Averaged 156W over the bridge. I can do that much, but he did about 4.5W/kg for 5 minutes on the uphill section, that's gonna be a big stretch for me.
Yeah, but that was one of the reasons I wrote 20 kilometers (and not 30).
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Averaged 156W over the bridge. I can do that much, but he did about 4.5W/kg for 5 minutes on the uphill section, that's gonna be a big stretch for me.
Transition stages should be about lovely countryside, a breakaway, intermediate sprints, polka points & the final sprint/catching the breakaway. If wind happens, cool, but no one can effectively predict or make echelons happen if the weather doesn't play ball.
It was scandalous. Making people excited about a race should never be at the cost of the truth. But I have no doubt that the media in this case deliberately ignored the facts and insisted on creating a hype.
Huh, that’s become our M.O. for those other types of races over here across the pond.
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I hope your great nation will somehow find a way to get back to appreciating the truth. In all aspects ...Huh, that’s become our M.O. for those other types of races over here across the pond.
Merci!I hope your great nation will somehow find a way to get back to appreciating the truth. In all aspects ...
That's what infuriates me too. Five minutes of research to find out this wind was totally to be expected at this time of year. Crosswind was always really unlikely. This was always a publicity stunt and never a move to actually generate good racing. That's also why people saying "not the organizers fault that the wind doesn't work in their favor" are simply wrong. That's like if stage 20 of this years giro had finished on the Fedaia but after an ascent from the western side and people are saying "well surely it's not the organizers fault nothing happened, they did finish on the Fedaia after all".It was scandalous. Making people excited about a race should never be at the cost of the truth. But I have no doubt that the media in this case deliberately ignored the facts and insisted on creating a hype.
The dominating wind directions at the Great Belt bridge don't favor attacks. Basically, a strong north-westernly wind - rare in summers - was the only thing that would have been interesting. The strength of the wind WAS okay on stage 2, but the direction was the common one, thus the wind ruined the chances of drama instead of creating them.
Everybody knew this! For many days, all indications were that there would be no sidewind. And yet the media - especially in Denmark - kept producing stories about the upcoming wind chaos on the Great Belt. Even during the transmission, the commentators talked about it. Although it was evident that the conditions for echelons weren't present. To put it bluntly: They lied to their readers and viewers.