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Nice roads around the Cycle race cause the councils spend money on repairing those roads and forget others.
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F*cking BBC. Cycling coverage atrocious as usual.
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Two london road races I've tuned in for now on TV and twice they've basically been saying "We've no clue who is where" in the final stages.
Why can't they introduce some sort of GPS chips with the rider so they can at least get a list of who is where? |
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oh shit that was a bad crash
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Thank you BBC for that dull , confused and tedious coverage,
It makes ITV4 commentry team look light years ahead of you. Cycling in the UK does not seem to have the " je nais quoi" that continental coverage has. Very grey and bland. London Marathon on bikes day. :yawn: |
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Thank you BBC for that dull , confused and tedious coverage,
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It was OK for what it was. Not many other 1.1 races get that sort of coverage, so the smaller teams should be delighted. Hopefully the UCI and the other World Tour teams will make note and the race may get bumped up a bit in future years. It's a similar sort of event to the ones they do in Frankfurt and Hamburg and they've both been World Tour races in the past. The route is not exactly thrilling, but it's a good sort of event for putting cycling on the average punter's radar.
Were the BBC doing the camerawork too? It was a bit messy towards the end. |
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The route is not exactly thrilling,
- well the Surrey countryside bits anyway. ![]() It was weird to see it going through roads I drive on all the time - similar to the Olympics last year. |
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I was watching on Eurosport and didn't hear any of the 'hup, hup, hup'..............so I guess that was down to the BBC com box.............they probably had their windows open
At one point the ES commentator was saying that they hadn't seen many pictures of the peloton as the camera seemed to be stuck on the little group up front.............and he mentioned that pictures came from the host broadcaster and I think he said it was 'Central' not BBC |
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Apparently Peter Sagan listed as a DNF - people are saying he climbed off on Box Hill.
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I was watching on Eurosport and didn't hear any of the 'hup, hup, hup'..............so I guess that was down to the BBC com box.............they probably had their windows open
At one point the ES commentator was saying that they hadn't seen many pictures of the peloton as the camera seemed to be stuck on the little group up front.............and he mentioned that pictures came from the host broadcaster and I think he said it was 'Central' not BBC
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Host broadcaster was Century TV - I believe - who do a lot of Road Race coverage in UK, it certainly wasn't the BBC in any case. Carlton Kirby was probably in Outer Space as per usual
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The good news: After a whole 52 hours with no live cycling at all on the TV, the Tour of Utah starts tonight at 22:00 hours, live on Eurosport 2.
The bad news: the program that immediately precedes it is live women's tennis. |
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the Tour of Utah starts tonight
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I thought I heard him mention the Utah race the other day but it's not in Radio Times so I assumed I must have misheard.........
They've also got a four day race starting on Thursday........the Arctic Tour of Norway which is obviously in the far north of Norway and again should be fantastic scenery...... I'm a tad troubled with Eurosport this year............they seem to have lost the rights to show some of the World Tour races and have messed us around by only showing selected days of other races..............and as though to make up they seem to be scouring Europe for the lower grade races that no one else is showing and, being honest, most of us have never heard of................ It's like Sky losing the rights to Premier League matches and putting on League 2 instead............... I'd rather watch the big races !................ |
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Utah is currently live online (with ad breaks): http://tourtracker.tourofutah.com
100miles to go at 7pm UK time. |
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The good news: After a whole 52 hours with no live cycling at all on the TV, the Tour of Utah starts tonight at 22:00 hours, live on Eurosport 2.
The bad news: the program that immediately precedes it is live women's tennis. tennis is a right pain..............
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Race is practically over, no chance of anything tonight.
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Going to a 3rd set................
![]() I've given up and flicked to Newsnight but ES are very poor at putting on screen messages............eg, they could have put a message that highlights of todays stage would follow the tennis, assuming that the race is now over. Of course, they might have put a message by now ............ |
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It's starting now, 20k to go. It's the turn of Aussie rules fans to be annoyed.
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They've also got a four day race starting on Thursday........the Arctic Tour of Norway which is obviously in the far north of Norway and again should be fantastic scenery...... It's a new race, first running this year. And it's run by the ASO It's graded at 2.1 which is the same as the Tour of Britain So............it could be quite a good race even though it's only 4 days |
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World Juniors Track Cycling from the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome is on live stream, with repeats and daily highlights
http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/junior...s/default.aspx Schedule here http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/junior...e-Schedue.aspx |
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Once again one of the highly paid divas of tennis stumbles across the finishing line, so cycling up soon.
Spoke too soon! Live broadcast cancelled, highlights tomorrow. Weather probably. |
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Once again one of the highly paid divas of tennis stumbles across the finishing line, so cycling up soon.
Spoke too soon! Live broadcast cancelled, highlights tomorrow. Weather probably.
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Eurosport have cancelled all live coverage of Utah due to 'quality issues'. Highlights only for the remainder of the race.
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- well the Surrey countryside bits anyway. 
