I watched some of stage 3 of the Tour De Suisse this afternoon. Frank Schleck from Luxembourg won the stage, German Tony Martin took the overall race lead by a second, and Lance Armstrong moved up from 33rd overall to 21st.
Other than that, cycling on TV is about as exciting to me as NASCAR.
I don't know why. Maybe it's because I know about Lance Armstrong, Greg Lemond, Floyd Landis and that's about it, Maybe it's because of the way that cycling is presented on TVm Maybe it's because I had never watched a race on TV before, or maybe it's because I actually prefer Mountain Biking to Road Cycling.
Beats me.
I do know that a lot of riders do like to watch the Tour De Suisse, Tour De France, or Tour De whatever. But it's just not for me. I mean sure, I appreciate how hard it can be to ride in a group of people riding 25+ MPH. I also appreciate how hard it is to ride 100 mile stages, and I also appreciate how dangerous it is to be riding in a big group of cyclists the way these guys do. I appreciate the difficulty of NASCAR too.
Funny thing is I plan to tune in tomorrow to watch some more. I actually took the time to go to Versus.com and see what the leaderboard looks like (actually I just went there to get the info from the beginning of this post, but I looked over way more info than I had originally intended). I also want to see what Lance Armstrong can do. I know that this is just a tune up for him before the Tour De France, but he strikes me as the kind of guy who will just go out and win one of these races just because it is there. Plus there is hardly ever anything related to cycling on TV.
Maybe it is a little more interesting than NASCAR....
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As you start watching you'll see there are actually other riders than Lance and Contador. this is where the sport really comes alove with the other riders that you don't normally see. Their styles and the hitory will also slowly grow on you until eventually you are standing on the side of the road with Belgian fans swilling heavy beer
ReplyDeleteActually being there in person sounds like a ton of fun! I just don't want to be the guy I saw on TV today who jumped out on the road and just barely made it back in time bto avoid getting hit by one of the riders!
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