mag900 wrote:
ThisIsIt wrote:
snaaijert wrote:
Abbott, Johansson, Longoborghini all ride for Wiggle High5. So in that light they basically enacted an Etixx vs. Stannard scenario ;) Purely trade teams you don't ride of course, unless you have a female Sagan coming up from behind. I agree you have to be willing to lose in order to win but getting on the podium counts a little bit more in the Olympics than at any other race, you do get to bring home some kind of hardware (look at the men's race yesterday, all three medallists were happy). And the other saying is, you have to be at the front in order to win the race ;)Well they were going to catch Abbott if they just kept working and you'd have to figure she'd have nothing for a sprint. I guess I just don't get why she put her head down and buried herself without even trying to get the others to work especially if it was her team mate up the road? So aren't you saying that the riders that got 2,3 and 4th ride for the same team? And the one rider that wasn't on their team got gold? You couldn't fuck it up any worse than that if you tried :)
Johansson and Longoborhini should have been pulling the trade team card and forced that Dutch rider to work or let their trade team member win. Abbott should be super pissed one way or another.
yeah, that was so obvious being that it took them until 150m to go to catch her. had they been just a little less organized, then never would have caught her. if she sat up and "made" them work (as you incorrectly assume she would have been able to), that time soft pedaling could have been the difference between catching her and not catching her.
your expert background in cycling also COMPLETELY misses the fact that the 2nd chase pack closed to within 10 seconds of them so any jerking around trying to force the other 2 to work most definitely would have brought the 2 groups together and she would have been sprinting with 6 (or 7) and she's not a sprinter. she did what she had to do to maximize her performance (a bronze with a shot at gold) while you continue posting irrational posts on a message board.
this.
Guess what happened in the closing kms of the 2014 championships on ponferrada? Vos, Armitstead, Johansson, and guess who, Longo Borghini established a sizeable gap into the run-in. Guess what happened in that race?
it's funny that thisisit claims to watch a lot of cycling when s/he misses the connection to almost the exact same scenario two years ago