Rio 2016 Olympic Road Race and Time Trial courses

[TMP402]

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French Olympic team will be known on the first rest day of the Tour - july 11th. Right after the Pyrenees.

Well, that's an incentive.

 

[cantpedal]

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What strong is Colombia nowadays !, maybe after my country, te stronger one. That is a good signal for cycling.

Eritrea will be a strong country as well in a few year for the same reason, but is smaller.

If the Kenyans ever decide to take a serious interest in cycling it could get very interesting.

 

[Breh]

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What strong is Colombia nowadays !, maybe after my country, te stronger one. That is a good signal for cycling.

Eritrea will be a strong country as well in a few year for the same reason, but is smaller.

Well uhm, Ethiopia has the twice the population of Colombia???

What strong is Colombia nowadays !, maybe after my country, te stronger one. That is a good signal for cycling.

Eritrea will be a strong country as well in a few year for the same reason, but is smaller.

If the Kenyans ever decide to take a serious interest in cycling it could get very interesting.

Why do you think that? There is no reason whatsoever to believe that.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Re: Re:

What strong is Colombia nowadays !, maybe after my country, te stronger one. That is a good signal for cycling.

Eritrea will be a strong country as well in a few year for the same reason, but is smaller.

Well uhm, Ethiopia has the twice the population of Colombia???

What strong is Colombia nowadays !, maybe after my country, te stronger one. That is a good signal for cycling.

Eritrea will be a strong country as well in a few year for the same reason, but is smaller.

If the Kenyans ever decide to take a serious interest in cycling it could get very interesting.

Why do you think that? There is no reason whatsoever to believe that.

Ethiopia is not Eritrea, in Eritrea "everyone" is crazy about cycling, in Ethiopia they are not.

 

[Brullnux]

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What strong is Colombia nowadays !, maybe after my country, te stronger one. That is a good signal for cycling.

Eritrea will be a strong country as well in a few year for the same reason, but is smaller.

Well uhm, Ethiopia has the twice the population of Colombia???

What strong is Colombia nowadays !, maybe after my country, te stronger one. That is a good signal for cycling.

Eritrea will be a strong country as well in a few year for the same reason, but is smaller.

If the Kenyans ever decide to take a serious interest in cycling it could get very interesting.

Why do you think that? There is no reason whatsoever to believe that.

Have you seen Kenyan runners?

 

[Breh]

Re: Re:

What strong is Colombia nowadays !, maybe after my country, te stronger one. That is a good signal for cycling.

Eritrea will be a strong country as well in a few year for the same reason, but is smaller.

Well uhm, Ethiopia has the twice the population of Colombia???

What strong is Colombia nowadays !, maybe after my country, te stronger one. That is a good signal for cycling.

Eritrea will be a strong country as well in a few year for the same reason, but is smaller.

If the Kenyans ever decide to take a serious interest in cycling it could get very interesting.

Why do you think that? There is no reason whatsoever to believe that.

Ethiopia is not Eritrea, in Eritrea "everyone" is crazy about cycling, in Ethiopia they are not.

woops. Totally misread that.

 

[53x11 in DC]

And now, a potion of our new bike path between Sao Conrado and Leblon falls into the sea.

I could not believe my eyes when this story came on live down here. I live in Barra, and there's a separate section that was set to open between Barra and San Conrado, which would have made the entire city accessible by bike.

What a travesty. Just another embarrassment in a horrible year here in Brazil.

2 confirmed dead thus far. RIP

 

[Gigs_98]

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And now, a potion of our new bike path between Sao Conrado and Leblon falls into the sea.

I could not believe my eyes when this story came on live down here. I live in Barra, and there's a separate section that was set to open between Barra and San Conrado, which would have made the entire city accessible by bike.

What a travesty. Just another embarrassment in a horrible year here in Brazil.

2 confirmed dead thus far. RIP

Horrible news. RIP

To come back to cycling, should these tracks have been used in one of the races?

 

[GuyIncognito]

Eurosport interviewing three national team coaches. Bernard Bourreau for france only talked about the favorites. The guy for lithuania only said platitudes. The portuguese guy, Poeira, was the most interesting. Called it a 'prolonged mountain stage'.

I certainly didn't think the course would be as hard as that.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

the finish was pushed to Copacabana because UCI didn't want no tunels in the final 10km. this makes a little closer to the last descent, wich is REALLY technical and steep.. VERY(!!) popolar done upwards around here..
3 things to consider;
1- the wind is 75% always in the same direction, wich is a head wind, coming from the 1st circuit, hard to be in the break until the final circuit.
2- the last circuit, with a "real" climb has a 2 step, 1st part(harder) was made by the likes of T. Pinot in around 13min, then a quik/sharp descent an then the 2nd part is much easyer, harder to gap/easyer to a Rui Costa/Vino like atack...
3- the 1st circuit will be the same as the TT and for that reason they will cover around 1meter width of the pavé section, wich is pretty bumby pavé...
btw 'we" are redoing the asphalt closer to the games in order to let it be as much new as possible. Right know the worse is at the bottom of the last descent..

 

[yaco]

Appears that Porte has patched up his differences with Cycling Australia and will ride the Road Race. Parcours suit him, so its a matter of how much support is provided.

 

[Asero831]

The Dutch team looks solid for Rio
Poels, Dumoulin, Mollema, (Kelderman, Gesink, Westra, Kruijswijk, Slagter)

 

[Jungle Cycle]

TT looks VERY good to Dumoulin at least podium.. France was here to the road test-event with full team and had a go with race conditions. They destroyed all the KOMs in the process. I always wanted to know what a pro could do. It should be even better in august..

 

[Asero831]

Atapuna making a case for himself. Wonder if Angel Lopez will be in contention.
Anacona is also perfect for this type of race
Quintana-Chavez-Uran-Henao?

 

[Popchu]

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Atapuna making a case for himself. Wonder if Angel Lopez will be in contention.
Anacona is also perfect for this type of race
Quintana-Chavez-Uran-Henao?

I thought they already had their selection?

Nairo Quintana
Rigoberto Uran
Sergio Luis Henao
Johan Esteban Chaves
Miguel Angel Lopez

 

[Brullnux]

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Atapuna making a case for himself. Wonder if Angel Lopez will be in contention.
Anacona is also perfect for this type of race
Quintana-Chavez-Uran-Henao?

I thought they already had their selection?

Nairo Quintana
Rigoberto Uran
Sergio Luis Henao
Johan Esteban Chaves
Miguel Angel Lopez

I feel that might be lacking something for the flat, although an awesome team for the climbs.

 

[portugal11]

Spain and colombia will have teams so strongs. Landa, valverde, purito, contador, nieve, castroviejo, izaguirre, intxausti and rojas...

 

[Brullnux]

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Spain and colombia will have teams so strongs. Landa, valverde, purito, contador, nieve, castroviejo, izaguirre, intxausti and rojas...

The portugal11 theorem: where 9 is roughly equal to 5. Applicable only to Olympic Cycling teams.

 

[Gigs_98]

I think a big outsider will win the race because nobody will want to work since it seems like all the big nations only bring leaders to the race. Anyway it will probably be very exciting.

 

[liamito]

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Atapuna making a case for himself. Wonder if Angel Lopez will be in contention.
Anacona is also perfect for this type of race
Quintana-Chavez-Uran-Henao?

I thought they already had their selection?

Nairo Quintana
Rigoberto Uran
Sergio Luis Henao
Johan Esteban Chaves
Miguel Angel Lopez

Will Henao also go if Sky keep him on the bench?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Is there some sort of shortlist for the Spanish team yet? I'm curious.

 

[GP Blanco]

Dutch selection
RR+TT
Dumoulin
Poels

RR
Kruijswijk
Mollema

 

[barmaher]

That is a very strong team. I guess Mollema will work, but they can't really go in with three leaders.

 

[liamito]

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That is a very strong team. I guess Mollema will work, but they can't really go in with three leaders.

When did Kruijswijk show anything in one day race?

 

[barmaher]

Never I guess. But if he is on form, he would have a chance on the parcours. It is a climber's parcours.