Alex Simmons/RST wrote:vander wrote:Rogers effort was before the the second break went away which had the eventual winner in it, not exactly sure what his effort was for. Also dont know what Gerrans was there to do if he didnt go with the Nibali group I thought that would of been his job.
I think he was looking to get another small group going to have some reserves up the road for later in the race, but no-one wanted to do that quite so early so he was left to fry for a while. The big (non-GB) guns were being more patient.
Right Vander, thanks. What a mixup of coverage. It was difficult to fathom.
As Alex points out, it was a move, and my point was another Aussie up front, may have changed things.
On the coverage
I notice that the BBC have been quick to distance themselves from coverage of a road race that was uninformative, bordering on contemptuous.
Jake Humphries was on earlier pointing out that everyone at BBC HQ was just as fed up as their viewers at the lack of information being provided to them about which riders were in what groups, how far they had left to travel and what the time gaps were, but that they had to make do with the same feed as everyone else.
Vinokourov was not even mentioned in any groups, and only mentioned with 10 kilometers to go
Some good points-
Video coverage was pretty pathetic.
The video was either at the front of, or behind, the peleton and break most of the time,
and then so far away (presumably to avoid allowing drafting) as to make identification nearly impossible.
Perhaps the issue was that the race organizers didn’t want video assisting the team cars
in identifying riders and time gaps, so as to make the race radio ban more effective.
A questionable rule supposedly to make the race more interesting dictating that the viewing
of the race becomes muddled and unengaging.
Afterwards they got good coverage of sook quotes.
Lone Rider- I rode on the long, dark road... before I danced under the lights.
