Men's Olympic Road Race

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It's a long one, what are people's predictions? Or is it such a long race with unknown teams that it's just too hard to predict? I don't even know what team GB's tactics will be. Good to see Chris Boardman there and good to see his course preview, looks dangerous.

[Brucey]

we'll have to wait and see....

this is the course profile they didn't show you;



cheers

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Painful to watch. Exciting though.

[Spinners]

Epic. Best Men's ORR I can remember.

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Got the women's tomorrow too.

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Hi,
I always winch and shout when the commentator says XXXXX is the best at downhill That's before the hill.............

The other says those M/Cycle riders are real pro's

[freeflow]

Recorded this race on red button. The recording stopped at 13 km to go.t
Thanks for nothing BBC

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
Struggling to find any online evidence of the cobbles chain unshipping and seat posts dropping, BBC did show some video today, but its scarce?

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The live coverage on BBC1 cut to the news, where they helpfully spent several minutes telling me the Olympics were on, whilst I was desperately trying to get the coverage up on my laptop, which played up for a few minutes, which was helpful, never understand why they have to put it on BBC1 if they are then going to keep swapping channels for the news.

[Paulatic]

The live coverage on BBC1 cut to the news, where they helpfully spent several minutes telling me the Olympics were on, whilst I was desperately trying to get the coverage up on my laptop, which played up for a few minutes, which was helpful, never understand why they have to put it on BBC1 if they are then going to keep swapping channels for the news.

Entire race on the red button. Albeit sometimes a lull in commentary.

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Did anyone keep their eye on the remaining km graphic, as it didn't seem to match up with the profile above, they were still going uphill beyond 20km left, or am I reading something wrong?

[Brucey]

Radio 5 live is reporting that Annemiek Van Vleuten is said to be 'injured, but conscious and talking' on the way to hospital.

I hope she is OK; it isn't often that I cry out when watching TV, but I did when she went down. It looked like a really nasty crash.

cheers

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Really not a nice crash, thought maybe they would have done something to make it a bit safer after yesterday.

[Brucey]

Dutch cycling union (KNWU) has tweeted

Van Vleuten blijkt oké te zijn. Meer nieuws volgt.

which allegedly translates to

Van Vleuten turns out okay. More news will follow.

Van Vleuten's crash was pretty nasty, but it could have been worse; at the time I honestly thought she might be dead, the way she fell.

Porte broke his scapula yesterday and Nibali broke both collarbones.

Just imagine how bad it could have been if it had rained more; it was dry for the Men's race but just spitting as the lead women started their descent.

Geraint Thomas was lucky to be more or less unscathed from his fall and might get a ride in the TT on Wednesday if there are spare (unused) slots belonging to other nations.

cheers

[Spinners]

Van Vleuten's crash was pretty nasty, but it could have been worse; at the time I honestly thought she might be dead, the way she fell.

Aye, me too. I've just changed channels to avoid seeing it on the news. Worst I've seen. Hope she makes a full recovery.

Another very exciting race.