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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    One thing about Pidcock's ride that doesn't get mentioned is the way that he was clearly managing the technical sections to reduce risk. Seemed like every time Fluckiger closed the gap slightly Pidcock just pushed out another five seconds before settling back down - he never really tried to build a bigger lead, just used his advantage to reduce risk.
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,451
    bianchi_dave said:

    mididoctors said:

    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Not gonna lie, Asian games watched from the UK are a f*cking pain.

    You get this weird hybrid of catching half of it live and missing the other half and getting updates on the bits you might have missed but might not have and you're not sure if you're watching a repeat or live - it is a total pain.

    Plus, what happened to every sport being available? BBC being cheapskates? Public services under the sh!tter again? FFS it's supposed to be a distraction of this hellhole, not a reminder.
    #rant

    Blame the IOC - the entire European rights were sold to Discovery, and due to the legal situation in the UK sub-licensed to the BBC - who are only allowed to show two live sports at any one time (and one of those has to be on the red button channel - just one on the prime TV channel).
    That sucks. Usually the BBC had live feeds to all the events
    is this another example of how Brexsh!t just keeps on giving? #winning. (I know there's a ridiculously lengthy thread for this but still....)
    Nope, but it is the new reality of a media landscape where public service broadcasters have to try to compete with multinational streaming services with very deep pockets
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    Hoping that MVDP isn't that badly injured and is fit in time....

    26/9 - UCI Worlds in Flanders - WVA, Pidcock, MVDP, Asgreen etc... Quickstep's Belgians working for WVA (or not....)
    3/10 - Paris-Roubaix - As above for their trade teams.

    nom nom nom.....
  • andyrac
    andyrac Posts: 1,205
    With Pidcock likely going to the Vuelta, the MTB World Champs in Val di Sole look open; I don't think it will happen, but MvdP should target them, on a course he's won at before; a MTB rainbow jersey would be some sort of consolation.
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,127
    r0bh said:

    For the MvdP crash, apparently there was a ramp on the drop during training which was taken away for the race, and MvdP didn't know :#

    That makes sense otherwise he wouldn't have taken the drop like he did.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    The main issue with watching the Olympics in Denmark is that it's just wall to wall badminton coverage.
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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    r0bh said:

    bianchi_dave said:

    mididoctors said:

    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Not gonna lie, Asian games watched from the UK are a f*cking pain.

    You get this weird hybrid of catching half of it live and missing the other half and getting updates on the bits you might have missed but might not have and you're not sure if you're watching a repeat or live - it is a total pain.

    Plus, what happened to every sport being available? BBC being cheapskates? Public services under the sh!tter again? FFS it's supposed to be a distraction of this hellhole, not a reminder.
    #rant

    Blame the IOC - the entire European rights were sold to Discovery, and due to the legal situation in the UK sub-licensed to the BBC - who are only allowed to show two live sports at any one time (and one of those has to be on the red button channel - just one on the prime TV channel).
    That sucks. Usually the BBC had live feeds to all the events
    is this another example of how Brexsh!t just keeps on giving? #winning. (I know there's a ridiculously lengthy thread for this but still....)
    Nope, but it is the new reality of a media landscape where public service broadcasters have to try to compete with multinational streaming services with very deep pockets
    Yup, saw that, cheers! Bit of a shame really.
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  • ddraver
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    Dorset_Boy said:

    bianchi_dave said:

    mididoctors said:

    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Not gonna lie, Asian games watched from the UK are a f*cking pain.

    You get this weird hybrid of catching half of it live and missing the other half and getting updates on the bits you might have missed but might not have and you're not sure if you're watching a repeat or live - it is a total pain.

    Plus, what happened to every sport being available? BBC being cheapskates? Public services under the sh!tter again? FFS it's supposed to be a distraction of this hellhole, not a reminder.
    #rant

    Blame the IOC - the entire European rights were sold to Discovery, and due to the legal situation in the UK sub-licensed to the BBC - who are only allowed to show two live sports at any one time (and one of those has to be on the red button channel - just one on the prime TV channel).
    That sucks. Usually the BBC had live feeds to all the events
    is this another example of how Brexsh!t just keeps on giving? #winning. (I know there's a ridiculously lengthy thread for this but still....)
    No, nothing to do with Brexit. Read the posts above. It has been explained at least twice on here in the last 18 hours.
    Although you could argue the reduced GDP as a result of brexit has reduced the BBC's ability to bid for live sports coverage... ;)
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  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,982
    davidof said:

    r0bh said:

    For the MvdP crash, apparently there was a ramp on the drop during training which was taken away for the race, and MvdP didn't know :#

    That makes sense otherwise he wouldn't have taken the drop like he did.
    Although it doesn't seem very likely they would have a ramp like that for the race as it was straightforward enough drop and almost certainly faster taken that way.
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  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    davidof said:

    r0bh said:

    For the MvdP crash, apparently there was a ramp on the drop during training which was taken away for the race, and MvdP didn't know :#

    That makes sense otherwise he wouldn't have taken the drop like he did.
    Assume everyone else knew the ramp wasn't there for the race though or others would have made the same mistake. So why wasn't he aware?
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Oops. Seems like MvdP should maybe have listened more carefully
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,611
    ddraver said:

    Dorset_Boy said:

    bianchi_dave said:

    mididoctors said:

    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Not gonna lie, Asian games watched from the UK are a f*cking pain.

    You get this weird hybrid of catching half of it live and missing the other half and getting updates on the bits you might have missed but might not have and you're not sure if you're watching a repeat or live - it is a total pain.

    Plus, what happened to every sport being available? BBC being cheapskates? Public services under the sh!tter again? FFS it's supposed to be a distraction of this hellhole, not a reminder.
    #rant

    Blame the IOC - the entire European rights were sold to Discovery, and due to the legal situation in the UK sub-licensed to the BBC - who are only allowed to show two live sports at any one time (and one of those has to be on the red button channel - just one on the prime TV channel).
    That sucks. Usually the BBC had live feeds to all the events
    is this another example of how Brexsh!t just keeps on giving? #winning. (I know there's a ridiculously lengthy thread for this but still....)
    No, nothing to do with Brexit. Read the posts above. It has been explained at least twice on here in the last 18 hours.
    Although you could argue the reduced GDP as a result of brexit has reduced the BBC's ability to bid for live sports coverage... ;)
    Oh FFS! What a load of BS.
    The BBC hasn't had the budget for live sport for 20-30 years. It's only the protected events they have had a hope of getting.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,127
    ddraver said:


    Although you could argue the reduced GDP as a result of brexit has reduced the BBC's ability to bid for live sports coverage... ;)

    What?

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    From a different angle, you can see Pidcock's handling in swerving MvdP

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    Pidcock, asked how long the Olympics have been his dream: "Not that long, since late last year that was the first time I did a World Cup. So it hasn't been a dream for that long, I can't imagine how it would feel to build up for four years to this event. A year was enough!"

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    kingstongraham said:

    Pidcock, asked how long the Olympics have been his dream: "Not that long, since late last year that was the first time I did a World Cup. So it hasn't been a dream for that long, I can't imagine how it would feel to build up for four years to this event. A year was enough!"

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    edited July 2021
    Yeah, basically "I can't imagine how it would feel to work for years to get to this point and then get beat by someone who just thought he'd give it a go for a few months."

    But I'm sure he didn't mean it like that.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Roadies eh? No chill ;)
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    dabber said:

    davidof said:

    r0bh said:

    For the MvdP crash, apparently there was a ramp on the drop during training which was taken away for the race, and MvdP didn't know :#

    That makes sense otherwise he wouldn't have taken the drop like he did.
    Although it doesn't seem very likely they would have a ramp like that for the race as it was straightforward enough drop and almost certainly faster taken that way.
    It was just there for practice to allow the riders to move round the course more easily - no use risking crashes by taking the drop off at speed every time through (which you'd need to do to avoid landing to flat) when you are trying to practice other sections of the track.
  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,982
    bobmcstuff said:

    dabber said:

    davidof said:

    r0bh said:

    For the MvdP crash, apparently there was a ramp on the drop during training which was taken away for the race, and MvdP didn't know :#

    That makes sense otherwise he wouldn't have taken the drop like he did.
    Although it doesn't seem very likely they would have a ramp like that for the race as it was straightforward enough drop and almost certainly faster taken that way.
    It was just there for practice to allow the riders to move round the course more easily - no use risking crashes by taking the drop off at speed every time through (which you'd need to do to avoid landing to flat) when you are trying to practice other sections of the track.
    Yes, I understand that. It would be very strange for it to be part of the race though.

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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    kingstongraham said:

    Yeah, basically "I can't imagine how it would feel to work for years to get to this point and then get beat by someone who just thought he'd give it a go for a few months."

    But I'm sure he didn't mean it like that.


    He comes across as a bit stand-off-ish, but I am sure that and this comment are not intentional and that he's a nice lad. Benefit of the doubt, I don't know him etc
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  • andyrac
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    Eurosport used the GCN commentators for the road races, so why didn't they get the GMBN guys to do the MTB race?
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  • ddraver
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    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    From a different angle, you can see Pidcock's handling in swerving MvdP

    Flippin' big drop for XCO when you've got a saddle up your ass...

    I wonder if the ramp will be there for the girls..?
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,451
    ddraver said:

    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    From a different angle, you can see Pidcock's handling in swerving MvdP

    Flippin' big drop for XCO when you've got a saddle up your censored ...

    I wonder if the ramp will be there for the girls..?
    That would be sexist
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Dutch cycling so far:

    "No-one told us there was a rider up the road"
    "No-one told us the ramp had been removed".

    Has someone told the trackies they have to go anti-clockwise?
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  • dabber
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    r0bh said:

    ddraver said:

    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    From a different angle, you can see Pidcock's handling in swerving MvdP

    Flippin' big drop for XCO when you've got a saddle up your censored ...

    I wonder if the ramp will be there for the girls..?
    That would be sexist
    There's a bit of video of Evie Richards practicing on that jump with the ramp in place but she is taking off from the top and totally clearing the ramp like it isn't there...so I would hope it won't be there for the race.

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,718
    r0bh said:

    ddraver said:

    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    From a different angle, you can see Pidcock's handling in swerving MvdP

    Flippin' big drop for XCO when you've got a saddle up your censored ...

    I wonder if the ramp will be there for the girls..?
    That would be sexist
    It would - but I wouldnt bet my house on it not being there...

    (presumably there is a chicken run for it)
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  • focuszing723
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    ddraver said:

    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    From a different angle, you can see Pidcock's handling in swerving MvdP

    Flippin' big drop for XCO when you've got a saddle up your censored ...

    I wonder if the ramp will be there for the girls..?
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  • webboo
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    ddraver said:

    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    From a different angle, you can see Pidcock's handling in swerving MvdP

    Flippin' big drop for XCO when you've got a saddle up your censored ...

    I wonder if the ramp will be there for the girls..?
    They’ve got saddle droppers these days.

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