Summer Games Paris 2024

[AmRacer]

Pogacar fans in shambles

🤔

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Not a great start for Brown.

Van Dijk also slow at T1. Riejanne Markus is probably not impressed.

 

[awavey]

Don’t like our Belgian jerseys.

Hope Kopecky doesn’t crash today. Better chances in the Road race and Track.

Must admit not a fan of this style, but I've yet to see any teams that looks great yet, they're all so bland, going to make the road race fun to spot riders for sure.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Who had Afghanistan leading at any point?

who had the rider from Afghanistan beating Kopecky?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1817185733385289744

View: https://x.com/MatMitchell30/status/1817185733385289744

Imagine him crashing with the other (derailleur) side facing down...

 

[RedheadDane]

Looks like the crashes didn't slow Knibb down that much...

 

[Penninepeddler]

Without the crashes and the mechanical Knibb would be have a real chance of a medal I guess.

Probably lost 40 seconds or so.

 

[AmRacer]

who had the rider from Afghanistan beating Kopecky?

Which Kopecky?

 

[Red Rick]

He did the commentary for the Kiesenhofer win though he also just admitted he doesn't really remember much from that day.

Funny, the Dutch DS claims the same thing

 

[postmanhat]

Yeah the Beeb are already on mute because Brotherton is doing his procycling stats style of commentary, where he just reads out every stage,race win of a rider all the flippin time !!

In fairness to Brotherton, he has to assume that 99% of the people watching have never watched a women's TT before.

 

[awavey]

Aren't those vehicles getting a bit too close to Kopecky 🤔

 

[meat puppet]

Bujak leads, correct team selection confirmed. Oh wait

 

[AmRacer]

Oh no

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Longo Borghini almost as fast as Kopecky at the first split.

Aaaand Kopecky crash in a corner.

 

[iBanesto]

Lopecky crash!

 

[Gigs_98]

To continue my complaining about the Austrian broadcast, an Austrian athlete actually won a medal in the WC version of this event a year ago but you wouldn't know from this broadcast which is entirely centered around Kiesenhofer because of a fluke gold medal. Like, I cannot remember a higher level Austrian cyclist going into an olympic event or a WC race yet Schweinberger hardly even gets mentioned.

 

[Didinho]

That’s what I meant. Stay up today and go for the other races. Some corners really icy.

 

[Penninepeddler]

Probably lost 10-15 seconds there did Lotte.

 

[tobydawq]

Is Kopecky also a triathlete?

 

[awavey]

In fairness to Brotherton, he has to assume that 99% of the people watching have never watched a women's TT before.

So commentate for the TT then it really doesn't matter if some rider won the world student games road race in their career for this.

He wrote Audrey off seconds into her ride as not a favourite in this style of event, she's the French TT champion this year, riding in Paris at a home Olympics !!

 

[Penninepeddler]

Finally got some splits... jeez... took long enough.

 

[postmanhat]

Looks like it's stopped raining?

 

[Penninepeddler]

Lach, Knibb and Baril seperated by 0.15 seconds over 32.4km... none will end up top 10 but pretty cool regardless.

 

[dazaau]

Looks like the crashes didn't slow Knibb down that much...

Imagine on a dry road with 4 less crashes (yes I'm counting the mechanics)

 

[Red Rick]

Somebody is gonna be a pure luck merchant today, sorry to tell you people