Maybe when the hammer is down, but you don’t normally need to go then. It’s a standard thing, just that the TV doesn’t normally show it in major pro races where the coverage is being done by people more used to covering cycling.

Having resorted to cyclingnews for info on who’s in the break as the TV coverage is rubbish at that (typical amateur Olympic coverage), most obviously no Italian or Spaniard, and right on cue who’s at the front of the peleton!

For info, from cyclingnews:

cheers lightman 🙂

poor bugger Stannard, shoved to the front already and told to bring it back

WTF? BBC1. Where’s the bloody cycling gone?

getting nothing but blank screens on the red button (even after a retune )

those gutters look lethal, don’t think I’d want to commute by bike in rio !

******* bbc

iplayer back up to snuff now 🙄

his saddles dropped you muppets nothing to do with his gears

carnage on those cobbles

all these tiny “rental” team cars look odd 🙂

they’re taking the piss a bit with some of these ‘consultation’ sessions back at the team cars 😉

iPlayer – they have a load of live Olympic streams (Youview box plugged into my TV)

Double entry.

I don’t mean that – they’re supposed to ride at the same time, not get towed.

Why does it have to be all or none, and why is it stupid? I quite like the idea of the riders having to think for themselves rather than being choreographed from the team cars.

I thought everybody back at the team cars were recovering from mechanicals though? (in which case you normally get a bit of slack at being towed for a little)

😆

Ah. iPlayer. Gotcha. 8)

Hmm, I want to go surfing