Originally Posted by asgelle

What would you call it? The field doesn't know the gap and so has no idea when to start chasing and how hard. They make a wild guess and work off that. Then the time they have to catch keeps shifting and ends up being 10 miles shorter than originally thought. It's obvious Astana was pacing to catch before the finish (probably before the last lap where time was going to be taken at one point), but either the location for GC time was changed, or they learned about it too late, and sat up. So Mancebo wins because in an information vacuum success comes down to a guess. I'd say that is equivalent to blind luck.

I've never seen even the most anti-rider-radio advocates propose doing away with time splits entirely. You might want to check some of the coverage comments. See how many people are mad about not knowing the time gaps as they watched. Under your proposal, we'd have to do without that as well since if the information is released to the viewer, then the DS's will just have it relayed to them.