Giro 2020 SPOILERS !!

[matticus]

For a couple of glorious hours, he was the main BBC radio news sports item. But then they realised how great Lovely Lewis Hamilton is, so detailed reports of his Portugal win knocked Tao out of subsequent bulletins

Oh well, it was nice for a while!

 

[mjr]

For a couple of glorious hours, he was the main BBC radio news sports item. But then they realised how great Lovely Lewis Hamilton is, so detailed reports of his Portugal win knocked Tao out of subsequent bulletins

Oh well, it was nice for a while!

I didn't realise Hamilton won. The bulletin I heard was wibble about how he's one of few motorists to talk about non-motor-racing topics. The BBC should try cycling past a few on the commute and then they'd hear a few!

Anyway, no mention of much other cycling so at least it briefly punctured the BBC blinkers.

 

[matticus]

Irish? British? Mackney??


View: https://twitter.com/ScotNational/status/1320476980970598400/photo/1

 

[Mike_P]

About to be featured on Sportsday on BBC News Channel after they have finished talking about Hamilton.

 

[Va Va Froome]

Quite nice to have the problem of fitting two big wins into UK sports news! Remember when it felt like a Top 10 or Top 25 was a big deal in UK sport!


The F1 news, while not a shock, is still pretty noteworthy. It is fair that breaking the race wins record gets a lot of prominence in the UK sports reports.

ITV News had the cycling as second sports clip last night. Still enough limelight to give Tao his moment.

 

[Beebo]

Irish? British? Mackney??


View: https://twitter.com/ScotNational/status/1320476980970598400/photo/1

A very liberal interpretation of being Scottish.

 

[Adam4868]

Anyone with 20 mins to spare.Sunweb have been a great team to watch at the Giro and the Tour this year.

View: https://twitter.com/TeamSunweb/status/1320799312692076546?s=19

 

[lilolee]

Is it just me or was there no real energy in the car, even when Jai won the Stelvio stage

 

[Adam4868]

Is it just me or was there no real energy in the car, even when Jai won the Stelvio stage

Yea the atmosphere wasn't exactly party central.Second and third on the podium at the Giro.Aswell as a good tour I think they've had a pretty good year for a young enough team.

 

[Beebo]

Is it just me or was there no real energy in the car, even when Jai won the Stelvio stage

Tricky balancing act when you have another rider in pink still on the road and dropping time. You don’t want to look too happy for the sake of the other guy.
that was the day they probably lost the overall race.

 

[lilolee]

I agree. Really looking forward to watch the racing next year, There are so many young riders coming through.

 

[Alembicbassman]

Is the trophy inspired by two QR springs?

 

[matticus]

Heard some more detail on the ... "unfortunate" buses stage (on TCP). The Race Director withheld all the day's prize money and gave it to a hospital, interesting tactic!

Sounds like a real shambles by both sides, could certainly have been handled better. Only real downer on the whole 3 weeks, for me.

 

[matticus]

Should the UK riders now be quarantining? I think the travel corridor from Italy closed on the morning of Sun 18th Oct. Exemption for elite athletes?

There may be confusion in this post ...

 

[Domus]

I doubt many riders live in the UK now. Andorra and Monaco seem popular.