Rio - Olympic Road Cycling Individual Time Trials - Wednesday August 10th

dastardly00

Road Cycling Individual Time Trial - Wednesday August 10th
Start Time: Women - 12.30 (GMT); Men - 14.00 (GMT)

• Grumari climb: 1.3km @ 9.4% (max 24.1%)
• Grota Funda climb: 2.1km @ 6.8% (max 10.3%)

The start list can be found here.
Updates: Colombia withdrew their entry before the road race. Nibali (Italy) & Porte (Australia) are gone because of injury. For France, Bardet was due to ride, but has been replace by Alexis Vuillermoz. Great Britain have been given an extra spot (Geraint Thomas).

Who's going to win..........
Has Dumoulin fully recovered from his broken wrist? Has Froome recovered from the road race? Spartacus to finish with ultimate glory maybe? Is it nuts to rule Tony Martin out? The there's the machine that is Kiryienka, and the up-and-coming star Roglic from Slovenia.

Here is the start order:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/thomas-craven-confirmed-for-olympic-games-time-trial/

Mint Sauce

Any ideas if the BBC or RTE showing this in full tomorrow? Cant see it on either the Freesat or Saorview EPGs

neris

martin, spartacus and kiryieynka havent been all that great in TTs this year. Dumoulin or Froome, Rohan Dennis as a wildcard outside bet

godtabh

that appears very lumpy for a time trial!

Pudsy33

Roglic and Brandle are my outsiders, they both went very well in the hilly Giro TT

Beasty

Worthy of a separate thread (and also there's no confusion over spoiler rules - no tags required)

godtabh

Just seeing that this has its own thread. Maybe get the title changed. Reads as a random race thread rather than the Olympics.

Beasty

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Any ideas if the BBC or RTE showing this in full tomorrow? Cant see it on either the Freesat or Saorview EPGs

I'm sure the BBC will have full coverage on one of their Olympic channels. I'm equally sure they will be switching between various sports on BBC 1/2 though

lennymc

24.1% on a TT bike!!!!

godtabh

lennymc wrote: »

24.1% on a TT bike!!!!

that's what I was thinking!

dastardly00

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Roglic and Brandle are my outsiders, they both went very well in the hilly Giro TT

Matthias Brändle isn't at the Olympics (not sure why).

Georg Preidler will ride the ITT for Austria.

Mint Sauce

Beasty wrote: »

I'm sure the BBC will have full coverage on one of their Olympic channels. I'm equally sure they will be switching between various sports on BBC 1/2 though

Would have thought so my self, unfortunately the Red Button Channels are currently advertising Hockey, Sevens, Table Tennis, et al. No mention of Cycling, unless its on one of the online channels, which I cant get.

Pudsy33

dastardly00 wrote: »

Matthias Brändle isn't at the Olympics (not sure why).

Georg Preidler will ride the ITT for Austria.

Hmm strange! Thanks

neris

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Would have thought so my self, unfortunately the Red Button Channels are currently advertising Hockey, Sevens, Table Tennis, et al. No mention of Cycling, unless its on one of the online channels, which I cant get.

if thomas or froome look any where near a gold theyll be changing what they're showing rapid quick

dastardly00

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Hmm strange! Thanks

From a quick Google and some translation of Austrian media, the decision not to bring Brändle was because the courses (both the road and TT) were too hilly for him. He wouldn't have been suited as a domestique to Preidler in the road race, so they brought Stefan Denifl. And with only one spot in the TT, it was then going to be Preidler.

Mint Sauce

neris wrote: »

if thomas or froome look any where near a gold theyll be changing what they're showing rapid quick

Would be ideal if I was at home, unfortunately at work all day, and can only record two programes on freesat, and one from saorview.

JK.BMC

What are the descents like!

Anyway I have a liking for Kiryienka although he hasn't won much this season; other than that a win for Froome looks likely. Yawn.

Pudsy33

dastardly00 wrote: »

From a quick Google and some translation of Austrian media, the decision not to bring Brändle was because the courses (both the road and TT) were too hilly for him. He wouldn't have been suited as a domestique to Preidler in the road race, so they brought Stefan Denifl. And with only one spot in the TT, it was then going to be Preidler.

Preidler finished 119th in the hilly Giro TT that Brändle was 2nd in! I can understand the decision when you factor in the road race though I guess.

MB Lacey

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Any ideas if the BBC or RTE showing this in full tomorrow? Cant see it on either the Freesat or Saorview EPGs

Best bet is to copy this link and watch online via rte player, they seem to be showing dedicated category events
http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics/live/

Cycling Road category will be showing Women's TT from 12.30pm.

Wonder if Pooley stands a chance, she saved quite a bit of energy towards the end of the race on Sunday, but I think the competition is too strong.
Van Dijk possibly, but I think she put so much into Sunday's race, so possibly Kristen Armstrong, which would be pretty cool at 42!

bazermc

dastardly00 wrote: »

Road Cycling Individual Time Trial - Wednesday August 10th
Start Time: Women - 12.30 (GMT); Men - 14.30 (GMT)

Are those times correct? Are they not local start times as 12.30pm GMT would be 730am Rio time?

velo.2010

Its Froome's to lose surely? I though it was one lap of that circuit with a longer out and back. One circuit and I thought Dumoulin could hold on but there is too much ascent with two circuits.

As counter-intuitive as it sounds, I think Froome is slightly heavier this year with the Rio TT in mind. More power at a slight cost to his climbing - he didn't really get away from them at the Tour but he is still one of, if not the best climber out there.

dastardly00

bazermc wrote: »

Are those times correct? Are they not local start times as 12.30pm GMT would be 730am Rio time?

Rio is four hours behind us, so the women's TT starts at 8.30am local time.

dastardly00

The men are actually starting at 10am local time, so 2pm GMT.

Here is the start order:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/thomas-craven-confirmed-for-olympic-games-time-trial/

Froome is off last, Dumoulin is the penultimate rider, and Kiryienka before them. It all sets it up nicely.

Mint Sauce

MB Lacey wrote: »

Best bet is to copy this link and watch online via rte player, they seem to be showing dedicated category events
http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics/live/

Cycling Road category will be showing Women's TT from 12.30pm.

No good as working and will be wanting to record to watch in evening. Closest I can see is it being featured on BBC1s coverage. All the Red Buttons are showing other sports.

bazermc

dastardly00 wrote: »

Rio is four hours behind us, so the women's TT starts at 8.30am local time.

Cool thanks

Raymzor

Why are there no Irish riders?

pelevin

Raymzor wrote: »

Why are there no Irish riders?

Tony Martin is representing Ireland.

dastardly00

Raymzor wrote: »

Why are there no Irish riders?

For Ireland to have a rider in the TT, we would have needed one of the following:
(i) in the top 15 ranked countries in the 2015 UCI World Tour (we finished 20th)
(ii) in the top 6 ranked countries in the 2015 UCI Europe Tour (we finished 21st)
(iii) have a rider who finished in the top 10 of the UCI World Championship TT (no Irish rider competed)

Beasty

pelevin wrote: »

Tony Martin is representing Ireland.

Think you're getting confused with Tony Cascarino - he's not racing

Chris Juul-Jensen is though.....

Beasty

dastardly00 wrote: »

For Ireland to have a rider in the TT, we would have needed one of the following:
(i) in the top 15 ranked countries in the 2015 UCI World Tour (we finished 20th)
(ii) in the top 6 ranked countries in the 2015 UCI Europe Tour (we finished 21st)
(iii) have a rider who finished in the top 10 of the UCI World Championship TT (no Irish rider competed)

Only 40 entries in the men's race but after injuries the field is down to 37. Only 25 in the women's race

MPFGLB

Dumoulin , Kiryenka & Martin for me...

MPFGLB

BBC are showing the TT races tomorrow

Womens from 12.30pm
Mens from 2pm

They have ear marked a medal in the mens race

Decuc500

Hopefully Taylor Phinney can go at least one better than last time and get a medal.

MPFGLB

https://twitter.com/DQSport/status/763302285103489024

dastardly00

^^^^
Nice one RTÉ!

Beasty

All the start times (men and women) here

MPFGLB

Richie Porte saying Rohan Dennis has a very good chance at gold

lennymc

MPFGLB wrote: »

Richie Porte saying Rohan Dennis has a very good chance at gold

Good oul Ronan Dennis.

Carawaystick

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Would have thought so my self, unfortunately the Red Button Channels are currently advertising Hockey, Sevens, Table Tennis, et al. No mention of Cycling, unless its on one of the online channels, which I cant get.

I've found the epg for the red buttons to be consistently out of date, and incorrect

pelevin

Beasty wrote: »

Think you're getting confused with Tony Cascarino - he's not racing

Pity, I was thinking start off with Cascarino, then replace him with Quinn when he starts to tire.

mr spuckler

pelevin wrote: »

Pity, I was thinking start off with Cascarino, then replace him with Quinn when he starts to tire.

*tyre

godtabh

Is any one from Ireland riding this? I thought Dan was but this suggests he isnt

https://twitter.com/DanMartin86/status/763336269334216704

dastardly00

godtabh wrote: »

Is any one from Ireland riding this?

No competitors representing Ireland in either male or female race.

godtabh

dastardly00 wrote: »

No competitors representing Ireland in either male or female race.

We didn't qualify any or that pulled out?

mr spuckler

godtabh wrote: »

We didn't qualify any or that pulled out?

from page 2, it's a shame as roche seems to be in good form although i guess the steepness of the climbs could have been a bit much for him.

dastardly00 wrote: »

For Ireland to have a rider in the TT, we would have needed one of the following:
(i) in the top 15 ranked countries in the 2015 UCI World Tour (we finished 20th)
(ii) in the top 6 ranked countries in the 2015 UCI Europe Tour (we finished 21st)
(iii) have a rider who finished in the top 10 of the UCI World Championship TT (no Irish rider competed)

dastardly00

godtabh wrote: »

We didn't qualify any or that pulled out?

We didn't qualify.

dastardly00

Women's TT has started, but it's not on RTÉ News Now at the moment (for me anyway, watching on the RTÉ mobile app)

JK.BMC

lennymc wrote: »

Good oul Ronan Dennis.

Denis Ronan

Bugsy2000

Will they be going over the cobbles again or did I hear that the strip of tarmac that was fenced off on Saturday was for the TT? Couldn't imagine big Tom's wrist could take too much of those cobbles.

I reckon it'll be a toss up between Froome & Tom Dom. No one stands out for the last podium spot, could be an outlier.

D9Male

mr spuckler wrote: »

from page 2, it's a shame as roche seems to be in good form although i guess the steepness of the climbs could have been a bit much for him.

Roche isn't nearly a good enough a time triallist to get within an ass's roar of a medal.

Beasty

With the name Duyck the Belgian must have a chance in these conditions!

That downhill is looking decidedly dicey