"raisethe" wrote in message
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x-no-archive:On 24 Nov, 09:22, "David Lloyd"
wrote:


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?

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?

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