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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 09-08-2016 12:41
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ringo182 wrote:
I guess you right. Although I still maintain that cycling at the professional level is a team sport.
The fact the Olympic race had individuals competing shows that it is different to normal races as I had argued.
Has a rider ever won the world champs/Olympics as a solo competitor?
Vainsteins I think.
And Evans ofcourse 
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| Riis123 |
Posted on 09-08-2016 14:51
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Spilak23 wrote:
ringo182 wrote:
I guess you right. Although I still maintain that cycling at the professional level is a team sport.
The fact the Olympic race had individuals competing shows that it is different to normal races as I had argued.
Has a rider ever won the world champs/Olympics as a solo competitor?
Vainsteins I think.
And Evans ofcourse
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| Strydz |
Posted on 09-08-2016 15:30
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Riis123 wrote:
Spilak23 wrote:
ringo182 wrote:
I guess you right. Although I still maintain that cycling at the professional level is a team sport.
The fact the Olympic race had individuals competing shows that it is different to normal races as I had argued.
Has a rider ever won the world champs/Olympics as a solo competitor?
Vainsteins I think.
And Evans ofcourse
Sagan
I would say Vino pretty much did it solo outside of the bags of cash he had as support to give Uran 
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 09-08-2016 15:33
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Poels won't start the TT
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| Riis123 |
Posted on 09-08-2016 15:55
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Strydz wrote:
Riis123 wrote:
Spilak23 wrote:
ringo182 wrote:
I guess you right. Although I still maintain that cycling at the professional level is a team sport.
The fact the Olympic race had individuals competing shows that it is different to normal races as I had argued.
Has a rider ever won the world champs/Olympics as a solo competitor?
Vainsteins I think.
And Evans ofcourse
Sagan
I would say Vino pretty much did it solo outside of the bags of cash he had as support to give Uran
Vino is also a good shout out, at least Peter had his brother fetching bottles for the first 20 kms |
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| OZrocker |
Posted on 09-08-2016 16:05
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Spilak23 wrote:
ringo182 wrote:
I guess you right. Although I still maintain that cycling at the professional level is a team sport.
The fact the Olympic race had individuals competing shows that it is different to normal races as I had argued.
Has a rider ever won the world champs/Olympics as a solo competitor?
Vainsteins I think.
And Evans ofcourse
Not officially, PCS says that Vainsteins had two team-mates (although neither of them finished the race). I can't see any recent examples of solo winners in the Elite WC or Olympics.
Interestingly, if Sagan had entered the Olypmic Road Race he would have been competing solo since Slovakia only earned one quota place. Considering that a similar rider type in Van Avermaet won, he could have been a decent chance.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 09-08-2016 17:42
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Geraint Thomas to ride Olympic TT 
I can now announce that I'm really thrilled to get a last minute call up to represent Team GB in the time trial race tomorrow. I would like to wish all those who withdrew through injury a quick recovery. I lost quite a bit of skin in my crash and my hip took a good whack but other than that my legs are feeling good and I can’t wait to race again tomorrow. Thanks for all your messages and kind words – feel very honoured to be representing Team GB again!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 09-08-2016 23:49
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OZrocker wrote:
Spilak23 wrote:
ringo182 wrote:
I guess you right. Although I still maintain that cycling at the professional level is a team sport.
The fact the Olympic race had individuals competing shows that it is different to normal races as I had argued.
Has a rider ever won the world champs/Olympics as a solo competitor?
Vainsteins I think.
And Evans ofcourse
Not officially, PCS says that Vainsteins had two team-mates (although neither of them finished the race). I can't see any recent examples of solo winners in the Elite WC or Olympics.
Interestingly, if Sagan had entered the Olypmic Road Race he would have been competing solo since Slovakia only earned one quota place. Considering that a similar rider type in Van Avermaet won, he could have been a decent chance.
Just a counterpoint, Belgium to me looked like perhaps the strongest, or atleast one of the strongest teams in the race (maybe only behind Italy) and he more than likely benefited from that.
Then again, it is Sagan.
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| Arberg27 |
Posted on 10-08-2016 05:48
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Dumoulin & Froome wins medal, question is which one.
Unless they are very unlucky with weather, crash or puncture.
Hope Christopher Juul-Jensen can surprise.
Guess:
1: Dumoulin
2: Froome
3: Kiryienka
Top 20: Christopher Juul-Jensen
Hope: (Not unrealistically)
1: Froome
2: Dumoulin
3: Cancellara
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-08-2016 08:55
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Olympic time trial start times (Times given are local time, UK time in brackets)
Wave 1
10:00:00 (14:00:00) Dan Craven (Namibia)
10:01:30 (14:01:30) Youcef Reguigui (Algeria)
10:03:00 (14:03:00) Ahmet Orken (Turkey)
10:04:30 (14:04:30) Ghader Mizbani (Iran)
10:06:00 (14:06:00) Mouhssine Lahsaini (Morocco)
10:07:30 (14:07:30) Yonathan Monsalve (Venezuela)
10:09:00 (14:09:00) Pavel Kochetkov (Russia)
10:10:30 (14:10:30) Eduardo Sepulveda (Argentina)
10:12:00 (14:12:00) Christopher Juul-Jensen (Denmark)
10:13:30 (14:13:30) Georg Preidler (Austria)
10:15:00 (14:15:00) Alexis Vuillermoz (France)
10:16:30 (14:16:30) Andriy Grivko (Ukraine)
10:18:00 (14:18:00) Simon Geschke (Germany)
10:19:30 (14:19:30) Brent Bookwalter (USA)
10:21:00 (14:21:00) Andrey Zeits (Kazakhstan)
10:22:30 (14:22:30) Damiano Caruso (Italy)
10:24:00 (14:24:00) Leopold Konig (Czech Republic)
10:25:30 (14:25:30) Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland)
10:27:00 (14:27:00) Tim Wellens (Belgium)
Wave 2
11:15:00 (15:15:00) Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway)
11:16:30 (15:16:30) Hugo Houle (Canada)
11:18:00 (15:18:00) Geraint Thomas (Great Britain)
11:19:30 (15:19:30) Julian Alaphilippe (France)
11:21:00 (15:21:00) Primoz Roglic (Slovenia)
11:22:30 (15:22:30) Jonathan Castroviejo (Spain)
11:24:00 (15:24:00) Kanstantsin Siutsou (Belarus)
11:25:30 (15:25:30) Maciej Bodnar (Poland)
11:27:00 (15:27:00) Jan Barta (Czech Republic)
11:28:30 (15:28:30) Nelson Oliveira (Portugal)
11:30:00 (15:30:00) Rohan Dennis (Australia)
11:34:30 (15:34:30) Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)
11:36:00 (15:36:00) Tony Martin (Germany)
11:37:30 (15:37:30) Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus)
11:39:00 (15:39:00) Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands)
11:40:30 (15:40:30) Chris Froome (Great Britain) |
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 10-08-2016 10:00
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I guess that it will be an outsider: My picks are Alaphilippe and Kwiatkowski, hope picks go to Cancellara and Roglic
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| Strydz |
Posted on 10-08-2016 10:30
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Dumoulin or Kiryienka for the win with my outside pick being Castroviejo
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 10-08-2016 11:30
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I'll watch the time trials today! If you see a tall guy with a big Swedish flag on the Grota Funda climb, it's probsbly me.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 10-08-2016 12:08
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lakebeach wrote:
I'll watch the time trials today! If you see a tall guy with a big Swedish flag on the Grota Funda climb, it's probsbly me.
amazing, we'll spot you!
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| OZrocker |
Posted on 10-08-2016 12:41
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I'm guessing Froome wins, ahead of Dumoulin and maybe Izagirre. I'd obviously love to see Dennis get a medal and it would be fitting for Cancellara to finish with a win, but I just can't see it happening unfortunately.
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 10-08-2016 12:42
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Plichta looked like she stared death right into eyes the first couple corners 
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-08-2016 12:51
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Would be really happy to see Thomas get a medal..... |
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 10-08-2016 13:12
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Van Dijk blown off the road 
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| Luxemburger |
Posted on 10-08-2016 13:25
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The roads are extremely wet, it looks like they're always just braking in the downhill.
Edited by Luxemburger on 10-08-2016 13:38
Kirchen's second account according to Spilak23, 21-07-2016 17:16
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| OZrocker |
Posted on 10-08-2016 13:49
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Never mind, nothing to see here.
Spoiler Garfoot out of the medals, let's go Villumsen!  (It's close enough)
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