You know... as opposed to those instances when the race is settled around 500 metres from the line and the riders then just teleport...WinterRider said:After the field sprint today at the US Pro Cycling challenge:
Paul Sherwin:
"Sometimes its the last four or five hundred meters that are the most important in the field sprint."
It was news to me![]()
And perhaps national mourning in Italy the day afterRedheadDane said:(If Bruseghin had managed to come up and "take" the victory from Anton)
"There'll be declared national mourning here in Basque Country."
I am Spanish and tears overflow my eyes watching the images and hearing Carlos de Andrés and Pedro Delgado getting hysteric about Contador's attacksgreatking88 said:I think the Spanish commentary of this situation is fantastic even though I havent got a clue what there saying..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOhvPcgo50&feature=related
His name is Marzio not Mauro.craig1985 said:Watching the stage to the Angliru and the American commentators on Universal Sports (not Bobke) pronounced Mauro Bruseghin as Bru-say-ghin. Maybe it's their accents, but way to butcher somebodies name.
So even though Menchov still finished ahead of Di Luca in the final time trial they managed to miscalculate?Sophistic said:German ES guys going bananas at the end of the Giro 09 cause they miscalculated and thought Menchov had lost...they ended the broadcast declaring DiLuca the winner.
Certainly amusing!!!!!!Kwibus said:It's not road cycling, but it's on a bike anyways.
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1697541/72663019/stukje_fietsen_met_danny_hart.html
It's a very impressive show as well and the commentator goes nuts. A bit too nuts, but it's amusing.
Well if not directly borrowed they are at least the exact same design. I guess it's cheaper...RedheadDane said:Okay, I know this is kinda old. But a while ago the Danish Eurosport commentators mentioned that it looks like Moncoutie had borrowed a pair of Taaramae's old Estonian champ shorts.
I have to say I sorta agree...
He was practically crying when wiggins dropped and cobo won it.Timmy-loves-Rabo said:Harmon really made a fool of himself during the vuelta, he wasn't biased at all..
I was deeply embarrased for him when he was practically yelling his support for froome into the mic when he attacked.dlwssonic said:He was practically crying when wiggins dropped and cobo won it.
DId you watch last CL quaterfinal match between spurs and real, the way ray wilkins commentated was ridicilous.Timmy-loves-Rabo said:I was deeply embarrased for him when he was practically yelling his support for froome into the mic when he attacked.
That is most certainly true.RedheadDane said:Okay, I know this is kinda old. But a while ago the Danish Eurosport commentators mentioned that it looks like Moncoutie had borrowed a pair of Taaramae's old Estonian champ shorts.
I have to say I sorta agree...