Originally Posted by
cyclezen
so, was it just my directv, or was today's stage pre-empted by some auto racing, after having suffered thru 2 hrs of mostly boring and fragged video and 10 lbs of commercials in a 6 lb bag?
I mean, I'm so much of a bike racing fan that I'll watch just about ANY racing, but this was torture. I even fast-forwarded it to get past the rear end views and the inane commentary.
The 'cameo' footage of Froome abandoning was actually a hilight...
I'm still on stage 4, but yeah, I feel ya.
I really wish the commentators would talk about what is happening on-screen. Most times it's just random comments about riding a bike or bike racing. Sometimes its informative, which is nice, but I wish they talked more about what was happening on the screen and the riders - like... "this is # so and so, he won the second stage in the something-something race recently, this year he's hoping to do better in such and such." It can't be that hard, the guys have numbers pinned on. The commentators could look up the number and read the paragraph about the rider. Or at least tell me more about what the teams are doing, their strategy, etc.