Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Radio Bans

From Velonews:
Riis carefully directed Cancellara during the race from the passenger seat of the Saxo Bank team car. He revealed that he told Cancellara to attack when he did, after noticing that Tom Boonen was too far down the line of riders.Cancellara trusted his boss, didn't look back and opened up the after-burners, even though there was still 50 kilometres left to race. Before Boonen even realised what had happened and moved out of the line to look up the road, Cancellara had already opened a gap that would have been impossible for him to close."I told him to attack on the radio. As soon as I saw that Boonen was not on his wheel, I said: 'Now you go' ," Riis explained

So the UCI bans radios at all levels below class 1 to make racing more intuitive and less predictable, putting the onus on riders rather than their team directors to decide tactics.

I see that is working out well. Have they thought about banning televisions in the director's cars instead?

2 comments:

Martin Criminale said...

Hahahahaha... I was wondering how long it was going to take for someone to make a television comment. What a farce.

colin gibson said...

that velonews excerpt has a homoerotic quality to it. 'cancellara trusted his boss'...'now you go'

ahahahah. love cycling news media.