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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    The bike course on the triathlon looks crazy narrow and twisty.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Do they have domestiques in triathlon? Would a rider in the bike leg ride on behalf of another?
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,491
    Same rules as a TT regarding drafting IIRC.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    pblakeney said:

    Same rules as a TT regarding drafting IIRC.


    That's the Ironman. They ride in a group in the Olympic distance. The Olympic triathlon is basically 10000m running for white people.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    RichN95. said:

    Do they have domestiques in triathlon? Would a rider in the bike leg ride on behalf of another?

    You'd think it would make sense but the commentators were just saying every man for himself.

    I keep hearing the Canadian athlete's name as His Lordship!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Considering all the top people are in the huge front group I'm surprised anyone is prepared to ride on the front. Presumably it's the weaker runners trying to take the legs out of the best runners
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Swiss guy has opened quite a big gap here
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Pross said:

    Swiss guy has opened quite a big gap here


    Is there a blackboard to tell them the time gap? Or do they have to rely on smoke signals and carrier pigeons?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    If Australia had picked Porte and Wurf and a runner they could have a five minute lead by now
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Alex Yee for GB. Never heard of him and he’s the fastest runner on paper now leading the run
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Would it hurt them to put a cobbled climb in the middle of run?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Front group of six now. Two Brits
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Seems a bit odd seeing the muscular Norwegian staying with guys built much more like distance runners
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Yee looks fabulous.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Brownlee has popped, medals look decided.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Yee probably needs to pick this up if he can, I doubt he'll want a sprint against the bloke who is built like Ben Johnson.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Wilde looks like he should be running with a guide in those glasses
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    That looks so dodgy.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    He looks a little chubby
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Blumfeldt rips the finish line tape, knocks over the scaff tower and eats a velociraptor…
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Not sure if it is just the pale suit but he certainly doesn't look like a 10,000m runner. Looks more like a decathlete and they all struggle with the 1500m.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Then kills Bond.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Time to sleep. Six and a bit hours to the MTB
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,486
    edited July 2021
    The Blummenfelt one piece with the blue crotch/ass design is the worst outfit I have ever seen.

    The rules are weird. Outside of being terrible at running, why would anyone ride at the front or do any work on the bike leg?
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    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.

    Couple of stages ... Thierry Marie solo escape stage 1 1991 (I think). Cedric vasseur solo win into yellow first week of the tour . Ffloyd Landis ?
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620
    RichN95. said:

    Do they have domestiques in triathlon? Would a rider in the bike leg ride on behalf of another?

    I think GB tried that in 2016 (took a good swimmer as the third athlete to make sure they'd be in the front group on the bike) and the third best overall athlete took them to court. I may have imagined that though.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    I do think the organisers have it tough having not had any decent test events.

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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620
    Where is Pidcock starting on the grid? I assume it's only a small field so he isn't already beaten by starting miles back?
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620
    Pidcock 4th, mvdp 7th part way through the first proper lap.
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  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    MvdP off, looks down and out

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