Wednesday, July 11, 2007
The Tour in France
I'm home with the electrician and watching the Tour de France. It's bigger than normal here in Belgium this year because the second stage ended in Ghent, and the third stage started in Waregem (Belgian towns). You can find Tour coverage on at least four channels: a French channel, Eurosport, and Dutch and French Belgian channels. I have chosen the Francophone Belgian coverage. The riders are in a corner of Champagne today headed for Burgundy, so the announcers just spent 10 minutes discussing the wines of these regions and the unusually high number of Michelin starred restaurants in the exact spot the peleton was riding. Now they're going on ad nauseum about the prospects for African cycling. They have lots of time because there aren't too many commercials.
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Is wine and beer all you folks over there think and talk about? One wonders. As you know, here the sports announcers that have no commercials and not much to talk about give all sorts of advice about what a participant in whatever sport being coverd needs to do or not do in order to be successful. Apparently you at least get some education about the wines instead of useless coaching information -- of questionable quality.
We've been looking for you and David in the crowds along the sidelines!
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