Chavanel phones in sick....

tailwindhome

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/14173 ... nremo.aspx


Did a great ride on Sunday, hope he's thawed out and ready for this weekend.

Maybe Boonen was wise to call it a day when he did.

danlikesbikes

Shame he was looking strong, but worth resting him for a few days I guess

frenchfighter

Go for victory in a monument and risk getting ill and not being able to ride Dwars. No brainer.

takethehighroad

This is on Sky Sports, but not live. It's also called something Straight Across Flanders.

blazing_saddles

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

This is on Sky Sports, but not live. It's also called something Straight Across Flanders.

I see that it's a whopping 30 minutes of highlights at some ungodly hour, too.
Gent-Wevelgem too, it seems.

To those who think the idea of Sky Sports taking over cycling coverage is such a great thing.
Dwars has been shown live by a number of free to air channels, (also decent net feeds) over the past several years, as were the other races listed here:

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/13224 ... races.aspx

All bar the Ronde gone, to be replaced by feeds of the low quality we suffered for the Omloop Het N/V.

danlikesbikes

Blazing Saddles wrote:

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

This is on Sky Sports, but not live. It's also called something Straight Across Flanders.

I see that it's a whopping 30 minutes of highlights at some ungodly hour, too.
Gent-Wevelgem too, it seems.

To those who think the idea of Sky Sports taking over cycling coverage is such a great thing.
Dwars has been shown live by a number of free to air channels, (also decent net feeds) over the past several years, as were the other races listed here:

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/13224 ... races.aspx

All bar the Ronde gone, to be replaced by feeds of the low quality we suffered for the Omloop Het N/V.

Fair point there - have Sky but don't pay for the sports channels as can't justify the cost as am not a big football, golf, F1 fan. So quite happy paying and having Eurosport.

If Sky are buying up the rights to races & then (a) not giving them the coverage they deserve & (b) asking me to pay for lots of their channels as I assume they won't always show the cycling on the same channel? Then they are not convincing me to part with any more cash I'm afraid.