Olympics All Format Spoiler Thread

RichN95.

Big crash for Van der Poel. That might his day done

He’s back up but surely out of contention

daniel_b

That looked nasty for mvdp, what a shame.

How many laps is this going to be?

How come pidders was so far down, bad qualification, or countries seeding?

carbonclem

I’m no longer familiar with MTB , but the course seems brutal!
MVDP back up …

daniel_b

Pidcock would have preferred some mud do we think?

Looks like he might be struggling a bit.

Hopefully he's recovering, and biding his time for an attack.

daniel_b

Pidders to the front

daniel_b

Not for long!

rick_chasey

Something unedifying about top top riders compromising their road career for this, I have to say.

(Does nothing for me)

daniel_b

But they enjoy it don't they, pidcock has said this is his favourite discipline.
"born to mountainbike" is the exact quote.

Not sure about mvdp, maybe he's more cx.

They're not doing it for the person in the street, doing it for themselves, which seems fair enough to me.

Pidders dropping off the front 2.

gsk82

rick_chasey said:

Something unedifying about top top riders compromising their road career for this, I have to say.

(Does nothing for me)

I'm only keeping up with it because I've heard of 2 of them. Even with that, I can't watch it for more than 5 minutes at a time. It's so dull.

daniel_b

Pidders puts the hammer down

pblakeney

17 kms to go.
I'll give it a break for a while...

rick_chasey

Jacking in the tour on spanking form to crash on the first lap I mean, tough day.

rick_chasey

A lot of kit chat is that normal?

rick_chasey

Think we can chalk up this Olympics already as a win for wout in the WvA v MvdP battle

gsk82

rick_chasey said:

A lot of kit chat is that normal?

I've had it on mute when I've had it on cos everyone else is asleep. Are they saying how nice the GB&NI kit is, but it's hard to pick out in a group?

daniel_b

If the swiss are riding clever/tactical, should they not back him up with one rider on a narrow part of the course and let the other rider make a break?

daniel_b

I appreciate he currently has a small gap!

larkim

Proper bike riding, this :-)

daniel_b

Either not enough cameras, or the producer is not very good.

RichN95.

rick_chasey said:

Think we can chalk up this Olympics already as a win for wout in the WvA v MvdP battle

Player 3 has entered the battle

daniel_b

Gutted to not be able to see how mvdp would have faired for the duration.

larkim

daniel_b said:

Either not enough cameras, or the producer is not very good.

I was actually thinking they were doing a decent job for a change, plenty of cameras around the course. Though sometimes a bit remote around the tech sections.

rick_chasey

daniel_b said:

Gutted to not be able to see how mvdp would have faired for the duration.

I know nothing about this sport but when I tried it I crashed a lot so I presume the whole not crashing thing is all about skill

RichN95.

38 seconds back to third

davidof

pblakeney said:

davidof said:

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.

Let's face it, even the riders in the women's peleton didn't know who she was.

Really?
Panned out fairly similar to the men the day before.

ah sorry I should have quoted that text

In a post race interview Bikeradar poster girl Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig told Danish TV:

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. It was crappy.

andyrac

https://twitter.com/ednl/status/1419549023401357314

They've removed the ramp for the race;

phreak

davidof said:

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.

Let's face it, even the riders in the women's peleton didn't know who she was.

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.

My wife, who hasn't ever really watched a bike race, watched all of the last 50-60km and thought it was great. Remember the Olympics attracts a much broader audience than traditional cycling fans, so while we may have found it bemusing, we shouldn't assume non-fans did.

Mad_Malx

rick_chasey said:

Something unedifying about top top riders compromising their road career for this, I have to say.

(Does nothing for me)

It makes a big difference when you recognise some names I find, I'm quite enjoying it. Tried last time when Sagan was racing and punctured, and it didn't engage me at all. did

daniel_b

larkim said:

daniel_b said:

Either not enough cameras, or the producer is not very good.

I was actually thinking they were doing a decent job for a change, plenty of cameras around the course. Though sometimes a bit remote around the tech sections.

There have been some long lingering shots of foliage or empty track. Maybe a blip.
Agreed, overall has been effective.

gsk82

Has anyone ever won Olympic MTB gold and the vuelta in the same year? Apart from Merckx obviously