Tour de France (Cycling)

Member Name: Hudson

Product:	Cycling
Date:	02/11/00 (71 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good coverage

Disadvantages: Constantly changing times meant is was difficult to see every show

I am normally a faithful follower of the Tour de France and i do my best to watch it on channel 4 when it is screened in the summer however this year I found that quite difficult. THis was because of channel 4 changing the time for their highlight show almost every day. Last year this was shown at 6:30 I recall but this year it always varied in time. A longer show was screened by channel 4 for big fans of it but this was shown at between 3 and 5am and seeing as I don't have a video recorder the only way I could see this was to stay up all night, which I wouldn't do for almost any show, no matter how much i liked it.
Ok so cycling isn't a very big sport in Britain and the viewing figures are never going to be that great but I'm sure a fair few ammount of people would watch the Tour de France if it was on at a more convenient time.
The coverage in general was very good. We were given interviews with all the tours best riders as well as countless competitions to win bikes or even a trip to Paris to see the last stage of the tour. The commentery was great too. Its juts a shame they had to spoil it by putting it on at different times every evening

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