Jul 7, 2008
1988 Tour Coverage from CBS
The Versus Tour coverage is great. All day repeats of live coverage with bonus coverage at night. The switch from Al Trautwig to Craig Hummer has been great. Hummer is very knowledgeable about cycling. He even surpasses Roll, Sherwan and Liggett. When Hummer picked Riccardo Ricco to win Stage 1 he was laughed at by the Versus crew who thought Ricco was a bad pick. Meanwhile Ricco came close to winning by placing fifth. Much closer than the other picks. Anyway, on Youtube you can see what the Tour de France coverage was like back when I first got a taste for cycling in 1988. The coverage was down to 1 hour highlight shows that were heavily edited and included John Tesh’s techno music. John Tesh was part of the CBS coverage producing these songs just for the Tour. Ugh. Yet somehow these would be good tunes for a spin class or something.
1988 L’Alpe D’Huez
Gert Jan Theunisse on L’Alpe D’Huez in 1989. Theunisse was a bad ass. Coverage was horrible still.