was the men's TT on TV?

"Frank Tantillo" <[email hidden]> writes:

Not around here it wasn't

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I think I just heard that the TT is on later tonight on NBC.

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NBC website says it was supposed to be covered in the 9:00 to 10:00 pm
(eastern US) hour. It's 9:51 at this writing and they haven't covered it
yet.

Bob C.

Well it was just on. If you thought the men's road race coverage was bad, this was terrible. Maybe 5 minutes spent on the men's TT, with focus only on the people who won medals.

Oh well, supposedly more coverage on MSNBC, I believe. Whatever that means. I don't have cable, so it doesn't make a difference.

Of course, the US in general doesn't have much interest in cycling, so the amount of coverage wasn't really that surprising.

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NBC website says it was supposed to be covered in the 9:00 to 10:00 pm
(eastern US) hour. It's 9:51 at this writing and they haven't covered it
yet.

Bob C.

same thing happened on CBC. They were supposed to show BOTH tt and not one
minute's worth. French CBC had some. I think the event got maybe 5 minutes
combined on all the networks. Excuse me but THIS BLOWS!

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NBC website says it was supposed to be covered in the 9:00 to 10:00 pm
(eastern US) hour. It's 9:51 at this writing and they haven't covered it
yet.

Bob C.

It's a good thing I looked up from typing this last post 'cuz there was the
coverage. It's also a good thing I didn't blink or sneeze. Just after they
finished, they covered a semi-final heat of Michael Phelps swimming the 200
IM. THAT lasted longer than the entire coverage of the men's TT. And it
was a SEMI-FINAL HEAT! Ridiculous!

Interesting, though, watching Tyler perform a radioectomy in the middle of
his TT run.

Bob C.

Marlene Blanshay said:

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"Frank Tantillo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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NBC website says it was supposed to be covered in the 9:00 to 10:00 pm
(eastern US) hour. It's 9:51 at this writing and they haven't covered it
yet.

Bob C.

same thing happened on CBC. They were supposed to show BOTH tt and not one
minute's worth. French CBC had some. I think the event got maybe 5 minutes
combined on all the networks. Excuse me but THIS BLOWS!

CBC English Network showed a few minutes of the Women on the evening taped
``repeat''. I didn't notice the men yet and it's 22:40hrs here now - only 20
minutes left before the news.

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You don't say where you live, so how can we answer that? Over here it
was, in full.

E.
-Old Europe

Ewoud Dronkert said:

You don't say where you live, so how can we answer that? Over here it
was, in full.

E.
-Old Europe

And here as well.

D
New Africa

keydates said:

Well it was just on. If you thought the men's road race coverage was
bad, this was terrible. -Maybe- 5 minutes spent on the men's TT, with
focus only on the people who won medals.

There's a difference between terrible coverage and little coverage.
The men's road race had very little coverage, but what they showed was
well-editied (except perhaps for the obligatory reference to Lance
Armstrong). It showed the key moments of the race.

JT

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Ewoud Dronkert said:

You don't say where you live, so how can we answer that? Over here it
was, in full.

Stupid RAI tv showed only bit parts of it in between a boring female
waterpolo match in which one of the two teams those ugly fat sicilian pigs
that name themselves "team Italia" despite being the Catania team in
disguise.
Thank God Eurosport exists.

(Davide Tosi) said:

Ewoud Dronkert said:

You don't say where you live, so how can we answer that? Over here it
was, in full.

Stupid RAI tv showed only bit parts of it in between a boring female
waterpolo match in which one of the two teams those ugly fat sicilian pigs
that name themselves "team Italia" despite being the Catania team in
disguise.
Thank God Eurosport exists.

Viva Burlusconi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3034600.stm

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I think I just heard that the TT is on later tonight on NBC.

Yea, a whole minute of it all.

I saw the NBC coverage here in the US and it sucked, as others have
said. Apparently there was more coverage on one of their cable
stations, MSNBC, later. Cyclingnews.com's live coverage, even without
pictures, was much much better and actually captured some real drama:

<http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/olympics04/?id=results/road_men_tt_live>

Jim

All it showed were Hamilton vs. Ekimov's split and finishing times and Julich setting off (maybe a little more on Julich). I suppose those are the important parts, but it still sucked.

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All it showed were Hamilton vs. Ekimov's split and finishing times and
Julich setting off (maybe a little more on Julich). I suppose those
are the important parts, but it still sucked.

ALso, I really was bummed about not seeing a medal ceremony. I guess they
only show it when americans or canadians are on the podium, but I would have
loved to have seen the men's road podium, and the women's. But who cares
about some italian, we want to hear the star spangled banner!

I assume you are talking about the road race, and not the TT. sometimes NBC shows the medal ceremony when someone from another country has won, but I think that's because the Americans made 2nd and/or 3rd.

Ewoud Dronkert <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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You don't say where you live, so how can we answer that? Over here it
was, in full.

E.
-Old Europe

come on jonge, NL isn't part of 'old europe', you're part of the
'coalition of the willing', or well paid, or whatever...

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I saw the NBC coverage here in the US and it sucked, as others have
said. Apparently there was more coverage on one of their cable
stations, MSNBC, later. Cyclingnews.com's live coverage, even without
pictures, was much much better and actually captured some real drama:

<http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/olympics04/?id=results/road_men_tt_live>

Jim

Cyclingnews.com has the best cycling coverage available for the US, bar
none. It is the primary staple food of my diet.

-Sonarrat.