Olympic RR *SPOILERS*

alan_a

Well today is finally the day of the London Chipper.

Will Iain72 bother watching?

Let's start with a sweepstake... What time will he make his first post on this thread?

But in all seriousness, after last night's spectacular I am more excited than ever. Gutted not to be at Box Hill.

Everything you need to know is on excellent blog preview Inrng.com

http://inrng.com/2012/07/olympic-games-preview/#more-10136

Startlist

1 Azzadine Lagab (Algeria)
2 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Argentina)
3 Cadel Evans (Australia)
4 Simon Gerrans (Australia)
5 Matthew Harley Goss (Australia)
6 Stuart O’Grady (Australia)
7 Michael Rogers (Australia)
8 Bernhard Eisel (Austria)
9 Daniel Schorn (Austria)
10 Yauheni Hutarovich (Belarus)
11 Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus)
12 Branislau Samoilau (Belarus)
13 Tom Boonen (Belgium)
14 Philippe Gilbert (Belgium)
15 Jurgen Roelandts (Belgium)
16 Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium)
17 Stijn Vandenbergh (Belgium)
18 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Brazil)
19 Magno Prado Nazaret (Brazil)
20 Gregory Panizo (Brazil)
21 Danail Andonov Petrov (Bulgaria)
22 Spas Gyurov (Bulgaria)
23 Ryder Hesjedal (Canada)
24 Gonzalo Garrido (Chile)
25 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo (Colombia)
26 Sergio Henao Montoya (Colombia)
27 Rigoberto Uran (Colombia)
28 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova (Costa Rica)
29 Kristijan Durasek (Croatia)
30 Radoslav Rogina (Croatia)
31 Arnold Alcolea (Cuba)
32 Jan Barta (Czech Republic)
33 Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic)
34 Lars Ytting Bak (Denmark)
35 Matti Breschel (Denmark)
36 Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark)
37 Nicki Sørensen (Denmark)
38 Byron Guama De La Cruz (Ecuador)
39 Daniel Teklehaymanot (Eritrea)
40 Rene Mandri (Estonia)
41 Jussi Veikkanen (Finland)
42 Mickaël Bourgain (France)
43 Sylvain Chavanel (France)
44 Arnaud Demare (France)
45 Tony Gallopin (France)
46 Giorgi Nadiradze (Georgië)
47 John Degenkolb (Germany)
48 Bert Grabsch (Germany)
49 André Greipel (Germany)
50 Tony Martin (Germany)
51 Marcel Sieberg (Germany)
52 Mark Cavendish (Great Britain)
53 Christopher Froome (Great Britain)
54 David Millar (Great Britain)
55 Ian Stannard (Great Britain)
56 Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)
57 Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece)
58 Manuel Rodas Ochoa (Guatemala)
59 Kam-Po Wong (Hong Kong)
60 Krisztian Lovassy (Hungary)
61 Alireza Haghi (Iran)
62 Mehdi Sohrabi (Iran)
63 Amir Zargari (Iran)
64 Daniel Martin (Ireland)
65 David Mccann (Ireland)
66 Nicholas Roche (Ireland)
67 Sacha Modolo (Italy)
68 Vincenzo Nibali (Italy)
69 Luca Paolini (Italy)
70 Marco Pinotti (Italy)
71 Matteo Trentin (Italy)
72 Yukiya Arashiro (Japan)
73 Fumiyuki Beppu (Japan)
74 Assan Bazayev (Kazahkstan)
75 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kazahkstan)
76 Sung Baek Park (South Korea)
77 Aleksejs Saramotins (Latvia)
78 Gediminas Bagdonas (Lithuania)
79 Ramunas Navardauskas (Lithuania)
80 Laurent Didier (Luxembourg)
81 Muhamad Adiq Husainie Othman (Malaysia)
82 Harrif Salleh (Malaysia)
83 Hector Hugo Rangel Zamarron (Mexico)
84 Oleg Berdos (Moldavia)
85 Tarik Chaoufi (Morocco)
86 Adil Jelloul (Morocco)
87 Mouhcine Lahsaini (Morocco)
88 Dan Craven (Namibia)
89 Lars Boom (Netherlands)
90 Robert Gesink (Netherlands)
91 Sebastian Langeveld (Netherlands)
92 Niki Terpstra (Netherlands)
93 Lieuwe Westra (Netherlands)
94 Jack Bauer (New Zealand)
95 Gregory Henderson (New Zealand)
96 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway)
97 Alexander Kristoff (Norway)
98 Vegard Stake Laengen (Norway)
99 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Norway)
100 Maciek Bodnar (Poland)
101 Michal Golas (Poland)
102 Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland)
103 Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (Portugal)
104 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Portugal)
105 Nelson Filipe Santos Simoes Oliveira (Portugal)
106 Andrei Nechita (Romania)
107 Vladimir Isaychev (Russia)
108 Alexandr Kolobnev (Russia)
109 Denis Menchov (Russia)
110 Gabor Kasa (Serbia)
111 Ivan Stevic (Serbia)
112 Peter Sagan (Slovakia)
113 Grega Bole (Slovenia)
114 Borut Bozic (Slovenia)
115 Janez Brajkovic (Slovenia)
116 Daryl Impey (South Africa)
117 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spain)
118 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spain)
119 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spain)
120 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spain)
121 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spain)
122 Gustav Erik Larsson (Sweden)
123 Michael Albasini (Switzerland)
124 Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)
125 Martin Elmiger (Switzerland)
126 Grégory Rast (Switzerland)
127 Michael Schär (Switzerland)
128 Omar Hassanin (Syria)
129 Ahmet Akdýlek (Turkey)
130 Mirac Kal (Turkey)
131 Kemal Kucukbay (Turkey)
132 Andriy Grivko (Ukraine)
133 Dmytro Krivtsov (Ukraine)
134 Timothy Duggan (United States)
135 Tyler Farrar (United States)
136 Christopher Horner (United States)
137 Taylor Phinney (United States)
138 Tejay van Garderen (United States)
139 Jorge Adelbio Soto Pereira (Uruguay)
140 Muradjan Khalmuratov (Uzbekistan)
141 Sergey Lagutin (Uzbekistan)
142 Danielys Del Valle Garcia Buitrago (Venezuela)
143 Tomas Aurelio Gil Martinez (Venezuela)
144 Jackson Rodriguez (Venezuela)

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inkyfingers

This is a really tough race to call.

Surely the other nations won't let Team GB do what they did in Copenhagen and give Cavendish an armchair ride, but with only 5 riders per team everybody is going to have to really dose their efforts well.

I've gone Cavendish in PTP, but am not at all certain he'll be there at the end, just don't know who else to go for. Cavendish and Team GB will be under massive pressure today, as hosts, favourites and the ones everybody wants to drop!

Yellow Peril

Just watching a BBC preview Boardman and Jake whatsisname are cycling key parrts of the course. Whatsisname looks like he is constantly half wheeling Boardman...I bet Boardman wants to slap him!

alan_a

Wow, according to Hugh Porter The Princess of Wals just greeted the riders at the start line!

I knew Danny Boyle was doing magical things but that's a bit too much.

TheEnglishman

Oh God - I've got cold hands already

Yellow Peril

An overhead shot 1km in and it looked like one poor guy was already getting shelled as the Spanish soft pedalled on the front!

suspectdevice

Sky got 7 riders then?

Uran and Eisel working for Sky, sorry GB? :shock:

Pross

Russian rider 2 mins down on Brompton Road. His team car was another 3 mins back. Think yhe Russian team need a new alarm clock!

carl_p

Full coverage of the toilet break I see

Silly Old Hector

Great coverage of the wee stop !

carl_p

Looks like a club ride through Richmond park.

jgsi

With no radios, I bet its fun in there.

Ringo 68

What is it with morons and their dogs?

How that dog never wiped out the peloton is beyond me :?: :?:

It even looked like the same dog that caused the crash on stage 18 of the TDF.

carl_p

BBC struggling to ID the riders, they don't even know which colour jerseys the countries are wearing.

Massive crowds.

alan_a

Carl_P wrote:

BBC struggling to ID the riders, they don't even know which colour jerseys the countries are wearing.

Massive crowds.

Woeful and you can tell Boardman is very frustrated by his co commentators lack of ability.

Pross

Some big countries in the early break, can't let it get much of a gap!

blazing_saddles

Pretty sure that Chris Horner crashed on that downhill bend, although nobody picked it up.
Large black dog thrown into the road in an attempt to get Phil Gilbert to abandon.

alan_a

12 in the break with 30 sec + including Boonen & O'Grady.

cogidubnus

Porter is clueless. Thought stanard was Wiggins. And can't name a single breakaway rider

Mad_Malx

Anyone got a link to the rider numbers?
BBC not got a clue who they are, even when numbers visible.

thamacdaddy

The co-commenter you are taking about has covered cycling for years http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Porter

To be fair to them with a lot of the shots I couldn't identify riders and they called boonen when I was still wondering if it was even the Belgian kit even though it didn't look like boonens style of riding.

I couldn't even tell that was o'grady till it got in close so cut em so slack you negative ninnies

I din't think they have even a race radio that great which commentators also use to help them

Gazzetta67

If it's not a dog thats going to cause a crash it's these bloody motorcycle riders FFs thats about 3 or 4 close calls now....Porter took about 10 mins to recognise O'Grady & Menchov dohhhh

fastercyclist

Well, I spent the whole race until the closeup on Mark Cavendish thinking team GB were French.

Someone please give the kit designer a helping hand to a new career(!)

Risky break though. The lack of radios could turn out to be interesting

tailwindhome

From Cycling News

Jurgen Roelandts (Belgium), Marco Pinotti (Italy), Fumiyuki Beppu (Japan), Denis Menchov (Russia), Stuart O’Grady (Australia), Tim Duggan (USA), Lieuwe Westra (Netherlands), Jonathan Castroviejo (Spain), Janez Brajkovic (Slovenia), Michael Schar (Switzerland), Alexander Kristoff (Norway) and Sungbaek Park (Korea) are the men up the road, and they have a sizeable advantage over the Great Britain-led peloton.

RichN95.

DElete

jgsi

Hard day in the saddle as seems everyone leaving it to GB and certain 'allies' to bring it back or at least peg it for the time being.

thamacdaddy

Good moves from Aus, Spain, Belgian and Italy putting string riders in the break causing team gb to need to work early. Hats off

carl_p

Alan A wrote:

Carl_P wrote:

BBC struggling to ID the riders, they don't even know which colour jerseys the countries are wearing.

Massive crowds.

Woeful and you can tell Boardman is very frustrated by his co commentators lack of ability.

Porter starting to get it together, just. I can't see a km countdown, or the lead which the break have. Not easy to watch.

Porter banging on about how hard GB are having to work and then you look at Wiggo cruising on the front in relaxed TT mode.

Old school stuff with out radios. Belgium handing out bits of paper presumably with tactics.

thamacdaddy

O'grady organising the break, strong break.

Gazzetta67

Looks like amateur Hour with no time gaps etc to the front group.

Ban race radio's like they have today....better action all round just like the old days

alan_a

thamacdaddy wrote:

The co-commenter you are taking about has covered cycling for years http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Porter

To be fair to them with a lot of the shots I couldn't identify riders and they called boonen when I was still wondering if it was even the Belgian kit even though it didn't look like boonens style of riding.

I couldn't even tell that was o'grady till it got in close so cut em so slack you negative ninnies

I din't think they have even a race radio that great which commentators also use to help them

I know full well who Porter is. He is a British cycling hero, however he is an embarrassment when it comes to road race commentating and should stick to his natural habitat of the velodrome.

He makes more mistakes than P&P, the worst being in Geelong when everyone saw the breakaway rider caught with about1km to go but he called him as the winner.

Has anyone at the BBC watched how the Europeans cover cycling? Time gaps shown on screen etc etc etc...

Gutted Eurosport commentary doesn't start until 2pm