Let's go to the tape?

Here's something to grit your teeth on. Here we have one of the best champions of the sport ever: Lance Armstrong, who wins the Tour de France an unheard of 6th time in a row, and the french producers don't even capture it on tape?!?!
And they wonder why relations are so low. They wonder why we would buy champagne and french wine and pour it out in protest. The jerk producers who failed to give recognition to this great athlete should be fired and fined and not allowed to cover sports again. Talk about immature sore losers. Sorry, France. You just fell a few more rungs on the great ladder of world relations.

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Bike Race Ends; Where's Winner?

In what today's (Monday) New York Times described as "a foul-up of epic proportion," the Outdoor Life Network, which had carried exclusive live coverage of the Tour de France bicycle race, was unable to show Lance Armstrong crossing the finish line Sunday to win his sixth championship until 25 minutes after the race ended -- and then, only a 10-second clip. Executives of the network blamed French producers, who supplied most of the feed, which OLN augmented. In fact the French feed failed to show Armstrong crossing the finish line at all, and OLN had to rely on one of its own cameraman who was shooting tape. "We had to wait for him to make it to our production truck before we could use it," John Carter, OLN's vice president for production, told the Times.