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Cycling thread

Mikey10 said:
100% agree. ITV have lost a jewel in their crown.
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Their horse racing coverage is excellent as well.

Such a shame a legendary event has lost its free to air status...even if it's tucked away on a minority channel. I wonder what team they'll pull together in TNT?.

What cracker of a stage that was yesterday. Wout out burning Pogacar was compelling viewing. Going up hill on the cobbles is bad enough but given the rain downhill is just as scary. I think they might have got a taste for it now? Shame for the sprinters though.
I think it would be great fun not to neutralize the standings as well. Could be some fireworks if placing were close given the profile of that final stage.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Their horse racing coverage is excellent as well.

Such a shame a legendary event has lost its free to air status...even if it's tucked away on a minority channel. I wonder what team they'll pull together in TNT?.

What cracker of a stage that was yesterday. Wout out burning Pogacar was compelling viewing. Going up hill on the cobbles is bad enough but given the rain downhill is just as scary. I think they might have got a taste for it now? Shame for the sprinters though.
I think it would be great fun not to neutralize the standings as well. Could be some fireworks if placing were close given the profile of that final stage.
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Unlikely to be close in Paris until Pogacar retires but agree it would be spectacular if it did come down those final laps.
 
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ricky2tricky4city said:
Well I won't be watching Channel 5 highlights. Poor.
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Didn’t realise they had any until this morning; hit series record an hour or so ago. Not worth it?

No ITV4 coverage is going to kill me. This below isn’t quite the same, but it will plug a bit of a gap each day.

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Mikey10 said:
Didn’t realise they had any until this morning; hit series record an hour or so ago. Not worth it?

No ITV4 coverage is going to kill me. This below isn’t quite the same, but it will plug a bit of a gap each day.

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It's just bland, felt padded out, no expertise, ok if you just want to see the basics of what happened.
 
TNT highlights not great either - no analysis, no stage profile for tomorrow’s race, and no drop-in features about culture/history of the race etc. Commentator isn’t a patch on Ned Boulting and David Millar either.

You’d have thought they would have taken all the best bits of the ITV4 coverage and just added a bit to them.
 
Mikey10 said:
TNT highlights not great either - no analysis, no stage profile for tomorrow’s race, and no drop-in features about culture/history of the race etc. Commentator isn’t a patch on Ned Boulting and David Millar either.

You’d have thought they would have taken all the best bits of the ITV4 coverage and just added a bit to them.
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we've got Sean Kelly back, who was the mainstay for years on Eurosport

it's not as good as ITV or C4 before that I agree, but at least we have something, was talk last year that nobody would have highlights
 
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