Uran error in RR

[Hont]

Yeah I know this is late, but I was at the Olympics all last week with no internet (other than intermittent 3G).

Does everyone think that Uran's long look over the wrong shoulder and drifting offline was just an amateurish mistake or that Vino got his cheque-book out again?

 

[Dayvo]

Both 'suggestions' seem valid, IMO.

To be that careless/nonchalent just short of the line with no threat from a third cyclist is either amateurish in the extreme, or accepting second best/sliver medal and a brown envelope shows no morals in selling out for spondoolies.

I saw the race (on't telly) with a few other CCers and we had that suspicion, too.

 

[Noodley]

feel free to contribute to the Olympic RR spoiler thread.

 

[Jon Baines]

Tbh if he was paid of then fair play, he was never going to beat Vino in a sprint anyway. That said i dont think he was paid of just kind of knew Silver was the best he could hope for

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Exactly, Uran got the best he could out of that situation - no-one would have predicted him getting silver before the race.

 

[lukesdad]

Both 'suggestions' seem valid, IMO.

To be that careless/nonchalent just short of the line with no threat from a third cyclist is either amateurish in the extreme, or accepting second best/sliver medal and a brown envelope shows no morals in selling out for spondoolies.

I saw the race (on't telly) with a few other CCers and we had that suspicion, too.

Did we ? Oh yeah..... I may have been having a little nap then ! probably beer fatigue caught up with me.

 

[oldroadman]

Pathetic conspiracy theory. Why would Uran want to lose if he could help it? It would add contract value for at least next year. No logic to suggest otherwise. He was never going to outsprint Vino anyway.

 

[Boris Bajic]

Great race. Vino and Uran were not on my (long) list of likely medal winners.

Well done to both for their cunning, opportunism, speed and guts.

I don't think it was a deliberate mistake or even much of a mistake at all.

Had Uran won, we'd be wondering about Vino.... Maybe. But he didn't.

For the neutral, that was a good race.

 

[400bhp]

Pathetic conspiracy theory. Why would Uran want to lose if he could help it? It would add contract value for at least next year. No logic to suggest otherwise. He was never going to outsprint Vino anyway.

Completely - endorsements etc would far outweigh any relative brown envelope.