The coverage on TV of the Tour De France, probably the most prestigious cycling event in the world, has this year been appalling.
Channel 4 have been covering it, not that you would know. Some days it is on at 5.30pm, a great time for people who work or have families and then other days it has not been on till after midnight, some days at 4.00am. I know most of us have got videos but why on earth cant we have it on at a sensible time in the evening? We have ended up with a weeks worth on video.
Why is it that TV schedules can be altered for tennis, football, cricket, snooker basically anything but not cycling? Arent we meant to be promoting cycling in the UK instead of cars? Surely more coverage of this would help.
I also have noticed that unless I have missed them on TV there have been hardly any reports on the days Tour goings on in the news.
One day we watched the video that we had recorded the day before, got to the end of the programme only to find that we had just missed the next days programme because they advised that they had changed the time because of the cricket had finished earlier.
In the past years coverage has been better than this but even then tended to be on a bit too early in the evening for working or family people.
Come on TV companies treat all sports alike and give us equal coverage.
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Jul 26th, 2000
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