Olympic cycle race

Settled down to watch this event this afternoon.  Good commentating team of Hugh Porter and Chris Boardman made to look absolute incompetent numpties by the computerised info system constantly crashing throughout the race.  From their studio commentary position they could only remark on what was being shown on screen live which was not very helpful - they had no access to times, gaps, group compositions or distances - what a feckin 'shambles.

The French managed to run a faultless info system at the recent Tour de France for three weeks, the Brits could not even manage it for five hours :-(

Then came the ultimate frustration for me - as the race passed Hampton Court Palace we had a tremendous local thunderstorm which totally interrupted satellite coverage of the race, not just for a few minutes but for well over half an hour only to return as the race winner was being interviewed.

On a more positive not there was an obvious difference in the actual race to that of the Tour de France, not the riders but that team radios are not permitted in the Olympic event denying any race information to the teams resulting much inaccurate guesswork concerning tactics.  There was a time when I disagreed with radios as I thought that it was unsporting but having watched part of  a race without such technology it surely is time to introduce team radios for the 2016 Games.