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I've been to two other Olympic events and have been very impressed. The train services have been excellent, the sign posting of events has been great, the volunteers inside & outside the venues have been helpful & polite. The explanations of the sports were helpful.
I watched some of the race on TV, and it didn't seem too bad. I could follow who was out infront and which groups were there. It's unfortunate if it didn't go to plan for the road race, but I don't think that makes it a farce.
Does anyone know if there was a test event for the road race? If there was and they are using a system that has already worked for an event, then there isn't really any reason that they would expect it to fail. If they've tried to find out why, and that's the answer they were given, then all they can do is try to find a way to make it work for other events that might be using it.
Never mind the split times, if there'd been any coverage that named people attacking, how they were looking, what their history was etc (ie actually knew arse all about the race and who was riding), Twitter would have been second best. Less people would have relied on it to know what was going on. As it was........
Hi, Flippa
I was lucky enough to go to the men's road race at box hill and I agree with you the marshelling/volunteers have been great unfortunately the trains were pretty bad.
There are two stations at Dorking completly seperate from each other I was using Great western (Dorking Deepdene) on way past the other Dorking station there was a sign stating a delay of two hours for services I enclose (hopefully) a picture of part of the queue for my train (I went into town had food etc then came back) still queued
12. crowd awaiting the extra trains put on for the event_0.JPG
Looking at that photo it seems the jobsworths at North Camp station did me a favour by not allowing me get on the Deepdene train with my Brompton. I went back to Farnham, got on my mountain-bike, cycled 25 miles to the Denbies event, had a great day and then cycled home. I can vouch for the strength of the SW tailwind which sustained the breakaway. The ease with which I wafted to Dorking in the morning (from Albury on the still-closed road race route) was in contrast to the struggle home in the evening.
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