Now that England are out.....

x-no-archive:On 23 Nov, 23:21, "David Lloyd"
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What has athletics done recently to deserve all the pre-publicity and

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musical trailers that their minor events get?

Paula

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x-no-archive:On 23 Nov, 23:21, "David Lloyd"
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What has athletics done recently to deserve all the pre-publicity and

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musical trailers that their minor events get?

Paula

Sorry, I mistook that for your tag line. ;-P

I agree she's amazing, having returned to competition after becoming a mom
earlier in the year, but one person's performance in one marathon does not
justify the hype that athletics gets. If we had pro-rata coverage based on
Nicole Cooke's performances across the year, despite her loosing the World
Cup crown and going out injured before the World Championships, cycling
would hardly be off the TV screens.

David Lloyd

x-no-archive:On 24 Nov, 09:22, "David Lloyd"

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one person's performance in one marathon does not
justify the hype that athletics gets.

If you look a bit closer you might find that she's won more than one
world class race, indeed, shes been the world's best distance runner
over the past few years.

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If we had pro-rata coverage based on
Nicole Cooke's performances across the year, despite her loosing the World
Cup crown and going out injured before the World Championships, cycling
would hardly be off the TV screens.

Women's cycling (and men's track cycling) is a minority sport. The
only reason it gets any terestrial tele coverage in the UK at all is
because of their Olympic status.

Running is arguably the purest and most open competitive sport there
is. It will always get preference over cycling, and rightly so, much
as I find it impossibly tedious to watch.

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x-no-archive:On 24 Nov, 09:22, "David Lloyd"

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one person's performance in one marathon does not
justify the hype that athletics gets.

If you look a bit closer you might find that she's won more than one
world class race, indeed, shes been the world's best distance runner
over the past few years.

I was thinking more recently than that. What has happened in the last
season?

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If we had pro-rata coverage based on
Nicole Cooke's performances across the year, despite her loosing the
World
Cup crown and going out injured before the World Championships, cycling
would hardly be off the TV screens.

Women's cycling (and men's track cycling) is a minority sport. The
only reason it gets any terestrial tele coverage in the UK at all is
because of their Olympic status.

It wouldn't be a minority sport if more people were able to follow it.
Remember the days of the televised city centre circuit races?

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Running is arguably the purest and most open competitive sport there
is. It will always get preference over cycling, and rightly so, much
as I find it impossibly tedious to watch.

Another good reason to put on something more exciting.

David Lloyd

raisethe said:

Women's cycling (and men's track cycling) is a minority sport. The
only reason it gets any terestrial tele coverage in the UK at all is
because of their Olympic status.

What do you think are the relative numbers of leisure cyclists and
leisure joggers / runners? Or competitive cyclists and competitive
runners? I don't know the answers to these, but I wouldn't be
surprised if the cyclists outnumber the runners in both leisure and
competitive arenas. If my hunch is right, that would mean that
cycling is no more a minority sport than running.

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Running is arguably the purest and most open competitive sport there
is. It will always get preference over cycling, and rightly so, much
as I find it impossibly tedious to watch.

The Luggage said:

raisethe said:

Women's cycling (and men's track cycling) is a minority sport. The
only reason it gets any terestrial tele coverage in the UK at all is
because of their Olympic status.

What do you think are the relative numbers of leisure cyclists and
leisure joggers / runners? Or competitive cyclists and competitive
runners? I don't know the answers to these, but I wouldn't be
surprised if the cyclists outnumber the runners in both leisure and
competitive arenas. If my hunch is right, that would mean that
cycling is no more a minority sport than running.

It depends how you define 'leisure' and 'competitive'. There are
thousands of people paying to enter running races every weekend. Now,
you could argue that many of these are hardly 'competitive', but in
sheer numbers they outweigh the number of cyclists racing.

On the other hand, there are plenty of people who cycle purely for
leisure, commuting, or other 'utility' reasons who never race. Very
few people run purely to commute to work.

David Lloyd said:

Now that England, and all the other teams from these isles, are out of the
European football championships for next year, what are the chances that BC
will actually promote the World Track Cycling Championships to help fill the
void? You would think that there would be some finance available to promote
sport events from Sport England.

Concidering the championships are in Manchester this year, previous Olympic
and world championship performances, I would call for better coverage on the
BBC. What has athletics done recently to deserve all the pre-publicity and
musical trailers that their minor events get?

David Lloyd

Or the BBC could combine both sports and have the World Performance
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