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Pro racing has been boring since the demise of Armstrong and Ulrich.
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Pretty much, no need to be sorry.
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I suppose that one could make the case that the TdF first became a snoozefest when Indurain was winning but I would put the start of that era as the Armstrong years. That's when I first lost interest in the Tour and I haven't watched it since. At least Indurain was willing to race the other Grand Tours, unlike LA.
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They all have helped now froome would be out of reach even more, specially for pozzovivo and pinot, always team ideas f... up the race.
Example, Vuelta 2014 (stage 20 I think) purito, contador and valverde dropped froome in a mountain stage, contador was winning but told purito and valverde just pull all together to get rid off of froomey right there forever because they had a ITT next day, Purito and Valverde refused to work. Easy they could have pulled a couple of minutes out of froome that day to secure the podium. Valverde and purito sat and Froomey catched them, that day froome got second and they dropped purito like a minute behind. Purito because he always does weird stuff lost his podium right there, next day was the ITT, and there is no way purito was going to get 2 minutes back from froomey. Today pretty much happened the same situation, they just sat. Instead of pulling to kill froome because with the time gaps they are off yates reach but one screw up in the TT and froome will comeback to the podium. The colombians had their own race. I was wondering why TD was not going ITT mode and leave everybody behind, too late now, Pozzovivo will regret it, same pinot, Froome has big chances of getting at the podium door by the end of tuesday. |
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I watch the Eurosport coverage on demand instead of live, skipping along to catch the good parts. I watch about an hour's worth in total, with one monitor on the broadcast itself and another monitor showing the stage info at www.giroditalia.it. Lotsa fun this way: |
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Now all in on Giro - love this race and this year has been particularly good. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presenter The term is also used in other countries, such as Ireland and Sri Lanka. In the United States, such a person is always called a host, a hostess (females), or an M.C. (Master of Ceremonies or "emcee"). |
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The Giro and Vuelta can be fun with novel stage structures and generally not trying to take themselves too seriously.
But any three week grand tour is going to be a slog to watch. |
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Because Armstrong and to a lesser extent Ullrich were rather anonymous in "pro racing" outside of the Tour and rarely targetted any races to win, so not sure how they made anything exciting other than the TdF (and many years of that are debateable... 2004 for example. 2005 was pretty crap too.) And, if you didn't watch many other races, you missed likely the best stuff, and if you're continuing to judge based solely on the Tour, you're still missing much of the best stuff. Almost every one of the Boonen vs Cancellara duels (which really didn't start until Cancellara won his first Roubaix in '06 - post Armstrong and Ullrich) were magnitudes more intersting than Armstrong vs Ullrich with perhaps the exception of 2003. Heck, if we're talking just the Tour during Armstrong.... Contador having his way with Lance during all the team infighting was arguably much more dramatic than any of the 99-2005 races.
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