The Olympic Road Race 2016. Rio de Janeiro. 253km

[Kwibus]

Cummings killing thomas who is chasing with froome in his wheel.

Lovely no communication! One of the few times that I think communication makes sense.

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

Mo Farah is wondering if he get a car to draft behind in his events right now.

 

[rick james]

Stunning beach by the way

 

[burning]

First he pisses, then he makes the smoothest bike change to fake a mech to draft for ages, looks like it is classic froome behavior.

 

[DFA123]

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All this pathetic GB knocking, hope they win to piss off the tired old underdog loving masses.

GB are underdogs in this race. Just not very popular underdogs.

 

[Blakeslee]

What is up with Froome and Thomas blatantly drafting behind their team car?

 

[Andro]

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lol, blatant motor pacing by the GB car

Are yoy even allowed to draft the car for that long?

been going on all race but you only notice GB doing it...weird

It's almost as if more people tune in the further the race gets.

 

[TMP402]

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What is up with Froome and Thomas blatantly drafting behind their team car?

What is up with Mollema and Aru doing it?

 

[doperhopper]

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lol, he just took a leak
did he also change his bike for the 2nd part of the race?

yellow leak => peloton coasting

 

[trucido]

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All this pathetic GB knocking, hope they win to piss off the tired old underdog loving masses.

So you're allowed to get a free car draft after a pee break and a planned bike change?

Even Boardman called them out.

 

[Gigs_98]

That motor pacing was ridiculous.

 

[Pantani Attacks]

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All this pathetic GB knocking, hope they win to piss off the tired old underdog loving masses.

Oh shock you defending GB

 

[ice&fire]

Thanks they didn't take a sticky bottle after the drafting

 

[deValtos]

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All this pathetic GB knocking, hope they win to piss off the tired old underdog loving masses.

So you're allowed to get a free car draft after a pee break and a planned bike change?

Even Boardman called them out.

Boardman did also say it was in line with every other rider getting paced back today though.

 

[DFA123]

Re: Re:

All this pathetic GB knocking, hope they win to piss off the tired old underdog loving masses.

So you're allowed to get a free car draft after a pee break and a planned bike change?

Even Boardman called them out.

Boardman did also say it was in line with every other rider getting paced back today though.

They weren't getting paced back after taking a piss and switching to their climbing bike though. That was a tactical change, not a mechanical.

 

[trucido]

Re: Re:

All this pathetic GB knocking, hope they win to piss off the tired old underdog loving masses.

So you're allowed to get a free car draft after a pee break and a planned bike change?

Even Boardman called them out.

Boardman did also say it was in line with every other rider getting paced back today though.

From mechanicals, not planned bike changes and pee breaks.

 

[Climeon]

Does kinda strike me that if they have no race radios (which I do like), there should be a detailed race radio provided by the race organisation informing all riders of mechanicals suffered, significant riders dropping and such like.

 

[laurensde+]

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Stunning beach by the way

Makes me wanna go surfing

 

[Cycling1984]

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People on this forum are such GB fanboys. It's ridiculous!

I'm Irish and if we can't win it I hope team GB can, just to annoy all the Sky haters

 

[Gigs_98]

I can't believe Froome did exactly the same bs like before the Ventoux again. There has to be a possibility to prevent stuff like that.

 

[Billie]

Re: Re:

All this pathetic GB knocking, hope they win to piss off the tired old underdog loving masses.

So you're allowed to get a free car draft after a pee break and a planned bike change?

Even Boardman called them out.

Boardman did also say it was in line with every other rider getting paced back today though.

From mechanicals, not planned bike changes and pee breaks.

indeed

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

Re: Re:

All this pathetic GB knocking, hope they win to piss off the tired old underdog loving masses.

So you're allowed to get a free car draft after a pee break and a planned bike change?

Even Boardman called them out.

Boardman did also say it was in line with every other rider getting paced back today though.

From mechanicals, not planned bike changes and pee breaks.

Its hardly a planned change. If it was planned Cummings wouldnt have been drilling it on the front still.
It looks like he grabbed a bike so he could draft.

 

[cycladianpirate]

Apart from the fact that they seem to think they need to take on as many calories as the riders, Brotherton and Boardman make a decent commentary team.

 

[HelloDolly]

KInda get the felling Boardmna is not a fan of SKY

Quib about teasm being able to buy up all the best riders and then saying he hoped cummoings could not do the work today

 

[Flamin]

Too many pages to read through really anyone so kind to give a summary of what happened so far?