coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
I'll have to get on with Stuff tomorrow. Well, at least until the Olympics.
Tour de France 2016 **SPOILERS**
- Thread starter rich p
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jarlrmai
Veteran
And someone beeping.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
Looking forward to seeing Hugh Carthy on the big stage. Expect some of the misfires from the Tour will be looking for a chance at salvation too. Could be a good one.
rualexander
Legendary Member
Any catch up coverage or highlights of La Course on anywhere?
Only about ten seconds shown on the ITV4 highlights programme just now.
Only about ten seconds shown on the ITV4 highlights programme just now.
Carthy is in the Volta a Portugal starting on Wednesday...
...as are Pellizotti and Schumacher, as a matter of
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Highlights 11.10pm tonight Eurosport, repeated 10am and 4.30pm tomorrow, 11.10am Tuesday.
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Carthy is also at the Prueba Villafranca - Ordiziako Klasika* tomorrow.Carthy is in the Volta a Portugal starting on Wednesday...
...as are Pellizotti and Schumacher, as a matter of
As is Simon Yates.
* what do you mean you've never heard of it...
Of course I've heard of it. It's a restaurant in Playa del Mar.
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
Contador's main objective now, apparently, via San Sebastien and Burgos (according to 'a spokesman')
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I hadn't watched the daytime coverage on any other stage but I did manage to catch the coverage of La Course this afternoon before I went out to the shops.
Good job I did, given how pitiful tonight's 'highlights' of the women's race were! (Basically "Some women were riding bikes, lots fell off, there was a sprint at the end which this rider won ... and now back to the race"!)
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
Olympics, Paralympics, Vuelta, ToB. That's my productivity knackered for August & September.
Isn't it amazing just how little coverage is given to Chris Froome by certain 'newspapers'? When we had world champion/Olympic Gold Medal hockey players, javelin throwers and triple-jumpers, the papers found a new interest in these sports and sportspeople and they were rightly given ample coverage. Some papers having declared war on cycling and cyclists though only report on Chris Froome's success through gritted teeth. The Daily Vile/Heil seem to publish Froome's success as reluctantly as the Sun 'newspaper' feels it necessary to print anything about Liverpool Football Club. And then they open up (manipulate) the comments below the article to satisfy their ends. It's really laughable how little credit is given to a true British success story where certain scandal sheets are concerned.
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
I'm doomed.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Radio 5 devoted a significant chunk of their coverage of the last stage to an extended bellyaching section agonising over why the British public haven't taken to Froome. The question is - who cares? CF probably doesn't - he seems extremely happy and chilled out with his success; the great British public don't care much about cycle sport one way or the other. Which leaves the meeja, struggling to find something to blather about.
