posted May 14, 2008

I was having a look at the BBC Sports main page this morning and did I see a picture of Cavandish hands held high winning a stage in the second biggest tour in the world, errr NO, just a single line on the right hand side, why should we be pround anyway.... because he's British!!!!!!

Well done Mark, you got headline coverage in Italy, even a few of my Colleagues said well done.

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posted May 14, 2008

BBC Sport has as its headline:
TENNIS: Henin 'set to retire from tennis'
errmm is she British then ? (this is the British BC, or ?)

Mark is on the main page, albeit bottom right of page ....

Nuvolari1: partly agree, but you need to see it from the German perspective. Their press / TV ran documentaries about doping in cycling almost every week, the Germans got sick to death of the topic.
ARD (German TV company) used to be a co-sponsor of Team Telekom / T-Mobile, and after the first reported case of doping last July they - as threatened - pulled out.

Their team concept of teaming up young/old riders (eg Hammond / Cavendish) was a good one ... looks like it's reaping the rewards in
2008.

BTW, I have sadly not yet secured any old TMobile branded kit

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posted May 14, 2008

Fantastic - Cavendish just keeps delivering the goods!

I wonder what the Quick Step/Italian camp thought of Cav's thanks to Bettini for letting him in the line in the closing kilo?

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posted May 14, 2008

This is the "La Gazzetta Dello Sport" link, it's in English, has all the stage info, and news, according to the Italians (note they don't care if they are biased):

http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2008/en/

Also note that the "La Gazzetta Dello Sport" main website now has some sections in English, so if you are a footy fan for example, you may find some other interesting stuff.

http://www.gazzetta.it/

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posted May 14, 2008

_cats:
what do you mean by "I wonder what the Quick Step/Italian camp thought of Cav's thanks to Bettini for letting him in the line in the closing kilo?"
I only saw a replay of Cav's sprint, not the build up

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posted May 14, 2008

Jez:
From the Manx Express himself. Check out the beginning of his post race interview,

http://mediacenter.gazzetta.it/MediaCenter/action/player?uuid=b934d62e-2117-11dd-a3bb-00144f02aabc

As we know, Cavendish is not best when the road goes up. As his team dropped back to pick him up in the last few km's Bettini gave him room to join the back the High Road train.

As Cavendish says and _cats infers, very sporting behaviour from a rival.

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posted May 14, 2008

cheers E_T_R !
sporting indeed.

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posted May 14, 2008

Yes it was sporting, and I would have done it myself, but I'm not a pro and I'm not Italian. The Italian pros can be quite partisan, and would normally, I imagine, have taken the opportunity to make Cav's life harder, knowing how fast he can finish. Credit to Bettini that he was sporting in this instance.

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posted May 14, 2008

I rest my case - last night BBC news 24 covered the football - firstly fans arriving for a match the next day then play offs for the second division (sorry Championship as they call it) then a rugby selection story then a swedish golfer retiring at end of season then a "and finally" mention of Cav's victory - well done BBC the briefest of mentions - but a mention nonetheless - a step in right direction.

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posted May 14, 2008

That doesn't surprise me about Bettini - he's a real gent, a lovely fellow.

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