Behind the scenes with Sky

RichN95.

The BBC have a fifteen minute film behind the scenes at Andalucia of everyone's favourite/most hated team, if you're interested:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8573536.stm

Kléber

Worth watching for Yates alone, he looks like some survivor from the 80s rave scene

ACMadone

Kléber wrote:

Worth watching for Yates alone, he looks like some survivor from the 80s rave scene

He sounds completely sozzled

iainf72

Can I pretend I work for the Daily Mail and just rant about how I hate it without even looking at it?

Eau Rouge

iainf72 wrote:

Can I pretend I work for the Daily Mail and just rant about how I hate it without even looking at it?

Only if you can work in some derision for the number of "foreigners" on the team.

redddraggon

Eau Rouge wrote:

iainf72 wrote:

Can I pretend I work for the Daily Mail and just rant about how I hate it without even looking at it?

Only if you can work in some derision for the number of "foreigners" on the team.

You don't even need to pay the foreigner card. "Team Sky" are a bunch of the hated cyclists

iainf72

I don't even need to watch a documentary about a bunch of illegal eastern European drug addicted lycra louts trying to get free abortions on the NHS to know I hate that documentary.

stefrees

i actually quite enjoyed it, then decided to rewatch all the veyond the peloton documentaries of cervelo which are immense.

i thought that the team spirit between the sky riders seemed to be split inot groups? i know its impossible to tell from those small clips but it seemed to be cummings wiggins and henderson in one? might just be me.

on a seperate note im pleased to see ellingworth with a decent leading role, hes done a lot of good for british cycling

Radioactiveman

Cheers for the link it was enjoyable. Quite new to following racing

Every time I see Cavendish he makes me chuckle he couldn't come across worse if he had his speeches prepared by Cadel Evans

Poor lad,reminds me of myself engage mouth 10 seconds before engaging brain. I am sure he is a nice guy who just wants to ride and

Feeding was entertaining,never seen it in that detail not sure who is more at risk,rider or feeder

Ramanujan

has Yates had some kind of a stroke?
He looks and sounds like he's about to collapse

Kléber

Yes, Yates has had some health problems - get well Yatesy - but he's always sounded strung out.

The big earring, the sunglasses, the gaunt look: he looks like a side player from the Madchester music era.

AndyRubio

Löfkvist looks like an alien who crash landed on Earth and found himself in a cycling team.

micron

Moris Possoni has been unleashing his inner chimp and having a go about not being allowed to ride in Italy when his big objective is the Giro - no chance to judge the opposition and feeling homesick for family, friends and fans.

shockedsoshocked

Kléber wrote:

Worth watching for Yates alone, he looks like some survivor from the 80s rave scene

There was probably a similar amount of amphetamine ingestion

cal_stewart

could well see yates with glow sticks and steve cummings selling knock off dvds. also is it just me or is cavs head to big for his body.

DaveyL

Have Sky pilfered Dr Lim's rice cakes?

Tusher

Probably. Although he did publish the recipe, so it's his own fault.

Enjoyed that, love behind-the-scenes-stuff. Thanks for the link.

PauloBets

Interesting. One of the Brits points out he was held back on an Italian team , so see what I was telling you? They get a fair crack of the whip now. Good British riders coming up through the ranks will also get picked over an Italian or a Frenchman or a Spaniard and so on if they have the same form and results. That's not racism or xenophobia. That is just teams naturally revolving around the culture and language of the team, and depending on where the sponsor is based, who the make up of the team is by country and what the sponsor's target market is. The whole video is very good. I wouldn't bet against Sky tomorrow. Though I am sure some of you will be hoping they don't do well.

afx237vi

PauloBets wrote:

Interesting. One of the Brits points out he was held back on an Italian team , so see what I was telling you? They get a fair crack of the whip now. Good British riders coming up through the ranks will also get picked over an Italian or a Frenchman or a Spaniard and so on if they have the same form and results. That's not racism or xenophobia. That is just teams naturally revolving around the culture and language of the team, and depending on where the sponsor is based, who the make up of the team is by country and what the sponsor's target market is. The whole video is very good. I wouldn't bet against Sky tomorrow. Though I am sure some of you will be hoping they don't do well.

Your posts are going some way to ensuring that is the case, Paulo.

iainf72

PauloBets wrote:

Interesting. One of the Brits points out he was held back on an Italian

How many Brits on the MSR team?

1. ONE.

That's 12.5% of the team.

How many on Cervelo?

2. TWO

That's 25%

blazing_saddles

iainf72 wrote:

PauloBets wrote:

Interesting. One of the Brits points out he was held back on an Italian

How many Brits on the MSR team?
1. ONE.
That's 12.5% of the team.

How many on Cervelo?
2. TWO
That's 25%

Not with PaoloBets's maths it's not! :P
He must be one of those dodgy Sky reps, that hang around supermarkets, trying to flog rip off tv.

Anonymous

I don't fancy Sky's chances having seen the training -

bring_back_jan

close your eyes when listening to Yates and i swear its the Prince Of Darkness, Ozzie giving the riders briefing...

ratsbeyfus

NapoleonD wrote:

I don't fancy Sky's chances having seen the training -

Is that Yates with the beret on? He's still got it hasn't he?

DavMartinR

PauloBets wrote:

Interesting. One of the Brits points out he was held back on an Italian team , so see what I was telling you? They get a fair crack of the whip now. Good British riders coming up through the ranks will also get picked over an Italian or a Frenchman or a Spaniard and so on if they have the same form and results. That's not racism or xenophobia. That is just teams naturally revolving around the culture and language of the team, and depending on where the sponsor is based, who the make up of the team is by country and what the sponsor's target market is. The whole video is very good. I wouldn't bet against Sky tomorrow. Though I am sure some of you will be hoping they don't do well.

I think that was Steve Cummings who's last team was Barloworld? Which was either South Africa or UK registered and had a few english speaking riders on the team? But I think nobody got behind them?? And they folded.