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Olympic Road Race
Only five days to go!
Start lists are up on Cycling Fever but beware, Cadel Evans has already put his participation in doubt so things may change.
I assume that points will be scored in line with one day classics, something like this from Milan San Remo?
Information on scoring
This stage will be scored on the following criteria:
Finish line - one day race: Points awarded for the first 20 riders over the line in a one-day race.
The following points will be awarded (1st-20th): 50, 40, 30, 25, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Last man home: 10 points awarded for the last man home on a tour stage or one-day race
Breakaway bonus: 10 points to any rider in a lead breakaway group of 10 riders or less that's more than a minute ahead of the peloton at half distance
Team bonus: 5 points to every participating rider in the winning rider's team
Dave, will it work like the Worlds last year with two per nationality and team bonus points awarded for same country rather than trade team?
The Favourites seems to be Cavendish, Sagan (although he's racing on his own, no teammates), Goss (who can't win a thing) and Griepel which suggests everyone expects a sprint finish. Can anyone see a lone or small group breakaway winning? Possibly Boonen/Gilbert? Italy always seem to go well too so I expect them to be there or there abouts with Modolo/Paolini.
I think I'll be loading my team with sprinters but might take a punt on Boonen if he's fit (didn't he break some ribs in the Tour of Poland?).
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Official top 20
1 87 VINOKUROV Alexandr 4:25:50 4:47:27 5:45:57 +
2 52 URAN URAN Rigoberto 4:25:50 4:47:27 5:45:57 +
3 122 KRISTOFF Alexander 4:25:20 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
4 29 PHINNEY Taylor 4:25:20 4:47:27 5:46:05 +
5 120 LAGUTIN Sergey 4:25:50 4:47:27 5:46:05 +
6 24 O'GRADY Stuart 4:24:57 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
7 18 ROELANDTS Jurgen 4:24:57 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
8 40 RAST Gregory 4:24:57 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
9 8 PAOLINI Luca 4:24:57 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
10 82 BAUER Jack 4:24:57 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
11 31 BOOM Lars 4:24:57 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
12 96 FUGLSANG Jakob 4:24:57 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
13 43 COSTA Rui Alberto Faria 4:25:34 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
14 3 SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon 4:25:50 4:47:27 5:46:05 +
15 85 KREUZIGER Roman 4:24:57 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
16 51 HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis 4:25:50 4:47:27 5:46:05 +
17 88 GRIVKO Andriy 4:24:57 4:47:06 5:46:05 +
18 4 VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro 4:25:50 4:47:27 5:46:05 +
19 17 GILBERT Philippe 4:24:57 4:46:23 5:46:05 +
20 54 CHAVANEL Sylvain 4:24:57 4:47:06 5:46:05
Gutted for Rigoberto - he learn a tactical lesson today
10th and 18th ! Never saw that coming..... #neverjumponthebandwagon again
A whopping 0 points...ironic that my TT team would have scored 42!
lol agree. shame that Phinney gets no medal because of this cheater Vino.
Could have watched the race on Eurosport with the Harmon and Kelly......
Oh. I saw it coming but always difficult to predict who's going to be in a split and the famous names like Gilbert and Chavanal hardly scored anything. If I'd gone all out for the split I might have got 1 or 2 more if I was lucky. If it had come down to a bunch sprint I would have lost out big time. Pity Kolobnev wasted too much energy earleir on though!
I said this in March in a discussion about Millar on cyclechat. Some of the names aren't relevant now of course.
If there is any kind of split on one of the earlier or middle ascents of Box Hill and Cav and a few of the other 'pure' sprinters are the wrong side of it we can expect quite a few teams to work hard to keep it that way. Belgium will I'm sure, they've got loads of options - maybe too many; Spain, if Freire is in the right place; Australia, with Goss and Gerrans and probably some others as well. Not sure we're going to have many allies in bringing back a split and with Wiggins concentrating on the TT, Millar, who knows, and only a couple of other riders a bunch sprint is far from assured. Hunt and Stannard couldn't bring back a split at GW nor could a 5-man Sky team at MSR. The Olympic course is nowhere near as tough as either of those two races and that is our ace in the hole, but there will be a lot of effort put in by some big countries to get rid of Cav; 'blocking' tactics, which I think may have been employed at the descent during GW or high-tempo riding to get rid of Cav rather than to stop attacks and then there's always the possibility of crashes, badly timed punctures etc. It's going to be an interesting tactical race with a lot more difficulties for Brailsford than Copenhagen. I'd probably say 70% bunch sprint; 25% split in the peloton and 5% mediumish break succeeds.
Alan Tullett, 28 Mar 2012
Coverage was crap . Shame Cav didn't get a chance to sprint .
We were well a truly hung out to dry
A Moroccan guy was last man home
0 points but still 1177th on stage, says a lot, as does the fact that the top stage score was 88!
In the end I'll take back what I said about having no race radios not affecting the race. If GB had had radio they'd have known who was in the break (Cancellara, Vino, Chavanel, Gilbert, Sanchez and Valverde) and would have been told by Sutton/Brailsford to bring it back together straight away rather than giving them a minute. Likewise Millar could have been ordered over the radio to get in the break.
Did it benefit the race? No, not in my opinion, it robbed us of the spectacle of a sprint finish down the Mall and I feel pretty disappointed with how the race turned out.
4 and 10 (36 points) for me. Was beginining to thing nil point but scrapped some there. Who was the last man home by the way
Oops, bump that to 48 - didn't see polini at 9 there
Disapointed Cav didnt win but glad as well that Vino won. Makes a nice change rather than the usual suspects.
Now for the tt.
Vino was an odd winner, he's an ex-(probably)-doper who divides opinion. It's similar to if Millar had won, or Valverde. He was a deserving winner though (assuming he's clean) given how well he read the race not only to get into the right break at the right time but to make the winning move alongside Uran.
1 point? Really? never saw that coming! thought I was being clever with my team, then again I thought that during the Tour too, Voeckler started winning stages as soon as I transferred him out!
Yay, 0 points.
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