Olympic TTs *Warning - contains unmasked spoilers*

buffalo

Women are up first, from 12.30, then men from 14.15. Parcours is flat as a pancake, 125m total gain over 44km for the men (29km for the women). McCann is off at 14:25:30 (90sec intervals).

Hard to see beyond Wiggins for the men, considering his TdF performances. Martin and Cancellara have both had recent injuries (Cancellara's only on Sunday). Phinney could push past them to grab a medal.

Women’s Startlist
12:30:00 24 FERNANDES SILVA Clemilda BRA19790625
12:31:30 23 SUNDSTEDT Pia FIN19750502
12:33:00 22 de VOCHT Liesbet BEL19790105
12:34:30 21 MOOLMAN Ashleigh RSA19851209
12:36:00 20 CORDON Audrey FRA19890922
12:37:30 19 ANTOSHINA Tatiana RUS19820727
12:39:00 18 TCHALYKH Elena AZE19740325
12:40:30 17 GUDERZO Tatiana ITA19840822
12:42:00 16 RAMSDEN Denise CAN19901121
12:43:30 15 ZABELINSKAYA Olga RUS19800510
12:45:00 14 FAHLIN Emilia SWE19881024
12:46:30 13 WORRACK Trixi GER19810928
12:48:00 12 CANTELE Noemi ITA19810717
12:49:30 11 GILLOW Shara AUS19871223
12:51:00 10 van DIJK Ellen NED19870211
12:52:30 9 ARMITSTEAD Elizabeth GBR19881218
12:54:00 8 JOHANSSON Emma SWE19830923
12:55:30 7 NEBEN Amber USA19750218
12:57:00 6 POOLEY Emma GBR19821003
12:58:30 5 HUGHES Clara CAN19720927
13:00:00 4 VILLUMSEN Linda Melanie NZL19850409
13:01:30 3 VOS Marianne NED19870513
13:03:00 2 ARNDT Judith GER19760723
13:04:30 1 ARMSTRONG Kristin USA19730811

Men’s Startlist
14:15:00 37 LAHSAINI Mouhcine MAR19850823
14:16:30 36 GIL MARTINEZ Tomas Aurelio VEN19770523
14:18:00 35 HAGHI Alireza IRI19790208
14:19:30 34 AKDILEK Ahmet TUR19880310
14:21:00 33 NAZARET Magno Prado BRA19860117
14:22:30 32 BEPPU Fumiyuki JPN19830410
14:24:00 31 BAZAYEV Assan KAZ19810222
14:25:30 30 McCANN David IRL19730317
14:27:00 29 BAK Lars Ytting DEN19800116
14:28:30 28 ALBASINI Michael SUI19801220
14:30:00 27 DUARTE AREVALO Fabio Andres COL19860611
14:31:30 26 BOOM Lars NED19851230
14:33:00 25 BAUER Jack NZL19850407
14:34:30 24 BRAJKOVIC Janez SLO19831218
14:36:00 23 BODNAR Maciej POL19850307
14:37:30 22 GILBERT Philippe BEL19820705
14:39:00 21 VINOKUROV Alexandr KAZ19730916
14:40:30 20 HESJEDAL Ryder CAN19801209
14:42:00 19 CASTROVIEJO NICOLAS Jonathan ESP19870427
14:43:30 18 FUGLSANG Jakob DEN19850322
14:45:00 17 OLIVEIRA Nelson Filipe S. Simoes POR19890306
14:46:30 16 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald NOR19870517
14:48:00 15 NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas LTU19880130
14:49:30 14 MENCHOV Denis RUS19780125
14:51:00 13 WESTRA Lieuwe NED19820911
14:52:30 12 KIRYIENKA Vasil BLR19810628
14:54:00 11 LARSSON Gustav SWE19800920
14:55:30 10 ROGERS Michael AUS19791220
14:57:00 9 GRABSCH Bert GER19750619
14:58:30 8 CHAVANEL Sylvain FRA19790630
15:00:00 7 FROOME Christopher GBR19850520
15:01:30 6 PINOTTI Marco ITA19760225
15:03:00 5 SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon ESP19831124
15:04:30 4 PHINNEY Taylor USA19900627
15:06:00 3 MARTIN Tony GER19850423
15:07:30 2 WIGGINS Bradley GBR19800428
15:09:00 1 CANCELLARA Fabian SUI19810318

edit: forgot to put a spoiler warning in the subject, mods could you oblige please?

GetWithIt

Yep, Wiggins ftw. Phinney to place.

on_the_nickel

Bit of value e/w (1/3 odds) with Froome at 17s, Phinney at 23/1 given Canc and Martin's recent travails lately.

Beasty

buffalo wrote: »

edit: forgot to put a spoiler warning in the subject, mods could you oblige please?

Done

fryup

how come Cavindish isn't competing in this?? its his forte isn't it?

Lumen

fryup wrote: »

how come Cavindish isn't competing in this?? its his forte isn't it?

No, he's a sprinter.

dastardly00

How was the order of the start list determined?

fryup

Lumen wrote: »

No, he's a sprinter.

yes, so wouldn't he be suited for a time trial??

buffalo

fryup wrote: »

yes, so wouldn't he be suited for a time trial??

No, he's only very, very, *very* fast over very short distances - hundreds of metres. This TT is 44km.

Beasty

buffalo wrote: »

No, he's only very fast over very short distances - hundreds of metres. This TT is 44km.

We actually he's not too bad a TT'er particularly on flattish courses, but GB have 2 places and Wiggins and Froome are much better than Cav at this discipline (as is Millar)

buffalo

Beasty wrote: »

We actually he's not too bad a TT'er particularly on flattish courses, but GB have 2 places and Wiggins and Froome are much better than Cav at this discipline (as is Millar)

FMP... is that a first?

buffalo

dastardly00 wrote: »

How was the order of the start list determined?

"With the riders seeded according to ranking and expected performance, both riders will have the faster competitors ahead of them, making the prospect of one rider catching another relatively unlikely - pending mechanical incidents and crashes - in the later stages."
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/12543/Olympic-Time-Trial-start-times-and-numbers-announced.aspx#ixzz22FDEYTVf

Could see potential for Wiggins, Phinney, Froome on the podium.

kenmc

cancellara should get the gold just for being hard enough to race with a broken everything. he would've won the road race too if it wasn't for those pesky kids making the road slippy.

Pudsy33

How come Mc cann is in this? Would one of Martin or Roche not have a better shot? Excuse the ignorance, I'm just learning.

dquirke1

Pudsy33 wrote: »

How come Mc cann is in this? Would one of Martin or Roche not have a better shot? Excuse the ignorance, I'm just learning.

Nope, McCann is 6 times national TT champ, while Martin is a pure climber and Roche would be expected to lose at least 2-3mins to the favorites over 40km.

joker77

Really hoping there's an upset here. Phinney or Pinotti

Hungrycol

Team GB seem to be choking given the occasion, such expectation. Brad will be very good but I think (hope) there'll be surprise. Tony might deliver the goods and if 100% fit and is IMO the No. 1 TT'er in the world. Fabian will give it absolutely everything, he was bawling when he crossed the line on Saturday and fortunately nothing broken from his fall.

Fritzl Funderland

What about Westra for a possible medal? had a bad tour but put in a good performance in the time trials at Paris-Nice

hardCopy

What's the story with Cancellara? What damage did he do on Saturday, or has he released details?

Lumen

hardCopy wrote: »

What's the story with Cancellara? What damage did he do on Saturday, or has he released details?

"The pain in the shoulder is almost gone and Fabian is under treatment in order to be at 100 per cent tomorrow," said Guercilena.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/cycling-cancellara-expected-fit-time-trial-165726020--spt.html

and...

Fabian cancellara ‏@f_cancellara
Bed time.tomorrow big last day on the Olympics for me.pain pain pain but this will be just for the TT. #fullgas

wanderer 22

My Brother's rding the course at the moment and just told me he got passed out by one of the Irish team...he tried but couldn't get on his wheel

michaelm

Men's race - would really love to see Cancellara win though he is really up against it, would be delighted with Phinney also - been following him on Twitter for some time and he seems like a really sound individual.

Women's race - Reckon Emma Pooley is in with a great chance. As a matter of interest did we (Ireland) have anyone close to qualifying for this, or how is it determined?

By the way I was in Hampton Court on the way down to Box Hill at the weekend - I think it should look spectacular on TV.

el tel

Cancellera is trying to remind us he's a hard man because we saw him crying like a bitch at the End or the RR :P

ednwireland

joker77 wrote: »

Really hoping there's an upset here. Phinney or Pinotti

standing 40m from the finish, hope your wrong. team gb just won there first gold woohooo (rowing). looks like its going to rain for the womens tt.

Lusk Doyle

el tel wrote: »

Cancellera is trying to remind us he's a hard man because we saw him crying like a bitch at the End or the RR :P

Crying like a bitch who may well win a gold medal in the Olympics unlike you!!!

Briando

I hope Cancellera destroys Wiggins.

Is there any TV channel showing the TT start to finish?

No interest in having them cut in and out to give you updates on how things are going over in the shooting range etc -.-

wanderer 22

Up for Wiggins myself, seems like a cool guy.

CH3OH

You can watch it on www.rte.ie

or
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html

buffalo

CH3OH wrote: »

You can watch it on www.rte.ie

or
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html

Wouldn't surprise me if RTE cut to men's kayaking (K1), Eoin Rheinisch is in the semi-final at 13.30.

And Arndt has just overtaken Vos in the women's TT. Guess Vos has her gold already, who cares about the TT?

awec

14:33:00 25 BAUER Jack NZL19850407

TheBlaaMan

buffalo wrote: »

Wouldn't surprise me if RTE cut to men's kayaking (K1), Eoin Rheinisch is in the semi-final at 13.30.

And Arndt has just overtaken Vos in the women's TT. Guess Vos has her gold already, who cares about the TT?

I cannot get any of the links from this site to work...........
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html
anyone had better success?

Mr Freeze

I'm just watching what ever they have on RTE 2 on the player, hoping they will switch to the TT at 2:30.

Why can you select different Sports to watch?

I'm at work, so hoping to just flick back to it for the times over the next hour, either that or just use the leaderboard on the London2012 site.

AG2R

Rank Bib Athlete Time +
1 1 ARMSTRONG Kristin 37:34.82 +
2 2 ARNDT Judith 37:50.29 +
3 15 ZABELINSKAYA Olga 37:57.35 +
4 4 VILLUMSEN Linda Melanie 37:59.18 +
5 5 HUGHES Clara 38:28.96 +
6 6 POOLEY Emma 38:37.70 +
7 7 NEBEN Amber 38:45.17 +
8 10 van DIJK Ellen 38:53.68 +
9 13 WORRACK Trixi 39:20.73 +
10 9 ARMITSTEAD Elizabeth 39:26.24 +
11 23 SUNDSTEDT Pia 40:01.69

Not a bad showing by Team GB











McCann just started

AG2R

Cadel Evans is a no start

dastardly00

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

I cannot get any of the links from this site to work...........
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html
anyone had better success?

It's live on Sky Go/Eurosport player now as well.
Maybe try and update your version of Adobe Flash for the RTE player/Eurovision Sports?

mel.b

AG2R wrote: »

Cadel Evans is a no start

Yeah, he pulled out a few days ago...
http://www.theage.com.au/olympics/cycling-london-2012/evans-withdraws-from-olympic-time-trial-20120730-237h6.html

triggermortis

BBC HD has it on the red button I'm sure (can't check as I'm in zurich)

CramCycle

The RTE player Olympic section has a load of thumbnails at the bottom for recorded and live streams, there is one dedicated to the TT today.

http://www.rte.ie/live/olympics/

dastardly00

There is some sort of UFO on top of Gustav Larsson's head :eek:

AG2R

Sanchez is done already,snapped his chain on the start ramp terrible

j@utis

oh dear dear, felt so sorry for him. hurt his knee against the handlebar too

dastardly00

AG2R wrote: »

Sanchez is done already,snapped his chain on the start ramp terrible

serious bad luck for Sanchez.

wonderfullife

AG2R wrote: »

Sanchez is done already,snapped his chain on the start ramp terrible

so unlucky lost 31 seconds inside 3 metres hopefully doesnt finish within 31 seconds of a medal he'll be sick

godtabh

CramCycle wrote: »

The RTE player Olympic section has a load of thumbnails at the bottom for recorded and live streams, there is one dedicated to the TT today.

http://www.rte.ie/live/olympics/

I keep getting error #1503

AG2R

I've not seen McCann go through the first point yet :pac:

Wiggins has just started

token56

I'm very excited for Martin vs Wiggins vs Cancellara. Martins away now.

Mr Freeze

godtabh wrote: »

I keep getting error #1503

Not working for me either.

Not seeing this "UFO" on Gustav Larsson's head is the worst part of not seeing this now.

ednwireland

cancellara just sarted breeze starting here as well. froome fastest at first time split.

AG2R

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Not working for me either.

Not seeing this "UFO" on Gustav Larsson's head is the worst part of not seeing this now.

AG2R

Ryder has been caught by the Spaniard

donfers

i fear this will be a formality and wiggo will win comfortably again, bbc must have played their wiggo interview/promo piece about 10 times now in the last couple of days, then again they were giving cav the same hyped build-up and we all saw what happened there, i can't see them being denied their glorious script twice though

i hope it is competitive - is it a vain hope though?