Yup.
The BBC should leave pro cycling well alone and stick to bmx and triathlon and stuff
Road World Championships (Spoilers)
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The BBC should leave pro cycling well alone and stick to bmx and triathlon and stuff
thom
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Maybe they should just do it better - if you put it on the BBC 1, a fair few people see it - stick it on Eurosport and only the cognoscenti.
Some of the criticism sounds like you don't like opening out coverage and letting the plebs in...
You're right, I would rather they improved, but they've had a good while of increased popularity and it's not getting any better.
I would be happier if they showed the Eurosport feed on BBC1
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
Come late to the commentary. I'm afraid I had important things to do today but the Commentators v CCers punch up has entertained me retrospectively. Thanks all!
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
Good call by Marmion - even Inner Ring didn't give him a chance, even when it was suggested over there that Kwiat might be a possibility. A worthy winner and I hope someone who will do justice to the jersey next season.
Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Edinburgh
A great race with a great winner, what a contrast to the dismal efforts of the women yesterday.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Just watched my recording, having avoided spoilers. Yeeeeeah! I'm afraid I may have annoyed the neighbours
Are you hinting that Rui Costa didn't exactly do ANYTHING this year? Cos you might have a point! (I don't think the Tour de Suisse and a few 2nd places counts for that much, he didn't exactly show much of himself this year...)
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
For those of you who like/understand Strava, here's Kwiat's ride http://www.strava.com/activities/200661439
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Looks like his GPS was playing up a bit! Various bits are missing or added in ...
Stonechat
Guru
- Location
- Staines, Middlesex
Last three laps the altitude has gone weird
Questions:
Could/should the British team have done anything different, rather than putting all their eggs in the Ben Swift basket? I understand that Kennaugh was off the front in order to force other teams to chase while allowing the British not to, but would it have been better to go with a two-pronged "Swift for the sprint but Kennaugh to see if he can do something like Kwiat. did" strategy?
How come there were still lots of Italians & Dutch there near the end? I understand the strategy of a rider working until they are tired out and then stopping but it seemed to me that a other teams did better at keeping more team members there until the end. (On the other hand, it worked for Poland...)
Could/should the British team have done anything different, rather than putting all their eggs in the Ben Swift basket? I understand that Kennaugh was off the front in order to force other teams to chase while allowing the British not to, but would it have been better to go with a two-pronged "Swift for the sprint but Kennaugh to see if he can do something like Kwiat. did" strategy?
How come there were still lots of Italians & Dutch there near the end? I understand the strategy of a rider working until they are tired out and then stopping but it seemed to me that a other teams did better at keeping more team members there until the end. (On the other hand, it worked for Poland...)
@fimm
I suppose it shows that there's more than one way to skin a cat. Poland and Italy did a lot of the legwork to pull back the break and it worked for one of them - was it a great masterplan or did Kwiat just make a great opportunist break? I suspect the latter although the break needed catching.
The GB team was an enigma again - Swift was possibly their best bet but it didn't help the cause that, according to Rod Ellingworth, GT, Froome and the Yates bros weren't on their A game. Given that Millar doesn't have an A game these days it was a lightweight team again. Kennaugh, Rowe and Cummings to do the work. Swift is unlikely to win against the top riders of his ilk though.
As in many races the chase group of Gilbert & co left it to one man (Pip,) since there were 2 Belgians, and therefore gave away any chance of their own in the process. As Gilbert said, it's inexplicable why Gerrans, Gallopin, Valverde etc wouldn't help as you might as welcome tenth as second. There's only one world champion.
I suppose it shows that there's more than one way to skin a cat. Poland and Italy did a lot of the legwork to pull back the break and it worked for one of them - was it a great masterplan or did Kwiat just make a great opportunist break? I suspect the latter although the break needed catching.
The GB team was an enigma again - Swift was possibly their best bet but it didn't help the cause that, according to Rod Ellingworth, GT, Froome and the Yates bros weren't on their A game. Given that Millar doesn't have an A game these days it was a lightweight team again. Kennaugh, Rowe and Cummings to do the work. Swift is unlikely to win against the top riders of his ilk though.
As in many races the chase group of Gilbert & co left it to one man (Pip,) since there were 2 Belgians, and therefore gave away any chance of their own in the process. As Gilbert said, it's inexplicable why Gerrans, Gallopin, Valverde etc wouldn't help as you might as welcome tenth as second. There's only one world champion.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Kwiatkowski's been my favourite cyclist (aside from hero worship of Cav) for a couple of years now. I was so pleased to see him win. He had a great start to the year with a hatful of podium finishes, but it was painful to watch him start so well - so close to taking yellow on the cobbled stage - and gradually fall to bits later on in the TdF, and then see to things go awry in the ToB.
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Don't think this has been posted before. Here is the winning ride on Strava.
http://www.strava.com/activities/200661439
http://www.strava.com/activities/200661439
