Summer Games Paris 2024

[Sciatic]

Demi was emotional because she felt like she could podium today but the corners were like ice, she felt the back wheel slip a few times and that got in her head abit so she wasn't attacking the corners feels she probably lost it there. There are apparently alot of painted pedestrian crossings at the corners.
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There are indeed

 

[awavey]

White lines are notoriously an issue in road slipperiness in wet weather. Whose idea was it to paint gratuitous white lines at the bottom of the start ramp? (No issues there so far as far as I have seen, but...)

They don't have to be though there is grippy paint you can get, clearly they haven't bothered here though

 

[awavey]

Mieke Kröger also pointed out in an interview after the race, that there's a crosswalk in most of the corners...

As has Demi

 

[Brullnux]

Gee with a shock bronze today?

Gold

 

[iBanesto]

who's supposed to be the better ITT in the rain?

when did they ride last ITT in the rain?

Stage 19, 2003 TdF.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Okay, so Belgium did Remco and Wout replicas to test them in the wind tunnel to design the perfect suit for today.

 

[Penninepeddler]

They don't have to be though there is grippy paint you can get, clearly they haven't bothered here though

There is a balance though.

Part of any race is skill and bike handling... and road cycling is a sport that has always taken place on open roads!

Ofc dont want things to be unnecessarily dangerous.

But take out all hazards is impossible even over a 30km stretch of road in a built up place...

only way to make everything perfect is to just have every race on a turbo-trainer aha. Or can just measure everyones lactate levels, V02 max and watts/kg that morning and decide results off that. Aha.

 

[Sciatic]

Weird to see someone (Bissenger) riding without a face covering of some sort.

 

[Samamba]

Weird to see someone (Bissenger) riding without a face covering of some sort.

Cause normally he looks like he's blind whenever it rains as he always crashes

 

[Black Betsy]

Legend Achraf Ed Doghmy!

 

[Penninepeddler]

Okay, so Belgium did Remco and Wout replicas to test them in the wind tunnel to design the perfect suit for today.

Wonder where those replicas are now? Benji Naesen's basement?

 

[tobydawq]

Sheffield made it through the first corner without crashing!

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Wonder where those replicas are now? Benji Naesen's basement?

Wout's was riding the Tour, so it's unclear where Wout is!?!?!

 

[Rackham]

who's supposed to be the better ITT in the rain?

when did they ride last ITT in the rain?

The opening prologue of the 2022 TdF in Copenhagen was in the rain.

 

[Potomac]

My images on peacock are lagging 50 seconds to real time.

eff you peacock

 

[Didinho]

Full wheels Wout it is.

 

[Ricco']

Napoleon Van Aert on the course

 

[meat puppet]

Wva double disc. This will not end well I fear

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Wout rocking the double disc…

 

[Ricco']

Visma and going for some undertested out of the blue technical innovation right before important events, name a more iconic duo.

 

[red_flanders]

Napoleon Van Aert on the course

Is he gonna take it off some sweet jumps?

 

[Sciatic]

Wish they would just follow Wout for long stretches

 

[Penninepeddler]

Legend Achraf Ed Doghmy!

Might be the first time in his life he has ever rode a TT in the rain...

only his 2nd race ever in Europe.

Also probably not even one of Morocco's best ~5 TT guys!

 

[Barnacle Bill]

(Starts checking whether Wout has ever done a triathlon...)

 

[Penninepeddler]

Love the random PCS Olympic facts:

Wout van Aert:

Studied computer science at Thomas More University

Looks more like he studied science fiction with the helmet and double disc combo. Sure he was an extra in a 1970s B movie.