TheoG Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 15 minutes ago, Nettie R said: 2 Dutch riders sat in front in the peloton when Anna broke away. Don't say they didn't take notice. It's like the commentator said: did riders forget how to think for themselves. Bottom line, the Dutch screwed it up big time .... Well done to Kiesenhofer! DieselnDust, kosmonooit and Vetplant 3
kosmonooit Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 Would the team car know what's happening via race radio or TV?
Eugene Oppelt Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 58 minutes ago, kosmonooit said: PhD in Mathematics apparently. Obviously chrunced a few numbers in advance. Busy with a post-doctoral. If she adds inner peace to her portfolio, she would have won at life. Truly inspirational ride today. Underachiever, kosmonooit and Hacc 3
J Wakefield Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 30 minutes ago, DieselnDust said: Nic took his musette at the 100mm feedzone but ignored the feeder doing a 100m sprint next to him with a bottle. Where weren't they fed correctly? Really keen to know as these are all aspects of racing where improvement is needed. When you have no access to the 2 bottles on your bike for the 1st 100km, that isnt being serviced. Your race is over. DieselnDust 1
DieselnDust Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 7 minutes ago, J Wakefield said: When you have no access to the 2 bottles on your bike for the 1st 100km, that isnt being serviced. Your race is over. Aaaah you mean they were riding too hard to take timeout to hydrate properly? Or was the drink so hot it was undrinkable.
DieselnDust Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 33 minutes ago, kosmonooit said: Would the team car know what's happening via race radio or TV? TV I suspect. If not TV then live stream race feed to phone. Data is dirt cheap apparently
Underachiever Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 I'm a bit OCD... So when you are at a once in a 4 year event like this, training isn't enough... The devil IS in the detail... when you have no race radio, you have to plan to get every little bit of race info. The Dutch were over-confident!! Great win for Anna today!!! PhD and Post Doc nogal. A big win for the NERDS today...Well done!!!!!!!!!!!! kosmonooit, Scary Rider, Vetplant and 4 others 7
Eugene Oppelt Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 Anything is possible. That’s why I love sport. ???? ???? @uci_cycling Scary Rider, Underachiever, TheoG and 2 others 5
J Wakefield Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 23 minutes ago, DieselnDust said: Aaaah you mean they were riding too hard to take timeout to hydrate properly? Or was the drink so hot it was undrinkable. It was not available. NO Bottles when needed. Scary Rider, Underachiever, Javas X and 2 others 2 3
DieselnDust Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 24 minutes ago, Underachiever said: I'm a bit OCD... So when you are at a once in a 4 year event like this, training isn't enough... The devil IS in the detail... when you have no race radio, you have to plan to get every little bit of race info. The Dutch were over-confident!! Great win for Anna today!!! PhD and Post Doc nogal. A big win for the NERDS today...Well done!!!!!!!!!!!! Overconfident indeed. It was their podium to lose and they did. Snatched defeat from the Jaws of victory. The koninlike nederlansche wielren unie(knwu) is very well funded and staffed with seasoned professionals in their field so there's going to be a tough debrief after this race. CSA has plenty excuses to get things wrong but the Dutch don't have many. They're just going to have to up their game Vetplant, TheoG and Underachiever 3
DieselnDust Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 30 minutes ago, J Wakefield said: It was not available. NO Bottles when needed. You're going to have elaborate more here. Was the team car not able to get to them, Didn't have bottles? SwissVan 1
SwissVan Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 Fantastic win for Kiesenhofer right from the break, things dreams are made of! Van Vleuten celebrates but mistakes silver for gold Strange that they did not know the Austrian was in front..... was there no motorcycle with a blackboard showing the time gap to the leader, or messages on a bottle, time gaps from team support on the side of the road....? https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/olympics-van-vleuten-celebrates-but-mistakes-silver-for-gold/ Vetplant and Underachiever 2
splat Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 42 minutes ago, SwissVan said: Fantastic win for Kiesenhofer right from the break, things dreams are made of! Strange that they did not know the Austrian was in front..... was there no motorcycle with a blackboard showing the time gap to the leader, or messages on a bottle, time gaps from team support on the side of the road....? There was confusion at all levels according to this thread
Block Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 2 hours ago, DieselnDust said: Nic took his musette at the 100mm feedzone but ignored the feeder doing a 100m sprint next to him with a bottle. Where weren't they fed correctly? Really keen to know as these are all aspects of racing where improvement is needed. His team car never came through to feed him. Same happened in ladies race today so they had to rely on water from neutral service (not cold and no food) and the feedzone that was situated after 70 odd km's DieselnDust 1
Block Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, DieselnDust said: You're going to have elaborate more here. Was the team car not able to get to them, Didn't have bottles? Can only comment on todays race. Team cars could definately come through the bunch with 8 to 10 min gap On the TV footage you could see the other riders in breakaway got fed on several occassions by their team cars. Where was the Sa Team car Edited July 25, 2021 by Block DieselnDust 1
DieselnDust Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 30 minutes ago, Block said: Can only comment on todays race. Team cars could definitely come through the bunch with 8 to 10 min gap On the TV footage you could see the other riders in breakaway got fed on several occasions by their team cars. Where was the Sa Team car But also when he was being fed at the feedzone he didn't take a bottle. Was there one car or two. If only one then it can't be up the road with Nic and also with Ryan and Stefan back in the bunch, 12min back. Hence I'd like to understand more around what the strategy was and how they planned the feed as I don't know what resources they had at their disposal and how they were used
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