Women's Olympics Road Race

pelevin

On now on the RTE News streaming channel. Be good imo to separate this from the Lizzie Armitstead thread if that's being used for this purpose or not. Don't know if they'll be using that by now infamous descent that claimed the scalps of the likes of Henao, Nibali & Porte yesterday.

At the moment 105kms to go, & from my initial glance looks a lot more sedate than the full-on racing yesterday.

Eamonnator

Same course, fewer laps.

devonp

how many times up the climb?

Stheno

devonp wrote: »

how many times up the climb?

Twice i think

cython

devonp wrote: »

how many times up the climb?

Stheno wrote: »

Twice i think

Looks like 2 laps of the first circuit, but only one of the second one with the hairy descent to me: http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/olympics/uci-confirm-rio-2016-olympic-road-race-time-trial-courses-148721

pelevin

Vos surprisingly on domestique bottle duties, 50 kms to go.

Chuchote

Anywhere one can look up the main colours? Only one I can spot easily is the all-black New Zealander. Is that the Dutch with orange helmets & orange bikes?

Inquitus

Dangerous move gone up the road.

ford2600

Inquitus wrote: »

Dangerous move gone up the road.

Gone from 7 secs to 50 odd in last few km.

Edit 1:08

Carawaystick

Whereabouts is Lizzie?;)

Inquitus

Girls at the front riding so hard a good few of them can't contribute.

pelevin

Carawaystick wrote: »

Whereabouts is Lizzie?;)

She's in the other thread.

Inquitus

Someone gone nuts behind and hauled it back in no time on the climb.

Inquitus

Controversial Lizzie looks cooked, edit, pace dropped and she's clawed her way back.

Unknown Soldier

sh1t. I hope she is OK

godtabh

She isn't moving. That's bad

Inquitus

Horrific crash for the leader....hope she's ok.

ford2600

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

sh1t. I hope she is OK

Doesn't look good

Eamonnator

That looked awful

ednwireland

that looked very nasty hope shes ok

retalivity

jesus that was bad

griffin100

That looked very bad, hard to watch that. She wasn't moving at all. Hope she's ok.

Bottleopener

That did not look good, this descent seems horrendous - hope she is ok.

Stheno

That was horrifiic

Truman Burbank

Fair play to the filming motorbike crew for turning back to help.

ILIKEFOOD

Christ that was horrific

thomasm

That's awful, lower back landing on wall

lennymc

any word on the dutch rider? (watching on the laptop with the volume down)

Crocked

Hard to have any interest in the race after seeing that crash. Hope she's ok

Truman Burbank

lennymc wrote: »

any word on the dutch rider? (watching on the laptop with the volume down)

They haven't said yet

godtabh

The route should have been looked at better. How many injuries was there in this course? Ridiculous

pajor

Had been wondering how the race was progressing. Just checked and saw the clip of Van Vleuten's crash. :eek:

griffin100

Wow what a finish, fantastic effort from the American.

godtabh

Poor abbot. After all that effort 4th

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I couldn't care less who won now. Tell us how Van Vluten is.

lennymc

cycling news "Reports coming through that Van Vleuten is ok and on her way to hospital. No confirmation, but that is some good news. "

fingers crossed.

rollingscone

Jesus Christ that crash.

I hope she's ok. My immediate feeling was I'd just seen someone die

Beasty

godtabh wrote: »

The route should have been looked at better. How many injuries was there in this course? Ridiculous

Hate to think what might have happened if there had been a downpour in either race

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

rollingscone wrote: »

Jesus Christ that crash.

I hope she's ok. My immediate feeling was I'd just seen someone die

My exact thoughts at the time too.

I'm sick to my stomach waiting on word.

godtabh

Beasty wrote: »

Hate to think what might have happened if there had been a downpour in either race

I only saw it twice. Live and the replay but it looked like she lost the rear wheel. Seconds before the camera lense was misting up.

The impact looked horrendous. I hope she is ok. To me that type of course isnt what it should have been about. Hard for hardness sakes puts people at risk as has been seen

godtabh

https://twitter.com/JustSportZA/status/762364839104802816

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The pictures from the TV of the Dutch team may suggest she is ok.

Chuchote

Thank goodness. A really vicious-looking crash. Chris Boardman on BBC1 giving out yards and saying the edges should have been protected, he'd talked about it before the Olympics.

SmallTeapot

godtabh wrote: »

Poor abbot. After all that effort 4th

Yeah, I'm gutted for her. Although, I think she peaked too soon...... Guess the fatigue set in in the final sprint

SmallTeapot

godtabh wrote: »

https://twitter.com/JustSportZA/status/762364839104802816

That's great news....bbc seem unsure. Happy she's ok, that crash was brutal

godtabh

SmallTeapot wrote: »

Yeah, I'm gutted for her. Although, I think she peaked too soon...... Guess the fatigue set in in the final sprint

too much work blowing the group up on the last climb

pelevin

Thrilling & sickening at the same time that climax. Proof all right that that descent as Boardman was saying was beyond technical & downright dangerous. Hope the Dutch girl's ok & her teammate winning will be glad news for her.

Unknown Soldier

Your heart would have to break for poor Abbot

Though fair play for the three who chased her down, epic finish!

I hope that lass who crashed is OK.

martingriff

I know it is all about winning Van Burgueen was staying behind those 2 and anytime they tries to go behind them she dropped right back.

Hope the other Netherland rider is okay

Chuchote

All that we know about Van Vluten so far is that she's now awake and talking.

swiwi_

That crash was just dreadful. I'm not going to post a link, but I'm expecting the worst until hopefully we hear the contrary.