On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:33:36PM +1200, David Mann wrote: > > After his previous second placings it's good for him to finally win it. At > least it wasn't Contador. There would be an outcry.
>From some circles, anyway. There is still a strong contingent of the "Contador can do no wrong" club, and no small number who would support him even if the charges pending against him are sustained. I'm not a fan of his - I just don't like the impressions I get of his personality. But I could be wrong about that; the commentators (who know more of the behind-the-mask persona than we in the TV audience) seem to think more kndly of him. And, in any case being at the top of the heap in a highly competitive sport doesn't leave a lot of time for being a nice guy. In any case, I thought the right people ended up on the right steps pf the podium. Personally I was hoping that Andy was going to get the yellow jersey, but on the day he failed at the last hurdle. > I'm probably going to set up a satellite receiver soon so we can pick up SBS. > The only way to get Tour coverage here is through the paid Sky TV service > which costs an arm and a leg. Why pay all that when I can get it for only a > small initial outlay :) I have arm-and-a-leg paid cable TV (it's the simplest way to get Formula One coverage in the USA), but that does include Versus. That gets me five or six hours of tour-de-france coverage a day; three or four hours of live coverage, should I feel the urge to wake up at ungodly hours to watch it (I let my TiVo handle that), and a couple of hours of recap and discussion in the evening. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
