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Tour de France, Stage 9 - Monday, July 9th Arc-et-Senans - Besançon
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| fickman |
Posted on 09-07-2012 16:46
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Tour is over. 
1. WIGGINS
2. FROOME
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Posted on 09-07-2012 16:48
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ianrussell wrote:
RSNT have the yellow helmets \o/ (if they'll wear 'em).
They didn't today. Suggestion is that they might not on the road stages either.
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Posted on 09-07-2012 16:49
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TheManxMissile wrote:
arthon wrote:
kadel wrote:
it was more interesting back when everyone competed on equal conditions
What, you mean back in the 80s? 
when everyone was doped?
the 80s were nice because they didn't have EPO yet and the doping opportunities were more limited.
However, the time when everyone had EPO was nice too. |
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Posted on 09-07-2012 16:53
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Checking all the major British news portals - Sky, BBC, Guardian - you get the impression cycling is of no importance to the British people. Considering that news like "John Terry going to court" gets more attention than Wiggins and Froome more or less dominating the sport, you do begin to ask yourself what's the point in it all. Seems like only the rest of the Europeans respect what the fairly newly established Sky has accomplished in few years.
The other fun fact is Brits tend to report the loss of Murray more than the double win of Froome and Wiggins or before that their very strong performance in the mountains.
Just a thought. It may be a bit off-topic, but I did have the need to say it. |
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Posted on 09-07-2012 16:56
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ZeHowly wrote:
Checking all the major British news portals - Sky, BBC, Guardian - you get the impression cycling is of no importance to the British people. Considering that news like "John Terry going to court" gets more attention than Wiggins and Froome more or less dominating the sport, you do begin to ask yourself what's the point in it all. Seems like only the rest of the Europeans respect what the fairly newly established Sky has accomplished in few years.
The other fun fact is Brits tend to report the loss of Murray more than the double win of Froome and Wiggins or before that their very strong performance in the mountains.
Just a thought. It may be a bit off-topic, but I did have the need to say it.
It's true that the sport is still a "minority sport", however viewing figures are starting to become huge, it is getting into the front of the sports pages in the paper and it is the fastest growing sport in the UK.
The sport that we Brits here love is getting bigger. I personally love that friends start taking interest in it too.
There's no point slapping a schleck - Sean Kelly on "Who needs a slap"
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Posted on 09-07-2012 16:57
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Why an earth have so many teams and riders not riden the TT before. So many talking of being surprised even those finishing realtively high up :/ |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 09-07-2012 17:01
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kadel wrote:
TheManxMissile wrote:
arthon wrote:
kadel wrote:
it was more interesting back when everyone competed on equal conditions
What, you mean back in the 80s?
when everyone was doped?
the 80s were nice because they didn't have EPO yet and the doping opportunities were more limited.
However, the time when everyone had EPO was nice too.
Yeah, it affected all riders the same, which is what dope does, as it's well-known, so we had a nice fair competition, isn't it ? |
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| Smal |
Posted on 09-07-2012 17:03
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120. MOLLEMA Bauke 153 RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM 58' 31'' + 07' 07''
Christ  . It's not going well for them is it? |
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Posted on 09-07-2012 17:04
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doddy13 wrote:
ZeHowly wrote:
Checking all the major British news portals - Sky, BBC, Guardian - you get the impression cycling is of no importance to the British people. Considering that news like "John Terry going to court" gets more attention than Wiggins and Froome more or less dominating the sport, you do begin to ask yourself what's the point in it all. Seems like only the rest of the Europeans respect what the fairly newly established Sky has accomplished in few years.
The other fun fact is Brits tend to report the loss of Murray more than the double win of Froome and Wiggins or before that their very strong performance in the mountains.
Just a thought. It may be a bit off-topic, but I did have the need to say it.
It's true that the sport is still a "minority sport", however viewing figures are starting to become huge, it is getting into the front of the sports pages in the paper and it is the fastest growing sport in the UK.
The sport that we Brits here love is getting bigger. I personally love that friends start taking interest in it too.
Minority Sport for the Media
Over half the population own a bike
33% say they cycle regularly
Thats not minority to me...
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| ZeHowly |
Posted on 09-07-2012 17:04
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doddy13 wrote:
ZeHowly wrote:
Checking all the major British news portals - Sky, BBC, Guardian - you get the impression cycling is of no importance to the British people. Considering that news like "John Terry going to court" gets more attention than Wiggins and Froome more or less dominating the sport, you do begin to ask yourself what's the point in it all. Seems like only the rest of the Europeans respect what the fairly newly established Sky has accomplished in few years.
The other fun fact is Brits tend to report the loss of Murray more than the double win of Froome and Wiggins or before that their very strong performance in the mountains.
Just a thought. It may be a bit off-topic, but I did have the need to say it.
It's true that the sport is still a "minority sport", however viewing figures are starting to become huge, it is getting into the front of the sports pages in the paper and it is the fastest growing sport in the UK.
The sport that we Brits here love is getting bigger. I personally love that friends start taking interest in it too.
I still believe there's a lot of ignorance from your media towards cycling. If - for example - a Slovenian was leading TDF, it would be all over the covers, while in Britain it gets a bore mentioning.
When you say your friends? Do you mean with that just a few or those who usually never watch cycling?
Well, I hope it changes to better soon, it sure does seem to have a lot of potential for cycling to become as popular in Britain as it was in the times of Lance Armstrong in USA. |
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 09-07-2012 17:04
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NEW LANTERNE ROUGE ALERT:
Jimmy Engoulvent takes it.
There's no point slapping a schleck - Sean Kelly on "Who needs a slap"
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 09-07-2012 17:09
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Tour has been overhsadowed this weekend by Wimbolden and F1 for good reasons
Other wise coverage in media is massivly improving month by month
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Posted on 09-07-2012 17:10
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are RSNT still in the yellow helmets
or did the partial Sky domination take it back? |
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Posted on 09-07-2012 17:11
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samdiatmh wrote:
are RSNT still in the yellow helmets
or did the partial Sky domination take it back?
RSNT still leading that one.
There's no point slapping a schleck - Sean Kelly on "Who needs a slap"
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Posted on 09-07-2012 17:11
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Tour has been overhsadowed this weekend by Wimbolden and F1 for good reasons
Other wise coverage in media is massivly improving month by month
And still is... |
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Posted on 09-07-2012 17:11
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samdiatmh wrote:
are RSNT still in the yellow helmets
or did the partial Sky domination take it back?
Thank God no. + 01' 25'' Behind RSNT.
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Posted on 09-07-2012 17:13
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The BBC Sport website has covered the Tour de France a lot more actively than in the past. The creation of Team Sky has definately helped with media coverage in Britain aswell.
And of course, media coverage will keep growing after days like today.
It will be interesting to see if the coverage grows as the race develops. Wimbledon is over, the Euros are over, and the British F1 GP has passed - the Tour de France is the main sporting event now until the Olympics.
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 09-07-2012 17:13
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ZeHowly wrote:
TheManxMissile wrote:
Tour has been overhsadowed this weekend by Wimbolden and F1 for good reasons
Other wise coverage in media is massivly improving month by month
And still is...
And will be.
Wimbledon and F1 at Silverstone are British events in their home country.
Tour is in France.
I think it's obvious Britain prioritize their biggest events.
Tour will get more spotlight from now on. No football, tennis, gold or athletics for next 2 weeks I believe.
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Posted on 09-07-2012 17:15
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Alakagom wrote:
ZeHowly wrote:
TheManxMissile wrote:
Tour has been overhsadowed this weekend by Wimbolden and F1 for good reasons
Other wise coverage in media is massivly improving month by month
And still is...
And will be.
Wimbledon and F1 at Silverstone are British events in their home country.
Tour is in France.
I think it's obvious Britain prioritize their biggest events.
Tour will get more spotlight from now on. No football, tennis, gold or athletics for next 2 weeks I believe.
As sad as it sounds the British press would rather report on David Beckhams new haircut than the Tour de France  |
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Posted on 09-07-2012 17:17
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Alakagom wrote:
ZeHowly wrote:
TheManxMissile wrote:
Tour has been overhsadowed this weekend by Wimbolden and F1 for good reasons
Other wise coverage in media is massivly improving month by month
And still is...
And will be.
Wimbledon and F1 at Silverstone are British events in their home country.
Tour is in France.
I think it's obvious Britain prioritize their biggest events.
Tour will get more spotlight from now on. No football, tennis, gold or athletics for next 2 weeks I believe.
Warmup for the Olympics?
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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