The 2012 London Summer Olympic Games

[PotomacCyclist]

Supposedly the women could face hail and heavy rain showers on the course during today’s road race.

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There will also be individual time trial races. Both the women and the men race the TT events on Wed. August 1.

Here’s the full Cycling schedule, including all of the track, mountain bike and BMX events:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/cycling/results-schedules/index.html

There are quite a number of track cycling heats and finals.

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The triathlon races are on August 4 and 7.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/triathlon/results-schedules/index.html

Modern pentathlon has some interest for triathlon fans, even though it doesn’t include cycling. It does include swimming and a run/shoot combo, along with horse riding and fencing.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/modern-pentathlon/results-schedules/index.html

I only know about modern pentathlon because of Sheila Taormina. She is the first woman to have qualified for the Olympic Games in three different sports: swimming (1996), triathlon (2000, 2004), modern pentathlon (2008). She won a gold medal in 1996 as part of a freestyle relay team.

[KelOnWheels]

This race is exciting!

[PotomacCyclist]

Those red Specialized bikes are confusing me. The only bright red bikes I’ve seen for the past year and a half are the heavy and slow CaBi bikes. It’s strange to see people riding so fast on bright red bikes now.

[KelOnWheels]

That’s what we need for the next Olympics – CaBi racing!

Emma Pooley is teeny! I wonder what size bike she rides?

[Arlingtonrider]

Found on a blog post regarding Emma Pooley’s bike —
“the 48cm Cervelo is the smallest bike made among all the big manufacturers. It FITS smaller than the 44cm women-specific frames you may be looking at. . . . As for Emma Pooley, she rides a stock 48cm frame. She actually came off a team which had “women-specificness” in the team name, but she – like many others – has found that what fits her best is a properly designed geometry, not one marketed as women-specific.”

[Arlingtonrider]

The races are fun to watch live but I miss having commentary.

Update: Now its getting really exciting – 1.6 km to go, in pouring rain. (Vos from the Netherlands, favored to win, came out first.)

[KelOnWheels]

So here’s a thing I was wondering: can two people from the same team win a race, or is that Not Done?

[PotomacCyclist]

@Arlingtonrider 26727 wrote:

The races are fun to watch live but I miss having commentary.

Update: Now its getting really exciting – 1.6 km to go, in pouring rain. (Vos from the Netherlands, favored to win, came out first.)

The NBC broadcast has commentary.

[PotomacCyclist]

@KelOnWheels 26738 wrote:

So here’s a thing I was wondering: can two people from the same team win a race, or is that Not Done?

I don’t quite understand the question. Only one person can win, unless somehow there was a tie (I think).

[KelOnWheels]

@PotomacCyclist 26749 wrote:

I don’t quite understand the question. Only one person can win, unless somehow there was a tie (I think).

Sorry, that wasn’t very clear, was it? What I actually meant was can/do multiple people from one team go for the podium, or do they just pick one person that’s going to go for it? Like if all of Team GB was in front, could three guys go for the sprint and try to get all the medals?

[Amalitza]

@KelOnWheels 26724 wrote:

Emma Pooley is teeny! I wonder what size bike she rides?

What do you mean, teeny?! :confused: Wikipedia says she is 5’2″. That is a perfectly normal human size! 😎

[KelOnWheels]

@acl 26756 wrote:

What do you mean, teeny?! :confused: Wikipedia says she is 5’2″. That is a perfectly normal human size!

Well she looked very teeny compared to the other riders. Diminutive. Wee. Ickle.

[Terpfan]

The crash highlights are always interesting, particularly in the rain. I feel bad, but it’s like Nascar, some folks watch for the crashes and others for the race.

[DaveK]

@KelOnWheels 26738 wrote:

So here’s a thing I was wondering: can two people from the same team win a race, or is that Not Done?

Usually they wouldn’t race against each other – teams have a designated sprinter if they come to the line with more than one racer together. For example – if the USA came together to a bunch sprint in the Olympics they had said that Taylor Phinney would lead out Tyler Farrar for the win. If it was from the breakaway, Tejay Van Garderen and Timmy Duggan had been working for Taylor Phinney to take the win. If for some reason two teammates in a breakaway come to the line together I imagine they’d work it out together beforehand and probably wouldn’t sprint for it. Alberto Contador gave away a stage to a former teammate in last year’s Giro when they came to the line together because he was already in the race lead and didn’t need yet another stage win.

Shorter – they usually work this out in advance.

[dasgeh]

In lots of races, I’ve noticed that the last guy in the lead out train (the guy before the sprinter) comes in top 5, sometimes even 2 or 3 — basically he leads the sprinter out and is fading, but still up there.

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