Olympics All Format Spoiler Thread
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Max teams of 5 for the men and 4 for the women, allocated based on UCI nation ranking0
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Top men's nations were definitely 5. I thought it was always fairly small teams at Olympics. I could be wrong but my memory of 2012 was GB not having much support for Cav.0
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davidof said:
It is hard to find an analogue for men's racing. Maybe the French entering Peter Pouly for some mad reason and him getting 18 minutes on the bunch and winning. It would never happen in such a race... yes in the Tour occasionally the sprint teams misjudge a break and some relative unknown takes the stage.
I mean, it is completely ridiculous, unthinkable, a woman who has one noticeable prior result (1st on the Ventoux stage of the Ardeche) AFAIKS sneaking off with Olympic gold. There should really be an investigation to see what happened, was it the organization, the Dutch or just the women's pro peleton in general. It reflects really badly on women's road racing tbh.
From the Kiesenhofer results I've since seen, I think you are running her down quite a bit; she has won the Austrian TT title for about the last 5 years, and had other decent TT/RR results. I'm not a fan of TTs, but she seems good in both flat ones and mountain ones, so not someone to simply dismiss.
On the road, Pouly seems to have been no more than a good cyclosportiver (I had to look him up).
Kiesenhofer also seems to like the Ardeche (based on her successes in Ardeche-Tours over several years), which to me is also a plus-point (because of me liking the area).0 -
It was the same as 2012 max 5 for men’s team, 4 for women’s teamsDorset_Boy said:Team sizes at the Olympics (and Worlds) are determined by UCI ranking points, but the certainly the women had a max of 4. Maybe the men had a max of 5, but team GB only had 4 mens riders amd 2 women.
At 2012, teams were at least double the size.0 -
Team allocations were made via the UCI rankings. For the men this meant a maximum team size of five riders, but just four for the women. The men's race had a field of 130 riders, the women's just 67.
I believe that for Paris 2024 there will be gender parity in the road race fields, but that will mean a reduction for the men.0 -
Cavendish, Wiggins, Froome, Stannard, Millar.
Incredible team. My recollection is them doing massive shifts on the front but no-one else would work, didn't want to tow Cav to the line.0 -
Evening all, just watching the women's road race. Gcn commentators bemused me. Keisenhofer 5 minutes out in front, van vleuten attempting to make it across, and they are talking about the leader backing off to try and wirk with vv to guarantee a medal. I'd only been watching since 50k to go, but even I could tell that was nonsense.
Anyway, I digress.
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Dorset_Boy said:
At 2012, teams were at least double the size.
No, they weren't: https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/olympic-games/2012/result/startlist
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I hadn’t spotted that. I’m quite enjoying starting the day with a race to watch.daniel_b said:Evening all, just watching the women's road race. Gcn commentators bemused me. Keisenhofer 5 minutes out in front, van vleuten attempting to make it across, and they are talking about the leader backing off to try and wirk with vv to guarantee a medal. I'd only been watching since 50k to go, but even I could tell that was nonsense.
Anyway, I digress.
The Mtb xc race starts at 07:00 uk time tomorrow, they usually last an hour, 90 minutes or so?1 -
Yeah, should have used Google shouldn't I! Maybe it was seeing them GB ride past me 8 or 9 times in Mickleham in 2012 that made me think there were more of them!
Teams are bigger at the worlds though aren't they?0 -
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above_the_cows said:
And Kiryienka did some early work, although he didn't join Sky until the next season, so it was conceivable that he was just getting some training in for the TT.Twitter: @RichN950 -
Let's face it, even the riders in the women's peleton didn't know who she was.jimmyjams said:
From the Kiesenhofer results I've since seen, I think you are running her down quite a bit; she has won the Austrian TT title for about the last 5 years, and had other decent TT/RR results.
To be honest the women's race was shit, it was a pretty bad representation of female cycling. Remember that the Olympics is the place that women's cycling gets to all parts of the world, a place to show how cool female cycling is. It was such a mess.BASI Nordic Ski Instructor
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They said in commentary that she had raced at the top level on the women's tour at one point (they may have just a season).davidof said:
Let's face it, even the riders in the women's peleton didn't know who she was.jimmyjams said:
From the Kiesenhofer results I've since seen, I think you are running her down quite a bit; she has won the Austrian TT title for about the last 5 years, and had other decent TT/RR results.
To be honest the women's race was shit, it was a pretty bad representation of female cycling. Remember that the Olympics is the place that women's cycling gets to all parts of the world, a place to show how cool female cycling is. It was such a mess.0 -
Absolute farce at the start of the triathlon. Gun went when half the field had the boat in the way. Could have chopped them up!0
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6.30, I assumed it was a highlights programme starting. Boats still haven't learned and are virtually on top of the swimmers0
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Here you goPross said:
They said in commentary that she had raced at the top level on the women's tour at one point (they may have just a season).davidof said:
Let's face it, even the riders in the women's peleton didn't know who she was.jimmyjams said:
From the Kiesenhofer results I've since seen, I think you are running her down quite a bit; she has won the Austrian TT title for about the last 5 years, and had other decent TT/RR results.
To be honest the women's race was shit, it was a pretty bad representation of female cycling. Remember that the Olympics is the place that women's cycling gets to all parts of the world, a place to show how cool female cycling is. It was such a mess.
23.04.17 DNS Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes
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16.04.17 DNF Amstel Gold Race
03.04.17 DNF Grand Prix de Dottignies (1.2)
29.03.17 DNF Pajot Hills Classic (1.2)
but I'm not criticizing Kiesenhofer, it was a brilliant hold up.BASI Nordic Ski Instructor
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Surprised the three older Dutch riders didn't know her then. It's not a big group of riders at that level.RichN95. said:Pross said:
They said in commentary that she had raced at the top level on the women's tour at one point (they may have just a season).
She had half a season at Lotto Soudal in 20170 -
Probably hoping to get the bike leg out of the way before any cyclists see them and get offended.1
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Sticking a run section mid swim seems interesting.0
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Really?davidof said:
Let's face it, even the riders in the women's peleton didn't know who she was.jimmyjams said:
From the Kiesenhofer results I've since seen, I think you are running her down quite a bit; she has won the Austrian TT title for about the last 5 years, and had other decent TT/RR results.
To be honest the women's race was shit, it was a pretty bad representation of female cycling. Remember that the Olympics is the place that women's cycling gets to all parts of the world, a place to show how cool female cycling is. It was such a mess.
Panned out fairly similar to the men the day before.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
The Dutch with maximum team numbers and arguably the strongest team in the race publicly embarrassed themselves; the only aspect this road race reflects badly upon is Dutch cycling....davidof said:It reflects really badly on women's road racing tbh.
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Still the main protagonist's fault for letting the break go in both races.RichN95. said:pblakeney said:
Really?
Panned out fairly similar to the men the day before.
No it didn't. This was like Juraj Sagan or Nic Dlamini winning
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0
