Rio 2016 Olympics

Quorn do everything meat these days

did you know

'Actually, I didn't, because my parents never taught me anything useful when I was little.' :)

Who's the clown doing the commentary on the footy? He's channeling Partridge.

"Liquid football"

"YOU COULDN'T WRITE IT. YOU COULD NOT WRITE IT"

Okay.

i hate the fucking olympics but i like usain bolt
this is why we are poor

Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of @sausagefingers mind. To keep him in control was not difficult….

So I almost got stung with the start times for the men's road race. Google and BBC are telling me the men's MTB starts at 16:30 BST. Can anyone tell me anything different?

Haha, also, "because if you did, nobody would believe you!". Really? Is it that implausible that Neymar scores the winning penalty in a shootout?

I mean if they brought Pele on he did I might be a bit more surprised.

They were both accurate about yesterday's MTB event.

With MTB racing these days, are there any rules about what sort of bike you have to ride? Apart from the rocky section yesterday, I would've thought it would've been quicker if you went the Johnny T route with drops on a cross type bike.

I am assuming drops are still banned. It seemed to take forever for the UCI to allow 29ers back in the day.

Cracking job by Callum Hawkins in the marathon. 9th place at 24, he'll go far.

§ 7 Equipment
4.1.039

During MTB races no traditional road handlebars may be used.
The handlebars extensions of a triathlon or time trial type are forbidden, but traditional
barends are authorized.
(article introduced on 1.02.12)

Well that sucks.

I wouldn't have thought the riders were that concerned with aero benefits of drops at the speeds they race. They mostly appear to be running much wider bars that you used to see in XC races too.

Also, the course really is far more technical than it looks on TV.

Sagan from 50th to 3rd

Not bad so far

Switching from the team rhythmic gymnastics to this is quite a contrast

P***ture :-(

Yeah. Fontana too. Hopefully they can work together once they get repairs

That 'tash

Nino's throwing in the little tailwhips already.

This isn't the greatest advert for tubeless tyres.

Yeah should have been on tubulars

Never heard of a pretzeled wheel before