WTF? The organisers have sprung some surprises for the final stage - I love Adelaide, but Rio it's not ;-) Might pop down and have a look at the speed hang gliding...
From the 10 website:
Tour Down Under
Tour Down Under - Final Leg 1.30pm - 3.30pm TEN Sunday 21 January 2007
Set in beautiful Rio de Janiero we take a look at a preview of the Tour Down Under, with teams competing in ocean swimming, mountain biking, speed hang gliding and sand running legs over a gruelling course.
WTF? The organisers have sprung some surprises for the final stage - I love Adelaide, but Rio it's not ;-) Might pop down and have a look at the speed hang gliding...
From the 10 website:
Tour Down Under
Tour Down Under - Final Leg 1.30pm - 3.30pm TEN Sunday 21 January 2007
Set in beautiful Rio de Janiero we take a look at a preview of the Tour Down Under, with teams competing in ocean swimming, mountain biking, speed hang gliding and sand running legs over a gruelling course.
Every TV guide I've seen says the same thing (but 2-4 pm eastern Daylight Savings time). I trust http://www.tourdownunder.com.au/node/19 is right and Ten is wrong about their own program content.
The commentators say something like, "This intermediate sprint is going to be a cracker. All the big riders are amping it up. They're about to go!" ... and go we do, to a five-ad break. Sheeeez! Even cycling can't make me watch commercial TV.
The commentators say something like, "This intermediate sprint is going to be a cracker. All the big riders are amping it up. They're about to go!" ... and go we do, to a five-ad break. Sheeeez! Even cycling can't make me watch commercial TV.
SPOILER ALERT!!
Can someone plese explain to me what Robbie McEwen was doing at the first sprint point? Makes a big show of shaping up to contest it then sits up 150 meters out with a big cheeky grin on his face.
Can someone plese explain to me what Robbie McEwen was doing at the first sprint point? Makes a big show of shaping up to contest it then sits up 150 meters out with a big cheeky grin on his face.
I'm confused.
Leading out... the grin was because it all went pear shaped for who they were leading out for.
On 2007-01-22, EuanB (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
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Donga said:
The commentators say something like, "This intermediate sprint is going to be a cracker. All the big riders are amping it up. They're about to go!" ... and go we do, to a five-ad break. Sheeeez! Even cycling can't make me watch commercial TV.
I didn't see that up here -- I wonder if they put ads on a different time?
Quoted message said:
SPOILER ALERT!!
Can someone plese explain to me what Robbie McEwen was doing at the first sprint point? Makes a big show of shaping up to contest it then sits up 150 meters out with a big cheeky grin on his face.
The [censored]! Hah hah! Teh fun'ni! Darn, I didn't notice that either.
-- TimC A Chemist who falls in acid is absorbed in work.
well ch 10 has done it again. They managed to completly [censored] up cycling coverage of the TDU for another year, they even managed to bully the organisers into shorting the stage by two laps again.
