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The buzz on the roads is crazy, people cheering everywhere, not letting us pay when we stop in a cafe. The amount of goodwill is ridiculous.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/jul/27/mark-cavendish-team-gb-london-2012
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"not letting us pay when we stop in a cafe"
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I did not think Mark Cavendish would come in so far behind on the road race....40th. That is very poor. No matter what the tactics are of the other riders you really have no one else to blame for a poor performance, after all everyone wants to win and they are all out for themselves...get over it.
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I would completely disagree. The road race is not a solo time trial.
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I thought they worked their backsides off. Mind you, I actually watched it.
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Enough of the blame game already, please, eh?
Richard Williams has a nicely-balanced write-up on the Guardian website:
clicky (I hope)Posted 11 years ago # -
It was hard work watching. The coverage was poor compared to TdF
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A lot of people on Twitter venting frustration at the BBC for coverage - lack of splits and data, covering everything but the action, nearly missing the final "sprint" for gold - but they were equally angry about it, they just get a feed from an IOC subsidiary like all other broadcasters. When there is a big break, a chase group and a peloton, with favourites in all 3 it's vital to have the splits to try and work out what's going on. Commentators were left guessing and trying to estimate the gaps.
Chris Boardman made an apology tweet saying he hoped they would be better fed with data and pictures tomorrow. You could hear they were struggling to even identify riders as cameras weren't focussing on numbers.
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@Claggy Clog, that comment is pretty offensive and I hope no-one from the British team sees it. The British riders worked their socks off!
As has already been pointed out, the road race is not an individual time trial.@Kaputnik, +1, hopefully the IOC will sort their act out, I'm sure the BBC will not be the only broadcaster unhappy with the coverage. I thought the commentators did pretty well given the info they were (not) getting though.
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Chris Boardman "I think the big difference today is the British women's team are not the out-and-out favourites and that will work in their favour. The men's team were hindered by that tag yesterday and it cost them. The women's team is varied. I don't think what happened to the men's team will affect the women, the men were just a victim of their own success in the Tour de France. The women's team have more than one option to influence a breakaway and will have more chances because of that. "Everybody believed the British men's team would win it after the run of success they had coming into it. I still can't work out what they did wrong. I'm struggling to work out what the 'Plan B' people are talking about could have been, as I still don't think it would have been plausible to run an individual race."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/mobile/olympics/2012/stories/19014280
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I take it all back, he actually came in 29th!!
"The coach said there were no regrets about not having a plan beyond ensuring a sprint win for Cavendish. "If we had got a rider in one of those breaks I'm not sure that anyone would have worked with them. You wonder if Cav could have got in a break but as soon as anyone saw he was there they would have stopped working".
Well there you have it, no Plan B. The coach cannot be absolutely sure that he would NOT have got the support had he been in a breakaway group at the front.
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He cannot be absolutely sure, but the break would have to be made up of an entirely naive bunch of cyclists who had never seen Cavendish contest a sprint finish for that to happen...
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