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- So, what’s the criteria for women regarding names, is there some kind of logic or do they ask each rider individually how they want to be referred to?
Why do Kasia and Pauline figure with married names and Kim not. Depending on where (and ignoring mistakes like here), you’ll see official results with her shortened family name, full family name of shortened plus married name (never so far full family name plus married). Can’t be easy for databases.
- Sorry but if you’re going to raise issues like this, look at the overall picture first.
Why is this only a women issue, do you think the men aren’t watching their intake/weight optimisation just as much or even more?
No-one, man or women, is going to perform to a high enough level over 1, 5, 10 or 20 days of racing to be competitive without having eaten (and drunk) sufficiently (also all along the long preparation for the race).
Please look at the images of men/vs women and tell me which (on average) look thinner/more meagre/less chubby, especially the critical part, legs, pay attention to how much less defined (but not less big proportionally) womens legs are, what is that which hides the muscle definition?
And then to the age-athlete’s perception of weight. Considering muscle is more dense than water and fat less, any reduction in fat or increase in muscle will INCREASE your weight so why the heck should an athlete care about weighing scales indicating a weight higher than the perceived goal, it is often a good sign for performance, an outsider has no idea what your weight means in terms of performance.
So, for all those concerned, what is your priority, performance and results or fitting into norms and expectations?
- Leave? Do you really think they’ll just let him?
- Last chance saloon for Ayuso. Win or help Almeida win, or leave. Them's your apples.
- How else could it be with humans always only a few minutes apart after 80 hours of competition. I don’t think many actually think about what a margin that is, less than 1/1000th which in the 100m would be 0,01s or 10cm, almost photo finish material. Are any of us sure of always being within 1/1000th of our best, even for one day, let alone 3 weeks?
- I sense some Karma heading Visma’s way, even if the words chosen in sports media titles these days are totally disproportionate wrt to the comment content, getting worse than for politics. Verstappen condemns start delay was just as OTT. Seems as soon as a pf opens their mouth, media resort to blowing anything said out of proportion in the title to ensure readers, only to leave them dissatisfied not to read anything of value.
- Sorry, I hate football too but a lot of the arguments and suppositions about this situation are pointless and may e even wrong.
Does TV give back to cycling?
Are so many cycling fans going to subscribe that they’ll actually subsidise football?
Are cycling salaries and image rights, hence costs for media not rising to follow football making it necessary for broadcasters to balance figures?
None of the people my kids’ age watch any form of TV anymore, they get ANY kind of screen content from other sources now, TV is basically dead for youth, we older viewers are a dying breed.
Race/athlete numbers are dropping in the majority of traditional cycling countries, even in the ones with free (and innFrance, like the UK, you still have obligatory licences for viewers to pay) coverage of the Tour.
In this day and age where any entrepreneurial person can easily start their own niche fetish screen content it would be kind of revelatory if no-one would try or manage to organise better than what currently seems to be the offer. BUT, I would have a serious look at viewing figures first and then think very hard how many of those would watch at all even if it meant paying just £10* for the whole race. If you ask me, you won’t find 1m people willing to contribute that, but if you do, just crowdfund a project to make a deal with ASO.
Surely fair, the equivalent of a couple of drinks or a cinema ticket for 3 weeks of unlimited access to summer pleasure.
- Double standards? As far as I know you never signed up for The Enhanced Games.
- OO the right time?? Maybe for those forking out, otherwise, had he been born 2-3 years earlier, his performance might have changed TV coverage decisions, that would have been the right time.
Not much discussion of Sky/Ineos’s role in the rise and “fall” of the scene, nor of the role the end of the original Tour of Britain might have had on TV decisions. Nice coincidence the first new version started in Kelso, in fact, together with OO, Healy and the recent World champs, it seems its the outposts holding the fortress these days.
If I would live there, I’d rather pay Ryanair or a Ferry to go see a few races/stages per year and enjoy a nice experience than some scam TV subscription to wear out a sofa.
Surely someone can arrange a deal with the French like for their electricity? Maybe the EU would even finance a multilingual sports channel version of ARTE to mostly promote niche sports, coz as we cycling fans often forget, cycling is still treated far better than many other sports.
- Maybe that is part of their strategy, get him to retire ;-)
Anyway, we have Sky and Brailsford to thank for teams looking at every possible detail, and speaking of them, unfortunately now authorities are looking at every detail at Sky and it seems to be falling in more and more but like with Christian Horner in F1 for other reasons, some will cling on until the bitter end
