Roadcruiser
11-04-2005, 04:40 PM
A fox news report. "Americans don't give cycling enough love."
http://msn.foxsports.com/cycling/story/3738098
Andrew John Ignatius Vontz writes about cycling for Bicycling, Outside, and Road magazines. He is currently developing a cycling TV sports show.
Developing a cycling TV sports show. I will be interested to see how that developes.
cbass94
11-04-2005, 09:55 PM
I liked the article, thanks. And that show will be good to see when it starts, I'll keep an eye out for it.
stihl
11-04-2005, 10:22 PM
That's odd..I ride that office park every Tuesday and Thursday night. I've never seen Tony Cruz there before..
orange_julius
11-05-2005, 03:22 AM
A fox news report. "Americans don't give cycling enough love."
http://msn.foxsports.com/cycling/story/3738098
Andrew John Ignatius Vontz writes about cycling for Bicycling, Outside, and Road magazines. He is currently developing a cycling TV sports show.
Developing a cycling TV sports show. I will be interested to see how that developes.
Nice article, except for the part where he says,
Aussie Robbie McEwen (Lotto-Davitamon) was positioned on Boonen's wheel when his countryman Stuart O'Grady (Cofidis) slammed into him to try to snatch the Belgian's wheel and a higher placing. O'Grady threw his elbow into McEwen and the two slugged it out like a pair of boxing kangaroos as they tore towards the line at more than 40 miles per hour demonstrating why field sprinting is such a dangerous game.
Somehow he tactically left out the McEwen head-butt, and the fact that in racing, elbowing is OK. Head-butting in general is not OK.
I guess this conforms to Fox News' journalistic standards, ha!
TurboTurtle
11-05-2005, 03:36 AM
"...and the fact that in racing, elbowing is OK." ???? I don't think taking your hands off the bars is legal or OK. - TF
Kerry Irons
11-05-2005, 03:36 PM
"...and the fact that in racing, elbowing is OK." ???? I don't think taking your hands off the bars is legal or OK. - TF
If you watch the video, you will see that neither of them took a hand off the bars, but they were definitely in each others' "personal space." Clearly, McEwen was the major agressor and was rightly relegated.
toast
11-05-2005, 05:08 PM
If you watch the video, you will see that neither of them took a hand off the bars, but they were definitely in each others' "personal space." Clearly, McEwen was the major agressor and was rightly relegated.
Clearly, O'Grady initiated the contact by moving into McEwen who was passing him.