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Date Posted: 14:46:52 09/02/04 Thu
Author: TT
Subject: Re: ToB vs. TdG coverage
In reply to: perseguidor 's message, "Re: ToB vs. TdG coverage" on 13:59:31 09/02/04 Thu

>>
>>>(But Im British. And I goddamn love the fact we have
>a
>>>national tour to enjoy!)
>>
>>Hear, hear!
>>And I equally love the fact that they haven't done
>>anything so pretentious - and plain daft as far as I
>>can see - as to call it the Tour de Britain ;-)
>> Can you imagine any Spaniard in his right mind
>>abandoning Spanish for part of its name and calling
>>his beloved Vuelta a Espa�a the Vuelta d'
>>Espa�a? or Flemings calling the Ronde van
>>Vlaanderen the Ronde de Vlaanderen? Might
>as
>>well start using German and call the TdF the Tour
>>von France.
>
>Hear, Hear. The TdeG name just makes me cringe
>with embarassment. It's not really anything to do with
>it being american but more an immature, jokey, even
>rustic type name that be OK for a genuinely local
>event but not for one on the UCI calendar. I think
>that kind of name would be (and probably is) possibly
>in any english speaking country but it's embarassing
>on a "real" event.

It's called marketing, Ed. It was brilliant to call it the Tour de Georgia. Right there that tells people what it is, a bike race. The Tour de France isn't known in the U.S. as the Tour OF France. It's known as the Tour DE France.

The locals picked right up on it with the "Allez y'all" thing.

It also is a respectful wink at the sport's biggest event itself. And this despite the fact that France didn't join Dubya. It's remarkable so cut them some slack.

I cannot BELIEVE that with all the problems in the world of cycling that anyone would get so worked up because some smart people call an event Tour de Georgia instead of Tour of Georgia. If everyone throughout the world of cycling was as smart as the Georgia folks, there'd be a lot fewer problems. OLN is phasing out cycling coverage and people are bent out of shape over what Georgia calls its event?! Give me a break.

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