Road world championship (Spoilers!)

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Austria looks lovely*

*Judith Chalmers beware. Top travel commentary.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

What a ride by van der Breggen

 

[rich p]

What a ride by van der Breggen

Yeah but it didn't make for compulsive viewing though.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Yeah but it didn't make for compulsive viewing though.

I thought it was impressive; strange how people were raving about that young chap the other day and then view VDB's win as dull

 

[rich p]

I thought it was impressive; strange how people were raving about that young chap the other day and then view VDB's win as dull

I didn't see him so I can't tell you if it was as impressive and dull as VDB' s victory yesterday

 

[Andrew Br]

They've just reported on the commentary of the men's race that van Vleuten broke her leg in the crash yet she was still able to get back to the front on the next climb (Did you see it ? She went like a rocket), set up the attack that led to van der Breggen making the race winning break and she still finished 7th.
I know we regularly see this sort of thing (Gilbert in the TdeF comes to mind) but it still astonishes me.
Coincidentally, (or not) Gilbert and van Vleuten are probably my favourite active racers.

 

[pjd57]

BBC .....just show us the race.
Endlessly chatting , ridiculous coverage

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

BBC .....just show us the race.
Endlessly chatting , ridiculous coverage

Mute button?

 

[mjr]

BBC .....just show us the race.
Endlessly chatting , ridiculous coverage

Meanwhile, over on Eurosport, it's time for an ad break.

I would have stayed on BBC but they had an hour's break over lunch and I've not yet installed kodi to get iplayer stuff on the TV.

 

[mjr]

Mute button?

Then you'd just have had pictures of three people stood around chatting.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Then you'd just have had pictures of three people stood around chatting.

At least you wouldn't have to listen to them.

 

[pjd57]

Then you'd just have had pictures of three people stood around chatting.

They should have chatted away and shown the race .
The first couple of hours on red button was fine.

 

[Andrew Br]

They're paid to commentate so they do. Some of it is quite interesting especially the technical bits and Danni Rowe's "inside" info.
If you're still not convinced, there's always the volume button.
BBC have no control over the picture feed.

Boardman, C did say earlier that he thought most of these races could be 50km shorter and it wouldn't affect the result.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Ollie and Buster think it's boring

 

[rich p]

GVA looks like a middleweight boxer