In this episode Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap the men’s 2024 Olympics road race.
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Well done to Ben Healy. The two Irish guys should have gone together and could have medalled
mvdp seemed to Lack som rar power imo
REMCO EEEEEVENEPOEL 👏🏻👏🏻
Big balls Remco
What a race. So glad I got up early (western USA) to watch! Probably the best one-day race thus far in 2024?
I screamed “MECH!” when he threw his hand up …and the CNBC announcers started saying he was celebrating 🙄🙄🙄
the origin of Remco's celebration is that American tennis player Ben Shelton did it as 'dialled in', when Djokovic beat Shelton at the US open he copied the celebration and it went viral
Make it 3 riders maybe
4 riders per team would be about 800 riders
no radio -> no breaks go -> pogacar wins more stages -> traditionalists complain
I think based on todays results, Vos will win for the women. Belgium was strongest team for men, Netherlands is strongest team for women
@Patrick : bit of pipe dream, but I would donate a 100€ no problem to help fund a run from you at the LA olympics. Get an obscure citizenship such as Panama or something, go all out on training and get the f* in.
LR: "No offense" to my boss for my other job.
RRRRREMCO to Madouas: C´mon man, do some pulling feck´s sake…what do you mean you can’t? Hanging for dear life? Oh c’moooooon it is easy…look…😂😂😂
With that distant approximation of a peloton, Remco won the moment he put 40 seconds into them. Nobody in the world except for a very well organized peloton can catch the kid once he ignites the afterburners.
Web app?
lol can't use wollongong as an example for pog
benji very sweary today wtf is that about
On the question of race radio ban: what’s to stop a team from working with a bike computer brand to come up with a headset system that pushes notifications from team car to riders mid-race? The headsets already sync with phones so I can read text messages on my ride. So something similar can give team alerts like, “gap to break is 7 mins”, “Yates in the break” or “Vinegaard crashed”.
The UCI becoming Luddites was not on my radar
In austrian tv Haller said that Alaphilippe let go of Laporte wheels in the last corner and blocked it off behind, i suspect that was why the sprint for third was over before it even started and seemed so weird
Monuments should have 6 rider teams. world Championships 6 rider max. For best countries
Why Simone Felipe Yates instead of Simon Philip Yates?
What a tragedy of group 2 and false representation syndromes on display today 😢
Tadej sitting at home watching a pure power move win the gold. Discuss 🙂
last 20 min of this one is gold
Will go down as one of the most legendary 1-day races in cycling history. OMG…!
Someday Ben Healy will be rewarded [I hope].
“Who did he beat? Who did he beat? It doesn’t matter” – Patrick
It really is ridiculous that the teams have different numbers of riders. It’s as if the organizers don’t understand the realities of bike racing at all. I’m not familiar with all the other sports at the Olympics, but I don’t think most sports change the rules just for Olympics. That seems strange and unfair/untrue to what the sport actually is outside of this one event.
Enjoyed the race very much, enjoyed the podcast, too, and I already dislike the talk of "off season"🤣
I can't wait to see what Healy will accomplish. I hope he can do great things. I enjoy watching him.
Thanks for the discussion on race radios. I think I'm on the side of it's ridiculous to eliminate them. I'll keep following the discussions with interest!
Thanks, guys!
I don’t know if it was the smaller teams or the lack of radios (or both), but this was the best race I saw this year.
Love that the door shut the door on the medals.
The ioc managed to take a team sport then eliminate team strategy leaving the TT specialist to TT his way to victory. I'm happy for Remco but there was no point I thought anyone else would win. There was no excitement
Superb outing for Remco. This just shows how amazing Jan Ullrich was in Sydney 2000, pretty much doing the same thing save for Ekimov besting him to Silver and Armstrong to Bronze in the TT via tailwind.
I don't understand why every nation is entitled to a team in the olympics. Thats not the case in other team sports. If you dont qualify you dont get to go.
Favorite moment was when Remco found out that he still had a minute gap after the bike change and all the panic went away with that smile.
I'm danish and totally agree. It didn't make sense with Bjerg on the front the first 170k. Mørkøv shouldn't have been there… there is a lot of other riders who could have done better. Danish was pretty fast outnumbered by Belgian and even Netherlands…
Radios:
Riders able to talk to each other. Those with a high cycling IQ and those who have done their homework will rise to the surface.
Officials and riders able to communicate. This will allow for time gaps, course safety and mechs.
Officials and team car able to communicate. This will alert the cars of crashes and mechs.
Bro Ben Healy is so good. I think if he can plan his moves maybe a little better he has a chance to win a major race in the next 3 years
Van Aert Benoot and Suyven ride for Remco… All… The plan was to keep Van Aert in the wheel of VDP, and allow Remco to do whatever he feel was the best, wich mean huge attack or counter aroun 40=35km where he drop everyone on pace and finish solo. On belgian's side, that's what we were expecting, ang leggs and confidence were there. I review the race starting 72km, it was huge, just violent the way he wore everyone out.