Road Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

[carivan 73]

Colombia withdraws from the men's time trial

[dcro 10,210]

  On 8/5/2016 at 10:55 AM, heywoodu said:

And where else than in the Olympics and possibly worlds will you see riders from obscure cycling nations attack in the first kilometers? 

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Would be cool if will be one of them.

 

Or Croatia, if we are considered as "obscure cycling nation"

Edited August 6, 2016 by dcro

[heywoodu 15,338]

  On 8/6/2016 at 9:27 AM, dcro said:

 

Would be cool if will be one of them.

 

Or Croatia, if we are considered as "obscure cycling nation"

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Nah, you're not really  

 

At least not compared to Laos  

[bestmen 2,831]

today : 237.5 km

144 cyclists

start time 9.30 local time

 

for me the winner is Alejandro Valverde

 

[hckošice 15,109]

and we are rolling

[dcro 10,210]

Woohoo

 

Slow start

[bestmen 2,831]

very long beach

[T&Fwatch 6]

What a crazy course for the riders. ARD commentator mentioned that the changes i altitude are comparable to the tour de France stage to Andorra-Arcadiz...

[Federer91 2,894]

Let's go Vincenzo  Though i think we would have a surprising winner, maybe Chavez, maybe Martin, who knows.

[T&Fwatch 6]

  On 8/6/2016 at 12:39 PM, Federer91 said:

Let's go Vincenzo  Though i think we would have a surprising winner, maybe Chavez, maybe Martin, who knows.

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Tony Martin? - No, it's already planned that he abandons after some time to save energy for time trial