Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Watching: Cycling vs. Golf

I participate in both sports, do both sports poorly, and am oddly entranced by televised events for either golf or cycling.  Both are events where you're looking at the TV one minute and then 64 minutes later you're still staring and little has changed.  In golf you're pretty much waiting for the last few holes to determine a winner and wondering if someone will falter down the stretch.  In cycling you're splitting time between the peloton and seeing if the breakaway will hold out to succeed.  Both had their sports defined - at least in America - by a single person with either Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods.

I guess the biggest difference is that golf just doesn't have NASCAR style crashes at 25 - 50 mph.  Well that and it's impossible to find cycling on network TV.  Time for the Cycling Network?

Ouch...

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