Giro 2020 SPOILERS !!

[Beebo]

Is there any footage of the post race crash?
The organisers don’t seem to want to admit what happened, just that stating that an external factor may have caused it.

 

[ColinJ]

The formal podium stuff postdates 1920. Pictures from before the sixties or thereabouts show various ad hoc ceremonies. I think it was possibly/probably invented for TV.

You are probably right! I was really trying to say what @nickyboy posted later...

Just cements the idea that men do sport and women are just there to look pretty in the minds of the young viewers. Needs consigning to the rubbish bin of history ASAP

Exactly!

Get the Eurosport or GCN channel ? What highlights are you watching ?

Eurosport/GCN/Quest are all owned by the same company so the Quest highlights ARE Eurosport coverage, but with studio chat added before and after.

Eurosport highlight shows have always been very bad. They don't do what Channel 4 used to do and ITV4 does, which is to summarise the day's events and edit clips together sensibly. A typical Eurosport highlights show is... Peloton crawling along for 25 minutes. Suddenly the riders are 100 km further down the road, having done a big climb and descent which we didn't get to see. Oh, there is a breakaway with a 10 minute lead. Ad break. The breakaway must have been caught during the ads because we are now 5 km from the finish and building up to a sprint...!

 

[beastie]

Yep, a long-running one called "Risorgimento", which arguably had its first live episode in 1821 in Piedmont

I think it was only shown in black and white though..

 

[mjr]

A typical Eurosport highlights show is... Peloton crawling along for 25 minutes. Suddenly the riders are 100 km further down the road, having done a big climb and descent which we didn't get to see. Oh, there is a breakaway with a 10 minute lead. Ad break. The breakaway must have been caught during the ads because we are now 5 km from the finish and building up to a sprint...!

You forgot that Eurosport will start and end playback at different times to that shown in the EPG and they often don't send the correct schedule-modification signals (recently they've a spate of showing overlapping programmes in the schedule...), so unless you tell the recorder to add time to both ends, you often get half a recording of tennis or motor racing and miss the finish (or slightly less unlucky, the start)!

It feels a bit like dirty tricks to sell video-on-demand subscriptions, but it might just be simple incompetence.

 

[rich p]

Ganna is doing a great ride for a big TTer

 

[rich p]

And De Gendt is doing what he does best. Chasing down the break on his own.

 

[Adam4868]

Ganna is doing a great ride for a big TTer

The new Kiriyenko !

 

[rich p]

The new Kiriyenko !

Yep!

 

[rich p]

I wonder how Ganna descends.

 

[rich p]

If Ganna can get to the top with a minute he could win the stage.

 

[rich p]

Misty, murky and damp. Forza Ganna

 

[rich p]

1km to go with 38 seconds. Great ride

 

[rich p]

World champs ITT, maglia rosa and a 2 stage wins. What a week or two for Ganna

 

[nickyboy]

Ganna, the secret lovechild of Miguel Indurain

 

[nickyboy]

Back to the race,another one bites the dust! Blow for Trek and Nibali.


View: https://twitter.com/TrekSegafredo/status/1313797773662343168?s=19

Whilst it's good that his team withdrew him cycling really needs to get its house in order re Head Injury Assessments. You can't have people banging their heads, feeling dizzy (and thus having suffered some sort of brain injury) and being allowed to carry on riding their bike. Being dizzy and riding a bike don't make good bedfellows