Road Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[Adriano 626]

Great start for Plichta and Lach, Niewiadoma even has a problem to get place in Top8.... 2 days and we do not have medal and event one points from being in Top8... My prediction was 5-6 medals, but I expected more good starts from our athletes. I am happy for Austria. Italian and girls from Netherlands save energy, it was wise. 

[OlympicsFan 860]

2 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Anna Kiesenhofer has 750 twitter followers.

Probably all family members.

[OlympicIRL 6,165]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Oh, I take my earlier words back: Van Vleuten was heard saying "I thought I was first", according to word on the street  

 

Still, she was definitely still happy when knowing it was silver and rightfully so.

It would explain a lot because that was a debacle... and the fact she celebrated across the line, it did look like she thought she won it.

[heywoodu 16,182]

Apparently the peloton either didn't know the gap to the lead group (they were shown 1:35 or something when it was already 5+ minutes), or didn't think there was still a lead group in the first place.

 

Non-earpiece races  

[heywoodu 16,182]

1 minute ago, OlympicIRL said:

It would explain a lot because that was a debacle... and the fact she celebrated across the line, it did look like she thought she won it.

Although celebrating at the line for her (not the other Dutch women) would still be fitting even if she knew Kiesenhofer was ahead.

[Vektor 3,326]

So who messed up here, the athletes or the organizers? Because if it's latter, this is the biggest controversy of the Games. 

[heywoodu 16,182]

1 minute ago, Vektor said:

So who messed up here, the athletes or the organizers? Because if it's latter, this is the biggest controversy of the Games. 

The athletes mostly, it's their responsibility. It would be bad if the organizers actually gave wrong information, but not as bad as the screw-up of the athletes.

[FancyFenchel 112]

If road cycling is team sport, explain gold medal of Carapaz and Kiesenhofer beeing single athlets. 

[OlympicIRL 6,165]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Although celebrating at the line for her (not the other Dutch women) would still be fitting even if she knew Kiesenhofer was ahead.

Lizzie Deignan also said she thought the Dutch won it

[heywoodu 16,182]

"I was wrong*. We didn't get any information at all, so yeah."

 

*about being in 1st place