Why does Hamilton always get slower pit stops than Rosberg by Mercedes. Hope he can hold on and finish today
Squash must be the worst televised sport eh, fortunately it is not on very often. Why would want to lock yourself in a concrete bunker and throw yourself against the walls?
The big society sporting events used to run consecutively Royal Ascot, Boat Race, Henley, Hurlingham Polo, Wimbledon, Cowes Week and the Lords' Test, and the Grand National at a push, to finish before 12th August when everyone goes shooting in Scotland. All part of the season. There are only four of these that get coverage anymore and even two of them have disappeared into the murky world of Skysports. I'm sure Sky would like to get their hand on the Boat Race and Wimbledon but both are run by the "same people" as run the BBC so the boys who have gone up to Oxford or Cambridge still have something as do the little women. The BBC appears happy to cede events when they don't fit the Society Calendar, even now with the left leaning BBC it is happy to pander to the toffs who ran the corporation into the 1970s.
ITV coverage of the Tour was awful.... advert breaks at all the wrong times... and then advertising other TV programmes, and glossy bits of video about cycling... when we could be watching the race Could at least have kept the race in a box when they cut to ads...
I take it then that you've never played? Admittedly it ain't a spectator sport - unless you are a keen participant. Where I come from in Queensland it is the number one participation sport - there are six squash centres serving a town with a population of 60,000. Two of the centres each have ten courts, they operate fourteen hours a day for seven days a week and are basically always full. I used to play three times a week - fixtures night, training night & socially every Sunday morning & loved every minute of it.
I'd like to know how come no EIHL game seems to get moved because of Sky - probably because during the season, the only days there are very rarely any games are Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Sky have football then anyway.
Yet again the men's Wimbledon final produced a far superior match to the women's. I really cannot understand how women can claim their game is as good or that they should get equal pay for vastly unequal work.
It is a tricky one to answer in this day and age. The majority of people would say women should get the same but it is a bit like me going to work for 3 shifts and a woman doing 1 shift for the same pay.
With the improvements in technology and most people getting more up-to-date TVs, hopefully the BBC will concentrate Wimbledon on one channel with alternative match options via the red button. Like squash, tennis is a sport I much prefer to play than watch. Watched most of the TdF over the weekend on Eurosport, much prefer it to ITV. Carlton Kirby is good. Doubt I will catch up on it in the evenings at home though
