Olympic MTB Cross Country

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Women's MTB cross country - 11th Aug
Men's MTB cross country - 12th Aug

Men's start list:
1 Julien Absalon (France)
2 Marios Athanasiadis (Cyprus)
3 Marc Bassingthwaighte (Namibia)
4 Sam Bewley (New Zealand)
5 Piotr Brzozka (Poland)
6 Philip Buys (South Africa)
7 Chun Hing Chan (Hong Kong)
8 Ondrej Cink (Czech Republic)
9 Carlos Coloma Nicolas (Spain)
10 Marco Aurelio Fontana (Italy)
11 Robert Forstemann (Germany)
12 Manuel Fumic (Germany)
13 Alexander Gehbauer (Austria)
14 Jose Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spain)
15 Derek Horton (Guam)
16 Periklis Ilias (Greece)
17 Geoff Kabush (Canada)
18 Gerhard Kerschbaumer (Italy)
19 Liam Killeen (Great Britain)
20 Marek Konwa (Poland)
21 Jaroslav Kulhavy (Czech Republic)
22 Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (Spain)
23 Karl Markt (Austria)
24 Daniel Mcconnell (Australia)
25 Moritz Milatz (Germany)
26 Paolo Cesar Montoya Cantillo (Costa Rica)
27 Ralph Naef (Switzerland)
28 Adrien Niyonshuti (Rwanda)
29 Sven Nys (Belgium)
30 Hector Leonardo Paez Leon (Colombia)
31 Hector Leonardo Paez Leon (Colombia)
32 Andras Parti (Hungary)
33 Evgeniy Pechenin (Russia)
34 Jean-Christophe Peraud (France)
35 Max Plaxton (Canada)
36 David Joao Serralheiro Rosa (Portugal)
37 Sergji Rysenko (Ukraine)
38 Samuel Schultz (United States)
39 Nino Schurter (Switzerland)
40 Jan Skarnitzl (Czech Republic)
41 Catriel Andres Soto (Argentina)
42 Burry Stander (South Africa)
43 Stephane Tempier (France)
44 Weisong Tong (China)
45 Rubens Valeriano (Brazil)
46 Kevin Van Hoovels (Belgium)
47 Rudi Van Houts (Netherlands)
48 Michael Vingerling (Netherlands)
49 Florian Vogel (Switzerland)
50 Todd Wells (United States)
51 Kam-Po Wong (Hong Kong)
52 Kohei Yamamoto (Japan)

Women's start list:
1 Laura Valentina Abril Restrepo (Colombia)
2 Emily Batty (Canada)
3 Yana Belomoyna (Ukraine)
4 Barbara Benko (Hungary)
5 Julie Bresset (France)
6 Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa (Norway)
7 Lea Davison (United States)
8 Aleksandra Dawidowicz (Poland)
9 Alexandra Engen (Sweden)
10 Pauline Ferrand Prevot (France)
11 Georgia Gould (United States)
12 Karen Hanlen (New Zealand)
13 Rebecca Henderson (Australia)
14 Irina Kalentieva (Russia)
15 Rie Katayama (Japan)
16 Blaza Klemencic (Slovenia)
17 Annie Last (Great Britain)
18 Eva Lechner (Italy)
19 Katrin Leumann (Switzerland)
20 Adelheid Morath (Germany)
21 Katerina Nash (Czech Republic)
22 Candice Neethling (South Africa)
23 Elisabeth Osl (Austria)
24 Catharine Pendrel (Canada)
25 Qinglan Shi (China)
26 Sabine Spitz (Germany)
27 Esther Suss (Switzerland)
28 Maja Wloszczowska (Poland) [will not start due to injury]
29 Tanja Zakelj (Slovenia)

Robert Forstemann (the german track cyclist with MASSIVE thighs) is only entered in the MTB so that germany have a larger number of people to select from for the track events (there is a limit to the number of riders on the track team, but there is a loophole that any rider entered into any cycling event can compete on the track). Now that all of his track events are finished, it would be funny to see him actually have a go at the MTB, but i doubt he'll event start.

Video of the course is here
 
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Just watched that course video, looks pretty rubbish to be honest.

All seems very forced and fake, a shame considering some of the awesome MTB locations available in Wales, N. England and Scotland. Oh well, it is the London games I suppose!
 
qqg3 said:
Just watched that course video, looks pretty rubbish to be honest.

All seems very forced and fake, a shame considering some of the awesome MTB locations available in Wales, N. England and Scotland. Oh well, it is the London games I suppose!
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Was speaking to my mate who owns an MTB shop who was basically saying that although it looks rubbish most of the competitors think it is a pretty good course.
 
RDM said:
Was speaking to my mate who owns an MTB shop who was basically saying that although it looks rubbish most of the competitors think it is a pretty good course.
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Yep, i think that if you think about it from a spectator's perspective, it will be a good course. It would be much nicer to ride if there was a bit more natural stuff and singletrack, but watching a race on singletrack where nobody can pass anybody else is very boring. A lot of the fireroad type stuff which they have there looks wide enough for at least 2 riders side by side, so there should be a lot more interesting.
 
I was expecting a track that would leave me thinking "I could never do that!" but it looks very easy, still I don't think I'd be keeping up with the worlds greatest.
 
One thing I think is also worth pointing out to those who say it looks easy, is that its being filmed by a GoPro camera which with such a wide field of view makes things look a lot less steep and nasty than they really are.
 
There seems to be plenty of free space for viewing, I'm a bit annoyed there weren't more GA access tickets sold. Perhaps its something to do with the damaging the land, along with access and facilities for spectators.
 
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