Conference noted::bicycle

CBS (Chan 7 in Boston area) is supposed to have a 90 min wrap up show on the last
of the TdF (7/25/93)

Check your local listings for details and hope it isn't pre-empted for something
more important like "Candelpins for Cash".

See idefix::cycle_racing for TdF reports and more discussion around why no
US TV coverage.

-tom

     Sure there's coverage... If you want to pay for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
     The dirty jerks turned it into a pay-per-view event. Soon, it'll all
     be pay-per-view except the commercials/infomercials!!!
    
      Chip

RE: <<< Note 2609.2 by WMOIS::GIROUARD_C >>>

>     The dirty jerks turned it into a pay-per-view event.

Not in the States. It was planned, but fell apart at the last minute.
						-- Tom

    There's good daily print coverage in the New York Times.

    	CBS will broadcast one hour of its coverage of the 1993
    	Tour de France.
    
    		16 October, 5 PM
    
    	That's tomorrow.
    
    	Scott

RE: <<< Note 2609.5 by DELNI::CRITZ "Scott Critz, LKG2/1, Pole V3" >>>

Oh yeah. Thanks for the reminder!
						-- Tom

    
    I was wondering, why is it that most riders don't wear helmets
    on this race. Aside from messing up your hair do, doesn't the 
    new style helmets actually add to your aerodynamics?
    With the few early injuries in the race, later fatal one could have
    been prevented if helmets were required. 
    
    Shaw 

    A lot of riders don't like to carry helmets in the mountains.  It gets
    *very* hot under there.  Then there is the `personal choice' thing.
    
    This is going to get a lot of airing and I guess the UIC will try and
    enforce a ban (again).  I will state (but in now way defend) That the
    doctors who attended Fabio said that a helment would not have saved him
    since the damage was to the front and side of the face, not to the
    cranium....

    Europe is also very different culturally and traditionally from from
    us. Freedom of choice in this area has been fervently defended by
    the riders. There was a major rebellion by the riders in the tour
    when they were trying to establish a mandatory helmet rule.
    
    Helmets are becoming more popular. 
    
    The aerodynamics in pack riding isn't all that important.
    
    Chip 

The mountain roads in the Haut-Garonne, where the tragic fatal accident took 
place, are protected (?) by concrete blocks about 50cm cube placed at 
intervals along their edges.  It is believed that Casartelli's head went 
straight onto the sharpest point of one of these, and those involved in the 
race agree that no helmet in the world would have saved him.

It is a dangerous sport, and accidents unfortunately happen.  I have a 
colleague in the UK who sports a scar on the top of his head following a 
fall, and doctors agree that had he been wearing a helmet, his neck would 
probably have been broken.

As for the question of choice, that is true.  I for one am totally against 
the so-called nanny-state that tells you exactly how you should operate in 
this life.  We are bringing up a whole generation of motorists for example 
who believe that they have charmed lives thanks to ABS and airbags 
surrounding them - there are accidents (fire for example) where these 
measures are not worth a light (no pun intended!).  If I am out in a 
2000-strong bunch in a sportif, then I consider it a high risk and therefore 
I wear a helmet hoping that I will not need it.  If I am out by myself on 
quiet roads, I consider it less of a risk and am prepared to take the 
responsibility myself.

If you accept that the Gov't can insist you wear helmets (for your own safety 
and to save being a burden on the State if something happens) - how do you 
feel about them preventing high risk women from having children? - or maybe 
operating like that nice Mr Hitler to ensure a perfect race?  Why have we not 
banned F1 racing, rallying on open roads, boxing .....

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