Anyone watch Olympic mountain biking?

[michelem]

Holy cow! SOOOO impressive!!!

Such a technical course -- same course for the men and the women. Only difference was that the men went for two extra laps (22 miles vs. 16 miles). WOW WOW WOW

[limewave]

I missed it! Dang it!!!!!

[emily_in_nc]

I saw that it was only going to be shown Friday during the day (I was at work) or overnight (early Sat. am, I believe), which made me mad. I would have loved to see it....

So much beach volleyball, so little cycling...dern Olympics....

[singletrackmind]

Caught the men's at midnight last night.....would have loved to have seen the women's!

[Grog]

It was a sad race for Marie-Helene Premont (Quebec rider). This was pretty much her last major race as she's now going to transition to her "real" career. She had an incident happen to her and then her heart rate and breathing went totally out of control, she had to drop out.

That woman has a spectacular smile. I hope she has a great life post-racing. I'm sure she will, she was always very balanced and kept going with her life activities and cross-training at home etc.

[kelownagirl]

It was a sad race for Marie-Helene Premont (Quebec rider). This was pretty much her last major race as she's now going to transition to her "real" career. She had an incident happen to her and then her heart rate and breathing went totally out of control, she had to drop out.

That woman has a spectacular smile. I hope she has a great life post-racing. I'm sure she will, she was always very balanced and kept going with her life activities and cross-training at home etc.

Yeah, Dh was watching the women's race and had high hopes for a couple of the Canadian women. It was really too bad she dropped out.

[limewave]

I saw that it was only going to be shown Friday during the day (I was at work) or overnight (early Sat. am, I believe), which made me mad. I would have loved to see it....

So much beach volleyball, so little cycling...dern Olympics....

Ack! So much DIVING!

[dirtygirl1]

www.nbcolympics.com -- you'll have to install Silverlight but that is a small price to pay to watch it at your leisure on your computer!!!

Yeah, really tough run for M-H ... she must have been so bummed. Super high HR and hyperventillation is not something you want to mess with though.

Also a tough race for Kika (Cathrine Pendral) --- she was in 3rd for most of the race and then her shifting messed up and she got passed ... bummer!

Great race by Sabine though - wow!

[emily_in_nc]

Ack! So much DIVING!

I actually got really into the diving, surprising even myself. But the endless women's beach volleyball I could have done without. I've never seen a sport get so much attention. Could it be the outfits?

[Zen]

I've never seen a sport get so much attention. Could it be the outfits?

Ya' think?
Every time I turned on the Olympics it was gymnastics.
I gave up.