Roubaix and What Not
Listened to Paris-Roubaix on Eurosport today. Would have like to have seen it, but oh well. Sounds like it was a warm, sunny and DUSTY one.
I'm heading out my in-laws for dinner so I'm going to miss the Versus coverage. I was going to tape it but it's not worth my freaking time. The "Queen of the Classics" gets a 1 hour highlight show that will be about 15 minutes of race coverage after commercials, and human interest stories. F-it. I'll track it down on the Net.
I also saw that dirt worshiper Filip Meirhaeghe raced Paris-Roubaix with the Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner team. I'm sure his mountain bike skillz payed off for him in the cobbles. It looks like he finished 33rd.
I always liked Filip from the interviews I've seen, read and heard with him. Disappointing that like so many great riders his reputation and career will be tarnished by doping. Not to mention he was kinda of a dick about it after he got caught.
Take a look at the results. Look at the amount of DNFs!! HOLY CRAP! And correct me if I'm wrong, but it seemed that Antonio Cruz, from Discovery was the ONLY U.S. rider in the whole race. Apparently Cruz DNFed.
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Got a 1 hours spin in today to keep the legs loose. I also did a bunch of organizing for this coming Saturday's race. Charged lights, got my bottles together, race nutrition, hydration packs, etc., I still have to get the Dos Niner checked over on Tuesday, and then it's just counting the hours till race day with a couple rides thrown in to keep things loose.
Later
posted by Jason @ 2:34 PM
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You were dead on on the Versus coverage. It was awful. I'd rather not watch it at all.
Guys, you need to go to cycling.tv right now. Sign up for the premium channel, ~$50 or 25 Euros.
They had a 30 minute pre race show with big Maggie Backstead, plus 4, yes 4 hours of live coverage of Paris-Roubaix yesterday morning.
I was out racing yesterday at the Dragon's Back in Virginia so I missed it and not wanted to sit through 4 hours last night just tuned into VS for their lame recap. I think Vs. is losing out to Cycling.TV and that's ok. They have a great thing going if, and this is a big one, if you have a solid high speed connection. If you want to get a good picture you'll need at least a 1.5 MB/s download speed.
But, if you have that then you can connect your laptop to your TV and if you are lucky enough to have a plasma or LCD TV then you'll have some kick ass cycling coverage in your home.
Now, if you missed out on the live coverage, don't fret. Pay your $50 and you'll get to the same coverage whenever you want as often as you want with their video on demand section.
It is sooooooo worth $50. I don't work for them but I am a huge fan and I want to see them succeed so that we have this service for years to come. They have covered all the spring classics so far and will have the Giro and the Vuelta as well. The Tour is still owned by Vs. or they don't have the rights to broadcast it. That might change in the future but Vs. tour coverage is still pretty good.
I'll post this over on mtbr as well but I thought you'd want to know asap.
Cheers,
Sean
Man, the VS coverage was total crap! O'Grady's victory was about the only thing that kept me from from putting my foot through the tv. Cruz = only US rider? Man, what happened?
Makes me glad I didn't waste time watching it.
I would be more likely to get the Cycling.Tv if they still showed the UCI world cup MTB too. They used too, but I'm pretty sure that's done with.
j
cycling.tv does show a fair amount of the WOrld Cup, but it's extra $$. I'm not sure, but I think you could buy that coverage w/out getting the $50 premium deal. It's on the "UCI" channel. The Vs. covergae is totally bogus.
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