Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Pulling the Plug

In light of the recent doping positive of Patrik Sinkewitz (T-Mobile), German broadcasting stations have decided to pull the plug on cycling. From Cyclingnews:

"The German public channels initially said they would not boycott cycling, but said during the Tour they would stop broadcasting if more doping are cases surfacing. They came through with their promise after the most recent doping case and have decided to not broadcast today's tenth stage on neither ARD nor ZDF.

Today it would have been the turn of ARD in their alternating schedule, but instead of the stage, there was a special edition sports report that featured interviews and background on doping."
Are you ready to pull the plug...or have you already? Could the "death" of cycling be far behind?

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Pulling the Plug

In light of the recent doping positive of Patrik Sinkewitz (T-Mobile), German broadcasting stations have decided to pull the plug on cycling. From Cyclingnews:

"The German public channels initially said they would not boycott cycling, but said during the Tour they would stop broadcasting if more doping are cases surfacing. They came through with their promise after the most recent doping case and have decided to not broadcast today's tenth stage on neither ARD nor ZDF.

Today it would have been the turn of ARD in their alternating schedule, but instead of the stage, there was a special edition sports report that featured interviews and background on doping."
Are you ready to pull the plug...or have you already? Could the "death" of cycling be far behind?

No comments: