Road Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

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I’d be curious to see the stats on how much water was consumed during today’s race.

 

Let’s just hope no one’s practicing purposeful dehydration like they did during the 1904 Olympic Marathon 

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Peloton feels like a Sunday Group Ride at the moment with all these friendly chats going on 

[Federer91 2,885]

Our commentators trying to find something that isn't perfect on the roads and surrounding infrastructure and so far they are empty handed  We had a half hour presentation how different this race (and scenery) is going to be from the ones in Europe. 

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Tristan de Lange was a late replacement btw

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Asadov is gassed with 50 km gone.

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 7/24/2021 at 3:32 AM, Federer91 said:

Our commentators trying to find something that isn't perfect on the roads and surrounding infrastructure and so far they are empty handed  We had a half hour presentation how different this race (and scenery) is going to be from the ones in Europe. 

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Which might make it both interesting and dangerous, especially on the downhills where the roads are flowing very differently  

 

We saw in Rio how that turned out, so definitely interesting.

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  On 7/24/2021 at 3:54 AM, heywoodu said:

 

We saw in Rio how that turned out, so definitely interesting.

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Don't remind me, i'm still frustrated with what happened to Nibali..

 

As for this race, we have probably another hour of pedestrian riding, until we reach Fuji, so just in time to watch some badminton and our women doubles. 

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And the lead grows to 20 minutes...

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Crash for Thomas  

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Great, having thin metal 'gutters' in the middle of the road along the direction of travel.