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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Tour de France
I love the Tour de France: it's one of the highlights of the year for me. I particularly enjoy watching Lance Armstrong in the mountains: he's how I imaginge I can climb if only I trained hard enough. It's not just Lance though: the scenery, the drama, the sprints and time-trials, team tactics, heroic solitary break-aways by unknowns... it's all just brilliant.
When I lived in France I took it for granted: it was all televised live, with endless round-up shows and items in the news. I could just switch on the TV at any time and be guaranteed a bit of the Tour.
In England however, terestrial television coverage of arguably the greatest sporting event on earth is limited to once a week at 11pm on ITV. If you have Sky, you can see it live on Eurosport (although their coverage is pretty poor) and in a round-up show every evening on ITV2. But I don't have Sky because I can't afford it. And I can't get a Freeview box because the first builders we had took our aerial down, snapped a bit off, and never got round to fixing it and putting it back up. And I can't afford to get it fixed and put back up, let alone a Freeview box.
I'm gutted. It's Lance's last Tour, the end of an era, a significant year in the history of the Tour, and I'm going to miss it.
Bugger.
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