CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Sport

Women winners

(10 posts)

No tags yet.


  1. chdot
    Admin

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/17078405

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. Claggy Cog
    Member

    Go! the women... fantastic achievement. A world best.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. Smudge
    Member

    Nice to hear about more British cyclists winning, well done the ladies!
    :-)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Fantastic achievement and regardless of what "some people" might think - seeing women on bikes in the national colours winning medals and being the best in the world can only be good for women's cycling.

    BBC "Sports" coverage on Iplayer has 16 football shows. Totality of all other sport in 14 further shows, half of which (unsurprisingly for time of year) are rugby.

    There's still a lot of progress to be made with the media when it comes to cycling as a sport. Pick up any newspaper sports supplement or visit the BBC Sport website (particularly BBC Scotland section) and it might as well be called the Football section.

    Not a go at football - but the BBC in particular invests masses of money and airtime serving what is ultimately a largely male demographic and something that when push comes to shove, the home nations are pretty embarrassingly bad at playing.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. PS
    Member

    Apparently the cyclists (presume the ladies) are on the front of the Guardian tomorrow. Column inch by column inch...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. Smudge
    Member

    I have to confess to enjoying the six nations, and to be fair I don't think covering the internationals is too much. However it doesn't require blanket coverage and I have long been bored to tears by the over-coverage of the most minor of soccer matches :-(
    More diversity would be very welcome!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. crowriver
    Member

    Well maybe no live coverage on BBC of the London Track Championships, but never mind, there's always highlights from the Tour of Oman on at midnight on Eurosport...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    I have to say I was calling it a world record well before the commentators picked up on it.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. Uberuce
    Member

    *plays with numbers on a calculator*

    Yoinks. That's a bit quick.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. Min
    Member

    Wow, great result. Good on them!

    Posted 12 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.


Video embedded using Easy Video Embed plugin