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London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

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  • #2282
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Who is this guy on rte? Describing the decent in richmond park as big. Might be for the odd amature, for the pros its anything but.


  • #2283
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    mike65 wrote: »
    Why is anyone watching RTE? Okay if there is a particular Irish athlete that's grand of course but otherwise you're mad - unless you like chin stroking chit-chat.

    For some its all they have.


  • #2284
    cassid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭cassid


    felt sorry for the swiss guy who crashed near the end of the cycle race, after being in the lead, poor lad was in tears after the race.


  • #2285
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    cassid wrote: »
    felt sorry for the swiss guy who crashed near the end of the cycle race, after being in the lead, poor lad was in tears after the race.

    Did he finish the race?


  • #2286
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,537 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Samich wrote: »
    Did he finish the race?

    No. He carried on for a bit but he was injured and the doctor in one of the cars looked at him and pulled him up.


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  • #2287
    Hersheys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Hersheys


    Imagine how sore the arses of those cyclists are.


  • #2288
    LostBoy101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭LostBoy101


    Some olympian babes.

    Camilla - Norway
    20jfk90.jpg

    Amanda - Norway
    34yczsl.jpg

    Leyrn Franco - France (Javelin)
    770_leryn-franco-bikini-si-lg-955232251.jpg

    Louisa Necib - France
    9louisanecibfrance-tumblr_crop_650.jpg?1342301754

    Stephanie Rice - Australia
    art-rice1-420x0.jpg

    Hope Solo - America Goalkeeper
    hope-solo-close-up.png


  • #2289
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    tayto lover wrote: »
    No. He carried on for a bit but he was injured and the doctor in one of the cars looked at him and pulled him up.

    He's got nothing on this legend then ;)



  • #2290
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Hersheys wrote: »
    Imagine how sore the arses of those cyclists are.

    Indeed. Anyone have an idea of what kind of average / top speeds the cyclists can achieve? I would say fast.


  • #2291
    Truman Burbank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Truman Burbank


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    There was a breakaway of 30 riders that got about 1 minute ahead of the peleton (Main Pack). Usually in normal cycling like the Tour De France, the peleton would work together to catch the breakaway. In todays race nobody bar the GB team tried to reel in the breakaway because they didnt want it to go to a sprint with Cavendish. The rest of the peleton wanted Team GB to use up all their energy and then they could take advantage of it towards the end. It was only until it was too late that the rest of the peleton realised that they had shot themselves in the foot by not helping the GB team in trying to catch the breakaway.

    On the other hand, with so many riders in the breakaway. A lot of the peleton had team mates in the breakaway and probably wanted to protect them by not helping the GB team catch them.

    At what point would the rest of the pack have had to have gone, before Cavendish's eagerly awaited Mall sprint, to ensure said sprint didn't happen? If you were watching it on BBC, you'll have seen that the commentators missed the boat almost as much as The Peleton.


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  • #2292
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,537 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    LostBoy101 wrote: »
    Some olympian babes.

    Camilla - Norway
    20jfk90.jpg

    Amanda - Norway
    34yczsl.jpg

    Leyrn Franco - France (Javelin)
    770_leryn-franco-bikini-si-lg-955232251.jpg

    Louisa Necib - France
    9louisanecibfrance-tumblr_crop_650.jpg?1342301754

    Stephanie Rice - Australia
    art-rice1-420x0.jpg

    Hope Solo - America Goalkeeper
    hope-solo-close-up.png

    This could rival the thread on the European Football Finals. If you make a thread on it.


  • #2293
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    On a serious note - Team GB were sh1te today except for the male gymnast who show promise.


  • #2294
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    westendgirlie wrote: »
    On a serious note - Team GB were sh1te today except for the male gymnast who show promise.

    Thomas was it? Looked very good, tall too. Only the heats yet sure? :)


  • #2295
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    keith16 wrote: »
    Indeed. Anyone have an idea of what kind of average / top speeds the cyclists can achieve? I would say fast.

    On screen I saw speeds of 52km. Could of been faster that I didn't see.


  • #2296
    Hersheys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Hersheys


    On average its around 40 km/hr but can get up to higher speeds on declines. IIRC.


  • #2297
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Empty Olympics venue seats investigated.

    It looks like G4L aren't the only problem for not turning up.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19028979

    I wonder who they have to blame for this? .


  • #2298
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,356 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    irish-stew wrote: »
    Thankfully starting to work out the http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012 website.

    Totally legit by the way as pointed out on the last page.

    Shame rte couldn't show one or two of the current live events rather than the blah blah blah they have been at for the last hour.

    Yes highlights are welcome but this is just stupid now.

    BBC don't have to pay for rights to the stuff afaik, which is why they are able to broadcast everything live. It's not really the fault of RTE that they lack in that department, and tbh there's probably more people interested in watching highlights than watching everything live anyway.

    You should just get Freesat set up. It'd be worth it for the Olympics alone. 24 live channels of obscure sporting goodness!


  • #2299
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    In fairness to RTE that was the best highlights over the last couple of hours.

    Dispite some of the lack of knowledge from the comentators and so called analysts.


  • #2300
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    CAVENDISH BILL!! CAVENDISH!!


  • #2301
    funnights74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


    keith16 wrote: »
    Indeed. Anyone have an idea of what kind of average / top speeds the cyclists can achieve? I would say fast.

    On a flat road anything from 40 to 60 Kph depending on weather conditions, wind etc. Descending a mountain or steep hill well Sean Kelly has been clocked at close to 108 Kph :eek:


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  • #2302
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    funnights74 wrote: »
    On a flat road anything from 40 to 60 Kph depending on weather conditions, wind etc. Descending a mountain or steep hill well Sean Kelly has been clocked at close to 108 Kph :eek:

    Dangerous ;) Tyre could burst or anything :P


  • #2303
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    mike65 wrote: »
    Why is anyone watching RTE? Okay if there is a particular Irish athlete that's grand of course but otherwise you're mad - unless you like chin stroking chit-chat.

    I have 4 channels. Affluence.


  • #2304
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    funnights74 wrote: »
    On a flat road anything from 40 to 60 Kph depending on weather conditions, wind etc. Descending a mountain or steep hill well Sean Kelly has been clocked at close to 108 Kph :eek:

    Theres no decents anywhere on the Olympic course though that riders would get anywhere near to that. Dispite the commentator describing the decent in richmond park as big.

    For those of you who dont know it it would take the average cyclist maybe no more than 30 seconds to decend down any of the hills in richmond park. There might have been a few bigger hills on the 'Box Hill' section of the course but still nothing that would be close to what the pro riders would be familar with on the Grand Tour events such as Le Tour De France.


  • #2305
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    funnights74 wrote: »
    On a flat road anything from 40 to 60 Kph depending on weather conditions, wind etc. Descending a mountain or steep hill well Sean Kelly has been clocked at close to 108 Kph :eek:

    Holy shít. The fastest I ever clocked on my shítty bike according to some "app" I have on my "phone" was 48 k/h.

    But I had a puncture. And my bike was in the boot of the car I was driving at the time.


  • #2306
    Redjeep!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 493 ✭✭Redjeep!


    Hersheys wrote: »
    On average its around 40 km/hr but can get up to higher speeds on declines. IIRC.

    Think it's typically around 40km/ hr, but Wiggins won the last time trial in the Tour de France (and the race) where he covered 53 km in 1 hr 4 minutes.


  • #2307
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Redjeep! wrote: »
    Think it's typically around 40km/ hr, but Wiggins won the last time trial in the Tour de France (and the race) where he covered 53 km in 1 hr 4 minutes.

    What speed is that? :pac: :pac::pac:


  • #2308
    goodie2shoes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 702 ✭✭✭goodie2shoes


    Samich wrote: »
    Dangerous ;) Tyre could burst or anything :P
    or you could slip and fall off!:eek:


  • #2309
    goodie2shoes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 702 ✭✭✭goodie2shoes


    irish-stew wrote: »
    CAVENDISH BILL!! CAVENDISH!!

    sore loser or what!


  • #2310
    Hersheys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Hersheys


    Redjeep! wrote: »
    Hersheys wrote: »
    On average its around 40 km/hr but can get up to higher speeds on declines. IIRC.

    Think it's typically around 40km/ hr, but Wiggins won the last time trial in the Tour de France (and the race) where he covered 53 km in 1 hr 4 minutes.

    Surely time trials are faster though than just an average race speed. Today's race was a few hundred km - its an endurance challenge rather than who can go the fastest. Example today when Wiggins went back to the GB team car & stuffed his shirt with bottles then made his way back to the front of the peloton to give them to his team.


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  • #2311
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Well Cavendish seemed like a right plonker. Saying to the reporter after she asks "Did the Tour de France effect you" or something with "Stop asking stupid questions, do you know about cycling?!" while storming out.


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