Originally Posted by
obie
How many of you older guys ever saw Roubaix, Worlds, Flanders et al as they happened?
I guess I am an older guy.
I saw Flanders and LBL "as they happened." Because I used to live there.
But I get your point.
Since the advent of satellite transmissions, we can now watch things live we used to have to wait for on Wide World of Sports. With technology advances comes more availability.
For me, because I was racing at 8 years old on a team back east that was run by people that had immigrated to the US from Belgium, I was introduced to the big events by them. And it was possible to get magazines and the like to look at and read about events after they occurred.