rio 2016 paralympic cycling thread no spoilers

ednwireland

anyone watching ?

thought id throw this up in case (as we have our local adopted lass katie racing)

Beasty

Sorry, but I'm too busy watching the one-legged high jumpers (including one Pole who just "vaulted" 1.71m) and armless Chinese swimmers

Some of these guys/gals are incredible

RobFowl

Beasty wrote: »

Sorry, but I'm too busy watching the one-legged high jumpers (including one Pole who just "vaulted" 1.71m) and armless Chinese swimmers

Some of these guys/gals are incredible

Some simply astounding performances


And medals for our boys in green

Beasty

Fantastic performances in the Time Trials today, with golds for Katie George Dunlevy/Eve McCrystal in the tandem and Eoghan Clifford (C3) (to follow up his bronze in the IP the other day) and Silver to one-time boardsie Colin Lynch in the C2

That's 2/3rds of Ireland's total medal tally to date in the cycling events

ednwireland

Beasty wrote: »

Fantastic performances in the Time Trials today, with golds for Katie George Dunlevy/Eve McCrystal in the tandem and Eoghan Clifford (C3) (to follow up his bronze in the IP the other day) and Silver to one-time boardsie Colin Lynch in the C2

That's 2/3rds of Ireland's total medal tally to date in the cycling events

fantastic stuff shame theres no coverage i could find anywhere
from twitter (think its when they realised they won)

tang1

Cycling in the McCrystal blood, her younger brother Bryan is a talented cyclist and Ironman. Huge well done ladies.

RobFowl

All I can say is well done.

It's a cliché but these games are really proving that its more about the ability of these athletes rather than their disability which defines them.

Some literally superhuman performances.

Beasty

I'm enjoying the Paralympics more than the Olympics. So many inspirational performances and retaining much of the amateur spirit that the Olympics left behind some time ago (admittedly though Team GB have taken things to a professional level in most sports)

Maybe it's the fact the events are on at a more reasonable time, or the often light-hearted coverage from Channel 4, but I'm looking forward to whatever's on each evening to the exclusion of other stuff on the TV.

buffalo

tang1 wrote: »

Cycling in the McCrystal blood, her younger brother Bryan is a talented cyclist and Ironman.

Never heard of him.

dastardly00

Well done to all the Irish cyclists so far, tremendous performances and results.

Good interview with Eoghan Clifford here:
http://the42.ie/2980185

Thud

great video

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/video-huge-moment-dunlevy-mccrystal-realise-theyve-won-gold/

ednwireland

congrats katie and eve
MEDAL ALERT: Silver for Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal in the Women's B Tandem Road Race

on a much sadder note
RIP Baham
Iran Paralympic Committee confirm cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad has died after crash

Kaisr Sose

The Iranian cyclist that was hurt in the crash earlier has died. Just breaking news.

RIP.

Puts a bit of a dampener on the whole Rio Games.

omri

RIP

philstar

did it happen in the same area as the dutch girl's accident in the olympics?

ednwireland

philstar wrote: »

did it happen in the same area as the dutch girl's accident in the olympics?

Apparently they didn't use that as part of paralympic road races.

ThisRegard

philstar wrote: »

did it happen in the same area as the dutch girl's accident in the olympics?

It was on the flat just metres from the finish.

robyntmorton

It was reported that it took place on the downhill of the Grumari circuit, which was included in both the timetrials and road races in the Olympics, but was not the section that claimed so many victims towards the end of the road races.

A map and profile of the 2.07km section is attached, showing some nasty ups and downs, which could so easily catch people out. That downhill has some tight hairpins to contend with.

ThisRegard

Oh, was it not the crash at the finish?

Inquitus

ThisRegard wrote: »

Oh, was it not the crash at the finish?

No, diff race, the fella who died only has one leg, the two who took each other out were in the 2 legged cat.

greenspurs

What happened Vereker and Hahessey in the road race??
They were 2 mins ahead, but then DNF ??
blew up ????