Individual Time Trials tomorrow
Discussion
GBDG said:
I'm going with Cancellara. Wigging in Silver. Not sure if it's hilly enough for Froom and the TT specialists like Tony Martin will be much more rested than they were in TDF TTs
Agree it's not Froome's ideal but the guy's in astounding form, especially given no team tactics involved and no reason to try and save some gas for anything else. Fabs had that nasty crash in the road race and has said he's still in a hell of a lot of pain... haemmorhage into muscles must hurt horrifically... and Wiggins beat him apparently without breaking a sweat in the longer of the two Tour TTs that they both did (obv Cancellara didn't do the last one, he'd gone home to have babies by then).Tony Martin is interesting, but still has a broken wrist!
It is really hard to call.
Taking the first long distance time trial. I am not saying Wiggins and Froome could not have won it, but it was a suprise to see them do it by so much. That coupled with Teejay being so close to him I think that Cancellara was having an off day. Tony Martin got a puncture 5km in, and had a broken wrist. Neither competed in the second.
So Cancellara and Martin didn't, IMHO really show their hand in the Tour. But alternativly, Cancellara has hurt his collarbone in a crash in the road race, and Tony Martin is still struggling with his wrist, which as someone pointed out on another thread will make coming in and out of crouch a pain.
I think Wiggins, Cancellara and Martin (barring bad luck) will be the medalists, but I really cannot begin to guess which order. Froome will probably be fourth.
I feel a little for Wiggo, as the British press are already acting like the gold in nailed on - and Joe Bloggs who doesn't know much about road cycling agrees. If he doesn't deliver people will have a big old moan.
Taking the first long distance time trial. I am not saying Wiggins and Froome could not have won it, but it was a suprise to see them do it by so much. That coupled with Teejay being so close to him I think that Cancellara was having an off day. Tony Martin got a puncture 5km in, and had a broken wrist. Neither competed in the second.
So Cancellara and Martin didn't, IMHO really show their hand in the Tour. But alternativly, Cancellara has hurt his collarbone in a crash in the road race, and Tony Martin is still struggling with his wrist, which as someone pointed out on another thread will make coming in and out of crouch a pain.
I think Wiggins, Cancellara and Martin (barring bad luck) will be the medalists, but I really cannot begin to guess which order. Froome will probably be fourth.
I feel a little for Wiggo, as the British press are already acting like the gold in nailed on - and Joe Bloggs who doesn't know much about road cycling agrees. If he doesn't deliver people will have a big old moan.
Vocal Minority said:
It is really hard to call.
Taking the first long distance time trial. I am not saying Wiggins and Froome could not have won it, but it was a suprise to see them do it by so much. That coupled with Teejay being so close to him I think that Cancellara was having an off day. Tony Martin got a puncture 5km in, and had a broken wrist. Neither competed in the second.
So Cancellara and Martin didn't, IMHO really show their hand in the Tour. But alternativly, Cancellara has hurt his collarbone in a crash in the road race, and Tony Martin is still struggling with his wrist, which as someone pointed out on another thread will make coming in and out of crouch a pain.
I think Wiggins, Cancellara and Martin (barring bad luck) will be the medalists, but I really cannot begin to guess which order. Froome will probably be fourth.
I feel a little for Wiggo, as the British press are already acting like the gold in nailed on - and Joe Bloggs who doesn't know much about road cycling agrees. If he doesn't deliver people will have a big old moan.
Agree with this. I think the top 3 are pretty much in the bag, it's just a matter of the order. I think old Spartacus could pull it out of the bag for this regardless of the shoulder injury from Saturday. Taking the first long distance time trial. I am not saying Wiggins and Froome could not have won it, but it was a suprise to see them do it by so much. That coupled with Teejay being so close to him I think that Cancellara was having an off day. Tony Martin got a puncture 5km in, and had a broken wrist. Neither competed in the second.
So Cancellara and Martin didn't, IMHO really show their hand in the Tour. But alternativly, Cancellara has hurt his collarbone in a crash in the road race, and Tony Martin is still struggling with his wrist, which as someone pointed out on another thread will make coming in and out of crouch a pain.
I think Wiggins, Cancellara and Martin (barring bad luck) will be the medalists, but I really cannot begin to guess which order. Froome will probably be fourth.
I feel a little for Wiggo, as the British press are already acting like the gold in nailed on - and Joe Bloggs who doesn't know much about road cycling agrees. If he doesn't deliver people will have a big old moan.
Wiggo will do well but everyone is going on about how he is a shoe-in for Gold and how we need him to get Gold etc etc. and if he doesn't win people will go on about it for ages. Look how the majority moaned about Saturday's result. We also don't know how tired he is after the effort put in on Saturday.
Should be well worth watching!
Well, at least there aren't any tactics involved with TT, so I won't have to spend the next few days reading painfully poorly informed opinions about how Wiggins should have used 4-4-2 to break away, while David Millar was a shoe in for a sprint finish if he hadn't been held back by Cav or whatever else.
GBDG said:
Well, at least there aren't any tactics involved with TT, so I won't have to spend the next few days reading painfully poorly informed opinions about how Wiggins should have used 4-4-2 to break away, while David Millar was a shoe in for a sprint finish if he hadn't been held back by Cav or whatever else.
+1! 
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