Women’s Olympic Road Race

It's one of the reasons I'm happy to see no team radios allowed at the Olympics. Mind you it would have not been difficult to have a chalkboard at the side of the road. I kept wondering why the dutch had no more than one rider on the front despite having 4 riders in the peloton even at the 10km to go point.
 
pierrequiroule said:
It's one of the reasons I'm happy to see no team radios allowed at the Olympics. Mind you it would have not been difficult to have a chalkboard at the side of the road. I kept wondering why the dutch had no more than one rider on the front despite having 4 riders in the peloton even at the 10km to go point.
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Monumentally cocked up did the Dutch team. They should have been having messages relayed to the team but failed to do. Very surprised because the Dutch are usually meticulous in their organisation.
 
Fantastic performance from the breakaway and particularly Anna Kiesenhofer to go again from so far out.
It just goes to show how much of a part technology plays in the modern peloton, use of radios would probably have seen an easy Dutch win there.
 
I could be wrong but did the Dutch girl think she had won - the commentator said she was celebrating to have taken silver but i have a feeing looking at her celebration that she thought she had taken gold.

anyone else notice that?
 
Everyone knew but her. :geek: Well, not quite as some of her teammates knew and others didn't. Lizzie didn't know either and congratulated her on the win.

As Cardiff pointed out, the dutch had the firepower to bring the winner back but blew it. Apparently the vastly experienced Vos knew she was away, so why wasn't she telling her teammates to work at the front of the group. Bizarre.

www.cyclingnews.com

Olympics: Van Vleuten celebrates but mistakes silver for gold

Dutchwoman didn't know Kiesenhofer had already won the race
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FatCat said:
I could be wrong but did the Dutch girl think she had won - the commentator said she was celebrating to have taken silver but i have a feeing looking at her celebration that she thought she had taken gold.

anyone else notice that?
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Have you not read the thread? That’s exactly what happened.

www.cyclingweekly.com

Dutch riders thought they were racing for gold in Tokyo Olympics women's road race

The Netherlands team thought they'd brought back all of the breakaway riders in a confusing finale
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FatCat said:
I could be wrong but did the Dutch girl think she had won - the commentator said she was celebrating to have taken silver but i have a feeing looking at her celebration that she thought she had taken gold.

anyone else notice that?
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Yes I notice that. Lizzie Deignan seemed to think the Dutch rider had won too. I'm sure she said Anna was the best today.
 
Cardiffdaffs said:
Well an Anna did win but the Dutch team have already fessed up to a mea culpa
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Of course! I didn't know the Austrian rider's first name was Anna! I thought Lizzie meant Anne!

Great race regardless. I couldn't even imagine cycling that distance. It's absolutely incredible ability from all of them.
 
Sorry I didnt mention the incident in the opening post but didnt want to spoil it for those still to watch.

Yes it was obvious from when AVV crossed the line that she thought she had won and then when she realised that she hadn’t burst into tears. And it subsequently came out that she had indeed missed the numbers ahead. An old trick from the pre 80s before race radio. Get in the break, sneak off the front and steal the victory.

It was the performance of the Games so far by the Austrian.
 
Abel Tasman said:
Sorry I didnt mention the incident in the opening post but didnt want to spoil it for those still to watch.

Yes it was obvious from when AVV crossed the line that she thought she had won and then when she realised that she hadn’t burst into tears. And it subsequently came out that she had indeed missed the numbers ahead. An old trick from the pre 80s before race radio. Get in the break, sneak off the front and steal the victory.

It was the performance of the Games so far by the Austrian.
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I thought it strange how very few people congratulated the winner, but it does seem to fit now with the confusion over who had actually won.
 
Despite my lack of enthusiasm for the olympics I’ve quickly gotten addicted. Good days viewing today.
 
I was delighted that the breakaway /solo rider won.

I thought that the commentators were a bit OTT in their criticism of the Dutch team, who still walked away with a medal. Olympics are not the same as other races where you have a large team willing to sacrifice themselves in order the bring back breakaways. It is quite funny when someone thinks that they have won.

Despite no radios, I would have thought that the teams would have been able to communicate basic race status to their riders at some point during the 4 hours.
 
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