Originally Posted by jet sanchEz
Yeah, the announcer's didn't make this evident at all, the physics behind the peleton. They kept showing the massive distance between the second-place guy and the peleton and would say something like "Can they catch up?" and then, when they had caught up, they just cheered on the second-place guy "Can he hold it?!?!", no explanation or anything.
The scary thing is the best explanantion of the strategy behind a breakaway and a peleton I've seen is in
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia. The entire movie is like a primer on road cycling strategy, besides the fact its one of the best pieces of realistic anime in the last decade.