Olimpic games cycling riders

victorponf

Just for road, I think a very open race because teams have not enough rider to control the situation, anyway Bettini and Valpity are the main favourites

ALGERIA CHABANE Hichem

ARGENTINA BORRAJO Alberto Alejandro HAEDO Juan José MEDICI Matias

AUSTRALIA EVANS Cadel GERRANS Simon LLOYD Matthew O'GRADY Stuart ROGERS Michael

AUSTRIA PFANNBERGER Christian ROHREGGER Thomas


BELARUS (elegir 3) SIOUTSOU Kantstansin KUSHINSKI Alexander USOV Alexander KUNITSKI Alexander KYRIENKA Vassiliev

BELGIUM AERTS Mario BRANDT Christophe MONFORT Maxime VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen VANSUMMEREN Johan

BRAZIL FISCHER Murilo PAGLIARINI Luciano

CANADA BARRY Michael HESJEDAL Ryder TUFT Svein

CHILE ALMONACID Patricio GARRIDO Gonzalo

CHINA ZHANG Liang

COLOMBIA BOTERO ECHEVERRY Santiago SERPA PEREZ José URAN Rigoberto

COSTA RICA RAABE Henri

CROATIA KVASINA Matej MIHOLJEVIC Vladimir ROGINA Radislav

CZECH REPUBLIC BENCIK Petr KREUZIGER Roman

DENMARK SORENSEN Chris Anker SORENSEN Nicki VANDBORG Brian

ESTONIA KANGERT Tanel TAARAMAE Rein

FRANCE DESSEL Cyril FEDRIGO Pierrick PAURIOL Rémi PINEAU Jerôme ROLLAND Pierre

GERMANY CIOLEK Gerald GRABSCH Bert SCHUMACHER Stefan VOIGT Jens WEGMANN Fabian

GREAT BRITAIN BELLIS Jonathan CUMMINGS Steve SWIFT Ben THOMAS Geraint

HUNGARY BODROGI Laszlo KUSZTOR Peter

IRAN ASKARI Hossein MIZBANI Ghader SOHRABAI Mehdi


IRELAND DEIGNAN Philip ROCHE Nicolas

ITALY BETTINI Paolo BRUSEGHIN Marzio CUNEGO Damiano PELLIZZOTTI Franco REBELLIN Davide

KOREA PARK Sung Baek

LITHUANIA KONOVALOVAS Ignatas KAIRELIS Dainius

LUXEMBOURG KIRCHEN Kim SCHLECK Andy SCHLECK Frank

MEXICO ALDAPE CHAVEZ Moises

NAMIBIA HOFFMANN Erik

NETHERLANDS CLEMENT Stef GESINK Robert KROON Karsten TEN DAM Laurens TERPSTRA Niki

NEW ZEALAND DEAN Julian GUDSELL Timothy CHADWICK Glenn

NORWAY ARVESEN Kurt-Asle BOASSON HAGEN Edvald RASCH Gabriel

POLAND MARCZYNSKI Tomasz MORAJKO Janez NIEMEC Przemyslaw

PORTUGAL PAULINHO Sergio RIBEIRO Nuno CARDOSO Andre Fernando

RUSSIA EFIMKIN Vladimir GUSEV Vladimir IVANOV Sergey KARPETS Vladimir MENCHOV Denis

SERVIA JOVANOVIC Nebojsa STEVIC Ivan

SLOVAKIA BRONIS Roman JURCO Matej VALACH Jan

SLOVENIA BOZIC Borut GOLCER Jure SPILAK Simon VALJAVEC

SOUTH AFRICA AUGUSTYN John-Lee GEORGE David HUNTER Robert

SPAIN CONTADOR Alberto FREIRE Oscar SANCHEZ Samuel SASTRE Carlos VALVERDE Alejandro

SWEDEN LARSSON Gustav Erik LJUNGQVIST Marcus LÖVKVIST Thomas

SWITZERLAND ALBASINI Michael CANCELLARA Fabian

USA HINCAPIE George LEIPHEIMER Levi MCCARTNEY Jason VANDEVELDE Christian ZABRISKIE David

UZBEKISTAN LAGUTIN Sergey

VENEZUELA RUJANO GUILLEN José

Oz Chief

That is a formidable spanish team.

Could be an all spanish podium.

Russian team very solid too.

I haven't been able to find any odds for the road race or the time trial. Someone post them if you find them.

richa

Betfair has two clear favourites:

Paolo Bettini 4/1
Alejandro Valverde 4.5/1
Oscar Freire 13/1
Davide Rebellin 16/1
Samuel Sanchez 12/1
Stefan Schumacher 13.5/1
Andy Schleck 29/1
Frank Schleck 23/1
Kurt-Asle Arvesen 33/1
Fabian Cancellara 33/1

calvjones

So Gusev's blood values clearly pass IOC muster...

iainf72

I thought everyone was certain Vino would be there :P

Coriander

Does anyone know what time and day the road race is?

In fact, does anyone know the times of any/all the cycling events?

And.. who is showing them - given that I only have Freeview?

Thanks.

richa

Should be on BBC & Eurosport I believe.

Full schedule here:
http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/schedule.aspx

iainf72

It's on Eurosport from 7:15 on Saturday, so around 3 hours coverage total for the Mens RR.

At least it's in HD.

iainf72

calvjones wrote:

So Gusev's blood values clearly pass IOC muster...

Just read the Russian fed have dropped him from their team.

ridgerider

Since when have national team alliances overidden proteam loyalties?

richa

Which likely winner is best supported by pro tour team buddies?

ricadus

As one of the endurance events, the schedule of the road race may change depending on smog conditions.

Just wondering if the Italians allowed Valverde the win in San Sebastian last weekend ahead of the Olympics? :twisted:

afx237vi

Surprised Zabel isn't in the German team. Yeah OK he doesn't win a lot these days, but did you see how well he was climbing in the Tour?!

But I guess it's possible he ruled himself out. Not sure I'd want to ride for 7 hours in those conditions.

hammerite

RichA wrote:

Which likely winner is best supported by pro tour team buddies?

Just by glancing, there seem to be a fair number of Columbia and CSC riders. Although having just seen the profile I'm not sure who out of those teams riders could win it (Schlecks???? :? ). http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/olympics08/?id=stages/road_race

I think the Italian team will work together well though.

ricadus

Surprised Zabel isn't in the German team. Yeah OK he doesn't win a lot these days, but did you see how well he was climbing in the Tour?!

But I guess it's possible he ruled himself out. Not sure I'd want to ride for 7 hours in those conditions.

More likely he's not welcome because of his tearful EPO confession and association with the tainted repuation of Ulrich etc.

josame

anyone seen the kazak riders list?