Recent content by FQCVCS

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    Canadian Trying to Watch the Tour

    Just tried the link and got a "Sorry, Eurosport Player is not available in this country." message :( http://www.eurosportplayer.co.uk/denied.shtml
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    Canadian Trying to Watch the Tour

    Hey All, Anyone in Canada or from Canada know how I can watch the Tour de France this year? Gone are the good old days of Versus and since then it's been more of a challenge to find coverage of the Tour than to ride in it. It's coming up, can anyone help?! ps. I don't have a good computer...
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    Cycling Article

    i never even thought to ask for the perspective of someone in television! You covered a lot of angles i hadn't considered, so thank you for that, Alp d'Huez! Still surprised at the amount of fans not on Twitter! i rely on it so much!! i don't know much about the production side of television...
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    Cycling Article

    I completely agree, Christian. Social media at least begins to make up for a serious lack of televised coverage. And judging by this quote from Froome, social media works both ways: “You definitely pick up that buzz on the social media,” Froome told Cyclingnews during the Volta a Catalunya...
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    Cycling Article

    Wow! Awesome responses, thank you! It's funny that a few of you say that you are "out of the loop" when it comes to Twitter, and that you prefer it that way. I feel very similarily -The only reason that my mother and I created our Twitter accounts is to follow cyclists! Although my mother now...
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    Cycling Article

    Hey duders, I'm writing an article on the topic of fan access to cycling, emphasis on televised access to the Tour de France , for my journalism final. As a cycling fan, I've noticed that it's gotten harder in the last couple of years to catch the TDF (arguably cycling's most popular...