Rio Olympic TT (M/F) *SPOILERS*

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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Bit of premature celebration there
  • adambruntlett
    adambruntlett Posts: 257
    edited August 2016
    Please can someone beat Zabelinskaya?

    Edit: Maybe not the American called ARMSTRONG ;)
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,391
    Mrs Armstrong by 5 secs takes gold for USA!
    Day before she turns 43......
  • bikes`n`guns
    bikes`n`guns Posts: 959
    Wow ! a doping Russian beaten into second buy the oldest competitor , an American called Armstrong ! lol


    Plenty there to talk about .
    Trek,,,, too cool for school ,, apparently
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    My question is, at what point did Zabelinskaya actually server her 18th month ban? Given it was going to CAS earlier this year.

    Backdated bans are bullshit.
    She properly served the 18 month ban. Return in March this year.

    How?
    dish_dash wrote:
    Apparently Zabelinskaya tested positive in March 2014 and accepted a ban that ended in Sept 2015. This was agreed in March 2016.
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,033
    Well done Armstrong, a third gold medal over her lifetime.
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  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,390
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Armstrong takes it.

    Never thought I'd be relieved to write that.

    Finally, Armstrong is the saviour of cycling!

    Looks like she reserved a particularly unpleasant corner of the "hurt box" for herself.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    My question is, at what point did Zabelinskaya actually server her 18th month ban? Given it was going to CAS earlier this year.

    Backdated bans are bullshit.
    She properly served the 18 month ban. Return in March this year.

    How?
    dish_dash wrote:
    Apparently Zabelinskaya tested positive in March 2014 and accepted a ban that ended in Sept 2015. This was agreed in March 2016.

    Sorry, story initially time stamped Feb 16 (not march 16)
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/zabelin ... -positive/
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,033
    How upset will Van Dijk be? The fall cost her at least silver, if she indeed lost 20secs at that fall.
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  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    And a second medal (Bronze) for van de Bruggen as well.
  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    Hat - that's an awesome ride in those conditions, especially for a 42 year old

    She looks absolutely f***ed - nothing like knowing you've left everything out there and it was good enough to win
    Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
    Specialising in Git Daaahns and Cafs. Norvern Munkey/Transplanted Laaandoner.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    Dorset Boy wrote:
    Mrs Armstrong by 5 secs takes gold for USA!
    Day before she turns 43......

    Zabelinskaya no spring chicken herself at 36...

    Anna van der Breggen in third is 26!
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    Because it was on my mind after that interview in the Podcast Feminin, both Gold and Silver medalists are mothers... generally unusual among women pro-cyclists.
  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    Haha - Craven is a legend
    Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Off goes Dan Craven, normal bike, not even TT extensions on bars, not even an aero helmet :-D

    Come on beard-man!
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  • adambruntlett
    adambruntlett Posts: 257
    edited August 2016
    Looks like Craven didn't find a TT bike! Or aerobars, a skinsuit, aero helmet, anything. Just rocked up on his roadbike.
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,033
    Did Craven just cut the course at the start?
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    zebulebu wrote:
    Haha - Craven is a legend

    Yep :-D

    This start goes under the heading "yeah, why not? I'm over here anyway."
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    NitrousOxide wrote:
    Did Craven just cut the course at the start?

    The cobbled corner? No it just looks like that. All the women took the same line, but I thought the same when the first went through it.
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  • adambruntlett
    adambruntlett Posts: 257
    NitrousOxide wrote:
    Did Craven just cut the course at the start?

    Maybe they'll let him off given he's just turned up on his roadbike :lol:
  • bflk
    bflk Posts: 240
    How can we view the mens tt right now if we only have internet and freeview sd? the so called live stream page on the beeb just says coming soon?
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/olympics/36667590 I'm watching it now.
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,033
    edited August 2016
    Was first start I've seen, now just seen (Turkish?) rider do it.;)

    Do TTers ever do a 1x gearing, or does that simply mean they have to add some weight ballast to meet minimum bike weight?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/olympics/36667590 streaming for me, follow on from women's race.
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  • bflk
    bflk Posts: 240
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/olympics/36667590 I'm watching it now.

    thanks a lot!
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,033
    Kochetkov lost over a second at start, removing a jacket?
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,033
    Gravel "corner cut" first casualty!
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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    Nice cobbles crash there, 9.1 from the Russian judge.
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    That was so obviously going to happen.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Oops, cutting that corner needs to be done carefully... crashing 15 seconds into a TT isn't such a good move, Brookwalter.
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  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    Ouch! Drinkwater fails to get around first corner. Looks like some road rash on his l. leg.

    The road on the hills seem to be drying out though,so we may get more exciting downhills.

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