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Olympic Road Race
Only five days to go!
Start lists are up on Cycling Fever but beware, Cadel Evans has already put his participation in doubt so things may change.
I assume that points will be scored in line with one day classics, something like this from Milan San Remo?
Information on scoring
This stage will be scored on the following criteria:
Finish line - one day race: Points awarded for the first 20 riders over the line in a one-day race.
The following points will be awarded (1st-20th): 50, 40, 30, 25, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Last man home: 10 points awarded for the last man home on a tour stage or one-day race
Breakaway bonus: 10 points to any rider in a lead breakaway group of 10 riders or less that's more than a minute ahead of the peloton at half distance
Team bonus: 5 points to every participating rider in the winning rider's team
Dave, will it work like the Worlds last year with two per nationality and team bonus points awarded for same country rather than trade team?
The Favourites seems to be Cavendish, Sagan (although he's racing on his own, no teammates), Goss (who can't win a thing) and Griepel which suggests everyone expects a sprint finish. Can anyone see a lone or small group breakaway winning? Possibly Boonen/Gilbert? Italy always seem to go well too so I expect them to be there or there abouts with Modolo/Paolini.
I think I'll be loading my team with sprinters but might take a punt on Boonen if he's fit (didn't he break some ribs in the Tour of Poland?).
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Went Goss over Griepel only because he's potentially got more sticking power and if the races blows apart he's got a chance of 5 bonus points from Gerrans/Rogers. Plus, he'd a perennial 2nd place finisher whereas Griepel could be all or nothing, like on the Champs-Elysee.
Got
Cav
Goss
Sagan
LLSanchez
Impey
Arashiro
Bourgain
Park
Kolobnev
Bourgain dropped out. Ooops
Park dropped from break.
But I don't think DSs will score much in this race. All depends on the stars. Hope Cav wins and Goss does better than Greipel.
Put Park in for the sprint but he went in the break instead.
Expecting another break to go on the 5th or 6th ascent.
Bourgain was always going to drop out, he was listed in the RR just to get an extra place on the track
Any info on who's in the break? The list above doesn't seem right as a graphic was showing LL in the break
Nibali, Gilbert, Van Avermaet, Gesink and Elminger have launched an attack.
That's a strong group, GB might have a race on their hands now.
Edit: bah, that groups been brought back just as I typed that... typical.
BBC coverage leaves a lot to be desired. Not least the near complete absence of time checks! The one stat that really means something to the viewing public and they have only managed to give 2 or 3 time checks at the top of Box Hill and thats it!
And I could barely hear Hugh Porter at the start over the crowd noise!
Mark Cavendish (SKY)
Peter Sagan (LIQ)
Luis Leon Sanchez (RAB)
Elia Viviani (LIQ)
Lars Bak (LOT)
Luca Paolini (KAT)
Niki Terpstra (OPQ)
Daryl Impey (GRE)
Alexandr Kolobnev (KAT)
mine
Intermediate gp looking very dangerous
Juegos Olímpicos línea: 2 grupos
Kilómetro 140.
Grupo 1: Westra (Holanda), Schar (Suiza), Roelandts (Bélgica), Brajkovic (Eslovenia), Beppu (Japón), Menchov (Rusia), O'Grady (Australia), Castroviejo (España), Pinotti (Italia), Duggan (Estados Unidos) y Kristoff (Noruega)
Grupo 2: Nibali, Gilbert, Chavanel, Rast, Fuglsang, Kreuziger, Boom, Paolini, Elmiger,...
Bunch Sprint for me please
Sagan
Greipel
Cavendish
Chavanel(just in case)
Kwiatkowski(good TDP form)
Sohrabi(cheap as chips)
Vandenbergh(same as above plus covers Boonen/Gilbert win)
Demare(outside chance of top 20)
Impey(dark horse)
I suspect its not the BBCs fault that there aren't many time checks but done on purpose to make sure that no-one can give the riders any more time checks than they receive from the race directors.
Also, its bloody hard to identify people when they're not in trade team jerseys.
The coverage isn't the best.....The support on the side of the roads isn't much better......Everyone with union flags...check, DO NOT put a foot over the white line....
You can see the parts where the real cyclist are....screaming and shouting lycra clad guys with NO flags waving
Then round the rest of the course, people in their sunday best summer outfits with a flag, clapping and saying "jolly good chaps, keep it up"
tony martin dropped by main bunch????
and where's viviani, breschel, henderson? dropped with martin according to the official live feed
Tony Martin jumped off to save some for the TT
Viviani will most likely jump off as he'll be using this as a warm up for the track
From biciclismo
Juegos Olímpicos línea: Sublime GB
Juegos Olímpicos línea: Solo 28´
A 75 kms de meta:
Westra (Holanda), Schar (Suiza), Roelandts (Bélgica), Brajkovic (Eslovenia), Beppu (Japón), Menchov (Rusia), O'Grady (Australia), Castroviejo (España), Pinotti (Italia), Duggan (Estados Unidos) y Kristoff (Noruega)
a 28" Nibali y Paolini (Italia), Gilbert (Bélgica) Chavanel (Francia), Bauer (Nueva Zelanda), Rast (Suiza), Fuglsang (Dinamarca), Kreuziger (República Checa), Boom (Holanda) y Grivko (Ucrania)
a 1:25 Pelotón
Both groups off the front are together now
with around 45 seconds of a gap
The amount of information and the lack of time checks available for the TV coverage from this race is quite a good advert for allowing race radio. It really hadn't benefited the racing much either.
Riders radio's are banned. So what GB and other teams have done are link up some guys all round the course with radios and stop watches. So they are getting time checks and information all the way around. Might aswell give them radios in their own ears.
Who is it sat in front of Cav in the GB train? Can't identify the jersey, is it Eisel?
Gone
Cav
Greipel
Goss
Modolo
Impey
Plus 1 USA, GB, GER and Spain ds
Wonder if EBH will help with the leadout...
Could be anyone gets to play leadout. Cav seems to jump on a wheel then swings out at the moment.
EBH will be going for a medal for himself. But other team sky members who have no hope of a medal might jump in and help shut this break down
Gilbert, Fuglsang, Brajkovic, Boom, Gesink, Kolobnev, Kreuziger, Van Garderen, Nibali, Chavanel, Rui Costa, Cancellara, Valverde, Leon Sánchez, Vinokourov, Urán, Henao, ...
at 1.00
Got 2 of those
LLSanchez, Kolobnev
One minute gap and it sounds like Sanchez and Cancellara are up in the front group along with Valverde. This could come right down to the wire.
I just thought, There were more than 10 in the break at half way......No bonuses for them
I think the group may stay away....
Ive just got Kolobnev up the road
I aint got anyone up the road and unless Germany pull their finger out, there will be no sprint. So I hope something starts moving behind
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