Olympic Road Race (men’s) 2024 (August 3rd)

[Devil's Elbow]

I promised myself once that I wouldn’t be doing this kind of thread while on holiday… but we can’t not have a separate thread for the road race.

Startlist

The route

Climbs, ordered by final passage:

Gardes:

Saint-Germain-en-Laye:

Mesnuls:

Port-Royal:

Senlisse:

Herbouvilliers:

Saint-Rémy-lès-Chévreuse:

Châteaufort:

Bièvres:

Pavé des Gardes:

Boulevard Sérurier:

Rue de Belleville: no profile, 0.6k at 5.3% according to PCS

Butte Montmartre (on cobbles):

And a view of the finish line:

 

[Potomac]

Bettiol or Healy

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Really wide open, would not surprised to see chaos from KM 0.

 

[Sciatic]

Thanks Devil’s Elbow, much appreciated. Though the IOC restrictions on the field takes away from the race should be ideally, it could end being fan entertaining. With possible chaos. I will be excited to see the racing and via scenery on Butte Montmartre.

 

[scribers]

Really wide open, would not surprised to see chaos from KM 0.

I love watching the pack fodder shoot out the back in the first 20km

 

[SafeBet]

What time do you guys expect them to enter the circuit?

 

[gregrowlerson]

Michael Matthews will win this bike race.

 

[KZD]

I am expecting a very entertaining race, Van der Poel is the favourite after his win in last year's World Championships and the cobbled monuments this year but I would say almost half of the 90 riders at the start can win. A shame not to see Pogacar here but it is how it is.

For Van der Poel to win he will probably need to be in a group early in the race and then drop faster riders in one of the ascents of the Montmartre climb.

Remco can win solo like he did in Wollongong but these time I think the leaders of other teams will react to him making his life more difficult.

A few other riders that I like for this race are Bettiol, Jorgenson, Stuyven and Narvaez.

 

[Valv.Piti]

What time do you guys expect them to enter the circuit?

16.00 or thereabouts

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

When is the actual start?

 

[Netserk]

When is the actual start?

In 13 minutes (11:10). Neutral start about to begin (by Sagan!)

 

[RedheadDane]

Sagan stomping the ground with a stick...
Apparently a tradition?

 

[gregrowlerson]

Sagan stomping the ground with a stick...
Apparently a tradition?

Shouldn't any stomp only involve the one and only Rogla?

 

[Valv.Piti]

Can we sticky this already? This doesn't feel like a major race yet!!

 

[Netserk]

Mexico aiming for the morning break.

 

[Netserk]

Can we sticky this already? This doesn't feel like a major race yet!!

You may change avatar!

@Armchair cyclist: Will you please sticky this thread?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Mexico aiming for the morning break.

Pretty amazing considering they‘re not in the race.

 

[Netserk]

Pretty amazing considering they‘re not in the race.

Oops. Who was it then on the right side at the front?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Oops. Who was it then on the right side at the front?

Probably Algeria (Yacine Hamza)

 

[Squire]

That's such a tiny peloton.

 

[Danskebjerge]

The breakaway gets too much help from the camera motorbikes - says nobody.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

This is looking an awful lot like a traditional world championships' break, and it is not what I had anticipated.

 

[Valv.Piti]

You may change avatar!

@Armchair cyclist: Will you please sticky this thread?

Guess the race

 

[Heston]

Uganda, Rwanda and Mauritius in the breakaway. The Olympics does have its charm

 

[Danskebjerge]

Excited to see who will win The African Championships today.