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From: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Tour de France (actually CBS's coverage)
Message-ID: <8488@watarts.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 11:47:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 11:47:52 1985
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In article <1318@drux3.UUCP> msw@drux3.UUCP (Mike Walpole) writes:
>
>Unless anything significant happens the next posting will be Thursday or
>Friday.  So far CBS has had excellent coverage of the Tour every Sunday.
>			     ^^^^^^^^^
I would use extensive (about forty minutes on Sunday) on the Tour.
The coverage is at best squishy, the human drama, they spent about
ten minutes talking about the cobblestones and the race through hell
and people's psyching up, there was no hard facts. To my mind
coverage is either aimed at people who have no idea about cycling
or for the serious enthusiast. If the former group is the target
then there should me more novice info, if the latter then more info
about the groups and the nastiness (I thought I heard that Anderson
refused to alternate the lead in one break during the week, I don't
know for sure and CBS did not tell me.)  Picture this
colour commentary,
  Theisman is coming back from the center with the ball,
  with gritty determination he throws it to the team member running
  over the green hell of astroturf, some play, right eric, Great Bruce,
  lets have a look at what Theisman had for breakfast...."

Also, they did not mention Steve Bauer once during the broadcast,
I suspect that he won't do as well through the mountains, however
he has owned the white shirt since day one, and may be one of the
best rookies on the tour for a long time, he may even do better then
Lemond on his rookie year on the T de F.
TV can provide good info quickly, but what CBS is giving is not good,

God, this felt good to get out of my system, nut I think I'm just spinning
on rollers......

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Mike Upmalis	(mupmalis@watarts)

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