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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,798
    Tom Daley gets a Gold at last. Seems odd that someone who’s such a professional Olympian hasn’t won gold before. Good for him :)
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  • daniel_b
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    gsk82 said:

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

    :D
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  • daniel_b
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    Mvdp retires
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  • daniel_b
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    Assuming Flueckiger will save it all for the final lap.
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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    edited July 2021
    Just seen Mvdp's crash. Remarkable that he kept going for as long as he did. That looked painful.
  • pblakeney
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    davidof said:

    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.
    ...and the men's was as bad.
    Which was my point. Both were tactically bad, apart from the winners obviously.
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  • daniel_b
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    edited July 2021
    carbonclem said:

    Tom Daley gets a Gold at last. Seems odd that someone who’s such a professional Olympian hasn’t won gold before. Good for him :)

    I thought he retired?
    Maybe I imagined that.
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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,798
    Fair play, BBC erratic coverage is a PITA.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Woke up. Stuck the mtb on, saw Pidcock at the front, wondered where MvdP was, saw the drop and thought it looked brutal, saw the crash and had it confirmed.

    It's going to be tough for Flueckiger to bring Pidcock back on this, saw he was riding where others were running. And no, I don't think he'd want mud - that favours the bigger more powerful riders
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  • tailwindhome
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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,798
    We need more coverage of the Czech guy and his puncture
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    What those photos crop out is Pidcock was right behind him and did well to miss him
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  • neonriver
    neonriver Posts: 228
    Do the BBC commentators not know Pidcock is signed long term with Ineos?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Only just turned on. Having only really seen the 2012 race I was never much of a fan of man-made course but this is much nicer (I suppose Essex was always a weird place to do MTB). I still prefer natural courses though.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    He's a bit good, Pidcock, isn't he?
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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,798
    He crushed that, didn’t he? Amazing.
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,451
    He made that look so easy
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    He's got some skillz
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620
    He's a fully blown star.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Nice to see a roadie beat them at their own game ;););)
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Entertaining race. I thought the coverage was a lot better than some of the world cups I've tried to watch - actually felt like I could tell what was going on.

    Missed VDPs crash. Hopefully GCN will do a decent highlights package.
  • bobmcstuff
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    neonriver said:

    Do the BBC commentators not know Pidcock is signed long term with Ineos?

    The GCN ones didn't either - they were talking about new opportunities and bidding and stuff... he's already got probably one of the most lucrative gigs in cycling...
  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    I've not got a lot of context to place it against but hell of a ride by Pidcock! Once it settled down he looked so easy on the bike
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,451
    bobmcstuff said:

    neonriver said:

    Do the BBC commentators not know Pidcock is signed long term with Ineos?

    The GCN ones didn't either - they were talking about new opportunities and bidding and stuff... he's already got probably one of the most lucrative gigs in cycling...
    Who was commentating for Eurosport? Think BBC were just taking the world feed so it was Rochelle Gilmore and some fella
  • bobmcstuff
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    thejimmymethod said:

    I've not got a lot of context to place it against but hell of a ride by Pidcock! Once it settled down he looked so easy on the bike

    There was a bit where Flueckiker span on the climb and had to run while he was chasing Pidcock (got really close, like 4 seconds) - Pidcock didn't make any errors like that.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    In the surfing the waves are a bit bigger, but a stiff offshore breeze is making them very messy. I'm honestly surprised they're running it these conditions.

    First knockout rounds are underway, a couple of upsets in the women's and one of the pre comp favourites (John John Florence) out in the men's. Still looking like Brazilian medals in the men's
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
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    r0bh said:

    bobmcstuff said:

    neonriver said:

    Do the BBC commentators not know Pidcock is signed long term with Ineos?

    The GCN ones didn't either - they were talking about new opportunities and bidding and stuff... he's already got probably one of the most lucrative gigs in cycling...
    Who was commentating for Eurosport? Think BBC were just taking the world feed so it was Rochelle Gilmore and some fella
    Same feed! Went across to the BBC to see if they had an interview with Pidcock, rewound a little and thought "well this is familiar..."
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  • pblakeney
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    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    r0bh said:

    bobmcstuff said:

    neonriver said:

    Do the BBC commentators not know Pidcock is signed long term with Ineos?

    The GCN ones didn't either - they were talking about new opportunities and bidding and stuff... he's already got probably one of the most lucrative gigs in cycling...
    Who was commentating for Eurosport? Think BBC were just taking the world feed so it was Rochelle Gilmore and some fella
    Same feed! Went across to the BBC to see if they had an interview with Pidcock, rewound a little and thought "well this is familiar..."
    Same feed but different commentary. ES were well aware of his Ineos position.
    Don't know who it was though.
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  • stage_hunter
    stage_hunter Posts: 325
    bobmcstuff said:

    neonriver said:

    Do the BBC commentators not know Pidcock is signed long term with Ineos?

    The GCN ones didn't either - they were talking about new opportunities and bidding and stuff... he's already got probably one of the most lucrative gigs in cycling...
    That was fucking embarrassing. She is supposed earning a living in the media and does not realise where Trinity Racing comes from. You also don’t get a fat juicy Ineos contract without a decent agent.


  • stage_hunter
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    r0bh said:

    bobmcstuff said:

    neonriver said:

    Do the BBC commentators not know Pidcock is signed long term with Ineos?

    The GCN ones didn't either - they were talking about new opportunities and bidding and stuff... he's already got probably one of the most lucrative gigs in cycling...
    Who was commentating for Eurosport? Think BBC were just taking the world feed so it was Rochelle Gilmore and some fella
    Same

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