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Well this took too long. The track events are way too busy, I got bored and have bolded finals/events which are one-offs. Most track days are only a few hours. BST gives us an hour on the usual GMT+9. I have probably made mistakes, check that and details here.

Date​
EventJSTBST
24 July 2021​
Men's Road Race11:0003:00
25 July 2021​
Women's Road race13:0005:00
26 July 2021​
Men's MTB15:0007:00
27 July 2021​
Women's MTB15:0007:00
28 July 2021​
Women's ITT11:3003:30
28 July 2021​
Men's ITT14:0004:00
29 July 2021​
BMX Racing q/f*10:0002:00
30 July 2021​
BMX Racing semis/finals*10:0002:00
31 July 2021​
BMX Freestyle Seeding*10:1002:20
01 August 2021​
BMX Freestyle Final10:1002:20
02 August 2021​
Women's team sprint (qual to medals)15:3007:30
03 August 2021​
Women's Team Pursuit (All)15:3007:30
03 August 2021​
Men's Team pursuit (Heats), men's team sprint (all)15:5807:58
04 August 2021​
W's keirin+M's sprint (various), M team pursuit finals15:5007:50
05 August 2021​
Various bloody track (more sprint, W Keirin finals, M omnium to finals)15:3007:30
06 August 2021​
W's Sprint, W's Madison, Men's sprint finals15:3007:30
07 August 2021​
W's Sprint, M's Keirin, M's Madison15:3007:30
08 August 2021​
W Sprint, M Keirin, W Omnium10:0002:00

*BMX racing alternates men's and women's. BMX freestyle men start an hour after women's.

Cycling weekly gives a breakdown of the road events... Men's looks interesting - 234km, 4865m of climbing. So I suppose will be a long one, and probably possible to catch a fair bit of it.

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Mikuni pass climb looks savage, with opportunities to shake up the whole thing in the run up to the last 30 or so km:

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Fuji Sanroku is more of a steady grind:

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Women's is less interesting, because sexism.

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MTB should be the other interesting one to watch of course. Tom Pidcock and MvdP of course. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot favourite for the women. More details over on MBR.

I'm afraid I haven't done the paralympics, the classes are complicated and this has already taken too long.
 
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Women's road race at 2012 Olympics was kind of what got me into road racing.. superb race. Got bad memories of the road races in Rio - bonkers course.
 
15,000 ft of climbing in 145 miles. Ouch. Rather them than me :D

Looking forward to watching the BMX racing - those guys are insane, highest peak power output of any cycling discipline, they even beat the track sprinters.
 
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15,000 ft of climbing in 145 miles. Ouch. Rather them than me :D

Looking forward to watching the BMX racing - those guys are insane, highest peak power output of any cycling discipline, they even beat the track sprinters.
Wow, not that I would know but that’s a pretty mad thing too now know about the BMX lot. Scary.
 
Wow, not that I would know but that’s a pretty mad thing too now know about the BMX lot. Scary.
Yeah, the top guys kick out well over 2000W down the starting hill, and over 1500W out of the corners. All at a ridiculously high cadence due to the gearing they use.

If you have GCN+ (and if you like cycling getting it is a no brainer) theees a great documentary on there called “Turning dirt to gold”…
 
Has GB any chance of medals in the individual tracks events? The bookies are only listing team track events and they reckon GB has no hope in those.
What's been happening up at the Medal Laboratory?
 
So Slovenian gold men’s road race Sat? I mean Pog and Rog. Though I realise they’re competing. Parcour should favour them right?

Belgium strong too of course, be interesting to see how Evenepoel goes. Van Aert seems intent on upsetting things.

Colombian lineup has Nairoman, Uran, Dani Martinez, Chaves and Higuita.

Netherlands, GB, Italy… Ecuador, Australia, Denmark :hmm: there are loads of interesting names peppered about tbh. Hungary has one spot across all the cyclings, it’s Atilla Valter though - want to see what he manages.

I suppose there’s a lot of climbing… but it’s not super tough climbing by the looks of it, nor is it altitude. So the major GC guys rather than climbing specialists maybe? And of course recovery and training opportunities may be an issue.

One thing is certain, quite a few people going to be dropped hard and early.
 
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The confusing bit is that the teams are not teams. There are no domestiques. It's every man or woman for themselves. Except when they plot to share the medals and ride together for a bit. And the plotters might be on the same trade team but different national teams.
 
The confusing bit is that the teams are not teams. There are no domestiques. It's every man or woman for themselves. Except when they plot to share the medals and ride together for a bit. And the plotters might be on the same trade team but different national teams.
Yeah, it’s what makes the tactics so interesting :cool:
 
Blimey - there was me thinking I was going to have a nice Saturday afternoon watching it.. :facepalm:

I'm really not sure I can manage 3am.
 
Heart says Remco for the men's road race and even though I can't quite see it, it's worth fiver.
Plus a few quid each way on these outsiders - Mollema (Ned), Bettiol (Italy) and Lutsenko (Kaz).
Having said that it'll probably be one of the three hot favourites.
 
The confusing bit is that the teams are not teams. There are no domestiques. It's every man or woman for themselves. Except when they plot to share the medals and ride together for a bit. And the plotters might be on the same trade team but different national teams.
Not quite true.
Slovenia for instance has included two excellent domestiques in Polanc and Tratnik who'll be working for the two stars and Belgium will have designated helpers too for their pair. Spain will ride for Valverde.
I suppose there are some teams like Italy and GB where it is hard to pick out a real leader and that'll be sorted out on the road and then there are others like Russia where it'll be a right old internal battle
 
My favourite Olympic cycling is in the Triathlon, someone PLS tell me the Brownlee Brothers are involved this time! ♥️ I had no clue how the tactics worked at the time (and I've since forgotten) but watching the two of them very much bossing it in Rio during the cycling stage was eclipsed only by Max Whitlock's two golds in gymnastics.
 
GCN+ having some sound issues (and it was Brian and some other guy), BBC has Boredman. Sigh.

Ah, BBC taking a break.
 
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