Cycling in the 2012 Olympics (spoilers allowed)

[pll]

Dear Rigoberto: You must learn to pay attention in the last kilometer of a road race.

What was Urán looking at? Good for Vino, though. Wish they had shown the medal ceremony instead of heat 1000 of the swimming competition. And a replay of an earlier heat. I hate NBC.

[colby]

Thank you for the BBC links! Much better!! I posted before I saw Chris Hoy, too, very cool.

The cycling coverage on NBC makes me yearn for the features of the TdF broadcasts. It would be so useful to have the overview of how far back the peloton is from the breakaways, how many breakaways there are, how many athletes are in each, how many miles there are to go, and the time, on the screen much more often.

The commentary isn't bad, though, and they've been mostly showing cycling for several hours now. Very cool! It's timely that the Olympics happen so close to the TdF so people are more interested in cycling.

I am having a bit of an issue with time-delayed coverage, I either have to watch the coverage OR read the news, can't do both unless I want the result spoiled. A lot of it is still worth watching, though.

[malkin]

We got the whole men's road race.
It looked like we had several channels to choose from showing long bits of stated sports rather than the old irritating cut away, cut away, cut away coverage.

***spoiler***



To hit the wall is heartbreaking. Haven't heard yet if it was bone breaking.

[pll]

To hit the wall is heartbreaking. Haven't heard yet if it was bone breaking.

Ditto. I did not see the crash (out on a ride), just the aftermath. Heartbreaking is appropriate.

[hebe]

The BBC road race coverage was quite disappointing, apparently this is because they take it from a separate Olympics broadcaster. There was very little in the way of onscreen metrics and an awful lot of aerial shots of trees. I hope they improve it for the womens race tomorrow.

[pll]

Just found this -- the cause was some faulty GPS... might be sorted before the women's race:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012...rvices-cycling

[hebe]

Thank you pll! I hope they do sort it.

[ny biker]

I'm confused. I saw almost the entire race, recorded from NBC from 5-11 am. Schlanger and Sherwen did commentary. I was pleasantly surprised by the extent of the coverage. Is that not what other people saw on NBC?

I just fast forwarded when they cut to other sports, mostly because I didn't have time to watch everything.

Fabian has not broken bones but is in lots of pain and says there's a 50/50 chance he'll race the TT.