Summer Games Paris 2024

[scribers]

Aren’t tickets to anything extremely hard to come by? I have a friend whose took her adults kids to Paris on a lark and went through a lottery to get tickets and wound up with events she didn’t particularly care to see. I’m guessing there is an aftermarket (scalping)?

 

[Sciatic]

Aren’t tickets to anything extremely hard to come by? I have a friend whose took her adults kids to Paris on a lark and went through a lottery to get tickets and wound up with events she didn’t particularly care to see. I’m guessing there is an aftermarket (scalping)?

But would that be true for the TT and road races—given they cover dozens of kms of real estate?

 

[E_F_]

But would that be true for the TT and road races—given they cover dozens of kms of real estate?

For sure not (all of) the road race. Probably not the TT either.

 

[pelotonIQ]

ITT

1st - Remco
2nd - Ganna
3rd - Küng

Easiest prediction of my life. Ciao.

 

[Ricco']

Aren’t tickets to anything extremely hard to come by? I have a friend whose took her adults kids to Paris on a lark and went through a lottery to get tickets and wound up with events she didn’t particularly care to see. I’m guessing there is an aftermarket (scalping)?

For road cycling there were only tickets for sale for the finish area (all gone now) for the price of 24 euros.

https://tickets.paris2024.org/en/event/cyclisme-sur-route-trocadero-18287330/?affiliate=24R

There are some places still available for other sports tho. Fancy watching the 100m final? Available tickets start at 525 euros.

 

[Pantani_lives]

From the top 10 of the first time trial in the Tour only three guys are riding: Evenepoel, Vauquelin and Küng.

From the top 10 of the second time trial in the Tour only two guys are riding: Evenepoel and Gee.

 

[joe_papp]

Road races are gonna be so ******* weird with such a small peloton, a quarter of which is meme riders, and no race radios. The # of domestiques is extremely small, so I expect it to barely be about parcours even and just a long sort of elimination race of not missing front groups and splits.

The format is so absurdly good for Evenepoel it's kinda hilarious.

Which edition of Olympic road race [since, ikd...whenever] had the largest peloton?
Which was the most exciting? [2012, obviously, b/c Vino won! ]

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Prediction: 1. Tarling, 2. Remco, 3. Pippo.

Margins are very small, but all the details are in favour of Tarling. He's been prepping specifically for this for a very long time, parcours is to his liking, he doesn't carry fatigue, even the tarmac - or lack thereof - seem to be in his favour. An 80 kg behemoth should have less of a problem bouncing around on all the bumps and cracks on the Parisian roads than a featherweight.

 

[Monte Serra]

Which edition of Olympic road race [since, ikd...whenever] had the largest peloton?
Which was the most exciting? [2012, obviously, b/c Vino won! ]

1996 had the largest peloton: 183 starters in the men's road race.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1816411551038890088

View: https://x.com/laflammerouge16/status/1816411551038890088/photo/1

 

[tobydawq]

Which edition of Olympic road race [since, ikd...whenever] had the largest peloton?
Which was the most exciting? [2012, obviously, b/c Vino won! ]

2016 was the most exciting. One of the best one-day races we have seen (Nibali and Henao crashing notwithstanding).

 

[Jungle Cycle]

2016 was the most exciting. One of the best one-day races we have seen (Nibali and Henao crashing notwithstanding).

amen
both road races..

 

[SafeBet]

does anyone knows how to attend to the race or the time-trial?

You choose a spot on the route and go there. No tickets apart from the start / finish area.
Same for the road race.
Just check if the public transport system is working properly in that area.

 

[carolina]

Only 90? Why such a low number?

 

[Netserk]

Only 90? Why such a low number?

Equality of the sexes.

 

[ppanther92]

ITT

1st - Remco
2nd - Ganna
3rd - Küng

Easiest prediction of my life. Ciao.

Tarling no medal? I rather would aay he is even the favourite potentially.

 

[ppanther92]

Prediction: 1. Tarling, 2. Remco, 3. Pippo.

Margins are very small, but all the details are in favour of Tarling. He's been prepping specifically for this for a very long time, parcours is to his liking, he doesn't carry fatigue, even the tarmac - or lack thereof - seem to be in his favour. An 80 kg behemoth should have less of a problem bouncing around on all the bumps and cracks on the Parisian roads than a featherweight.

Doesn’t everything also hold for Ganna?

 

[RedheadDane]

Equality of the sexes.

And they weren't able to find a higher number of female riders?
From what I understand, it's also because they're lumbing all the cyclist disciplines together, and don't want "too many" cyclists, whatever that means...

BTW, I vote that we make this the All-Purpose Olympic Road Cycling Thread.

 

[yaco]

And they weren't able to find a higher number of female riders?
From what I understand, it's also because they're lumbing all the cyclist disciplines together, and don't want "too many" cyclists, whatever that means...

BTW, I vote that we make this the All-Purpose Olympic Road Cycling Thread.

Number one is the total amount of athletes allowed at the Olympics and secondly equality of the sexes.

 

[RedheadDane]

Number one is the total amount of athletes allowed at the Olympics and secondly equality of the sexes.

"Total", as in in general, or as in within the sport?

 

[danielovichdk2]

1. Tarling
2. McNulty
3. Bjerg

 

[tobydawq]

1. Tarling
2. McNulty
3. Bjerg

Bjerg? Good luck with that.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Doesn’t everything also hold for Ganna?

It does, but I haven't been blown away by Pippo ITTs recently. I sincerely hope I am wrong, but it feels like Pippo is one of those unfortunate athletes who reign exactly in between Olympic years.

 

[KZD]

Ganna shouldn't be underestimated, he is a double world TT champion and last year was just 12 seconds away from Remco in the WCTT. I was also impressed by his second TT of the Giro. Having said that, I still go with Tarling for gold,he was already one of three best time trialists during the last season so logic would say that he will be even stronger this year and I believe the rain also suits him better.

I do believe the two Ineos big boys are going to beat Remco as they had a better preparation for this race. Van Aert won't top5 and Sheffield is my dark horse for podium.

Dygert to beat Van Dijk and Brown in the women's.

 

[Jan the Man]

Think Pippo over Tarling, just...would obviously not be a big surprise if Remco.prevailed but I feel the course (without any major rises) length and prep point in favour of the Ineos riders

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Without Reusser here, I'm hoping for a Brown victory in the women's ITT. Dygert will probably either win or fail spectacularly. I hope Van Dijk is back in good shape, but the ankle injury came at a bad time.

Tarling may very well win the men's time trial. A lot will depend on the weather.