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Olympics: Cycling - Time Trials

BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
edited August 2012 in Other Football and Sports
Both the Men's and Women's individual Time Trials today, you'll be pleased to know there are no team tactics, it's a simple race against the clock.

The women start at 12:30 and the men from 14:15. Team GB have Emma Pooley and Lizzie Armitstead in the Women's race (leaving 12:52 and 12:57) and Chris Froome (leaving 15:00) and Bradley Wiggins (departs 15:07).

The courses are broadly the same with the men's course being longer at 44km to the women's 29km. Both courses are flat/undulating so I'd expect a reasonably fast time. The men's race looks on paper to be a shoot out between Wiggins and Fabian Cancellara, but I don't know what shape the latter is in after he took a tumble on Saturday. Wiggins goes second to last...with Cancellara leaving 90 seconds later so it should make for some riveting TV. The women's race looks harder to call - Marianne Vos, Kristin Armstrong and Judith Arndt have form and Emma Pooley shouldn't be discounted either.
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  • MrOneLungMrOneLung
    Good luck to our boys and girls.
    I am going for a Vos/Cancellara double
  • Weegie AddickWeegie Addick
    Me too, MOL. Saturday will have taken a lot out of Wiggins and Froome, I think. And Cancellara hurt his arm, not his legs...
  • eaststandmikeeaststandmike
    Come on Wiggo, lets get that first gold on the board. I am tempted to go and watch this but I have a meeting at 14.00...............now how can I cancel that meeting?
  • RothkoRothko
    You do need your arms when cycling, especially if pulling hard on the handlebars/cornering etc.

    Wiggins will have plenty in the tank, unlike Froome, and Wiggins smashed Cancellara in the TDF, so more of the same Bradders
  • Stuart_the_RedStuart_the_Red
    Wiggo all the way, with Froome second.
  • redmanredman
    for the uninformed roughly how long does 44k take to do
  • Stuart_the_RedStuart_the_Red
    Wiggo rode a 50km/hour average in the last TT of the TdF so probably about 50 minutes, is my guess.
  • ValleyGaryValleyGary
    wiggins will piss it
  • RothkoRothko
    We'll see what Cancellara is made of when he hits a rough bit of road and the vibrations hit the shoulder, I think he'll struggle, Tony Martin looks shot for form too.
  • BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
    As a form guide Cancellara beat Wiggins by seven seconds in the Tour de France prologue with Sylvain Chavenel (who rides today) a milisecond behind Wiggins in third. But in the first long time trial over 41km (stage 9) Wiggins comfortably won beating Froome by 35 seconds and Cancellara by nearly a minute.

    Tony Martin shouldn't be discounted - he is the World Champion TT'er and had some bad luck puncturing in the Tour prologue and then breaking a bone in his wrist in a crash a few days later so it was no surprise that he didn't feature in the Time Trial. He looked strong in the Road Race and was the only German rider helping Team GB so it depends on his fitness and form.
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  • red_murphred_murph
    Am going to watch at Bushy Park today, can't wait! Come on Wiggo!
  • nth_london_addicknth_london_addick
    I just hope no other country doesnt want us to win and trys their best to stop that happening
  • RothkoRothko
    Lucky that's not an issue here Mr Brailsford
    nth london addick said:

    I just hope no other country doesnt want us to win and trys their best to stop that happening

  • ValleyGaryValleyGary
    are you saying leaving banana skins on the road wont work?
  • Fanny FanackapanFanny Fanackapan
    Come on Wiggy !!!!!

    Come on Emma !!!
  • BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
    nth london addick said:

    I just hope no other country doesnt want us to win and trys their best to stop that happening

    No doubt some of them will try and cycle faster, but there are no team tactics. If a rider catches up the guy in front of him they must cycle on opposite sides of the road so that the slipstream effect doesn't get used.

  • Fanny FanackapanFanny Fanackapan
    Time trials are definitely my kind of cycling races !!
  • StoneStone
    edited August 2012
    Best you can get on Wiggins is 4/9 according to oddschecker. Although I think he'll win, I'm not tempted by those odds.

    Betfair are showing Froome at 25/1. Just going to check if they do ew? Well yes but not 1/3 or even 1/4 odds.
  • Tewkesbury_AddickTewkesbury_Addick
    Shame for Emma, she looked gutted!
  • sam3110sam3110
    Is Armstrong Lance's wife/sister? Or is it just coincidence?
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  • BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
    sam3110 said:

    Is Armstrong Lance's wife/sister? Or is it just coincidence?

    No family connection as far as I know.

  • Tewkesbury_AddickTewkesbury_Addick
    edited August 2012
    Coincidence. Although Lance's ex-wife was also called Kirstin!
  • PL54PL54
    I have been standing on the route, couple of pints and a bite in a pub and now out for the mens'. All those imprisoned in their own homes have been making a proper racket on their windows though.
  • suzisausagesuzisausage
    what just happened that that spanish fella? only see the images not got the sound on?
  • Fanny FanackapanFanny Fanackapan
    Bradders on his way now.....
  • Tewkesbury_AddickTewkesbury_Addick
    He broke his chain going down the ramp
  • Floyd MontanaFloyd Montana
    Stunning setting again - what a great choice for a start line!
  • AFKABartramAFKABartram
    5 seconds down on Martin at first time check
  • suzisausagesuzisausage
    get a wiggle on wiggins!

    (who not sure if its been mentioned elsewhere, but i actually think it's really @wss and not bradley wiggins at all! the likeness is uncanny!)
  • Fanny FanackapanFanny Fanackapan
    Commentator just now ..

    Froome is on a flyer !"
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