Olympic RR *SPOILERS*

schweiz

oldwelshman wrote:

schweiz wrote:

oldwelshman wrote:

schweiz wrote:

yes.

Maybe he'll lead out Cav and then keep pushing for Silver?

not possible

why not? it's not like it's a tour stage where they'll all get the same time and they can have another crack tomorrow. If it a sprint on the Mall and if Cav is led out by Team GB and Eisel and if Cav leaves his sprint until late then why not keep pushing and hope for the best for silver and bronze?

because of many other faster guys will pass him, Sagan, Greipel,Goss, Gerrans Rochas, Boonen etc if it was Renshaw then almost possible, you may as well ask why GB cant get 1,2,3 by your thinking, just lead it out and stay there.

1-2-3 won't happen but 1-2 or 1-3 isn't out of the question. It depends how it looks when they arrive on the mall. Look at the lead that Cav had on his first Champs Elysee victory all due to a bit of a cock-up by the rest of the sprinters trains in the last right hander. Cav and Renshaw suddenly had 100-150 m advantage and came home 1-2 IIRC.

oldwelshman

schweiz wrote:

oldwelshman wrote:

schweiz wrote:

oldwelshman wrote:

schweiz wrote:

yes.

Maybe he'll lead out Cav and then keep pushing for Silver?

not possible

why not? it's not like it's a tour stage where they'll all get the same time and they can have another crack tomorrow. If it a sprint on the Mall and if Cav is led out by Team GB and Eisel and if Cav leaves his sprint until late then why not keep pushing and hope for the best for silver and bronze?

because of many other faster guys will pass him, Sagan, Greipel,Goss, Gerrans Rochas, Boonen etc if it was Renshaw then almost possible, you may as well ask why GB cant get 1,2,3 by your thinking, just lead it out and stay there.

1-2-3 won't happen but 1-2 or 1-3 isn't out of the question. It depends how it looks when they arrive on the mall. Look at the lead that Cav had on his first Champs Elysee victory all due to a bit of a cock-up by the rest of the sprinters trains in the last right hander. Cav and Renshaw suddenly had 100-150 m advantage and came home 1-2 IIRC.

Thats a silly comparrison,, that was with a hugely fast lead out with the benmd 350m from fisinh, this is totally different

carl_p

Is Phil Gil riding for himself, or trying to ride the legs off the peloton for Boonen?

No_Ta_Doctor

Gilbert hoping to exploit lack of radios perhaps? Stay in front of the break and when the break is swallowed they don't notice he's still away?

No_Ta_Doctor

And as I post that he sits up. D'Oh.

afx237vi

42 km to go. Why don't they just leave that on screen all the time?? Totally bizarre.

jgsi

Kelly again on the money.. this race 20km too far

Silly Old Hector

Only 1 gear on Moto 1 - FFS change gear :roll:

ilm_zero7

Delayed in Frankfurt airport, no pictutres here, so keep the updates coming for the supportive blind

RichN95.

ILM Zero7 wrote:

Delayed in Frankfurt airport, no pictutres here, so keep the updates coming for the supportive blind

About 40km to go, lead group of about 20 lead the peloton by 56 seconds.

rwsbike971

Silly Old Hector wrote:

Only 1 gear on Moto 1 - FFS change gear :roll:

Or he should stick to delivering pizzas.

Gazzetta67

4 swiss . 3 spanish riders this is getting squeaky bum time for all you cavendish fans 8)

DeadCalm

Britain won't catch that group on their own.

afx237vi

RichN95 wrote:

ILM Zero7 wrote:

Delayed in Frankfurt airport, no pictutres here, so keep the updates coming for the supportive blind

About 40km to go, lead group of about 20 lead the peloton by 26 seconds.

Cancellara in that group? PTP coup coming up!

carl_p

Gazzetta67 wrote:

4 swiss . 3 spanish riders this is getting squeaky bum time for all you cavendish fans 8)

It's a good race. Delicately poised I'd say.

Cav getting dropped?

jgsi

Eisel to get offical reprimand from Austrian Cycling,



jokin!

alan_a

wreckedmyklein wrote:

pics come from olympic broadcasters, not BBC

BBC are the Olympic broadcasters and are responsible for worldwide pictures.

RichN95.

Alan A wrote:

wreckedmyklein wrote:

pics come from olympic broadcasters, not BBC

BBC are the Olympic broadcasters and are responsible for worldwide pictures.

No they aren't. The IOC use their own crews.

The_Special_One

All over for Team GB me thinks

afx237vi

RichN95 wrote:

Alan A wrote:

wreckedmyklein wrote:

pics come from olympic broadcasters, not BBC

BBC are the Olympic broadcasters and are responsible for worldwide pictures.

No they aren't. The IOC use their own crews.

And they've never seen a bike race on TV before.

DeadCalm

The break according to CyclingNews.com:

Philippe Gilbert (Belgium), Stuart O’Grady (Australia), Tim Duggan (USA), Lieuwe Westra (Netherlands), Jonathan Castroviejo (Spain), Alejandro Valverde (Spain), Luis Leon Sanchez (Spain), Janez Brajkovic (Slovenia), Michael Schar (Switzerland), Vincenzo Nibali (Italy), Gregory Rast (Switzerland), Andriy Grivko (Ukraine), Lars Boom (Netherlands), Luca Paolini (Italy), Sylvain Chavanel (France), Jack Bauer (New Zealand), Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark), Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic), Alexandr Kolobnev (Russia), Taylor Phinney (USA), Alexander Kristoff (Norway), Tejay Van Garderen (USA), Rui Costa (Portugal), Robert Gesink (Netherlands), Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland).

wreckedmyklein

Alan A wrote:

wreckedmyklein wrote:

pics come from olympic broadcasters, not BBC

BBC are the Olympic broadcasters and are responsible for worldwide pictures.

they supply some of the pics, but do not do graphics or choose which camera is showing. they just supply the feed which the olympic TV directors then use

john-e-big-guns

Very poor race info...no time checks ect

Gazzetta67

Nobody at the BBC thought .......eh how far is it to go .....nothing on top of the screen dohhhh :roll: Amateur HOUR

oldwelshman

if the germans or aussies dont chip in withon 5km forget the sprint

tremayne

Will be a miracle. Need the Germans to start pulling their weight please!

carl_p

It's over for GB.

Gazzetta67

Right Guys cards on the table - Cancellara to launch a lone attack and TT the last 25km to the finish

oldwelshman

chinny is going to go with a few km to go for sure

andyjr

maybe with 15k left