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The Official Olympic Thread

The athletes are 100% feeding off the performances and being inspired by the guys winning medals, the crowds are helping hugely too..

Home advantage is helping for sure, but for some like Adlington, she couldnt handle it so its not only an advantage
 
Bit sad listening to Cavandish talking about the Omnium. Cav would absolutely run away with the Omnium. I can't see Clancy doing well enough in this to get Gold.
 
markysimmo said:
The athletes are 100% feeding off the performances and being inspired by the guys winning medals, the crowds are helping hugely too..

Home advantage is helping for sure, but for some like Adlington, she couldnt handle it so its not only an advantage
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Absolutely. The pressure they are under must be immense.
 
Sandman said:
They changed the cycling rules so you could only be in 1 event. Seems totally unfair as every other discipline lets you enter as many as you want.
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Haven't studied this too closely, but it's weird. To ride the TT you had to do the road race. To enter the keirin you had to do another event as well, some were put in the road race and wasted a spot for their country.
 
Jurgen the German said:
Why isn't Cav in more events? He's only done 1 hasn't he?
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He needed to ride a world cup track event in the last 2 years to qualify. He was too busy fulfilling his commitments to road team employers to take time off to compete in these. I also think he completely fell out of love with track cycling after Beijing.
 
markysimmo said:
The athletes are 100% feeding off the performances and being inspired by the guys winning medals, the crowds are helping hugely too..

Home advantage is helping for sure, but for some like Adlington, she couldnt handle it so its not only an advantage
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Not slating Becky at all, but I just don't think she is as good as the Chinese who won the gold. Becky WAS behind her own best, but the winner smashed Becky's WR anyway, so even if Becky was at her best she still wouldn't have won. 2 Bronze's is a fine effort, 4 medals from 2 olympics is awesome
 
Really looking forward to the 100m final later, think Yohan Blake will take it honestly. I'm sure Usain Bolt will end up winning though
 
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