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TigaSefi

Olympic TT
« on: 10 August, 2016, 12:55:21 pm »
Poor show weather wise Brazil! even we had the decency to remain dry in rainy wet Britain!

The descents in wet looks terrifying!! hopefully all cyclists will have Conti's 4 seasons!
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #1 on: 10 August, 2016, 01:21:02 pm »
I suspect Ellen van Dijk didn't have wet weather tyres on.  Also, TV's S Brotherton needs to learn the difference between the Dutch and Belgian colours.
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TigaSefi

Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #2 on: 10 August, 2016, 01:37:05 pm »
I suspect Team GB/British cycling had made a complete hash of the road events in the women department this time round!!! Wrong cyclists chosen full stop. Only Lizzie came out looking good.
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rob

Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #3 on: 10 August, 2016, 02:13:29 pm »
Pooley is a fantastic rider, but has been focused on Tri/duathlon for the last few years.   Making the switch to pure road a few months was a risk, but the selectors seemed to go with it.
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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #4 on: 10 August, 2016, 03:22:16 pm »
I thought Emma had done her role well in the RR - put the pressure on in the early climbs so the climbers with less endurance are shelled out and the poor climbers have to expend extra effort.

Nikki Harris was possibly a poor choice - not waiting for Lizzie was a mistake (she should have dropped back and paced her on).

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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #5 on: 10 August, 2016, 03:27:37 pm »
Simon Geschke has a rival for best beard in the men's TT field, courtesy of Namibia's Dan Craven:

https://twitter.com/SadhbhOS/status/763371855533248512/photo/1
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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #6 on: 10 August, 2016, 03:43:44 pm »
TV's S Brotherton has already relegated Geschke's beard to second place.
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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #7 on: 10 August, 2016, 04:07:45 pm »
Quote from: rob on 10 August, 2016, 02:13:29 pm
Pooley is a fantastic rider, but has been focused on Tri/duathlon for the last few years.   Making the switch to pure road a few months was a risk, but the selectors seemed to go with it.
I would imagine it was influenced by the climby nature of the course. Before "retirement", Pooley would have been beaten her compatriots by hours on that course.

Tricky decision.
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Re: Olympic TT
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Re: Olympic TT
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TigaSefi

Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #10 on: 10 August, 2016, 05:05:59 pm »
Froome changed his bike???
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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #11 on: 10 August, 2016, 05:16:19 pm »
By no request whatsoever, P@nd3m1c® Pr0duct10nz™ present teh Olympic Tiem Trialz 4 teh lolcatz generation:

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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #12 on: 10 August, 2016, 05:45:52 pm »
Quote from: TigaSefi on 10 August, 2016, 05:05:59 pm
Froome changed his bike???

No, Dennis - he broke his TT bars.

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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #13 on: 10 August, 2016, 07:51:07 pm »
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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #14 on: 10 August, 2016, 11:55:37 pm »
What a brilliant result for Spartacus!

So deserved after all the effort he has put in trying to win something in his last season and could not have been won by a more deserved and worthy rider IMO.

Such a different feeling to watching another retiring rider in 2012 ride down the mall to gold in the RR (and Spartacus got an amazing reception that day after limping home).

Well chuffed!
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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #15 on: 11 August, 2016, 01:12:44 pm »
Did anyone else splort like me when, post Froome interview at the roadside, TV's C Boardman and his counterpart were doing a piece to camera when Spartacus appears in the background with his minder and stops, looks into the lens and smiles, waiting for the BBC to realise what was going on ;D
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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #16 on: 15 August, 2016, 01:00:13 pm »
Was anyone else slightly sickened by the sight of the Russian woman silver medalist, who'd won bronze in London and served a 2 year doping ban in between?
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Re: Olympic TT
« Reply #17 on: 15 August, 2016, 01:12:55 pm »
A BBC type referred to her as "[name], the Russian drugs cheat" and it wasn't either of the C Boardmen either.
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