Road Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[dcro 10,210]

And one other thing, while Van Vleuten was chasing solo (50-30 km), the gap to Kiesenhofer was barely narrowing. It narrowed for like 30 seconds during all that time.

[heywoodu 15,174]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

Before her fall? There is a video evidence of her asking the cameraman for time gaps.

Maybe I understood wrong during her interview (I was also watching other things), or she meant information about the composition of the group or something  

 

It's possible that she assumed the 5 minutes was to Plichta and Shapira and when they were caught, they thought they had everyone.

[hckošice 14,893]

Women's Road Race
Final Results

 

  Anna KIESENHOFER    
3:52.45

 

  Annemiek VAN VLEUTEN   
+1:15

 

  Elisa LONGO BORGHINI   
+1:29

 

Final Results Here

[Monzanator 4,524]

It's funny, Polish ES crew with 100 km left said the women can't let a breakaway reach 10 mins. wins gold in Summer Games? That must be a huge upset no matter if Kiesenhofer is a complete nobody.

 

Polish media quoted Anna vd Breggen who apparently said she doesn't even know who Kiesenhofer is

[Monzanator 4,524]

3 hours ago, FancyFenchel said:

 

That's absolutely disaster for organisators. There should be some motocycling showing the right times and groups or at least at the first passing the finish line.

 

Neah, it's alright. Modern cyclists are so used to radio-controlled races it's always welcome there's one race where you have to do it on your own. Old school rules! It's the same with lack of pacemakers in athletics.

[rybak 3,222]

5 hours ago, Adriano said:

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. 

Did you know that we have 4 boats in rowing finals and basically nobody who could have REAL medal chance didnt start yet? Be patient, please.

[EselTheDonkey 824]

This is my favourite result of the Games so far. Both great and hilarious.

[Nickyc707 382]

14 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

First austrian gold at summer olympics since 2004 apparently.

First Austrian gold medal in cycling since 1896 as I'm sure Grassmarket will remember vividly. Of course that was a 12 hour race rather than a four hour sprint like today's road race.

[tirtha22 234]

 

 

Austrian maths PhD Anna Kiesenhofer won gold for her country in cycling after a gap of 125 years.

[heywoodu 15,174]

Time for the women's time trial. Interestingly, Kiesenhofer had been preparing for a while for this time trial (and not at all the road race), but didn't know Austria had a road race quota....and not a time trial one, so she did the road race

 

Didn't go bad at all.