Olympic Games - Mens Road Race
Just in case you didn't know, the Olympics take place in Rio de Janeiro this time...
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The Italian team lines up for a posed shot - they are the team to beat, it seems...
Spain is equal to Italy in many ways, maybe they can win Gold today..?
Team Ireland - Nicholas Roche and Dan Martin - have their own high ambitions, but it won't be easy...
Just six minutes to the start - better clear the road guys...
Sven Erik Bystrom and Jarlinson Pantano lead the early escape away from Copacabana...
The peloton gets its first sighting of the Atlantic Ocean as it approaches the first hills of the day...
Life is a breeze, unless you're racing in the Olympic Games Road Race...
The peloton climbs the southern section of the course for the first of four laps - and it is as steep as it looks..!
A cyclist from Turkey has crashed on a nasty stretch of cobbles...
Daryl Impey got caught up in the spill, but he's making his way back...
Some sections of the southern climb are over 17-percent..!
Greg Van Avermaet needs his bike fixed - and quickly..!
Imanol Erviti is the man chasing for Spain with the gap at eight-minutes...
Alessandro Di Marchi takes his turn at the front for Italy...
Philippe Gilbert is now in need of some mechanical help, but there's no BMC car to be seen in the Olympics..!
Fabian Cancellara comes back to his team car for a tactical discussion with his Trek D.S Luca Guercilena...
Richie Porte is well hidden in the peloton for now, but great things are expected of him later-on...
Kochetkov and Bystrom lead the escape back towards the sea with their lead down to six-minutes now...
The views are stunning as the peloton skirts the Brazilian coastline 40-kilometres south of Rio de Janeiro...
The peloton is led by Poland, and Czech republic as it climbs above a surfing beach...
Zdenek Stybar makes an attack with his teamates on the long stretch of cobbles - he thinks it's Paris-Roubaix..!
Geraint Thomas leads the peloton down the tricky descent for the last time...
Taylor Phinney is right at the head of affairs too...
Wouter Poels had a great Tour de France - so why not also a great Olympic Games..?
Frank Schleck descends in his last ever Olympics in his last-ever season as a professional...
Nicholas Roche looks like he's really enjoying the descent..!
Adam Yates is less happy on the descent - but he'll love the final circuits today..!
An Iranian cyclists smashes into a wall on the descent - both the wall and the cyclist survived unscathed..!
George Bennett is a lone Kiwi in the race, but the finale might be right up his street...
The police are riding shotgun in front of the Olympic race - and they're getting a priveliged view of the racing..!
Spain is doing most of the chasing now, with Erviti still hard at work...
Steven Cummings starts to work for Team GB as the hilly finale begins...
Damiano Caruso matches Cummings for Italy, the action is about to start..!
Kochetkov and Kwiatkowski are all that's left of the escape, but their lead is only one minute or so...
Caruso is the nearest chaser with Van Avermaet and Thomas just about in contact...
Van Avermaet shows his strength, but is he working for himself or for Gilbert..?
Sergio Henao has joined the move, with just Kwiatkowski left up the road...
A counter-attack is coming from behind with Bennett latched-on at the back of it...
Van Avermaet is in control of the race with Kwiatkowski caught and some re-inforcements coming from behind...
Joan Castroviejo leads the peloton, but Spain seems to have missed the main move - as has Chris Froome...
Kwiatkowski now leads the race with riders like Aru, Nibali, Yates, Henao and Thomas right behind him...
Fabio Aru leads Caruso and Nibali as the final climb looms just down the road...
There's an Astana-Sky-Tinkoff battle as Nibali jousts with Zeits, Majka and Henao at the head of the race...
Jacob Fuglsang adds another Astana member to the developing move...
Nibali has attacked, taking Majka, Henao and Fuglsang with him...
Joachin Rodriguez is trying to join this elite group, but he cannot make contact...
Henao and Nibali have jumped away in the last climbing kilometres of this race...