#1569

We did it in your absence. See you in the Vuelta thread then @meths.

#1570

My favourite moment of Le Tour, courtesy of Carlton Kirby:

“He’s gone ‘Stitch that! Sew yourself something and blow your nose on it!’”

#1571

He’s so bad

#1572

I love him m8 :joy: Just a stream of subconscious nonsense aha. Probably helps that I only ever watch with it in the background.

#1574

The point of it is that nobody would bother reading it if he wrote it a week from now until next year’s race.

#1575

Nobody really reads Fotheringham anyway

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#1576

I think everyone enjoyed how ridiculously biased it was. Especially after Demare made a worse move than Sagan but the jury were apparently not biased because they’re appointed by the UCI, not ASO.

#1577

got these

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not sure why, but they were alright

#1578

you might think i posted this in the wrong thread, but no. i definitely meant that to be there.

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#1579

Are they endorsed by a low ranking pro?

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#1580

Christian knees’s peas!

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#1581

Snack Bauer

#1582

peas benoot

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#1583

Stretching this one…

Yohann Semifreddo

#1584

Peappo Pozzato

#1585

Christian Friedpomme

#1586

I quite like reading him. Obviously I’m not that qualified to comment on his expertise, but he is a good writer.

In fact the answer to the original question is a classic example of getting your stuff off the web versus getting it from the paper. In today’s paper the article about Froome is directly below a longer article from Fotheringham, basically announcing his retirement from full-time coverage of Grand Tours. So that’s perhaps why he needed to get it in now.

#1587

Yeah possibly wanted it to get it in as he’s not covering another tour from start to finish. The article about him retiring from the tour is nice tbh, good choices of stage highlights.

And we’re all qualified enough to have an opinion about journalists. We just have a different need from our news sources. No need to say you’re not qualified at all. He’s a great journalist, don’t get me wrong, but I (and this is me and me only) don’t like the sky fanfare that the likes of Whittle, Fotheringham, Walsh give in their articles. I prefer balanced, critical writing on cycling. But all the time British cycling is booming, that’s what I’ll avoid, as, realistically, newspapers aren’t the best place to find in depth coverage of the Tour of Wallonie #cyclinggeek

#1588

Well the thing with a mainstream paper is that it’s going to cover mainstream issues. I’m very familiar with Grauniad coverage of tennis concentrating on the Grand Slam events and the big four male players, sometimes to the detriment of more interesting stories. I guess the same applies only more so to cycling, where they basically only have one correspondent and really only ever cover one road race, unless it’s our brave Olympians in action.

#1589

@japes

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