The 2020 Olympic Time Trials (Men/Women) Race Thread

[Samu Cuenca]

Rollercoaster Typhoon? Double Dutch? Comeback Chloé? Golden Amber? Reusserian Roulette?
Termimajor Tom? Who's Ganna stop him? Remco Reloaded? Twist and Wout? Lord of the Rings reference?

It's time for the time trials later today/tomorrow.
Right now it allegedly and thankfully seems like the weather won't become an issue.

Only the two Dutchmen will get to defend their medals from Rio, and two new Olympic champions will be crowned.

The women start at 4:30 (CEST) in the morning and the men at 7:00.

There are a bunch of Vinos and a couple of Kiesenhofers who deserved to be in the poll, but there wasn't room for them, ufortunately.

Map and race profiles

The races take place on a 22 km. lap, which the women will ride once and the men twice, on and around the Fuji International Speedway race track.
The whole course was also used during the road races.

Startlists

Tokyo 2020 Men's Individual Time Trial Results - Olympic cycling-road

Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 2020. Official results of the cycling-road Men's Individual Time Trial event at the Tokyo Summer Olympics.

olympics.com

Tokyo 2020 Men's Individual Time Trial Results - Olympic cycling-road

Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 2020. Official results of the cycling-road Men's Individual Time Trial event at the Tokyo Summer Olympics.

olympics.com

 

[Volderke]

FYI, here is the full lap on strava. It seems like De Bod went at around 75-80% (looking at his power data, considering the character of the course), which I found an interesting thing to do, a day before the actual race.

Tokyo Olympics ITT lap - VeloViewer | Strava Ride Segment in Oyama, Japan

www.strava.com

 

[BlueRoads]

I see you are competing in the "longest cn-thread-title" event.

 

[IndianCyclist]

1. WVA
2. Dennis
3. Roglic

1. Dygert
2. AVV
3. AVDB

 

[Red Rick]

Dygert.

I think Van Aert and Ganna having to do two laps is too much of a disadvantage.

 

[BlueRoads]

My top10 of favourites:
Van Aert
Dennis
Ganna
Cavagna, Almeida
Asgreen, Dumoulin
McNulty, Evenepoel, Küng

For the women I find it very difficult to give a prediction, but I think:
Van der Breggen, Dygert
Van Vleuten
Brennauer, Reusser
Brown, Longo Borghini, Klein, Moolman
Labous, Neben
Yeah, I know, that's 11. You should know by now I'm no good with numbers.

 

[SafeBet]

I have a feeling Italy will get a medal, but not with Pippo.

 

[Netserk]

I have a feeling Italy will get a medal, but not with Pippo.

Bettiol seemed very strong indeed until his cramp.

 

[Breezy1985]

I miss Fabu

 

[will-10]

I love the idea of Dennis and Dygert comin' in hot to take gold from completely off grid for a whole bunch of reasons.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

I can 't see van Aert with his Dutch/Rabofail connections winning this. He's hexed like Dumo..

 

[Barnacle Bill]

van Aert, van der Breggen

Although another silver would be pleasingly symmetrical in the WVA trophy cabinet.

 

[tobydawq]

A simple "OTT" could have sufficed.

 

[Netserk]

A simple "OTT" could have sufficed.

Or just a dot?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I love the idea of Dennis and Dygert comin' in hot to take gold from completely off grid for a whole bunch of reasons.

We're kinda used to the good ol' US of A coming in from off the grid to win TT golds on the women's side of the competition. Dygert, controversial though she may be for her views, has already done that jetting in in 2019, but would nevertheless be a comparative breath of fresh air on that front. Her winning might annoy some people but at least she's below the age of 40, she didn't get her position in the team by manipulation of the calendar to qualify thanks to an extremely favourably-designed home race and the power of nepotism like Armstrong, and she doesn't have a suspension in her history like Neben.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

A simple "OTT" could have sufficed.

Sure, but that's not really my M.O.
Anyway there's still plenty of time for someone to make a second thread.

 

[Breh]

Can we please have normal thread titles back

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

What time is the TT (CEST)?

Also, I picked two men in the poll. Sue me.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Can we please have normal thread titles back

Alright, I'm not looking to offend anyone.

 

[Volderke]

What time is the TT (CEST)?

Also, I picked two men in the poll. Sue me.

Roughy: 7-9. Done by 10.

 

[Netserk]

Alright, I'm not looking to offend anyone.

I'm offended by that. At least be looking to offend me.

...

(Tour de l'Ain has a pretty normal thread title)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What time is the TT (CEST)?

Also, I picked two men in the poll. Sue me.

The women start at 4:30 (CEST) in the morning and the men at 7:00. There's a 7 hour time difference from Tokyo.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm offended by that. At least be looking to offend me.

...

(Tour de l'Ain has a pretty normal thread title)

I pick my battles, and more often than not the online ones don't really matter that much to me.
As seen on this forum, for instance, not everyone feels that way, though, and that is obviously perfectly fine (of course I need to say that to avoid starting a different argument )

I will however consider trying to offend you once in a while, now that you have asked for it.

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

Alright, I'm not looking to offend anyone.

Tbh I'm offended by the change in the title. The previous one was so much better

 

[sir fly]

I've pulled my reaction back 'cause of the title change.