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| sutty68 |
Posted on 29-07-2012 17:55
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Smowz wrote:
Thought Dutch and the British teams got their tactics spot on today having had the advantage of seeing yesterdays stage.
Was very unfortunate for the American rider to drop off, would have made the finish a bit more spicy as well. I got the feeling the Russian rider resigned herself to bronze quite early on.
Thought both RR's were entertaining races, the disappointment was the lack of time gaps in the viewing. I was actually tacking my own time checks as well as British commentary duo, which was pretty fun when I realised the break was going to make it.
Armstrong I think though will be favourite in the TT, she looked pretty good when she came to the front in the RR.
Agree with you about the lack of time gaps, I was using my own stopwatch at certain points to get the time  |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 29-07-2012 17:57
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ruben wrote:
Just ignore Aquarius.
If you want to be happy be happy. Don't let him bait you by reacting
If you feel pride of a compatriot's success, I hope you're ready to be ashamed of yourselves for the poor job of broadcasting NOS have done in the Men and Women RR.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 29-07-2012 18:12
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postm00v wrote:
Aquarius wrote:
RubenP wrote:
Proud to be Dutch You contributed much to Vos' victory ? Congratulations then.
Jealous much ? Is it so wrong to be proud that Vos won ? I mean, we Dutchies aren't very good at every other sport.
It's got nothing to do with jealousy. To some people (including myself) the concept of being proud of something that is nothing but mere coincidence (in this case the country you're born in) and has nothing to do with your own contribution seems a bit strange.
That's just an opinion that you can ignore and neither I nor Aquarius (at least I think so) are condemning you for your patriotism (at least not a lot ). But you should let us express that opinion without immediatly alleging us jealousy or something.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 29-07-2012 18:23
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More or less that (what cunego59 wrote), yes. I don't care much about it, at least far from what it would take to make me jealous.
Anyone might be happy of a compatriot's success, or when anyone they like successes. What's totally non sense, or absurd, is to be proud of something when you've done absolutely nothing about it.
This is getting off topic, but actually I think patriotism is the first step to nationalism, and that's crap when you think about it (to make a very long story very short). |
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| roturn |
Posted on 29-07-2012 18:26
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Obviously the gps signal, which was needed to get all the time gaps was disturbed by thousands of spectators uploading their pictures directly on facebook or twitter.
So first they want the spectators to be active in social media networks and then they afterwards realize that it might disturb their electronics. Brilliant. 
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 29-07-2012 18:28
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while it was annoying to not have constant time gaps
but i feel it made it more exciting as you were never sure who was where, whether they were going to survive
some more would have been nice, but i didnt mind
smaller teams might be nice if it makes more exciting racing, but i feel that only works from one days such as the olympics
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| ruben |
Posted on 29-07-2012 19:34
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kumazan wrote:
ruben wrote:
Just ignore Aquarius.
If you want to be happy be happy. Don't let him bait you by reacting
If you feel pride of a compatriot's success, I hope you're ready to be ashamed of yourselves for the poor job of broadcasting NOS have done in the Men and Women RR.
You keep insisting it's the NOS. when it's in fact the Olympic Broadcast Services which provide the images and their own producer as well...
The commentators at the nos explained so today. And due to some technical malfunction they couldn't give time splits either
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| kumazan |
Posted on 29-07-2012 19:39
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https://www.televisual.com/blog-detail...d-317.html
OBS Teams – Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo, Modern Pentathlon - Swimming, Basketball, Equestrian, Fencing, Handball, Sailing, Shooting, Beach Volleyball, Wrestling
BBC – Boxing, Rowing, Canoe/Kayak - Sprint, Tennis, Football
YLE (Finland) – Opening/Closing Ceremonies, Athletics-Integrated/Track/Throws
SVT (Sweden) – Athletics-Jumps
SBS(Korea) – Archery, Taekwondo
Fuji TV (Japan) – Judo
TVE(Spain) – Canoe/Kayak - Slalom, Triathlon, Aquatics-Swimming Marathon
CCTV (China) – Modern Pentathlon, Badminton, Gymnastics, Table Tennis
NOS (the Netherlands) – Cycling-Road Race, Time Trial, Athletics-Walks/Marathon
STV (Slovakia) – Hockey
ICRT(Cuba) – Volleyball
ERT(Greece) – Weightlifting
VRT (Belgium) – Cycling (BMX, Track, Mountain Bike)
Don't kill the messenger.
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| ruben |
Posted on 29-07-2012 19:41
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So we are at a paradox. Because why would the commentators deny this on their, supossedly own, broadcast? |
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Posted on 29-07-2012 19:47
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To avoid the shame?
Nah, probably that list is wrong then.
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 29-07-2012 20:48
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ruben wrote:
Both the Olympics men and Olympics women races were by far and away the best races I've seen this year.
Incredible
Smaller teams please is the new cudo for cycling
Also: Vos is a legend. How can you be so powerful? First I thought:
-She has to react to too many attacks, Van Vleuten is barely visible, this looks bad
-Then she was away but putting in most of the work initially. I thought, keep wasting powers like that and she'll sprint to 2nd again
But no... she 'simply' sprinted to the win.
Great 
at least nice to see happy ruben.
Best races of season? Realy dont know...
At least men race was hugh identifaction issue..team mates helped team mates. Some riders forget theyr natinality because they do not want to bite a arm..that is feeding the,. Rest of the year |
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| ruben |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:03
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The olympics men race had everything a race should have. The minor fact that Eisel worked for Cavendish and same for Belarus (kiryenka wanting a sky transfer) doesn't subtract anything to that.
It simply had everything. Early attacks by big names. Counter-attacks by big names. A peloton that never gave up and in the end an old fox outsmarting (or outbuying ) a young gun.
Much better than anything else I've seen |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:11
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ruben wrote:
The olympics men race had everything a race should have. The minor fact that Eisel worked for Cavendish and same for Belarus (kiryenka wanting a sky transfer) doesn't subtract anything to that.
astana boy who did not chase Vino.
Spanish team weird behavior
Taste like..we do not do it your way Sky..notthis time.
Take radios off for Tour..and you will get ever more fun
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| jsh312mufc |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:15
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you guys are making too much out of this. the olympics has just turned into a race of breakaways. the best riders can never win. there's never a summit finish where there's nowhere to hide and the strong riders will show themselves. the lack of team-mates and amount of small teams mean the sprinters can never have their day. so the olympics is not a race to show who is actually the best rider, but just is for a chancer who gets a nice shiny medal |
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Posted on 29-07-2012 21:20
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jsh312mufc wrote:
you guys are making too much out of this. the olympics has just turned into a race of breakaways. the best riders can never win. there's never a summit finish where there's nowhere to hide and the strong riders will show themselves. the lack of team-mates and amount of small teams mean the sprinters can never have their day. so the olympics is not a race to show who is actually the best rider, but just is for a chancer who gets a nice shiny medal
No races should be to show who the best riders are, they winner should be a combination of rider quality + strategy/tactics + a bit of luck, and the small teams in the Olympics add for much more strategy/tactics compared to the normal races. Cavendish himself said he had the strength to go with the attacks in the last Box Hill climb, but preferred to stay in the pack and trust in his team-mates. His strategy did not work. Please do not say that the race has turned into a race of breakaways, the best riders can never win bla bla just because GB couldn't control the race as they wanted and Cavendish didn't win.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:21
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It always takes some chance to win a cycling race. Would you call Ullrich, Bettini or SSG (and to some extent P. Richard, though I can't remind the race) chancers ?
With no ear speakers and little team mates, it was obvious the race would be quite unpredictable.
Some teams put all their eggs in the same basket, others had many cards to play, which proved to be the best choice. |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:23
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lluuiiggii wrote:
No races should be to show who the best riders are, they winner should be a combination of rider quality + strategy/tactics + a bit of luck, and the small teams in the Olympics add for much more strategy/tactics compared to the normal races.
That. Otherwise we might as well have all the riders sitting on effort test bikes or machines, and award the strongest one the win/gold medal/leader jersey. |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 29-07-2012 22:02
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jsh312mufc wrote:
you guys are making too much out of this. the olympics has just turned into a race of breakaways. the best riders can never win. there's never a summit finish where there's nowhere to hide and the strong riders will show themselves. the lack of team-mates and amount of small teams mean the sprinters can never have their day. so the olympics is not a race to show who is actually the best rider, but just is for a chancer who gets a nice shiny medal
= I'm angry because Cav didn't win. In sport you have to accept defeat sometimes.
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| Schleck96 |
Posted on 29-07-2012 22:15
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I couldn't see the race yesterday (Had to go to a Bday party -.-"
Im happy that Vino won because I liked that guy, what a career ending reward that was...
Can someone tell me when the TT will be? |
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| jsh312mufc |
Posted on 29-07-2012 22:17
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Schleck96 wrote:
I couldn't see the race yesterday (Had to go to a Bday party -.-"
Im happy that Vino won because I liked that guy, what a career ending reward that was...
Can someone tell me when the TT will be?
wednesday. both men and women on same day |
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