Commonwealth Games Road Race Spoiler Thread

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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    13 seconds.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Very glad those wheelsuckers got dropped and can't currently catch Pooley. Hang in there for your silver.
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  • mulletmaster
    mulletmaster Posts: 502
    Easy to do your mate over when she has been towing you round all morning and you've been in the armchair! Much more impressed with pooley here.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    15 seconds and further 15 to pooley
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    mulletmaster wrote:
    Crazy that pooley towed them all round for an hour then dropped them only for her mate to attack the ver the top of her without even working with her!

    Yeah total selfish riding giving that her teammate smoked the legs of everyone else. Especially as this is her last race.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Steeper street there seeing Pooley climb it in the saddle for the first time.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Crybabies. It's tactics.
  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    Are people here actually complaining about team tactics??
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    2k to go.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    thegibdog wrote:
    Are people here actually complaining about team tactics??

    Apparently so. Though the tactics look a little strange.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Every single one of those break riders could have taken advantage of Pooley being tired now. Just cos it is Lizzie there's a sulk for some daft reason.
  • mulletmaster
    mulletmaster Posts: 502
    It's selfish bullshit. Fair enough if armitstead is the chosen one for gold, work together as a pair and she rolls over first. Ensures a 1 2 and a silver for your mate in her last race after she did all the work! Instead smash over the top of her leaving her hanging out on her own vulnerable not even to get silver. If I was pooley I would be far from impressed.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Pooley softened them all, and once Lizzie went she was clearly the strongest of the lot.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Lizzie wins. 10min after burners after riding wheels all day. Very strong attack to get the gap a la Vos.

    Pooley fights like a champion and holds on for silver. What a little warrior that lady is. Pure class, pure racer. Rode the front for 80% of the last 35km after creating the selection and attacked and smoked legs throughout. Lizzie better comme d her massively.

    Last lap only 22.21. Previous lap when Pooley was lighting them up was 22.22.

    POOLEY IN TEARS AS SHE CROSSES THE LINE.

    Good camera work today.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Gold for Armitstead, Pooley Silver at 25 seconds in tears. Three race for bronze, Cromwell Pasio photo finish for bronze.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Pasio gets Bronze from the photo at 1min11
  • nzhendo
    nzhendo Posts: 12
    Good to see the start of the race and how the break gets formed for a change.

    Enjoyed that overall, great ride by Pooley.
  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    Perfect team race. How often do you see that from an English / GB team? Protected rider was the strongest. No ill feeling from the riders who were actually in the race, just on here?
  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    edited August 2014
    Armitstead full of praise for Pooley, said it was a difficult situation to come past her, Pooley more than happy with the result.

    It's road racing.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Lizzie saying it was great team performance. Lizzie thanking Pooley, Pooley beaming about it and saying she knew she was working for Lizzie and she is obviously very happy "nice to finish on a high" and glad she was able to do her job properly. Pooley in tears, smiling tears.

    Some people here reading it completely wrong due to their own emotions and likes/dislikes.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Gill had to force it out of Armitstead. Fact is - Lizzie is a bad loser, however much I like her, and had zero thoughts but for herself.

    Lovely interview with Pooley afterwards. LOVE. THAT. LADY.
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  • mulletmaster
    mulletmaster Posts: 502
    Yes she finish on a high but no thanks to her team mate that's all I'm saying. Side by side to the line would have been much cooler, not to mention more pro.
  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Gill had to force it out of Armitstead. Really, first thing she said was that its a team sport.


    Fact is - Lizzie is a bad loser. She's a racer, who has just won.

    Lovely interview with Pooley afterwards. LOVE. THAT. LADY.

    Yes. Great athlete.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    mulletmaster wrote:
    Yes she finish on a high but no thanks to her team mate that's all I'm saying. Side by side to the line would have been much cooler, not to mention more pro.

    No. Pooley had worked so hard there was no guarantee that she could last the distance, even just sitting on the wheel. She needed to make the gap stick, and she did.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Pooley knew full well what she was doing the work for. She knew with all that softening up she spent her energy doing she was not doing it to win, she held on for Silver though and was obviously really pleased she managed to do this after the tactical job she did. She basically said this in interview.
  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    mulletmaster wrote:
    Side by side to the line would have been much cooler, not to mention more pro.
    Yes, it would have been nice to risk another country winning in order to finish together... :roll:
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  • mulletmaster
    mulletmaster Posts: 502
    Absolutely she knew what she was doing but if that had've been Wiggins/Froome attacking G Thomas in the Olympics RR after he had done that. There would be burning effigies and voodoo dolls knocked up on here!
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    mulletmaster wrote:
    There would be burning effigies and voodoo dolls knocked up on here!
    ... so a normal day then?
  • mulletmaster
    mulletmaster Posts: 502
    thegibdog wrote:
    mulletmaster wrote:
    Side by side to the line would have been much cooler, not to mention more pro.
    Yes, it would have been nice to risk another country winning in order to finish together... :roll:
    There was next to no chance of that and the two of them two upping it to the line would have been faster anyway. But no matter it is only the CWG and the result was right in the end.
  • wiggofan
    wiggofan Posts: 30
    mulletmaster wrote:
    Easy to do your mate over when she has been towing you round all morning and you've been in the armchair! Much more impressed with pooley here.

    Absolutely right. Unbelievable ride from Emma Pooley. Did nearly all the work and gave Armitstead an armchair ride. How does Armitstead repay her? By attacking her when Pooley had a likely race winning lead. Very poor form from Armitstead, particularly as she had by far the best sprint finish of the front seven so would almost certainly have won comfortably if Pooley had been caught.
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