Road Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[heywoodu 15,141]

"Well, it is still possible, isn't it?"

 

It's always Sesame Street in the head of the Dutch commentator.

[Jinzha 702]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

Why on earth is Moolman leading the chase? What's in it for her?

 

Meanwhile the four Dutch are riding as if their system suffered a critical error.

I have no idea what the Dutch are doing strategically. They're not dominating in the way their stature demands of them. They're barely taking initiative.

 

Going to be one of the biggest disappointments of the Games if we don't medal here.

[heywoodu 15,141]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

Why on earth is Moolman leading the chase? What's in it for her?

She's riding for Van der Breggen and Vollering.

[dcro 10,210]

This is random and brilliant.

 

Back when I was collecting info for team sizes/selections, I read from the Austrian NOC page that Anna Kiesenhofer got selected after winning Olympic trials at some mountainous course. I was like: "Austria has Olympic trials for the women's road race? Good on them!"

[Jinzha 702]

Every time I see the peloton the legs are still, people are looking around. Are they really not capable of chasing these three...

[dcro 10,210]

Are we really going to have Shapira and Plichta on the podium as well?

 

Shapira is a pretty decent time trialist.

[FancyFenchel 111]

Kiesenhofer 

Plichta & Shapira +2:10

Labous +4:02

Peloton + 4:18

[dcro 10,210]

Apparently this could be the first cycling medal for Austria since Athens 1896.

[FancyFenchel 111]

So the Dutch still not applied the new motto? They are faster, stronger, higher, but not TOGETHER!

[Federer91 2,795]

The dutch sabotaging themselves and their country, because of ego  This should be the coaches fault by the way. They should have known that these four wouldn't work as a team and should have chosen 2 leaders and 2 domestiques to work for them..