TDF scandal - good for cycling?

ju5t1n
ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
edited July 2007 in Pro race
Radio Five just covered Wiggins’ press conference, yesterday I heard Pat McQuaid on Radio Four and he was several TV news shows. Whilst the subject matter of all this coverage is bad – it is creating enormous exposure for the sport.

This week I’ve overheard people in my office discussing Vino and Rasmussen, and whether Evans and Contadour are clean, and who’s going to win the tour. – and these are people who have never even heard of Merckx or Armstrong. Maybe they’ll tune in again next year and become genuine fans of the sport?

This could be a good thing in the long term.

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  • top_bhoy
    top_bhoy Posts: 1,424
    Definitely not!!! It'll be known by Joe public as 'the sport of junkies' which in turn, if its not careful, will earn it a tag which will be harder to get rid of for a good few years.
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Top_Bhoy wrote:
    Definitely not!!! It'll be known by Joe public as 'the sport of junkies' which in turn, if its not careful, will earn it a tag which will be harder to get rid of for a good few years.
    Too late.............it already is!

    To quote Nicky Campbell from Radio 5 on the Vino news "A cyclist failing a drugs test.............who'd have thought it!"
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  • McBain_v1
    McBain_v1 Posts: 5,237
    Yes, but I can remember riders protesting about being investigated for suspected doping, now they are protesting about people who get caught! There is a slow change in attitudes taking place. As for the publicity about the sport - as they say "All publicity is good publicity" - there are lots of people talking about the TdF now who would ordinarily have just dismissed it.
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