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khardung la said:
A few comments about this.
First of all im generaly a pessimist (better to expect the worse than hope for the best and all that) so when i see it not come in the top 5 i accept the findings.
but what the poll doesnt take into account is that people for whom soccer might be sport number 1 might choose cycling as their 2nd or 3rd while the poll is OMOV type of thing.
Also the poll only counts media interest. It doesnt look at participation. Participation wise cycling trumps f1 badly. You might say so what, but an amateur or proffesional (3000 pro cyclists to 25 or so f1 riders) will take a far bigger interest in his sport, while the casual f1 fan will watch it once every 2 weeks.
THis greater interest argument is further advanced when you see hundreds of thousands of fans on the Bola or Basque and Asturian flags in the French Pyranees. A fan which takes the effort to go to a mountain, and wait for hours to watch the cyclists pass is imo worth a lot more than one who sees the race on the screen, reads about it in Marca the next day, then forgets about it for a week and a half.
Sure there are 200 000 f1 fans at one or 2 of those venues, but you see that on the less attneded tdf stages. Never mind things like RVV with every cm in the towns packed to the rafters. I pick f1 because with its very low participation its the easiest target but most of those sports lose out to cycling participation and passion wise.
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