Phil and Paul pointed out in the live broadcast today that this is the team's good-natured nickname for him. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
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Phil and Paul pointed out in the live broadcast today that this is the team's good-natured nickname for him. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
I have one word for today's finish:
Jayyyyy-zus !!!!! :D
Yikes. Saw that. And also saw the very angry Philippe Gilbert, who shared his thoughts with the owners of the dog (picture here). Really negligent of them not to keep the dog on a leash as the race approached.Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
That dog looked big enough to be a bear. And awesome ending.Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
From David Millar on twitter:
"Challenged roomie @dzabriskie to a race-off in the TT tomorrow. Loser has to publicly proclaim inferiority to other in said discipline."
So, that's one more competition to watch...
Love the donkeys in jerseys!
http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&s...9,r:0,s:0,i:77
Wow...faster than a speeding bullet; it's a bird; it's a plane...
No, it's a cycling legend!
When did this happen? Either they didn't show it on the nighttime replay, or it had already happened when we turned on (we missed some of it). I kept waiting for a dog to run out onto the course but never saw one.Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
It was early in the race. They showed it during the live coverage but I think it was a helicopter shot -- not clear.Quote:
Originally Posted by emily_in_nc
The aftermath was very briefly shown early on in the nighttime broadcast as well. The actual close encounter with canine was never shown in the US broadcasts.
It may impact Phillipe Gilbert's Olympic hopes
We saw riders on the ground, One ticked off rider going to yell at the dog owner, who had placed a child in front of himself and the dog. The dog was like a big black Newfoundland or something, as big as a bear.
http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral...ses-tour-spill
Scroll down to a still pic of angry Gilbert restrained by his manager.
Okay I will say it, I think this tour has been boring.
Usually I have little interest in the sprinters' stages in the first week, but this year that turned out to be the most interesting part, with Sagan and Greipel lighting things up.
Since then, having the #2 guy on the same team as the guy in yellow has taken the excitement out of the mountain stages. Liquigas tried to attack, but when you know the guy in second has no intention of riding as fast as he can, it's just dull. It would have been way better if Froome was on another team.
I thoroughly enjoyed this year's tour. The scenery; the daily stage battles; the bright young stars like Sagan, Van Garderen and Pinot; Voeckler in polka dots; Bradley Wiggins proving to be a very worthy winner; Jens Voigt's attacks, David Millar's stage win; Fabian in yellow; ... and on and on. Everything!
I have to say that I totally agree with you. The early stages were by far the most exciting this year, which is unusual. The mountains were a bore, except for the scenery, which was gorgeous.Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
I was happy for Voeckler, but I really didn't have anyone to strongly root for or against this year, which also took some of the fun out of it. There were a lot of riders I didn't know at all since I don't follow pro cycling very closely. It was a lot more interesting when the Schlecks and Contador were battling it out, and before that Lance, Ulrich, and the other "old timers". To me anyway.
At least we have Jens. He was awesome again today.
Well this is terrible -- injuries suffered by one of Vaconsoleil's riders in stage six. I hope he's able to recover fully.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/poel...-hospital-soon
My husband and I also thought it was a rather boring tour.
I read that. After the crash, as he was being put into the ambulance at the scene, he got off and remounted his bike, with all those injuries. He abandoned 10km down the road. I just could not believe he did that when I read it. Crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
Overall, I have mixed feelings about this tour. I must say, I missed Contador and that I do not miss the Schlecks -- they just complain too much. The sprints were fun to watch. The mountains, not as exciting, but it was fun to see Nibali attacking repeatedly, until a muscle strain in his right calf got the best of him. I was disappointed by Gesink (why did he drop out?) and Van Den Broeck. And it was nice to see the up and coming generation: Sagan, van Garderen, Pinot... Rolland I am not too fond of... stuck to Contador's and Samu Sánchez's wheels in the Alpe d'Huez stage last year, then attacking twice during the tack incident this year.
I am curious now about how the teams will reconfigure for next year. And looking forward to the Vuelta... :cool:
I should also add -- I'm still bummed at the thought of no more tour on TV every day. ;)
Next race on NBC Sports is August 20, in Colorado. I'm also hoping we'll be able to watch the Olympic races on tv, even if we have to rely on late-night DVRing. Go Chris and the T's!!!
Here's the Olympic TV schedule that I found, FWIW.Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
http://brimages.bikeboardmedia.netdn...e-Schedule.jpg
It was a little boring, but I like the whole experience of watching it. I do miss some of the "old timers" who no longer ride.
I always experience a feeling of loss when it's over. Summer's half way over.
But are they going to be shown live or tape delayed and which channel will they be on?
NBC Sports has this, but I don't see anything about how to see the races:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/cycling/r...les/index.html
I enjoyed the tdf this year and cannot wait for the olympics. I have a phone app for each (love phone apps) and follow those for news, videos, stats, etc.
I love the tour.
Boring and brutal.
You can google it; Gesink withdrew after a crash injured his ribs and made it painful to breathe.
Found the Gesink note this morning. I thought the following was cute in Cycling News, a quote of Peter Sagan:
"I didn't really feel the emotion of finishing in Paris, maybe because everybody spoke to me so much about it beforehand," he said. "Ivan [Basso] even told me that on the Champs-Élysées you don't feel pain, but in the finale we were going at 60kph and you need strength in your legs for that."
Basso's "poetic" description that you don't feel pain in the Champs-Élysées... and Sagan expecting that literally!
I'm with Kim.Quote:
Originally Posted by aka_kim
I agree. And I also find TT stages really boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
The ironic thing is it was such a hard tour, you'd think it would have been more exciting to watch. It was just too hard. Too many great competitors out in crashes, and the rest were just spent. And, 3 time trials but no TTT. I love the TTT. I'm sure there's a reason they don't always have them, but I wish they were a requirement.
But congratulations Wiggins! He was superior.
Me too! I don't know what US Postal was doing in terms of performance enhancement but watching them in the team time trial was amazing back then.Quote:
I love the TTT.
That said, TTs are not that thrilling to watch. Those are the days I'm particularly thankful for tv recording options so I can skip most of those stages. But I thought the last hour of Saturday's time trial was pretty exciting.
I'm no anglophile but I was very excited to see Bradley Wiggins win that stage by a good margin and the tour overall.
For TT I'd just rather check the results and be done with it. It is too repetitive for me to watch.
OTOH, I like long flat (boring) stages. I have to be in the right frame of mind for it, but it says lazy summer afternoon like nothing else. Watch a breakaway get out, doze off listening to Phil & Paul, wake up an hour or so later, check the distance, see if the breakaway is still out, notice the sunflowers or lavender fields, decide whether to wake up or not...
A TT can be exciting if something important like the race lead is on the line, though most of it is still ho-hum.
I love TTTs.
I know just about every long stage will be dull for much of it, and I'm fine with that, especially since Phil and Paul are so good at telling us about the area they're racing through and the various sites along the way. I just prefer some good attacks to liven things up in the mountains.
I was really disappointed with NBC Sports network's coverage. So many ads! And their on-screen ad banners that obstruct the entire bottom half of the screen! Terrible! They also did not have the name of the castle or town, which Versus always had. No speed of racers, either. The had way too many bits of storyline instead of focusing on the race. Seriously terrible compared to Versus and Eurosport. Next year I'll stick with Eurosport however I can get it. Obviously, NBC Sports Network doesn't know much about covering cycling races. Even Paul and Phil were having to mention ad bits at every other sentence.
Oh, the NBC Sports coverage stunk to high heaven. I'd record the telecast on DVR and fast forward thru all the commercials ... I think the fast forward button on my remote has worn out. :rolleyes: The Eurosport coverage was vastly superior but I rarely managed to get up early enough to see much of it.
But hey, no Al Trautwig ... I'm grateful for small favors. :D
I so agree with the TTs being boring to watch (maybe the last 5 riders can be watched, but over 50km or more... that's boring, too). The TTTs are fun.
A resounding yes to NBCs coverage being terrible. The last stage, in particular, I made the mistake of tuning to the noon coverage in the regular NBC channel. It was complete nonsense, a 2 hour "teaser" for people that do not follow the tour. And they did not show the sprint or podium! What...?
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Originally Posted by tulip
Agree with all the comments about the coverage (even the ones I didn't quote). I also HATED the spinning maps which were disorienting and left me with hardly any idea where the race was taking place.
Just because a graphic exists does not mean it should be used!
A funny post about social networking for cyclists from TDF's facebook. :D
I was among those who used the NBC sports TDF app - it was great.
$15 =
no commercials - seriously none what so ever, and the commentating continues even during what would be breaks.
live and recorded streaming coverage
start to finish coverage (seriously... they started and ended with some Aussie guy, Matt, but he knew his stuff pretty well, and would switch to Phil and Paul about an hour in or so, but generally started with the rollout!)
Only the French feed graphics - not sure what you meant by the spinning maps- do you mean the fly in at the very beginning? That's part of the French feed, as are the km's to go, and rider positions so NBC doesn't have control over that, but if they added stuff, it didn't show up on the web stream.
From twitter this morning:
@RoadID 2 flats on my AM ride. Sitting on the side of the road right now. #TubesMan