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2012 Olympic Course, revealed.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 21-05-2010 13:40
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Cycling Weekly has obtained information on the route of the road race at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The redesigned route will head from London into the Surrey Hills, starting in Westminster and travelling south-west to cross the Thames river at Putney.
From there, the riders will travel through Richmond and Bushy Parks before crossing the M25 at Leatherhead and then face possibly more than one ascent of Box Hill.
From there, it's through Headley and down to Dorking, then west along the A25 and up the steep Combe Lane in Shere before heading back towards London, taking in Byfleet, Weybridge, Bushy Park and Richmond Park.
The riders will then complete a 12.5km circuit of Westminster, Chelsea and Fulham before finishing on the Mall.
The route totals around 138km, which is around the right sort of distance for the women's road race. The men's route is likely to be tweaked to include more than one circuit of Box Hill, and up to six loops of the 12.5km finishing circuit in central London.
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 21-05-2010 13:51
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Box hill! Whoop. I know where I'll be watching it from then.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 21-05-2010 13:53
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rjc_43 wrote:
Box hill! Whoop. I know where I'll be watching it from then.
The Mall?
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 21-05-2010 13:56
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Edited by doddy13 on 21-05-2010 13:57
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 21-05-2010 20:39
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so, the race goes 200m from my house, do I bother going in to London for the finish or not?
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 21-05-2010 20:43
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mb2612 wrote:
so, the race goes 200m from my house, do I bother going in to London for the finish or not?
thats your call. London will have the better atmosphere.
However your town will probably be in celebration mode.
Either way, you're a winner here.
Or, IDEA!: You go to london for one, and home for the other.
Womens/Mens is the same course.
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 21-05-2010 20:50
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doddy13 wrote:
mb2612 wrote:
so, the race goes 200m from my house, do I bother going in to London for the finish or not?
thats your call. London will have the better atmosphere.
However your town will probably be in celebration mode.
Either way, you're a winner here.
Or, IDEA!: You go to london for one, and home for the other.
Womens/Mens is the same course.
Well Richmond Park, so the atmosphere should be pretty good, actually depending on public transport, I may be able to get to the finish in time. That would be pretty awesome.
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| RobbieMcEwen_Jaune |
Posted on 03-08-2011 10:39
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You guys are in for a real treat  I'm so jealous, because I’ve been in your positions before, and want to be there again..
When the Sydney 2000 Olympics were on, both the men’s and women’s road race went straight past my apartment, but I never had a road-facing window. So I got out into the park across the road from me and watched it from there. Also walked up and down the course, so I got to watch it at different sections of the course too. My apartment was on a road with a small uphill climb at a small gradient.
The day of the women’s road race I was at my job at the time (working for IBM at the Olympic beach volleyball), but I had the day off for the men’s road race, and it was a live experience I'll never forget - out the front of my building and throughout my local neighbourhood, which was at one of the hilly parts of the course. The best experience was getting right on the barricades and hearing the riders communicate with each other as they rode past.
I will say I got some awesome pics that day, which I'm looking at now (this thread motivated me do so). So you guys should remember to take a good camera or good recording equipment with you.
If you're interested, I'd like to put up a separate thread with some of my pics from that day - just to get you guys excited at what you're in for. Whatever you guys do, don't miss it!
Here's a link to the results that day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_..._road_race
Oh, and my first post, so anyone on here reading this - Hi! 
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 03-08-2011 10:56
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Hi, nice first post!
RobbieMcEwen_Jaune wrote:
I will say I got some awesome pics that day, which I'm looking at now (this thread motivated me do so). So you guys should remember to take a good camera or good recording equipment with you.
Always do  Got a proper SLR camera last Christmas with the Olympics (and other sport) in mind.
RobbieMcEwen_Jaune wrote:
If you're interested, I'd like to put up a separate thread with some of my pics from that day - just to get you guys excited at what you're in for. Whatever you guys do, don't miss it!
That would be great to see. We do actually have a Cycling Photos section here, that you could upload them to using this page.
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 03-08-2011 11:05
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Yeah, will definitely be trying to get on the course. Anyone know how to get those tickets for Box Hill?
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Posted on 03-08-2011 11:26
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Hi, nice first post!
RobbieMcEwen_Jaune wrote:
I will say I got some awesome pics that day, which I'm looking at now (this thread motivated me do so). So you guys should remember to take a good camera or good recording equipment with you.
Always do Got a proper SLR camera last Christmas with the Olympics (and other sport) in mind.
RobbieMcEwen_Jaune wrote:
If you're interested, I'd like to put up a separate thread with some of my pics from that day - just to get you guys excited at what you're in for. Whatever you guys do, don't miss it!
That would be great to see. We do actually have a Cycling Photos section here, that you could upload them to using this page.
Hey, thanks for the friendly welcome.
I didn't have the best camera, but it still did the job I'll put those pics up when I have the time. Thanks for the link to the photo thread.
The camera you got sounds good if it's new, and has a good frame-rate and high amount of mega-pixels.
You guys are in for the time of your lives at the Olympics. I'll never forget those days when the Olympics were here and the city stopped for 16 days and we had millions of visitors from all over the world. Got photo albums full of pics at the beach volleyball, football, athletics, gymnastics, opening ceremony dress rehersal, and of course the men's road race.
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 03-08-2011 11:30
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Well, impossible to get tickets for anything so I will be going out on a mates boat to the sailing at Weymouth and I'll try to see the road races. I'll see what else is going on locally too. Shame I don't live in London though.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 03-08-2011 11:36
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Are there some other interesting places along the route to watch the race ? I mean for free, as I probably won't get Box Hill tickets...
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 03-08-2011 11:56
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In terms of non-flat terrain, the only real option is on the Box Hill circuit
The whole box hill limited access thing is a shambles, but I still intend to be somewhere at that section of the course. The climbing part of the circuit may be cordoned off, but other parts of the circuit should be freely accessible, so my backup plan is to get somewhere on the circuit, arriving there as early as possible to figure out just where its possible to go - hopefully the test event coming up will give an indication of which sections of that circuit theyre stupidly deciding to block off.
If going elsewhere on the route, then I guess the best place would be somewhere in Central London or Richmond Park, where you can see the riders twice - albeit with a long gap inbetween
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 03-08-2011 12:00
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wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
Yeah, will definitely be trying to get on the course. Anyone know how to get those tickets for Box Hill?
If you dont live need be, it seems keeping an eye on British cycling publications might be the best bet - although CyclingWeekly rejected an allocation of tickets they were offered as a protest against the whole system. I guess being a member of BritishCycling might also help.
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 03-08-2011 12:26
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Here is the Surrey description for how to get them for the test event: https://www.gosurrey.info/cycling/augu...-zag-road/
I can't imagine it will be very different for the final thing.
I will probably watch in Richmond park as that way I get to see them twice
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 03-08-2011 12:38
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Very useful link, mb, thanks. The restricted area doesnt cover the whole uphill part then, at least that is something
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| RobbieMcEwen_Jaune |
Posted on 03-08-2011 17:11
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Looking at that map and, oh man, you guys are unlucky, you won't get multiple laps of the course for continual viewing if you're watching it live out on the course.
In Sydney we had the pleasure of the riders going past about 12 or 13 times from memory.
Plus I would cross the park to the other side and see the riders come around again, so that was around 26 passes by the riders I got to see at 2 different points on the course. Then I managed to walk further up the course into the Centennial Parklands, as shown on the map below, where the course got flatter, yet narrower, bringing a whole different set of conditions for the riders to face.
The map below, as you can see, illustrates where my apartment was at the time, and also the massive park (Queens Park) I would cross each time a loop of the course was made. Unfortunately I don't have any gradient mapping of that course, but I will say that the road I was on was on a slight hill and slight gradient, getting a lot more vicious further up the street from me, where there was a short, but steep climb.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 03-08-2011 20:07
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Well, the Box Hill circuit is done 9 times, but yes - its a shame that London is too flat to be able to have one circuit raced all race
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| ANFreeman |
Posted on 03-08-2011 20:18
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Wait, you mean the organisers haven't made the course pan-flat for a Cavendish finish?
In seriousness though, it's a shame I won't be able to get to this (largely 'cos I have no one to go with), but also because it will just be so difficult to get there and watch from a decent spot, especially with the Box Hill ticket thing.
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