Mountain Bike Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 7/26/2021 at 7:21 AM, Grassmarket said:

And a Special Jury Prize for most convoluted excuses is unanimously awarded to......

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....the Dutch women's road race team? Because this didn't come from Van der Poel  

[dcro 10,210]

  On 7/26/2021 at 7:19 AM, heywoodu said:

 

Not nearly  

 

Plenty of events where there is only 1 potential challenger instead of several  

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And yet the British team had the flag all ready.

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 7/26/2021 at 7:26 AM, dcro said:

And yet the British team had the flag all ready.

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And you think the Dutch, French and Swiss teams didn't?  

[Olympian1010 8,070]

Pidcock  and Dascalu  ended being rather consequential for two riders who nearly didn’t qualify 

[heywoodu 15,335]

I did not see Serrano coming, don't think I've seen him the entire race until he suddenly showed up to take the bronze  

[Fran-UDA 125]

Valeeeeerooooo !!!!!! 

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 7/26/2021 at 7:19 AM, heywoodu said:

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Milan Vader (who was very happy with his own race and said he enjoyed it) talked about this as well: he said during lunch/breakfast they were talking about it and said most riders would jump it. Van der Poel said he didn't, he'd go over the wood, but Vader told him that at the test event in 2019, they removed this before the race because these kind of wooden things are meant for training only, to get to know the jumps in a relatively safe manner.

 

"In the first lap I then saw that the wood was indeed gone and a few seconds later I heard people yelling behind me, then I basically knew what happened." he said. Of course he couldn't confirm, but when asked if he thought VDP knew about the wood being gone: "I can't really say, but....yeah I think so, because we talked about it this morning."

[hckošice 15,101]

Men's Cross-Country
Final Results

 

  Thomas PIDCOCK   

1:25:14

 

  Mathias FLUECKIGER  

+0:20

 

  David VALERO SERRANO   

+0:34

 

Final Results Here

[FancyFenchel 111]

  On 7/26/2021 at 8:00 AM, heywoodu said:

Milan Vader (who was very happy with his own race and said he enjoyed it) talked about this as well: he said during lunch/breakfast they were talking about it and said most riders would jump it. Van der Poel said he didn't, he'd go over the wood, but Vader told him that at the test event in 2019, they removed this before the race because these kind of wooden things are meant for training only, to get to know the jumps in a relatively safe manner.

 

"In the first lap I then saw that the wood was indeed gone and a few seconds later I heard people yelling behind me, then I basically knew what happened." he said. Of course he couldn't confirm, but when asked if he thought VDP knew about the wood being gone: "I can't really say, but....yeah I think so, because we talked about it this morning."

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Its a pity for VDP. Horrible crash. I hope he is fine.

 

The german commentator said, that it was communicating that the ramp will be removed for the race. 

(Althrough why install a ramp in training and remove for the race?!)

 

 

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 7/26/2021 at 11:00 AM, FancyFenchel said:

(Althrough why install a ramp in training and remove for the race?!)

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For training purposes, so the riders can get to know the jump in a relatively safe manner. It's apparently done in some races when there are big jumps (especially if they're new).