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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Light em up Pooley

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    What is the name of this guy commentating with Chris?
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  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    Hugh corrects Boardman! Pooley and the American rider are off with I guess Vos coming across

    FF, its Hugh Porter.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Like how Vos gaps the rest of the peloton chasing Pooley back.
    _
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    Carl_P wrote:
    Cat and mouse stuff. This is a decent race.
    + 1
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    Vos counter attacks, this is great!
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    Vos counters
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    where are they, going up Headley Common Road?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    MrTapir wrote:
    Carl_P wrote:
    Cat and mouse stuff. This is a decent race.
    + 1

    Women's racing is great to watch. Try and catch it where you can.

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited July 2012
    Cooke no legs. Good. Big mouth.

    She got smoked in this year's Giro.
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  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    Not looking good for Cooke, really looked strung
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    frenchfighter wrote:
    MrTapir wrote:
    Carl_P wrote:
    Cat and mouse stuff. This is a decent race.
    + 1

    Women's racing is great to watch. Try and catch it where you can.

    http://womenscycling.tumblr.com/
    http://www.youtube.com/user/girodonne

    defintely, it seems like the classic type of racing that people idealise

    Cook having to work to catch up , Boardman reckons 8 seconds off
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    I havent seem any Cannondale bikes.?.. I assume, if none, they didnt want to get sucked into the paycheck branding Olympic branding biz?
  • lemon63
    lemon63 Posts: 253
    Cooke no legs. Good. Big mouth.
    :roll:

    Probably the best woman cyclist this country's had !
  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    Cooke back in
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Lucy Martins 30 secs back
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    lemon63 wrote:
    Cooke no legs. Good. Big mouth.

    She got smoked in this year's Giro.
    :roll:

    Probably the best woman cyclist this country's had !

    Good palmares in the past. I don't like her that much and her wins (which I am told, some are superb) I haven't seen.

    Apart from this obv
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  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    Cooke needs to get with Hughes ... Cooke will blow again on this lap
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    What was Pooley doing at the back???
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    JGSI wrote:
    I havent seem any Cannondale bikes.?.. I assume, if none, they didnt want to get sucked into the paycheck branding Olympic branding biz?

    Is this true? I've been picking out riders based on their trade team helmets/bikes.

    Armstrong's crashed going round a corner, Pooley and Cooke caught out as well, although they didnt go down

    Ellen Van Dyke attacks
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    EVD is getting a good gap, although not sure how long she could make it stick for
  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    Crash
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    Pooley back in the group and goes to the front to Counter Van Dyke, brilliant!
  • PuttyKnees
    PuttyKnees Posts: 381
    What's with the pointless slo-mo?!
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    PuttyKnees wrote:
    What's with the pointless slo-mo?!
    You can see the sitters in who havent done a tap

    VOS goes!!
  • alanp23
    alanp23 Posts: 696
    First shout at the TV as Armitstead follows Vos.

    Go on Lizzie!!
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  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    JGSI wrote:
    PuttyKnees wrote:
    What's with the pointless slo-mo?!
    You can see the sitters in who havent done a tap

    VOS goes!!

    Thats a massive attack, with Armistead in hot pursuit. Pooley's back quite far
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    BBC1 now switch from 3
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Lizzie just sitting in her wheel and wont help so it is all back together....FAIL
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  • lemon63
    lemon63 Posts: 253
    Some great slow-mo shots on BBC-HD channel, as was yesterday

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