Local media=no race coverage?

[rapid cycler]

I hear you, especially given sporting events that do get television coverage. I guess people like sport fishing and strongest-man competitions, but really…

My beef is the almost total lack of coverage of women's cycling at all outside of tris, the Olympics, and the occasional mountain biking competition. I know male viewers drive the market, but sheesh, watching sports TV you'd hardly know a woman has ever mounted a road bike.

[Zen]

Watching televised sport you'd probably not know women existed unless the "card girls" in wrestling and boxing and NASCAR champagne girls count.

Hey! Let's watch people sitting on their @sses playing poker!

[rapid cycler]

Watching televised sport you'd probably not know women existed unless the "card girls" in wrestling and boxing and NASCAR champagne girls count.

Hey! Let's watch people sitting on their @sses playing poker!

Agh! Yes, I forgot to mention the endless card-playing coverage. Zen, you always make me laugh.

Maybe Lifetime "Television for Women" could show a couple fewer movies about women being abused and/or killed by their boyfriends/husbands and show us some women sweating and achieving stuff. Or is women's television like the new P.E., where no one's allowed to want to win?

[Crankin]

I do agree with you about the women's sports stuff, but this race is not just a women's race! It's a race for all categories, women, juniors, masters. That's what was so surprising to me. I think the fact that there was some type of NASCAR race in NH this past weekend took it off the radar screen.

[Eden]

Yeah - usually you can find out who won the high school football game or who placed in the track meet before you hear anything about a cycling race around here, but occasionally
http://www.theolympian.com/sports/story/150555.html
(this is the race I participated in this weekend - no they don't talk about us only the 1/2 women and men and the 3 men were interviewed, but hey at least they mention that we raced!)