Tokyo Olympics 2021

If you have Eurosport on sky or Virgin they've added loads of extra channels. Goes up to Eurosport 10 now with lots of Olympics stuff.

Eurosport player online is also meant to be the same.

Burn. Repped.

World champ in the past. Could probably qualify…

Late to the party, but watched the race through in full here in Yokohama yesterday.

Having ridden all the roads and climbs except Fuji Speedway (trained on the first part - called the Onekan - this AM), I can confirm that the main climbs are really tough.

I have done Mikuni Pass a good few times this year and knew the race would be blown apart there. Toward the top, but still with a couple of KM to go, you would’ve seen the road covered in small “doughnuts.” That indicates that the road is up and over 15% and there’s kickers to 18% in that section too - that comes after a lot of climbing and always kicks your face in.

To see the riders race those same roads as I’ve ridden, but at that speed, was really something.

As for the heat, it’s brutal this time of year and the time in which I most want to come back to the UK to work for a couple of months. Massive humidity and around early to mid-thirties in temperature (it’s like cycling in a sauna/steam room).

Anecdotally, the shrine at the start of the race - Okunitama - is where my wife and I were married. Really strange seeing the peloton go through there!

If anyone is over here and wants to ride either the route (sans Fuji Speedway) or any other more interesting roads than you find in Tokyo, happy to give guidance or perhaps join.

It's easy. When they asked what country I was racing for I just pointed out I had my own gravity and orbiting moons and they let me roll off the start. No medal this year. Maybe in Brisbane.

How many NL riders does it take to count the riders in the break?

She's 30 and used to be pro. I looked at wiki and I think it said last rode for a team in 2017. Flying under the radar almost certainly helped her win so I'm not sure she'd get signed on the basis of the win alone. They failed to count the riders off the front and they underestimated how well they rode. Still a great win for her.

Bit like '92, Kathy Watt, life member of my old club...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quPocGiPVQI

"It was a subdued one arm celebration from Watt as she crossed the line, 20 seconds ahead of Longo who celebrated what she believed was the victory."

it’s guaranteed she can count to 5

haha, this.

Will they ever address the ridiculous amount of swimming events?

Was arguing with the missus about this.

All that horeshit about some swimmer being the greatest Olympian when there's 3 strokes that are shitter than freestyle still in as separate events. Like, wtf even is "butterfly"?
If you're gonna do that shit, why not have fastest unicylcle over the Kilo, fastest backwards Kilo, fastest BMX kilo, fastest kilo done on a bike with a shopping basket full of beers, fastest e-bike kilo...

and don't get my started on the stupid fucking horse dancing and rich knobheads in yachts.

Watching re-run of street skate finals. Sell out or not, it’s pretty fun to watch. Best trick seems to be basically just lobbing themselves down 12 stairs.

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rich knobheads in yachts

This is my major issue with the Olympics. Too much of it is devoted to sports which are (and always will be) the preserve of the wealthy.

For all the talk of legacy, did London 2012 inspire any kids around Stratford to start canoeing? I’d be happy to be proved wrong but I don’t reckon it did.

Its biggest legacy was to make loads of private developers even richer.

You can buy a new sailing dinghy for less than most mid-level road bikes, and you can find second-hand dinghies for less than an Islabike.

Maybe not in Stratford but there's loads in Nottingham at the canoe slalom there.

it’s guaranteed she can count to 5 then take one away at a time to to know how many are left up the road

Careful with pure mathematicians, most of them can't do mental arithmetic. :)

Dressage, actual horse shit. The rider doesn't even do anything.

The Olympics definitely does inspire in some cases (let's see how many Austrian females are in the Olympics in the next decade) but certainly it's a massive corrupt pile of bullshit too. The question about which one outweighs the other is too complex for my little brain to cope with right now.

I don't think the boat cost is the major barrier to entry.

How is some kid, who probably has a bike already, going to get their new yacht down to the nearest lake? Who, as a kid, even thought about sailing as a sport? Surely no kid goes "hey dad, can you buy me a boat?". It's people with boats taking their kids out, right?

EDIT: Elliot Hanson literally saying he got into sailing during family holidays to Anglesea.

Watching the skateboarding now, of which I know nothing but seems weird to have a sport where everyone falls off so much

Tell that to your horse.

Something else that should've stayed in the X-Games.

Actually any sport that is judged rather than timed, or otherwise measured, should get to fuck as well. Someone's opinion shouldn't be deciding Olympic medals. Yes, that means your batton twirling bullshit wouldn't qualify for hippy's olympics either.

And I thought you was over failing as a ski jumper.

lol

If you're gonna do that shit, why not have fastest unicylcle over the Kilo, fastest backwards Kilo, fastest BMX kilo, fastest kilo done on a bike with a shopping basket full of beers, fastest e-bike kilo...

You have your eye on ‘Most Kilo’ I suppose.

Also banned is any winter sport.