Who will win the Olympic ITT?

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Waterloo Sunrise

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Incidentally, where did all the nonsense about TJVG come from, when everyone knew the US had 1 spot, and he isn't on the start list?

Cue someone moaning about how unfair it is that the US didn't meet the criteria for 2 riders because they weren't good enough.
 
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with the exception of a mechanical(s) i see no reason why wiggins will not absolutely destroy every other person in the ITT
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Martin I'm certain will challenge Wiggo, Canc also if he is ok after the crash. And Phinney might surprise. This will not be a walk in the park for Wiggo.

According to Martin, his hand injury doesn't effect his positioning anymore, and he has been putting up good watt numbers lately. Let's look at Martin's performances since his severe crash in April this year. In Tour of Belgium he beat 2nd placed Westra with 46s over 20.5k in the ITT stage. In DL he was only 35s behind Wiggo over 53k, same course as in stage 19 TdF. After this Martin went on to win the nationals, beating Grabsch with about 1.30 over 40k. Then came the crash in TdF, and in the ITT stage over 41.5k, an injured Martin was +2.16 behind Wiggo, and +1.19 behind Canc. If you can read something good into this result it is that Martin matched Canc, Chavanel and Froome quiet well on the flat part from the 2nd chrono to finish, he lost about 10s on this part but one should remember that he also got a puncture before the finish

Since the Olympics and Worlds are probably Martin's big goals this year, his build up, even if it has been hampered by he crashes, is to be at his best on these to occations.

Martin will do a good TT today I believe, not as in the worlds last year, but still good enough to challenge for gold.
 
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An interesting description of time trials by Gustav Larsson in an interview ahead of todays race. He said that some riders simply forget to push themselves in a time trial. In order to ride really fast you have to constantly push yourself by an active effort and for some riders their minds start to wander and they forget to push until they realise this and start pushing again but then their mind wanders again and they forget to push. It's an interesting aspect of time trialing that I hadn't really thought about before.
 
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Larsson with his new orange Darth Vader helmet. :)

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Larsson and former swedish head coach Andreas Danielssson started to sketch on the new helmet 4 yours ago. It has been designed by swedish engineers and companies. With the right positioning the helmet gives you an advantage to the other contenders, according to Larsson.

So everyone, prepare for a new swedish olympic medal in the time trial by Larsson. :D
 
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ingsve said:
An interesting description of time trials by Gustav Larsson in an interview ahead of todays race. He said that some riders simply forget to push themselves in a time trial. In order to ride really fast you have to constantly push yourself by an active effort and for some riders their minds start to wander and they forget to push until they realise this and start pushing again but then their mind wanders again and they forget to push. It's an interesting aspect of time trialing that I hadn't really thought about before.
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That's quite obvious and also the reason climbers and high GC guys often TT a lot better in a GT than in a separate event (with clinic discussion following).
 
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As a brit I'll support Wiggo but would also like to see Fabian win after he's had such a wretched season. Martin less so as he had such a great season in 2011 at the TTs.

Frankly though, as a fan, the olympic ITT is not a big deal. I see road TT-ing as a tool to use for winning stage events. This event is made worse by there being literally the most predictable top 5 in any cycling event. Maybe I'm just cynical.
 
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I wonder how much Eurosport coverage will we get? Because of their decision of only using one of their channels for all the Olympic stuff, it feels like what we get to see are quick demos of each event rather than proper coverage. It gets annoying at times. (Now, 30 seconds of some completely unrelated sport just to take you out of the action!)
 
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johnnycash said:
As a brit I'll support Wiggo but would also like to see Fabian win after he's had such a wretched season. Martin less so as he had such a great season in 2011 at the TTs.

Frankly though, as a fan, the olympic ITT is not a big deal. I see road TT-ing as a tool to use for winning stage events. This event is made worse by there being literally the most predictable top 5 in any cycling event. Maybe I'm just cynical.
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I see 3 guys it's predicable to say they will be top 5: Canc, Wiggo and Martin. But who the other 2 will be is not a given, some contenders are: Phinney, Froome, Chavanel, Grabsch, LLS, Larsson, Rogers, Pinotti.
 
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Cancellator said:
I wonder how much Eurosport coverage will we get? Because of their decision of only using one of their channels for all the Olympic stuff, it feels like what we get to see are quick demos of each event rather than proper coverage. It gets annoying at times. (Now, 30 seconds of some completely unrelated sport just to take you out of the action!)
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****ty coverage on swedish eurosport: 45 minutes of the women's TT and 1 hour of the men's.
 
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I see 3 guys it's predicable to say they will be top 5: Canc, Wiggo and Martin. But who the other 2 will be is not a given, some contenders are: Phinney, Froome, Chavanel, Grabsch, LLS, Larsson, Rogers, Pinotti, Gilbert.
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You know it's true :D
 
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wiggins is the fittest and the strongest tt rider this season its his to lose.

Iv opted for chavanel or phinney to maybe sneak a medal.
 
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Wiggins TT results this year including prologues (I list the top 5):

Volta Algarve stage 5 - 25.8k
1. Bradley Wiggins (Sky Procycling) 32:48
2. Tony Martin (Omega Pharma - Quickstep)
3. Richie Porte (Sky Procycling) + 0:13
4. Tejay Van Garderen (BMC Racing Team) + 0:14
5. Jesse Sergent (RadioShack - Nissan)

Paris-Nice stage 1 - 9.4k
1 LARSSON, Gustav (VACANSOLEIL-DCM) 11' 19"
2 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) + 00' 01"
3 LEIPHEIMER, Levi (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) + 00' 04"
4 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 00' 09"
5 DE GENDT, Thomas (VACANSOLEIL-DCM) + 00' 12"

Paris-Nice stage 8 - 9.6k (mountain TT)
1 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) 19' 12"
2 WESTRA, Lieuwe (VACANSOLEIL-DCM) + 00' 02"
3 PERAUD, Jean-Christophe (AG2R LA MONDIALE) + 00' 33"
4 SPILAK, Simon (KATUSHA) + 00' 47"
5 COPPEL, Jerome (SAUR - SOJASUN) + 00' 51"

Tour de Romandie prologue - 3.3k
1 THOMAS, Geraint (SKY PROCYCLING) 3:29
2 NIZZOLO, Giacomo (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) + 0:05
3 CAVENDISH, Mark (SKY PROCYCLING) + 0:06
4 ROGERS, Michael (SKY PROCYCLING)
5 VANDEVELDE, Christian (GARMIN-BARRACUDA)
11 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) + 0:09

Tour de Romandie stage 5 - 16.5k
1 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) 28:56
2 TALANSKY, Andrew (GARMIN-BARRACUDA) + 0:01
3 PORTE, Richie (SKY PROCYCLING) + 0:17
4 FARIA DA COSTA, Rui Alberto (MOVISTAR) + 0:23
5 KREUZIGER, Roman (ASTANA) + 0:40

Critérium du Dauphiné prologue - 5.7k
1 DURBRIDGE, Luke (ORICA - GREENEDGE) 06' 38"
2 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) + 00' 01"
3 GRIVKO, Andriy (ASTANA) + 00' 03"
4 BARREDO LLAMAZALES, Carlos (RABOBANK)
5 MARTIN, Tony (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP)+ 00' 05"

Critérium du Dauphiné stage 4 - 53k
1 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) 1h 03' 12"
2 MARTIN, Tony (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) + 00' 34"
3 ROGERS, Michael (SKY PROCYCLING) + 01' 11"
4 KELDERMAN, Wilco (RABOBANK) + 01' 25"
5 CHAVANEL, Sylvain (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) + 01' 33"

Tour de France prologue - 6.4k
1 CANCELLARA, Fabian (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) 7:13
2 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) + 7
3 CHAVANEL, Sylvain (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP)
4 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 10
5 BOASSON HAGEN, Edvald (SKY PROCYCLING) + 11

Tour de france stage 9 - 41.5k
1 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) 51:24
2 FROOME, Christopher (SKY PROCYCLING) + 35
3 CANCELLARA, Fabian (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) + 57
4 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 1:06
5 CHAVANEL, Sylvain (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP)+ 1:24

Tour de france stage 19 - 53k
1 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) 1:04:13
2 FROOME, Christopher (SKY PROCYCLING) + 1:16
3 SANCHEZ GIL, Luis Leon (RABOBANK) + 1:50
4 VELITS, Peter (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) + 2:02
5 PORTE, Richie (SKY PROCYCLING) + 2:25

Wiggins is extremely consistent. He has was won all longer time trials he has competed in this year, some with quiet a small margin (Volta Algarve, Paris-Nice stage 8, Tour de Romandie stage 5), other with a bigger margin (DL and TDF). His latest time trials has been his most impressive even if the competition has been less good in one of them (TdF stage 19).
 
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The men's ITT today is the shortest in olympic history. The ITT in it's modern form popped up in the 1996 Olympics. In the early part of the 20th century, the time trials were long as hell. In Stockholm 1912 it was 315k long, the contestsnts started with 2 minutes intervals (It sort of developed into a regular road race I guess.). South African Rudolph Lewis won in the time 10:42:39, with an averge speed of almost 30kph. :)

ITT for men in olympic history:
1912: 315 km (29,4 km/h)
1920: 175 km (37,5 km/h)
1924: 188 km (33,1 km/h)
1928: 168 km (35,1 km/h)
1932: 100 km (40,5 km/h)
1996: 52 km (48,7 km/h
2000: 47 km (48,7 km/h)
2004: 48 km (50,1 km/h)
2008: 48 km (45,9 km/h)
2012: 44 km

Source: http://www.feltet.dk/nyheder/den_korteste_ol_enkeltstart_nogensinde/
 
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