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

[Amsterhammer]

A race for the ages. Beyond spectacular. Big congrats to GVA.

 

[PremierAndrew]

GVA you *** hero

 

[JRanton]

Re:

Lol, and imagine Peter Sagan skipped this race on purpose.

Exactly. Crazy decision.

 

[Andy262]

What an immense race that was.

 

[happychappy]

Lol at that gimp sprinting past Thomas, well done. What a champ.

 

[Climbing]

Epic race, full of drama and a deserving winner.
Pity for Nibble and Henao, they would have gone all the way quite surely and would sprinted in slow motion for gold!

 

[benzwire]

Great race and winner! I wonder how Sagan would have done?

 

[SKSemtex]

Well done.

 

[rainman]

Fantastic race incredible winner, every one who finished deserved a medal

 

[El Pistolero]

I'm a big Nibali fan (bigger than GVA despite being Belgian), but holy *** what an awesome race... This might just be the best race I've ever watched.

 

[Pippo_San]

If only Nibs and Henao didn't crash...its almost clear one of the trio would've won.

Ah well. Sour grapes.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Thrilled for GVA. As already said a very worthy Gold Medal winner.

 

[woodburn]

Froome and Martin sprinting for places.

 

[Gigs_98]

I still can't believe though that Nibali crashed. He played it so perfectly, Italy's tactics were so genius and absolutely everything worked and then he crashes. Chapeau to him and Henao.

 

[Ramira]

Re:

Lol, and imagine Peter Sagan skipped this race on purpose.

Yeah that doesn't seem like a very good decision right now. He's not exactly likely to win gold in the MTB especially since I think he'll have bad starting position.

 

[Red Rick]

Well, GVA has his big one day win. Correction, he's got the biggest one day win.

I'm so sad for Henao and Nibali

 

[Zaka_fan]

lol, froome sprinting for 20th

 

[DFA123]

Re: Re:

Lol, and imagine Peter Sagan skipped this race on purpose.

Exactly. Crazy decision.

Yep, all that talk about how hard the race was. Ultimately it was too hard for most of the pure climbers, not the one day specialists.

 

[Fergoose]

The psychology of cycling. If Allaphillipe had gone with Fuglsang and GVA they wouldn't have worked as well together and Majka would have gold. Think Allaphillipe might have got caught up in a crash in the descent as he kept checking his saddle. A shame for Italy who worked best as a team, and for Henao, but a worthy podium.

Fantastic race and a great advert for smaller teams and no team radios.

 

[BlackWhiteEagle]

Nooooo, so close. Gg Greg!

 

[Tyke1968]

Right back to Game of thrones catchup sod the rest of the olympics. Great race.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Lets never hear people say that GC climbers would be great at one day racing if they tried it again. One day racing is different.

 

[MacBAir]

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I'm a big Nibali fan (bigger than GVA despite being Belgian), but holy **** what an awesome race... This might just be the best race I've ever watched.

Roubaix?

Anyway, what a great race and deserved winner.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

And Fuglsang, drop the GT stuff and focus on the tough classics please. You can do it.

 

[TMP402]

Froome worked on his sprint?