The DerailedUK media awards 2006 part two
Published by Halverde on 11/08/2006 at 13:28.
Welcome to the world of DerailedUK, where you can begin to write something, get sidetracked, then think "Just stick the words 'part one' after it and finish it tomorrow". Unfortunately, we've forgotten all the funny ones we were saving for the second half of the post, so we'll just have to make up any old rubbish on the spot and just pretend we've taken care to present you with something entertaining.
Relax, we're still treating you better than most cycling websites are during the off-season.
Rider of the year
The winner is... Jens Voigt
Ignore the fact that Jens hasn't won much this season. Also ignore the fact that Paolo Bettini has done EVERYTHING this season. And also ignore the fact that this is a Tom Boonen/Alejandro Valverde fansite. Because Jens is our rider of the year, and will be every year until he retires (and probably will be for a couple of seasons afterwards). The things you could do with this rider. In fact, if we had a team of nine Jens Voigts, we'd probably have... a not very balanced team. But at least it'd be made up of damn hard men.
Best race coverage
The winner is... Cycling.tv
Eurosport has improved vastly this year but Cycling.tv has to win for the fact that they cover EVERYTHING, even those Dutch cyclocross races that nobody is very interested in. We still stumble upon people complaining about the site not broadcasting a particularly obscure Eastern bloc stage race, but if you walked long enough you'd probably also stumble upon someone eating a dog poo. People are stupid: fact. Plus the Cycling.tv guys are totally nice, and didn't even get offended when we cracked a few jokes about them during the Tour of Britain.
Best British national stage race
The winner is... The Tour of Britain
We only really invented this category so we could relive those moments when we met Pippo Pozzato. He didn't really like us all that much, but we still think of him every time we're soaping ourselves up in the shower.
Tomorrow:
The third part of this. Or we'll drop it in favour of something new if we still can't remember the funnies.
In other news
Doper goes to cheating team. Gasp!
Relax, we're still treating you better than most cycling websites are during the off-season.
Rider of the year
The winner is... Jens Voigt
Ignore the fact that Jens hasn't won much this season. Also ignore the fact that Paolo Bettini has done EVERYTHING this season. And also ignore the fact that this is a Tom Boonen/Alejandro Valverde fansite. Because Jens is our rider of the year, and will be every year until he retires (and probably will be for a couple of seasons afterwards). The things you could do with this rider. In fact, if we had a team of nine Jens Voigts, we'd probably have... a not very balanced team. But at least it'd be made up of damn hard men.
Best race coverage
The winner is... Cycling.tv
Eurosport has improved vastly this year but Cycling.tv has to win for the fact that they cover EVERYTHING, even those Dutch cyclocross races that nobody is very interested in. We still stumble upon people complaining about the site not broadcasting a particularly obscure Eastern bloc stage race, but if you walked long enough you'd probably also stumble upon someone eating a dog poo. People are stupid: fact. Plus the Cycling.tv guys are totally nice, and didn't even get offended when we cracked a few jokes about them during the Tour of Britain.
Best British national stage race
The winner is... The Tour of Britain
We only really invented this category so we could relive those moments when we met Pippo Pozzato. He didn't really like us all that much, but we still think of him every time we're soaping ourselves up in the shower.
Tomorrow:
The third part of this. Or we'll drop it in favour of something new if we still can't remember the funnies.
In other news
Doper goes to cheating team. Gasp!
