Tour de France Question

[DDH]

I'm ticked that I have to by digital cable to be able to see this. If Dallas gets it for basic cable then I should too. (throws temper tantram while posting) LOL

[pooks]

Oh wait -- sorry, my mistake. We do have digital cable. I called it basic because we have no extras -- no Showtime, HBO or other extras.

Sorry for the confusion!

(However, I'll ask a couple of friends who don't have digital if they get Versus, just in case!)

[Thorn]

And not to forget that Eurosport, http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/, will broadcast audio over the internet. If you're in Europe you can get the video feed, as well.

Towards the end of last year Eurosport's web site had some serious problems with external hacking. I stopped using their site because of it. They've since switched to using Yahoo. The site no longer causes my browser to enter infinte loops. The Dauphine was covered by a second string announcer who was...uh..just awful. Couldn't pronounce any names right, wasn't even consistently wrong in pronunciation and his color commentar was limited to Rider X is "having a bad/good day at the office" and "let's just watch"....uh...I'm on audio only!!!

Some people dislike their first-string commentators, but I enjoy it as background noise at work, particularly, the British-isms that don't translate so well. DH has dubbed the commentator as "weenie bits" because riders win, lose, and miss by "a weenie bit"

[NJBikeGal]

Discovery has announced the tour team. No surprise that Levi and Big-George-Hincapie are on the roster! Saunier-Duval has also announced their team...Iban Mayo is (surprisingly, considering his recent questionable test result) on the list, as is David Millar.

Yo...BJARNE...get your butt on the ball, here!!! We're WAITING!!!

[RoadRaven]

Sky Sport is showing every stage live plus re-runs... think I will need a baby tv on my desk for those 3 weeks... do you think my students will mind if I take it into the class room???

[kiwi girl]

RR - does that mean you have Sky at work?

The America's Cup has interferred enough with my sleep patterns - I'll only just have a chance to recover before the TdF

[margo49]

. The Dauphine was covered by a second string announcer who was...uh..just awful. Couldn't pronounce any names right, wasn't even consistently wrong in pronunciation and his color commentar was limited to Rider X is "having a bad/good day at the office" and "let's just watch"....uh...I'm on audio only!!!

Some people dislike their first-string commentators, but I enjoy it as background noise at work, particularly, the British-isms that don't translate so well. DH has dubbed the commentator as "weenie bits" because riders win, lose, and miss by "a weenie bit"

This is the one and only David Duffield.
An *institution* not a commentator. Perhaps an acquired taste. Perhaps you have to be a bit of a Brit. But he has a huge following to the point where people inundated Eurosport's TdF forum when he was *not* commentating on the TdF 2 years ago. It was a disaster as far as a lot of us were concerned. Many of us even thought he had gone to that Great Commentary Box in the sky as he is nearly 80. He has a tremendous knowledge of cycling and cyclists going back past his favourite rider of all time Fausto Coppi. He is very involved in British cycling and there is a ride in his name (CTC, I think).
He will be in the London studio for this TdF doing the intro every day and some phone conversations, I believe.

[crazycanuck]

I'm cheering on Robbie.. the other robbie..Robbie Mcewan..not the singer Robbie williams..

C

[Keely]

I'm going to be having a sleepless July again this year!!! SBS (Ch 28Down Under) shows the racing live. This year they have 2 daily shows at reasonable hours giving updates and showing the finish of each stage. Can't wait!!!

[hurleygirl]

Add me to the "sleepless July" list.

In addition to my normal office job... let's add

Anywhere from 3-5 hours of almost daily Tour to watch (I TiVO the live morning coverage because it is waaaay better than the "expanded evening broadcast").

And I'm training for a triathlon on July 22nd.

I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to manage this - except to burn up some vacation days.