Olympic Road Race

Does anybody know where to find a simple list of teams.
i.e riders plus country, instead of all this picture rubbish?

I've ridden it and the boxhill/zigzag road part is nothing like the climbs you get in the Ardennes classics at all!!

With about 55k between Boxhill and the Mall I'd be surprised if a breakaway can stay out unless of course all the sprinters teams bar GB have someone in it.

Germany(for Greipel),US(for Farrar),Australia(for Goss)and GB(for Cav) will want a bunch finish and assist in reeling in any breaks.

People like EBH,Gilbert,Sagan,Boonen(if he rides) and Spartacus will be more interested in a strung out field but 55k is a long way out to launch anything.

The roads on the way are quite wide and flat so difficult to see a launch pad for any kind of Chavanel/Voeckler/LuLuSanchez type raids and to be honest you'd expect the strength of Wiggo,Froome,Stannard and Millar to chase anything down?

No race radios also mean the peloton will be loathe to allow any escapees get too far away,and the narrow nature of the 'rural' part of the course will mean riders wanting to be at or near the front ensuring a high average speed and almost certainly a few crashes on the descents of each of the 9 boxhill climbs which at this moment in time are not very well maintained.

Besides,the sprinter's teams will hope for a breakaway before we even reach the countryside as the race starts on the Mall and there are bound to be a little selection of 'novelty' riders looking for a bit of glory on the way out.As long as no-one too strong joins them they'll leave it till after the climbs to reel it in.

I for one am really looking forward to it and predict a Cav/Greipel battle.....whilst looking for Chinese/Kiwi/Spanish breaks.

I guess with 50 points for the win, and no more than 10 points for being in a break (and could be zero - was it Paris-Roubaix where there were more than ten guys in the break so none of them scored?) its better to focus on guys that might be there at the end, and treat breakaway points as a bonus - different to what we're used to over the last 3 weeks.

I see the break as an issue, but its getting the right guys to go, i guess all my stars are sprinters, and then some of my DS's are sprinters, but are the type of sprinters that could go in a break, as well as a couple of definite guys for a break.

Cool - looking at the lists its easier than I thought it would be to pick a proper team, there are even a few TTing DS that should make the top 10, although they are fairly expensive. I can't decide if guys like Cav will last 9 times over Box Hill, especially if they're riding hard on the last 2 or 3 to catch a breakaway. So at present I have a couple of strong sprinters and a couple of good all-rounders likely to last the distance that can sprint well from a small group. I've only really started watching non-TDF cycling this year, and these kind of days are few and far between, so I don't really fancy my chances.

email/story about this tomorrow, but basically: yes it's the same as a one-dayer, but bonuses awarded by country.

there's no team limits, you can pick any number of riders from a trade team. the star/ds split still applies though.

everyone that's been added to the game for the games is in an 'olympic riders' team

How many transfers do we get before the TT?

Boonen crashed twice in Poland, and after the second one (stage 3) I read that he'd "damaged some ribs" - but he completed the last 4 stages I think so I'm assuming he's OK...

My team is loaded with sprinters too, well my stars are, may yet change my domestiques and put in a breakaway guy