A digression. When S4C's Sgorio started covering European - primary Italian - football from the mid 80s it garnered a sizeable (by S4C standards) non-Welsh-speaking audience. On the following Monday morning at work we would repeat with glee our new-found lexicon of footy terms, such as - Cic Smotyn (Penalty)- Dros y drawst (over the bar)- Camsefyll (offside)- Mae'r card Equity un y post
et avec John, excellent lecteur de road-book, on s'en est sortis sans erreur
FFS the highlights prog on Quest isn't on until 2300H tonight and 2200H tomorrow.
Maybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.
Quote from: Nuncio on 17 October, 2020, 06:45:09 pmA digression. When S4C's Sgorio started covering European - primary Italian - football from the mid 80s it garnered a sizeable (by S4C standards) non-Welsh-speaking audience. On the following Monday morning at work we would repeat with glee our new-found lexicon of footy terms, such as - Cic Smotyn (Penalty)- Dros y drawst (over the bar)- Camsefyll (offside)- Mae'r card Equity un y postIt was Tuesday morning - Sgorio was broadcast on Monday evening. Also:- Cic cornel (corner)- Taro y postin (?sp)
QuoteMaybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.Press the 'get real' button first. He gained 47s (impressive) to still be 2 mins 57 behind (ahh). So yes, if he can win 4 more stages by the same margin. And if you pretend not to notice the other rider who gained 41 seconds on GC today and is now only 15 seconds off the lead. Podium contender - yes. Top step contender - Need the GC 1 and 2 to have really bad days whilst he repeats todays.
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 October, 2020, 05:24:59 pmFFS the highlights prog on Quest isn't on until 2300H tonight and 2200H tomorrow.A pox on snooker, say I!(Does the Len Ganley Stance)
Quote from: sizbut on 18 October, 2020, 09:16:19 pmQuoteMaybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.Press the 'get real' button first. He gained 47s (impressive) to still be 2 mins 57 behind (ahh). So yes, if he can win 4 more stages by the same margin. And if you pretend not to notice the other rider who gained 41 seconds on GC today and is now only 15 seconds off the lead. Podium contender - yes. Top step contender - Need the GC 1 and 2 to have really bad days whilst he repeats todays.Anyone else notice that if Tao hadn't showboated the last 50m celebrating his upcoming victory, he might have gained the 2 seconds he needed to be in a podium place in GC? It may seem a bit curmudgeonly, but I was shouting at the screen telling him to keep racing! As Alaphilippe learned very recently, celebrating before the line isn't a clever thing to do.
What he did know, on the other hand, was that he was about to have the biggest win of his career.
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 17 October, 2020, 08:07:07 pmQuote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 October, 2020, 05:24:59 pmFFS the highlights prog on Quest isn't on until 2300H tonight and 2200H tomorrow.A pox on snooker, say I!(Does the Len Ganley Stance)And again, Sunday’s highlights were buggered up by it too
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 19 October, 2020, 07:14:32 pmWhat he did know, on the other hand, was that he was about to have the biggest win of his career.When I was flicking through the channels Rohan Dennis was leading. Did he crash out?
Quote from: TimC on 19 October, 2020, 12:58:25 pmQuote from: sizbut on 18 October, 2020, 09:16:19 pmQuoteMaybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.Press the 'get real' button first. He gained 47s (impressive) to still be 2 mins 57 behind (ahh). So yes, if he can win 4 more stages by the same margin. And if you pretend not to notice the other rider who gained 41 seconds on GC today and is now only 15 seconds off the lead. Podium contender - yes. Top step contender - Need the GC 1 and 2 to have really bad days whilst he repeats todays.Anyone else notice that if Tao hadn't showboated the last 50m celebrating his upcoming victory, he might have gained the 2 seconds he needed to be in a podium place in GC? It may seem a bit curmudgeonly, but I was shouting at the screen telling him to keep racing! As Alaphilippe learned very recently, celebrating before the line isn't a clever thing to do.Except that he couldn't have known he was a second away from being 3rd on GC with a week still to go (not the same as a podium position)What he did know, on the other hand, was that he was about to have the biggest win of his career.
Quote from: rafletcher on 19 October, 2020, 06:40:03 pmQuote from: Mr Larrington on 17 October, 2020, 08:07:07 pmQuote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 October, 2020, 05:24:59 pmFFS the highlights prog on Quest isn't on until 2300H tonight and 2200H tomorrow.A pox on snooker, say I!(Does the Len Ganley Stance)And again, Sunday’s highlights were buggered up by it too We've just watched Stage 15 highlights at https://www.dplay.co.uk/show/giro-ditalia-highlights . I could only get it to play on Firefox thobut.
I may very well have done the same in his position. Doesn't stop me wishing he hadn't done it!
Good finish today, although I hate circuits.Sean Kelly on the sofa...Tim Moore rips the piss out of his legendary (lack of) personality throughout his 1914 Giro recreation "Gironimo!" "Uh, he was, uh, majorly suffering there".
