Mountain Bike Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

[Agger 1,841]

Mountain Bike Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

 

 

 

Competition Details
City	Rio de Janeiro
Dates	August 20th - August 21st, 2016
Venue	Mountain Bike Centre
Website	Official Website

 

 

Official Schedule
Day 15	Saturday, August 20th, 2016	Day 15
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
12:30 - 14:30	Women's Cross-Country	Final
Day 16	Sunday, August 21st, 2016	Day 16
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
12:30 - 14:30	Men's Cross-Country	Final

 

[Gianlu33 5,926]

 Italian Team  

 

Men's

Marco Aurelio Fontana

Luca Braidot

Andrea Tiberi

 

Women's

Eva Lechner

[heywoodu 16,443]

Dutch media are reporting Peter Sagan will get the only Slovak ticket for the MTB in Rio...hckosice, any truth to that or will he, as planned, be the second Slovak in the MTB race?

 

It'd be quite horrible if he would indeed be the only one.. 

[dcro 10,211]

36 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Dutch media are reporting Peter Sagan will get the only Slovak ticket for the MTB in Rio...hckosice, any truth to that or will he, as planned, be the second Slovak in the MTB race?

 

It'd be quite horrible if he would indeed be the only one.. 

 

Is google translate messing with me or what?

 

According to this article on Slovak Olympic Committee website, Sagan will compete ONLY in mountain bike. While their mountain bike athlete Martin Haring will compete on road.

Edited June 7, 2016 by dcro

[Agger 1,841]

8 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Is google translate messing with me or what?

 

According to this article on Slovak Olympic Committee website, Sagan will compete ONLY in mountain bike. While their mountain bike athlete Martin Haring will compete on road.

 

That's at least what the danish sports news say.

Apparently he decided already in january not to start, as he thought there was too much climbing. 
If that is so, I guess I've really underestimated the route.

[dcro 10,211]

2 minutes ago, Agger said:

 

That's at least what the danish sports news say.

Apparently he decided already in january not to start, as he thought there was too much climbing. 
If that is so, I guess I've really underestimated the route.

 

So because of too much climbing on road course he chose MOUNTAIN biking instead? Wow, I don't get that.

 

Anyway, his chance for medal in mountain bike is zero. No way he can keep up with the likes of Schurter and Absalon.

[heywoodu 16,443]

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

So because of too much climbing on road course he chose MOUNTAIN biking instead? Wow, I don't get that.

 

Anyway, his chance for medal in mountain bike is zero. No way he can keep up with the likes of Schurter and Absalon.

Of course mountain biking isn't specifically climbing

 

And yeah, the course is seriously hard. This is not made for Sagan

 

[Agger 1,841]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

So because of too much climbing on road course he chose MOUNTAIN biking instead? Wow, I don't get that.

 

Anyway, his chance for medal in mountain bike is zero. No way he can keep up with the likes of Schurter and Absalon.

 

Even with the name, the elevation isn't quite as much

I don't think I would say zero (mainly because I haven't seen him on a Mountain bike course), but there's no doubt that it will be very tough.

[heywoodu 16,443]

I think in MTB Sagan has a higher medal chance in Rio than on the road. Which doesn't mean he has a high medal chance, only that I think it's higher than on the road  

[dcro 10,211]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Of course mountain biking isn't specifically climbing

 

Yes, but climbing is a most significant part.

 

And race tactics is completely different than road cycling, with cyclists often going full power from the start... Definitely not something that Sagan is used to.