Olympic cycling - track and road (may contain spoilers)

[Dogtrousers]

What kind of cyclist is TP going to be when he grows up?
If you look at his palmares, he's won so many different kinds of stuff: road, TT, CX, MTB ...

 

[rich p]

What kind of cyclist is TP going to be when he grows up?
If you look at his palmares, he's won so many different kinds of stuff: road, TT, CX, MTB ...

I love the way this new young breed aren't willing to pigeon-hole themsleves. WVA, MVDP etc

 

[matticus]

Van Vleuten has blogged. Not sure how much to believe, but I think it's more evidence that the info situation was chaotic!
https://www.annemiekvanvleuten.nl/nieuws/zilveren-medaille-bij-wegwedstrijd-in-tokyo/

 

[Mike_P]

I love the way this new young breed aren't willing to pigeon-hole themsleves. WVA, MVDP etc

Maybe have a MTB stage on the grand tours

 

[rich p]

Maybe have a MTB stage on the grand tours

Dan Martin bottled it on the white roads in thr Giro!

 

[Beebo]

What kind of cyclist is TP going to be when he grows up?
If you look at his palmares, he's won so many different kinds of stuff: road, TT, CX, MTB ...

As they said in commentary, it gets very difficult to avoid the lure of the money. And the money is with the big road teams.
He also wants to do the crazy endurance stuff but a pro team is unlikely to allow that.

 

[Adam4868]

As they said in commentary, it gets very difficult to avoid the lure of the money. And the money is with the big road teams.
He also wants to do the crazy endurance stuff but a pro team is unlikely to allow that.

EF riders seem to be able to.

 

[Adam4868]

MVPD,WVA,Pidcock against each other in the classics next year 😁

 

[Va Va Froome]

Some of the Olympic velodrome boys have had great road careers (Wiggins/Pursuit, Thomas/Pursuit, Cavendish/Omnium).

I really love that multidisciplinary way.

I hadn't really seen much of Pidcock apart from 'look out for this guy, he's won offroad youth World Championships' type chat. Some recognisable road names he competed with in World Championship Cyclocross (van Aert / van der Poel). I bet he'll be really keen to try and get the gold in that event to upgrade his silver and be the first UK winner of it!

 

[mjr]

Van Vleuten has blogged. Not sure how much to believe, but I think it's more evidence that the info situation was chaotic!
https://www.annemiekvanvleuten.nl/nieuws/zilveren-medaille-bij-wegwedstrijd-in-tokyo/

The quotes in this look similar to that: https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/an...ce-radios-led-to-confusion-at-tokyo-olympics/

Still pretty graceless to keep on about not being allowed radios so much and credit the winner so little.

 

[mjr]

When your country has no luck, it hurts: Dutch BMX racer hits race official who walked across the course: https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bm...h-official-during-training-at-tokyo-olympics/

 

[Dogtrousers]

Some of the Olympic velodrome boys have had great road careers (Wiggins/Pursuit, Thomas/Pursuit, Cavendish/Omnium).

I really love that multidisciplinary way.

I hadn't really seen much of Pidcock apart from 'look out for this guy, he's won offroad youth World Championships' type chat. Some recognisable road names he competed with in World Championship Cyclocross (van Aert / van der Poel). I bet he'll be really keen to try and get the gold in that event to upgrade his silver and be the first UK winner of it!

He won a lot more as well as off-road as a youth - such world TT, Paris Roubaix, Giro d'Italia.

Plus as a senior Brabantse Pijl (outsprited WvA) and second in Amstel Gold (to WvA in a controversial photo finish)

Add in his CX and MTB success and it's hard to see what he isn't good at.

 

[Va Va Froome]

Oh no! Puncture for one of the UK women in the triathlon! So close to the transition zone too... :/

 

[Va Va Froome]

He won a lot more as well as off-road as a youth - such world TT, Paris Roubaix, Giro d'Italia.

Plus as a senior Brabantse Pijl (outsprited WvA) and second in Amstel Gold (to WvA in a controversial photo finish)

Add in his CX and MTB success and it's hard to see what he isn't good at.

The world is well and truly his oyster!

I never knew there was a junior Giro. I see Marco Pantani on the list of champions after checking.

 

[Beebo]

Oh no! Puncture for one of the UK women in the triathlon! So close to the transition zone too... :/

She won the silver medal. Great effort.
Could she have won gold?