Recent content by sydhancock

A few years ago, when cortisone was detected in Lance's urine sample during the Tour, I saw Paul Sherwen appearing on French TV with Lance. He was his spokesman to 'explain' how it got there because he spoke good French. I was pretty surprised to see this. I read later that Sherwen was...

100% agree. Totally illogical. If a user wants results they click on a results link. If they click on 'live report' instead that is because they want to follow the story from the start. Syd Daily CN reader for over 8 years.

OK after a few complaints I'm going to buck the trend here :) I thought the stage one coverage yesterday was pretty good, as good as CN has ever been. Start times, live coverage, all excellent. I had another couple of sites up at the same time because I didn't think CN was going to give...

Oops, yeah sorry if I've encouraged the wingnuts :) Check it for yourself, it's easy - from the cyclingnews front page click on the 'Tour de France' link, scroll down to - for example - stage 8. Thumbnail shows a flat stage. Click on the stage details and you see that it is very mountainous...

@agaler: yes, you're right, good point about the back buttons. So it's simply usability - looking through the stages is much simpler if you can read through them one after the other and it is reasonable to assume that someone looking at the stage guide wants to read them through so as to get...

The intro to each stage is good - maps, profiles as before, brief description and Vaughters' comments. This is good. Navigation: not so good. Also some errors in the main page. 1. Race Home tab: good, shows date, distance stage towns. But some of the stage profile thumbnails are incorrect -...