2 weekends ago Ian Stannard won a prestigious race on the Saturday, Mark Cavendish (now you know what I'm talking about) won another on Sunday.what annoyed me was that Lizzy Yarnold became world champion last
weekend and that makes her concurrent Olympic, European and World
Champ
What coverage did she get? - f*** all compared with f*** davis cup sh*t.
Both Belgium, both in the afternoon.
The Sunday event was on Eurosport, #homeofcycling the Saturday race might not even have been televised in the UK.
What are the Beeb to do then? Spend billions of quid of tax payers money trying to keep up with Sky etc, or use the opportunity to show sport that none of the other broadcasters are likely to cover? I am pretty sure that the moaning would be louder if they did the former.
If they have any agenda, perhaps it is to encourage people to get out and play sport? Or to show sport that is played in the correct spirit? Or is your problem with the fact that the women are more likely to have success than the men's equivalent? The Brits do have a reputation for supporting the underdog and turning their noses up at people who find success.
Yesterday afternoon BBC2 had highlights of the winter stuff, followed by some triathlon, sure it's not a real sport but I bet they picked up the highlights dirt cheap.
There's plenty of post Olympic sport out there, but we'll never get an Olympian approach to broadcasting all the time 'the media' feeds us a diet of the bloated fatted carcass that was football, and 'we' keep gorging on it.
How many times are you going to hear or see the name Manchester United, today?
I'm sure it'll be akin to the Daily Mail's coverage of Princess Diana's resurrection and her struggle to get a mortgage, while Romanians move in next door, during a death defying flood.