Now, I don’t really want to complain, because I ‘m just happy to see any TV coverage of professional cycling. But, the 1/2 hour daily Tour of Australia recap show on Versus is nearly useless. Keep in mind that, with commercials, it’s probably only about 20 minutes of actual coverage. 20 minutes to cover each stage’s pre-race interviews, the race (usually around 130k), and the post-race results. Not nearly sufficient. Plus, the format just doesn’t work. It’s basically a replay of the full coverage, drastically chopped to fit in 20 minutes. (During the Tour de France, this would get 3+ hours of live coverage and 2+ hours of recorded coverage). The “chopping” is done very well – so well, that it feels a bit like traveling through time. One second there’s 30k left in the race, and the next is the sprint to the finish. No obvious skips in the video, no strange gaps in the audio, even the commentary is smooth. It’s weird.
But, the broadcast team of Paul Sherwin and Phil Liggett is awesome, even though they’re only on for a nanosecond
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