Olympic Cycling Thread (8 Gold; 2 Silver; 2 Bronze)
 

Boom.

Looking forward to a bit of Vicky Pendleton :pipe:

That doc about her on BBC1 :love:

Mark Cavendish + co on the road now

Just over an hour to go and it's a stroll in the park for GB at the minute

Gilbert is going for it now

GB have bottled it big time, no chance of medals now :bored:

Borat wins!

wtf happened to GB I thought we were doing well earlier :suspect:

kazakhstan number one

http://www.bigfanboy.com/pages/revie...orat/rodeo.jpg

The Winner looks about 60

The peloton (which is the main group of riders) left all the work to team GB to catch up with the leaders (the people that break away from the main group, usually leads to fatigue for the final sprint), which meant that it was harder to make up the distance between the two groups, which meant that team GB were left way behind at the end.

should have gone with the leading group when they broke from the peloton and then if Cav would have gone away with the front 2 he would have got at least a bronze

They were trying to preserve Cav's energy for the final sprint, but they didn't expect the gap to be 50+ secs with under 10kms remaining.

yeah i know but i don't know why they never expected that everyone was going to race against them, they have a World Champion and a tour de france winner in their group they were never going to be given anything

Yeah they got too cocky.

Hopefully we do well in the Time Trials.

When is the one they go around on the circuit on?

the track cycling in the Velodrome starts on the 2nd of August

:amazed: cheers

Armitstead :worship: wins GB's first medal - silver :D

awwwww she's crying :lovedup:

Good stuff, should be getting our first gold courtesy of Rebecca Adlington in the swimming later.

I missed it, was it close near the end?

there were 3 of them at the front and she was third for most of it, but she & the dutch winner pushed for the final sprint where the Russian sort-of fell behind

The Dutch Winner was favourite if it's the one i'm thinking off, the one with the 3 letter surname?