lack of radios played a large part in why the breakaway succeeded according to Boonen. With the crowd nose and the lack of radios Bleguim was not able to adjust their strategy. Small team size and lack of effort by the Australians also played a large part as well.
IMO the way the Olympic road race ended was terrible and quite similar to the travesties that were stage 12 and 15 of this years Tour. The break should never have succeeded. Instead we were robbed of an exciting sprint finish and were subjected to a boring breakaway win.
This years Olympic RR demonstrated the need for radios and larger team sizes. With better information it will allow for more options and more tactics. Instead teams rode blindly sticking to their original plan unable to adjust and what we got was a terrible boring finish.
IMO the way the Olympic road race ended was terrible and quite similar to the travesties that were stage 12 and 15 of this years Tour. The break should never have succeeded. Instead we were robbed of an exciting sprint finish and were subjected to a boring breakaway win.
This years Olympic RR demonstrated the need for radios and larger team sizes. With better information it will allow for more options and more tactics. Instead teams rode blindly sticking to their original plan unable to adjust and what we got was a terrible boring finish.