Mountain Biking at the Olympics

[Carbon_Dude]

The 2016 Finals in Rio will be raced on August 20th, in the meantime, enjoy some video of previous Olympic mountain bike racing.  Amazing how much the bikes have changed over the years.

2012 London Olympics Men's Finals


2012 London Olympics Women's Finals


2008 Bejing Women's Final


2008 Bejing Women's Final


2004 Athens Men's Race (Russian Language?)
Part 1
Part 2

2004 Athens Women's Race (10min per part)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

2000 Sydney Men's Race


2000 Sydney Women's Race Highlights


1996 Atlanta Men's Race Highlights - (I've ridden this course on 3 occasions)


1996 Atlanta Women's Race (Just the end)

[carbonazza]

Nice compilation. Thanks!

[Carbon_Dude]

Notice how the video gets to be lower quality and less of the race as the years go back, not to mention how much the technology has advanced.  I think it also shows just how far mountain biking has come in the last 20 years.

[astocco]

Hello everybody. I'm from Brazil. I have a website on bikes. I made some very interesting videos about the final XCO Olympic.











My website: www.condominiodabike.com.br (many pict about Rio 2016)

[Carbon_Dude]

Thanks for posting.  Watching your first video made me realize how much more technical the course was compared to when I watched the network coverage.  You being down at the level of the crowd really shows so much more how difficult it was for the riders.

Thanks again for posting, that was fun to watch!