British Cycling: Road to Glory

[Derrick]

It's an advert. There are a lot of gullible people about and a lot of them are cyclists.

 

[williamp78]

Can anyone send me a link to the first episode? Am recording the episodes on my sky box but missed the first one

 

[burning]

I love how they completely ignore Milan-San Remo

 

[Andy99]

Thought the proogrammes were pretty good to be honest.

Particularly so for anyone new to the sport who might have been watching.

5-10 years ago, we would never have dreamt of seeing any kind of documentary about cycling on TV. I think its great.

 

[jens_attacks]

yep,pretty good i'd say too.

the 3rd part was boring though,norway...really?
the next one should be fun

yates:

"da'fucc is going on?
froomey!!!???get back!"

 

[El Pistolero]

Thought the proogrammes were pretty good to be honest.

Particularly so for anyone new to the sport who might have been watching.

5-10 years ago, we would never have dreamt of seeing any kind of documentary about cycling on TV. I think its great.

Not even of Tommy Simpson?

I saw a great documentary about him once, in Dutch though. Actually, a lot of it was in English. Because his friend, who later married Tommy's wife, tells a large part of his story. Maybe it's on youtube, I posted 4 episodes of this show on the first page of this thread.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Lucky they're showing this after Froome being human at the Vuelta.

This place would have gone ape **** watching the shots of Yates telling Froome to stop riding like a naughty child.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Not even of Tommy Simpson?

I saw a great documentary about him once, in Dutch though. Actually, a lot of it was in English. Because his friend, who later married Tommy's wife, tells a large part of his story. Maybe it's on youtube, I posted 4 episodes of this show on the first page of this thread.

Correct. Certainly Tom Simpson.
Here's the BBC's documentary: 'Death on a Mountain.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGJsxGFhxg

I'm pretty sure this is the same show.

 

[El Pistolero]

Correct. Certainly Tom Simpson.
Here's the BBC's documentary: 'Death on a Mountain.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGJsxGFhxg

I'm pretty sure this is the same show.

No, the show I saw is Belga Sport.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belga_Sport

But yeah, I already thought there was a British documentary about Tommy, he was a special man.

 

[Avoriaz]

Actually, a lot of it was in English. Because his friend, who later married Tommy's wife, tells a large part of his story.

That's Barry Hoban, winner of Ghent-Wevelgem and several stages of the Tour. I think he was the rider the won the stage in tribute to Simpson the day after he died. Though some say it should have been Vin Denson who was allowed to win

 

[MatParker117]

All about the Tour.

Found Mark *****ing about something on the Team Car hilarious. Interesting to hear Rod admit that they wouldn't have taken a sprinter in an ideal world.

Wiggins gave Froome the ok on Stage 17 of the Tour. Team Management pulled him back.

 

[MatParker117]

Wiggins gave Froome the ok on Stage 17 of the Tour. Team Management pulled him back.

 

[The Cobra]

Lol, Froomey the loose cannon! The look of ''wtf is he doing'' on Yates' face is priceless!

 

[MatParker117]

Completely missed Cav's win on Stage 18.

 

[MatParker117]

Olympics next..

 

[JRanton]

Completely missed Cav's win on Stage 18.

Yeah I thought they would at least show a brief clip of that given that it was such an exciting finish (the last 10km were good too).

 

[JRanton]

All about the Tour.

Found Mark *****ing about something on the Team Car hilarious. Interesting to hear Rod admit that they wouldn't have taken a sprinter in an ideal world.

Wiggins gave Froome the ok on Stage 17 of the Tour. Team Management pulled him back.

Funny thing is that I remember an interview with Froome after that stage in which he said that Wiggins hadn't given him the ok to go for the stage win. It wasn't like it was an actual attack like on La Toussuire so I give Froome the benefit of the doubt on that one. Wiggins just couldn't follow Froome's tempo after going into the red to accelerate around Van den Broeck.

 

[The Hitch]

btw, to those who watched this, did they in any episode focus on uran henao and cav at the giro?

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

btw, to those who watched this, did they in any episode focus on uran henao and cav at the giro?

Yes, first episode.

 

[wirral]

Running a Proteam and an Olympic program would require a lot of work, yes. They also have to avoid exposing too much to rival teams as well. It's amazing how scientific Sky is. I mean they monitor everything from power output to effect of the mood lighting on the team bus.

According to Brailsford the idea is to get the 15% advantage you get from doping through clean methods.

Does that include measuring how many ciggies Wiggins smokes?

 

[maltiv]

btw, to those who watched this, did they in any episode focus on uran henao and cav at the giro?

They had an episode on the Giro, but only focused in Cavendish. Don't think there was anything on Uran or Henao. They didn't even mention Uran's white jersey, but obviously talked a lot about Cavendish's loss in the point's jersey.

In the same episode they also showed a lot on T-A, where they illustrated it as a failure by Cavendish (as he had to quit), while weirdly enough avoiding to mention that he (and EBH) won a stage.

Another thing I found to be quite peculiar was that in the episode about Tour de Romandie, they had like 15 minutes on Wiggins' stage win, but didn't even mention Geraint Thomas' win in the prologue (and he's british!).

 

[brilleaben]

Is part 4 watchable/downloadable anywhere? I want to see a Sky fail.

 

[Boardslide]

btw, to those who watched this, did they in any episode focus on uran henao and cav at the giro?

The Giro was briefly touched on in the first program but they seemed to concentrate on Cav's crashes more than his wins. The whole series seems to be more a PR exercise to fluff up and increase Wiggo's and Brailsford's rise to hero status than that of the team or any other rider.

If anyone was in any doubt that this was to be solely Brad's year then that is definitely removed as right from the first training camp when Brads helpers were chosen they remained as a single unit training and racing from January - TDF so that they gelled and were able to carry him to all his wins not just the TDF. Where as Cav's sprint train never materialized as he had to make do with whichever riders had been chosen to do a particular race, unlike the sprint train of Griepel this year who started training together in Dec/Jan and remained the same throughout the season. As everyone knows a sprinter needs to have confidence in his train and them in him but this only comes over time, that confidence was not there where EBH was concerned at the TDF as was plain to see.

Last weeks episode naturally concentrated on Brad winning the yellow jersey but only showed Cav's final sprint solely as he was led out by whole team and in particular Brad which gave a good impression.

As you may have gathered I'm not particularly a fan of Sky and definitely not of Brad's or Brailsford's.

 

[MatParker117]

Last episode focused on the Olympics particularly the Team Pursuit squads and the Road Race. Not that great to be frank but I felt for Ben Swift.