Olympic MTB

[y2blade]

Flippin heck...how good was that Olympic MTB race

superb finish.

[S1_RS]

Loved it!

[Pints]

Anybody else notice that Fontana lost his saddle and post on the last lap? Nothing was mentioned by the commentators.

[S1_RS]

Pints said:

Anybody else notice that Fontana lost his saddle and post on the last lap? Nothing was mentioned by the commentators.

I saw something fall going through a rocl section, but they didnt get a decent view of his bike after so wasn't sure.

[Pints]

S1_RS said:

I saw something fall going through a rocl section, but they didnt get a decent view of his bike after so wasn't sure.

Not sure what the section was called but it was most certainly his S&P.

That was the point he started dropping back and would explain the tears and shaking of his head as he approached the line.

Otherwise a cracking race. I was disappointed Stander couldn't do more with his chase. Too many attempts from him to pull a gap at the front rather than just sitting with the leaders.

[s3fella]

Ithought the cometators were dismal on it. Talked such a lot of rubbish and completely missed the saddle fall off.

[Pints]

Yep. Shoddy commentating on a brilliant race.

Perhaps we should offer our services for Rio.

[pastrana72]

s3fella said:

Ithought the cometators were dismal on it. Talked such a lot of rubbish and completely missed the saddle fall off.

I agree, you could easily see it fell off and he was forced to carry on with out it.

[996 sps]

Cracking race, didn't notice he'd lost his saddle, anyone know when the course is open to the public?

[VinceFox]

Pints said:

Anybody else notice that Fontana lost his saddle and post on the last lap? Nothing was mentioned by the commentators.

[Pints]

[joema]

I'll eat my words about the course. Course looked pretty good. Produced a good race too.

Seems xc'ers can actually ride off road than being ex roadies. Good stuff. Schurter and Fontana have good skills.

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Val-dIsere-XC-UCI-Wor...

A lot different compared to racing 10 years ago when I stopped xc

[y2blade]

joema said:

I'll eat my words about the course. Course looked pretty good. Produced a good race too.

Seems xc'ers can actually ride off road than being ex roadies. Good stuff. Schurter and Fontana have good skills.

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Val-dIsere-XC-UCI-Wor...

A lot different compared to racing 10 years ago when I stopped xc

I thought the Course was brilliant, I'd love to wizz round it.


Also the Blonde presenter was a very cutie.

[joema]

Me too. But they said they're taking rocks out? Just make an alternate line ffs. Loads of mtb tracks with worse stuff open to public...

[scrwright]

Anyone got the link for it on iplayer, struggling to find it

[BadRotorFinger]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-vide...

Should do it.

[IS200RJR]

I was there enjoyed the day except having to leave the park took well over an hour to get out very poorley organised.
I agree the comentry was shooking too

[scrwright]

BadRotorFinger said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-vide...

Should do it.

TVM

[CoolC]

BadRotorFinger said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-vide...

Should do it.

Thanks. I only saw the first half then had to go out, sounds like all the interesting stuff happened after that.

[Digga]

s3fella said:

Ithought the cometators were dismal on it. Talked such a lot of rubbish and completely missed the saddle fall off.

Bpardman talked up the difficulty of it nicely - certianly from a cardio point of view - but niether of them were mtbers FFS!

Surely they could have found current or previous mtb XC racers who'd have been capable of bringing more life and in-depth knowledge into the commentary.