Too Late, Too Furious: Tokyo Drift - The 2020 Olympics Thread

[Mayomaniac]

Everyone seems to have upped their game, Australia just over the WR.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Ridiculous by Ganna! Massive pull to catch up NZ and then world record.

PS: Now that there's also a thread in track cycling I'm losing track of where to post, ha

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Everyone seems to have upped their game, Australia just over the WR.

Yes, and both the Italians and Kiwis did 3:42 times now.

 

[Volderke]

It's Ganna happen.
Or better: it happened!

A full last K around 68K/hr by Ganna dragging the team....

World record!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Super close, Italy takes it and a new WR, Ganna crushed all life on earth!

 

[Mayomaniac]

That comeback by Italy once Ganna took over near the end was something else!

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Magic tapers a second up on GB here

 

[Brullnux]

Incredible ride from the kiwis but Ganna is an absolute monster. Denmark streaking ahead of GB now, probably going to get a new WR, while GB out of the medals if it continues like this.

 

[Brullnux]

Oh no!

 

[Barnacle Bill]

CHAOS, lapped 3rd rider of GB and Denmark rider crashes. Got to award this to Denmark surely?

 

[Volderke]

What a drama...

Brits not with 3 together. Dane didn't watch...

And a crash.

 

[SarahtheDane]

CHAOS, lapped 3rd rider of GB and Denmark rider crashes. Got to award this to Denmark surely?

Shitty AF if not. Entirely GB fault

 

[Brullnux]

It was the Danish guys fault though, just rode into the back of him a la bottas

 

[Samu Cuenca]

That's just pure ****!

 

[Brullnux]

Shitty AF if not. Entirely GB fault

How? Its on the Danes to overtake him not the GB guy to go wide. The second and third rider did it, but the lead didn't see him and hit him very hard.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Go home Madsen, you're drunk!

 

[Volderke]

Shitty AF if not. Entirely GB fault

It's Danish that are at fault.

The GB rider is still in competition. Danish should overtake. And the Danish rider didn't look... I can't believe it.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

And the Danes seemingly didn't have the 4th rider out there still to finish. Crazy stuff if GB goes through as they were nowhere with their weakened team.

 

[BlueRoads]

I don't know the rules, who should have done what? And what happens now?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Just award Ganna the gold, the other Italians the silver and NZ the bronze.

 

[Brullnux]

I don't know the rules, who should have done what? And what happens now?

I have no idea what happens now but the mistake was basically the Danish lead didn't go wider and overtake the third GB rider and rode into the back of him while not looking. Had he not, the race would've finishes.

 

[Volderke]

The only excuse for the Danes: You don't expect someone from team GB to be out on the track, below the blue line, riding at a snail's pace.

It's a nailbiting situation now for the Danes: if team GB finished (did they?), there is actually no reason not to select team GB for the finale. That would mean Denmark is out.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I have no idea what happens now but the mistake was basically the Danish lead didn't go wider and overtake the third GB rider and rode into the back of him while not looking. Had he not, the race would've finishes.

Yeah, it was Madsen's mistake, his teammates who were riding behind him went wide to overtake the British rider.

 

[screaming fist]

Well, if one team catches a team the race is won, isn't it?

3.2.081 A team is caught when the opposing team (at least 3 riders riding together) arrives at or within a distance of one metre of it.

Would that apply here?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Well, if one team catches a team the race is won, isn't it?

3.2.081 A team is caught when the opposing team (at least 3 riders riding together) arrives at or within a distance of one metre of it.

Would that apply here?

I guess that's what the commissaires are trying to decide right now. Usually the lapped team hasn't lost its rider when it happens.