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[<Tommy>]

I agree, the two Olympic races have been exciting and show up the Pro tour to be a bit sterile in comparison. However money talks and the pro teams won't give up radios. Perhaps they should do a few test events, one day races would get my vote.

I think it’s the combination of the radios and all the metrics they have access to that help to suffocate the races sometimes. But I don’t think you’ll get the toothpaste back in the bottle now.

 

[JuhaL]

Did the Dutch team eventually congratulate the winner? Shameful behaviour. Lots of argument elsewhere about whether the rider blackboards were being updated but if that’s their response then they deserve not to have won.

I noticed the same thing. Dutch team only had a briefing after a finish what went wrong, no sign of good sportsman ship and congratulate.

 

[bobinski]

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/du...w-kiesenhofer-was-away-van-der-breggen-didnt/

 

[Spartak]

https://www.cyclingnews.com/feature...ist-olympic-champion/?utm_campaign=socialflow

Interesting article about Anna Kiesenhofer... 👏🥇

 

[JuhaL]

Anna Kiesenhofer is a very strong candidate when Austria select athlete of the year.

 

[steverob]

I agree, the two Olympic races have been exciting and show up the Pro tour to be a bit sterile in comparison. However money talks and the pro teams won't give up radios. Perhaps they should do a few test events, one day races would get my vote.

Pretty sure they tried a 'no radios' rule for a stage of the TdF one year. The riders basically went on strike and neutralised the stage - no attacks, no breakaways, just rode round at a steady pace (albeit, steady for professional cycle riders, so still pretty fast) and finished all in one group. Any future stages planned to have the same rule were immediately abandoned.

 

[bobinski]

https://www.cyclingnews.com/feature...ist-olympic-champion/?utm_campaign=socialflow

Interesting article about Anna Kiesenhofer... 👏🥇

Theres also another article about her anti authoritarian character- I really like her!

 

[Randyberlin]

It looked like the Olympic skateboarding allows ear pieces. But probability just to listen to Enya.

 

[CXRAndy]

Pidcock- Yes

 

[JuhaL]

VdP had a nice otb but landing wasn't so nice.

 

[JuhaL]

It looked like the Olympic skateboarding allows ear pieces. But probability just to listen to Enya.

Or alternatively rap music...yo.

 

[Legs]

It looked like the Olympic skateboarding allows ear pieces. But probability just to listen to Enya.

Her dulcet tones certainly didn’t seem to be helping the female ‘street’ skateboarders this morning… they seemed to be falling off left, right and centre!

 

[Legs]

Pidcock though, you can tell he’d been listening to a bit of Orinoco Flow this morning!

 

[theboxers]

Pidcock though, you can tell he’d been listening to a bit of Orinoco Flow this morning!

 

[BurningLegs]

The Netherlands are almost a laughing stock in the cycling events at this point, aren’t they?!