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I know it was because of cramp but the way he kept moving and posing when being interviewed by Orla made him look like he was trying to seduce her with Zoolander moves
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So, did some executive at ES or GCN just have enough of Smith's monotonous and monotone crap and found some random kiwis instead?
He was terrible today - just kept on talking what he wanted to talk about even when there was some action.
Still better than a Liggett feed or from what people are saying the BBC.
He was terrible today - just kept on talking what he wanted to talk about even when there was some action.
Still better than a Liggett feed or from what people are saying the BBC.
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Wout with all the watts, yet decided to hand the most dangerous attack in the finale almost a minute. More important of course to chase down Fuglsang and Woods on their own.
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You can argue it. I think you'd be wrong, at least as far as cycling is concerned, but it's not a nonsense argument.
This win certainly means more for ecuador than a rvv win would.
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He chased down so many moves on his own, he really couldn't do it every single time.
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Yes, GCN stayed on for the whole thing. It was nice.
ETA - BBC is showing field hockey now; GB must have a chance of a medal as they tend to show those sports more than others. Expect lots of skeet shooting!
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There won't be any ceremony (Covid...), they will get their medals shipped thru postage on their home addresse
Evenepoel and Dumoulin were only marginally worse than I expected, but they're riders that can still TT even when their climbing is mediocre at best. Climbing doesn't come natural to them, TTing does.
Evenepoel will probably top-5 IMO. No steep sections in the TT. He could still podium, although it's not likely with WVA, Dennis and Ganna (who I had as the podium anyway, not necessarily in that order). He has a serious shot at a medal if one of the big 3 has an off-day.
Roglic although he finished better... I don't see it. He was as bad as I expected him to be. Has never TTed well if the form was not there IIRC. It wasn't hard to predict.
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That's annoying, but reassuring - I wasn't in the mood to apologise to BBC.
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I think he could. And he could certainly have given them less time before chasing, or even better let a weaker lone rider get a good gap. He could have given Woods 30'' and easily been able to chase him down on his own later.
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That's why you don't go after solo riders who were barely hanging on on Mikuni but you should be straight on the wheel of a guy who was better than you on Mikuni along with Carapaz.
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Kept talking over people too and won't shut up about UK riders. We were hearing about Thomas long after he was out of contention. Sadly UK Eurosport is also Irish Eurosport and all we get is this waffling on about UK riders and he was more concerned about long gone Thomas but barely noticed Martin and Dunbar were still in the group.
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What about Skeet Surfing. Is that an Olympic sport yet ?
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I put 0 value in the road race for the TT.
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Florian Naß is the worst in that regard. A couple of years ago I thought he was just trying to get the German audience interested in cycling again, but now I think he might either be a rabid nationalist or just thinks he can hide his general incompetence that way.
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I like to think the producers switched in the last 5km as they knew the daft git would only talk about the chance of Yates winning a medal so had commentators without a horse in the race.
I don't usually write angry emails but I think today was the tipping point. I lost count of the times the other commentator tried to speak but Smith rambled on about crap no one cares about like his two years living in Arizona.
Anyway at least you have RTE for the rest of it so will get a decent balance of sport whereas BBC will focus on British medal hopes. When I was a kid I watched a couple of Olympics switching between both and the difference was quite eye opening.
Hats off to McNulty finishing 6th in the sprint. Did well to hang onto that group in the finish.
Decent ride from Kukrle too, coming in at 10 minutes after being in the break.
Decent ride from Kukrle too, coming in at 10 minutes after being in the break.
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In retrospect, Carapaz could have dropped them all on the last hill. IMO he was the best rider in the race, considering the course profile. Looked amazing on Mikuni already. I think that was all tactics.
Not sure what Woods was thinking. One stupid move after another.
Not sure what Woods was thinking. One stupid move after another.
Anybody_but..
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7. Vincenzo Nibali in the end is unworthy of Olympic Gold.
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