Hostage…to fortune, what the UCI meant to say was, some problems with the lower tiers, the sponsor appeal in women’s cycling, Giro dell Emilia, transfers, Rebellin, Horner, Astana, AARP, Hushovd, responsibility, money, enforcement.
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Hostage…to fortune, what the UCI meant to say was, some problems with the lower tiers, the sponsor appeal in women’s cycling, Giro dell Emilia, transfers, Rebellin, Horner, Astana, AARP, Hushovd, responsibility, money, enforcement.
I love that I can now skip backwards and forwards without the video crashing and that the next video no longer auto plays! I’m not sure how I feel about the new music, but like the old it may grow on me.
Also thanks for making these, they are always entertaining.
Music changes up, time to time. This was more specific to today’s episode. Glad to hear it works a little better for you.
I agree that lower tier teams must be invited to their home country big races. It can make a break a teams sponsorship.
The biggest problem with the Grand Tour is not the amount of days being raced its the distance on some stages. Races should be designed so the riders can “naturally” handle the distance. If you have super long hard stages you’re going to get super charged riders who are under pressure to win.
Shorter stages are not necessarily ‘easier’ – they are just raced more aggressively.
If you had a stage lasting 2 hours say – then that would fit quite nicely into a live television broadcast from start to finish – and the best rider would still be the first one across the line.
Might also make it easier to fit a Womens race onto the bill too.
I’m kind of with you on the ‘Mens pro teams should have a womens team too’ issue – I say support the teams and sponsors who have ‘seen the light’ and actually WANT to be in women’s cycling.
Ciao Cos,
Just a small criticism – could you work a bit on your ITALIAN? Otherwise just Anglo-size the names. It wouldn’t take much to be better than TV’s Heckel and Jeckel who once called the Passo Pordoi the “por-dwa” like the Giro had made a wrong turn into France or something. Or worse, “MAG-lee-ah ROW-za” If you want a pronunciation guide for current Italian rider names, contact us, we’ll fix you up.
Hi Cosmo – Just wanted to say I really appreciate these videos – so well done. Have you applied to the UCI to help them out? Seems like your look at the world is pretty solid. Thanks, Chris