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Road Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2020


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"Can Elisa Longo Borghini take this time trial today? She has 6 time trial victories, including 5 national championships." :roflmao:

 

Yap. Great pedigree.

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4 minutes ago, dcro said:

According to the OBS commentator, literally every starter so far is a "phenomenal" time trialist. :sleep:

This is one of the sports where I'm so happy we have our own regular commentators who commentate on the sport all year long :d 

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2 minutes ago, dcro said:

"Can Elisa Longo Borghini take this time trial today? She has 6 time trial victories, including 5 national championships." :roflmao:

 

Yap. Great pedigree.

Moolman-Pasio has five national titles as well, might be a red-hot favourite!

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6 minutes ago, dcro said:

According to the OBS commentator, literally every starter so far is a "phenomenal" time trialist. :sleep:

Where do the OBS commentators commentate? :d

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3 minutes ago, Sindo said:

Where do the OBS commentators commentate? :d

On the international feed.

 

In the case of Eurosport, it's available on every player stream that is not their TV feed.

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1 minute ago, dcro said:

On the international feed.

 

In the case of Eurosport, it's available on every player stream that is not their TV feed.

Not so much the case in cycling because of a lack of a real world ranking, but in every single sport with some sort of a world ranking, they are entirely fixated on that in determining who are the favourites. Like, 100%.

 

With so many of them, you can just sense every single time that they're commentating on sports they really don't ever watch outside of the Olympics.

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4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

With so many of them, you can just sense every single time that they're commentating on sports they really don't ever watch outside of the Olympics.

OBS hired/invited (whatever the correct term is) FIG commentator Olly Hogben. They have him commentating Football, Badminton, and Wrestling :mumble:

 

I don’t know if the commentators get to choose their sports, or if they’re assigned sports.

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