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Cycling at Beijing 2008 (now includes Paralympics)
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| Jaap90 |
Posted on 03-08-2008 15:16
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The distance is not exactly the same but I used the same roads as the cyclists so the profile has to be good and after the last months, I know that info from the Chinese people are not always correct. |
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| rodda |
Posted on 03-08-2008 15:41
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really? i thought they were a completely uncensored country happy to divulge information about any area of its workings ??
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| Jaap90 |
Posted on 03-08-2008 16:35
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This was my last hope about that. |
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| AaB-ern |
Posted on 03-08-2008 17:43
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issoisso wrote:
no, they decided to use the metric system for the length and a completely random other system for height.
silly questions  
Length could be miles and height then feet.
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| chuckie |
Posted on 03-08-2008 18:30
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Does anyone have the startlist?
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 03-08-2008 18:37
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https://www.cyclingstartlists.com/2008...OGRoad.htm
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| issoisso |
Posted on 03-08-2008 18:46
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AaB-ern wrote:
issoisso wrote:
no, they decided to use the metric system for the length and a completely random other system for height.
silly questions
Length could be miles and height then feet.
except it was already well established the length is in kms
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 04-08-2008 14:24
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issoisso wrote:
AaB-ern wrote:
issoisso wrote:
no, they decided to use the metric system for the length and a completely random other system for height.
silly questions
Length could be miles and height then feet.
except it was already well established the length is in kms
I can read mandarin, its meters and km
 [url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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| issoisso |
Posted on 04-08-2008 18:55
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Remember how I mentioned that Sérgio Paulinho was to lead the Discovery team at the Ardennes classics back in 2006 but had to pull out due to allergy?
Well, after that, plus him never being able to be in top form for the April Classics, or the Tour de France due to the same allergies, and thus having to concentrate his career on the months of the season from September to October, now comes another problem:
To ride in the olympics, he needs his allergy medication. For that, he needs a special permission. He has it from the UCI.
But in the olympics, the one from the UCI is useless, he needs a special one from the Portuguese OC, which screwed up the process. So he won't be participating.
His two other alternatives would be to either take the medicine and compete, and thus test positive, or don't take the medicine and still compete , as he did in the Clásica Sán Sebastián [he retired after 100kms with a severe respiratory crysis]
He is the current silver medal holder in the Olympic road race.
The man has no luck, really.
Edited by issoisso on 04-08-2008 18:58
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| Dan_Grr |
Posted on 05-08-2008 13:03
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My girlfriend saw on the news that his doctor didn't recommend he go to Beijing because of those respiratory problems, because of pollution and stuff.
There goes the only man who could bring some glory to Portugal. We're already below underdogs. |
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 05-08-2008 16:36
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Half the us team turned up in beijing in face masks
[url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 05-08-2008 16:40
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Paulinho is one unlucky man, i feel for him.
Apparantly Beijing will be smog free by the time of the Road Race. |
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 05-08-2008 16:45
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Smoothie wrote:
Apparantly Beijing will be smog free by the time of the Road Race.
Ha don't make me laugh,
the official statistics will say its pollution free, but a glance outside will say otherwise. don't wory though according to a BOCOG official ignore the smog, just listen to the official statistics.
[url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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| Dan_Grr |
Posted on 06-08-2008 12:45
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I don't know how all those people can live in a city like that, surely it takes years off of you? |
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 06-08-2008 12:47
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The smog in Beijing has nothing to say really, as the race is held 80 km outside Beijing near the great wall.
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| mrlol |
Posted on 06-08-2008 12:48
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well, it starts in Beijing |
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 06-08-2008 12:50
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The start and finish are very nice, lets just hope that smog doesn't interfere. |
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 06-08-2008 12:51
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Yes but, it's only for a short time they will be there, and the "real" racing is outside of the city.
BenBarnes wrote:
Thor wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.
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| drugsdontwork |
Posted on 06-08-2008 13:17
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Pollution's not going to be a problem, Yeah right!!
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_picture...506925.stm
4th August looked really bad!  |
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| Crommy |
Posted on 06-08-2008 13:28
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I hate how BBC News keep "reporting" the Olympics.
They don't actually report anything on the Olympics, they just take the time to have a go at China. It's very annoying 
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