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Date Posted: 13:59:31 09/02/04 Thu
Author: perseguidor
Subject: Re: ToB vs. TdG coverage
In reply to: gentenaar 's message, "Re: ToB vs. TdG coverage" on 13:16:52 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 Espaņa the Vuelta d'
>Espaņa? 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.

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