VS coverage of cycling can often be frustrating. More so, if you are a follower of the sport. We always like more complete coverage, less editing, fewer commercials, etc. As bad as VS can sometimes be, NBC's Jeep World of Adventure Sports coverage of the Tour of MO may have been the worst piece of garbage I have ever seen.
My expectations were low to begin with since it was only a one and a half hour show that was going to cover multiple 'adventure' sports. Despite my reservations, it's hard to imagine that NBC could put together such an awful production with 2 months of preparation. There was so much that was wrong that I don't know where to begin but lets give it a shot.
1) On a non-cycling related topic, the show had a segment with a snowboarder droning on about what a good person he was for not using snowmobiles, etc when going to his videoshoots. At one point, I think he dislocated his environmental shoulder while patting his own back.
2) In an ironic twist, Mr. Environmentalist Snowboarder was preaching his "I'm so good" gospel on a show sponsored by Jeep with commercials of 4x4's bounding about on sand dunes and forests.
3) Back to the Tour of MO. Everyone's favorite cycling expert, Al Trautwig, was narrating the Tour segment.
4) The most decisive stage of the race was virtually ignored except for showing Danielson leaving the start house. Then they interspersed video of Zabriskie in full TT mode with video of Vandevelde soft pedaling while on a solo training rid with leg warmers while riding a standard road bike. Meanwhile Trautwig's narration gave the impression that he was actually time trialing like that.
5) The city of Rolla was pronounced Role-a.
6) Hermann was called the bavarian town of Hair-mon. You're trying too hard to be Euro, Al. With two months of post-production, is it too much to ask for the towns to be pronounced correctly.
All this ignores the horrendous editing that would completely confuse anyone that did not follow the race back in September.
My expectations were low to begin with since it was only a one and a half hour show that was going to cover multiple 'adventure' sports. Despite my reservations, it's hard to imagine that NBC could put together such an awful production with 2 months of preparation. There was so much that was wrong that I don't know where to begin but lets give it a shot.
1) On a non-cycling related topic, the show had a segment with a snowboarder droning on about what a good person he was for not using snowmobiles, etc when going to his videoshoots. At one point, I think he dislocated his environmental shoulder while patting his own back.
2) In an ironic twist, Mr. Environmentalist Snowboarder was preaching his "I'm so good" gospel on a show sponsored by Jeep with commercials of 4x4's bounding about on sand dunes and forests.
3) Back to the Tour of MO. Everyone's favorite cycling expert, Al Trautwig, was narrating the Tour segment.
4) The most decisive stage of the race was virtually ignored except for showing Danielson leaving the start house. Then they interspersed video of Zabriskie in full TT mode with video of Vandevelde soft pedaling while on a solo training rid with leg warmers while riding a standard road bike. Meanwhile Trautwig's narration gave the impression that he was actually time trialing like that.
5) The city of Rolla was pronounced Role-a.
6) Hermann was called the bavarian town of Hair-mon. You're trying too hard to be Euro, Al. With two months of post-production, is it too much to ask for the towns to be pronounced correctly.
All this ignores the horrendous editing that would completely confuse anyone that did not follow the race back in September.
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