited July 26, 2021 by kiddy

[Mr. Brightside]

I think that's the first time I've ever seen Pogacar actually sprint before. Not a bad effort against WVA.

[peasy23]

Looked a brutal course with the temperature. Carapaz showing what he can do when Movistar aren’t there to sabotage his effort.

Thomas continuing his current trend of crashing in each race he participates in, I guess he will be reserving his energy for the time trial on Wednesday.

Tbf, Movistar sabotaged his efforts plenty of times when he was actually riding for them.

[Bishop Briggs]

5 hours ago, peasy23 said:

Superb ride by Carapaz to take gold in the Olympic road race, he broke away with about 30km to go with Brandon McNulty, then broke again on his own just as the bunch were closing in on them.

Adam Yates was in the bunch battling for silver and bronze, but was well beaten in the sprint. Van Aert and Pogacar got the places, with the Belgian getting silver by the width of a tyre.

Yates started his sprint too far out and too early. He was done before Van Aert and Pogacar even started their sprints. 

Yates  seems to get anxious and lose his nerve in a bunch finish. It was a bit amateurish for a seasoned pro with his experience.

[kiddy]

Trying to watch it on catch up. Carapaz & McNulty have attacked & just gone through a feed zone & BBC red button cuts out with 25km to go !

[kiddy]

Fantastic Gold for Carapaz & Ecuador. The strength of the podium just gives it the ultimate credibility.

[Sarto Mutiny]

Absolute scenes in the women's road race as Annemiek Van Vleuten celebrated as she crossed the line, not realising that there was a rider ahead of her - Anna Kiesenhofer had broken clear more or less at the start of the race and was away all day. Brilliant win

[kiddy]

Absolute scenes in the women's road race as Annemiek Van Vleuten celebrated as she crossed the line, not realising that there was a rider ahead of her - Anna Kiesenhofer had broken clear more or less at the start of the race and was away all day. Brilliant win

Nothing better than watching somebody throwing their hands in the air, only to cross the line & find the winner eating a Greggs & can of juice.[emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23]

[peasy23]

Absolute scenes in the women's road race as Annemiek Van Vleuten celebrated as she crossed the line, not realising that there was a rider ahead of her - Anna Kiesenhofer had broken clear more or less at the start of the race and was away all day. Brilliant win

Nothing better than watching somebody throwing their hands in the air, only to cross the line & find the winner eating a Greggs & can of juice.[emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23]

It was hilarious. I know things are different at the Olympics from a pro race, IIRC there are no radios. The Dutch must have been blissfully unaware that the Austrian lass had fucked off miles up the road. The rest of the chasing pack must have kept it to themselves as they knew the Dutch riders would be favourites in a bunch sprint finish. Glorious stuff.

[kiddy]

I've won!

[kiddy]

Eh, no you've no.



Straight from the Jumbo Visma book of gutted.[emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23]

[well fan for life]

The Netherlands going through the full catalogue of making a tit of themselves. Claiming no time gaps, no communication, van der Poel not knowing a ramp had been taken away in the MTB despite everyone else seeming to be fully aware of it. 

[kiddy]

1 hour ago, well fan for life said:

The Netherlands going through the full catalogue of making a tit of themselves. Claiming no time gaps, no communication, van der Poel not knowing a ramp had been taken away in the MTB despite everyone else seeming to be fully aware of it. 

Just read about that. Picked his race & came out with nothing.

Edited July 26, 2021 by kiddy

[Bishop Briggs]

On 25/07/2021 at 12:34, peasy23 said:

It was hilarious. I know things are different at the Olympics from a pro race, IIRC there are no radios. The Dutch must have been blissfully unaware that the Austrian lass had fucked off miles up the road. The rest of the chasing pack must have kept it to themselves as they knew the Dutch riders would be favourites in a bunch sprint finish. Glorious stuff.

The real explanation is that the chasing pack, including Lizzie Deignan, had forgotten about Kiesenhofer - https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/deignan-frustrated-with-weird-agendas-in-olympic-road-race/

"Throughout the race, there was a lack of cohesion within the bunch, with much of the peloton expecting the Dutch to control the race, while the defending champions rode a confusing strategy that only appeared to make sense once it was confirmed that they thought the break of the day had been entirely caught."

"Like Van Vleuten, Deignan was also unaware of Kiesenhofer’s position on the road and thought that the Dutch rider had claimed gold.... "Honestly, the best person won the bike race, Annemiek was clearly the strongest, so chapeau to her," she added, before she'd learned of the real winner." 

[Bishop Briggs]

7 hours ago, well fan for life said:

The Netherlands going through the full catalogue of making a tit of themselves. Claiming no time gaps, no communication, van der Poel not knowing a ramp had been taken away in the MTB despite everyone else seeming to be fully aware of it. 

There were a few riders ahead of him so van der Poel should have seen what was in front of him - https://www.eurosport.co.uk/mountain-bike/tokyo-2020/2021/tokyo-2020-olympics-very-heavy-fall-mathieu-van-der-poel-suffers-disaster-with-crash-on-mountain-bik_vid1510853/video.shtml. It looked like he misjudged it and went over the bars. Pidcock was right behind MvdP and was fine. 

Edited July 26, 2021 by Bishop Briggs

[peasy23]

The real explanation is that the chasing pack, including Lizzie Deignan, had forgotten about Kiesenhofer - https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/deignan-frustrated-with-weird-agendas-in-olympic-road-race/
"Throughout the race, there was a lack of cohesion within the bunch, with much of the peloton expecting the Dutch to control the race, while the defending champions rode a confusing strategy that only appeared to make sense once it was confirmed that they thought the break of the day had been entirely caught."
"Like Van Vleuten, Deignan was also unaware of Kiesenhofer’s position on the road and thought that the Dutch rider had claimed gold.... "Honestly, the best person won the bike race, Annemiek was clearly the strongest, so chapeau to her," she added, before she'd learned of the real winner." [emoji23]

Amateur hour all round then.

[Bishop Briggs]

Just now, peasy23 said:

Amateur hour all round then.

Surely, there was a motorbike with a whiteboard to tell the bunch/peleton the gap to the leader.

If there wasn't, the Dutch would be moaning about that too.

[well fan for life]

1 hour ago, Bishop Briggs said:

Surely, there was a motorbike with a whiteboard to tell the bunch/peleton the gap to the leader.

If there wasn't, the Dutch would be moaning about that too.

There was:

I know there's no race radio in the olympics but surely to f**k a team car or something could have given them a shout.