Vuelta Stage 1 TTT *Spoiler*

FJS

Wiggins, Menchov, Sastre and Cobo today's losers,
Nibali (and perhaps Fuglsang, Kessiakoff and Sioutsou) winners of the GC riders
All the others pretty close to each other

afx237vi

mroli wrote:

This is a bit of a debacle isn't it? Awful commentary, awful camera work. Pretty girls can't hold the bikes, bikes having issues off the ramp, riders falling off left right and centre, no idea about who is in the team, who isn't. Not really a great showcase so far...

Welcome to the Vuelta! Great, innit?

rocksteadyeddie

So according to Sky website, a couple of riders went down early on and then the whole thing turned to shit. Which I guess is a marginally better outcome than some of the others.

mroli

afx237vi wrote:

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Welcome to the Vuelta! Great, innit?

Obviously, I'm chuffed its on the telly. But surely the spanish organisers would look at how the giro and le tour presents their country and think "hmmm, we should pull our fingers out a little bit"?

And don't get me started on the beer adverts on ITV4 - real beer for real men's telly. Yep, I'm gonna knock back 15 pints whilst watching a load of whippets suffer for hours wearing lycra....

rajMAN

afx237vi wrote:

mroli wrote:

This is a bit of a debacle isn't it? Awful commentary, awful camera work. Pretty girls can't hold the bikes, bikes having issues off the ramp, riders falling off left right and centre, no idea about who is in the team, who isn't. Not really a great showcase so far...

Welcome to the Vuelta! Great, innit?

RichN95.

mroli wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

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Welcome to the Vuelta! Great, innit?

Obviously, I'm chuffed its on the telly. But surely the spanish organisers would look at how the giro and le tour presents their country and think "hmmm, we should pull our fingers out a little bit"?

The Benidorm coastline looks like a Jenga tournament for giants.

afx237vi

mroli wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

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Welcome to the Vuelta! Great, innit?

Obviously, I'm chuffed its on the telly. But surely the spanish organisers would look at how the giro and le tour presents their country and think "hmmm, we should pull our fingers out a little bit"?

The Tour is in a different league altogether, but the I'd say the Giro's presentation is roughly the same as the Vuelta. They both have dodgy production values on the TV coverage, race organisation that borders on the shambolic and both take the races to the strangest places. The Giro had that TTT in Venice a couple of years ago... which sounds like a lovely idea, but it looked rubbish on TV because they were way outside town and we saw none of the pretty bits.

Who cares, though? If everything was slick and glossy like in the TdF it'd be boring. I liked the way Quick Step randomly turned green halfway through the TTT today, and at one point I thought someone had slipped some acid into my mug of tea because Lampre were literally glowing a flouro pink. It was awesome.

blazing_saddles

OK, this year was decidedly dodgy, but that Giro Venice presentation in 2009, in St Marks Square was pretty impressive.
Lance and Mark, in his ultra cool shades?

The lowdown on the Sky debacle:
http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290, ... 30,00.html

ms_tree

RichA wrote:

Sky implode...

thamacdaddy

mroli wrote:

surely the spanish organisers would look at how the giro and le tour presents their country and think "hmmm, we should pull our fingers out a little bit"?

I am guessing you haven't spent much time with Spanish authority types. My old man bought somewhere in spain and we have been doing it up. Not sure they give two shits about most things over there to be honest. It's something I have come to admire, very relaxed!

colinsmith123

Commentary not doing it for me.

Production is very much second rate compared to Le Tour. The more I think about it, it is the photography that makes Le Tour special.

mroli

thamacdaddy wrote:

I am guessing you haven't spent much time with Spanish authority types. My old man bought somewhere in spain and we have been doing it up. Not sure they give two shits about most things over there to be honest. It's something I have come to admire, very relaxed!

Oh yeah, mine too and it is hilarious about how he will get stressed beyond all belief about something in the uk and just accepts it in Spain...

Teddy Westside

Yes, the commentary was pretty poor and I miss Gary Imlach's dry delivery but I've no problem with Ned and Matt in general.

As for the race, far too many riders having trouble with the models (I assume) holding the bikes poorly but it's the mechanicals off the ramp which were a concern. I think the angle was so steep between ramp and road that chains may well have been jumping off and catching between cassette and frame which would explain why some mechanics were having such trouble sorting the issues.