the tour this year is freaking me out. i spent the first five stages moaning about how all of the gc contenders were still in contention. we've made it to the first rest day with nary* a mountain in sight. i'm trying to get emotionally invested in the polemica and failing miserably. i miss highroad. the pre/post-race stuff is a huge mess and i never thought i'd say this because i generally love interviews but i can barely keep myself from changing the channel. the people on the field (which i'm sure are really nice and work very hard and will get better at this) are just not very good at questions** which would be managable if they could speak english but they can't and it's freaking 2012 but they're oh-so-fluent in german which i'm pretty sure they don't need to be because all the german speaking riders speak english well enough to give interviews and and and they interviewed jens in german the other day and it made me cry because why why why would you do that to us and why?*** and this happens where they ask a question and the rider looks at them blankly mostly because he's tired and bored but also because they can't speak english they just panic or possibly think it's the rider who can't speak english and so they just ask an even worse question oh and dh's been transformed into a history-revising winking nudging schleckhater which is just great.
*so my definition of a mountain is different than yours. big deal.
**by "not very good at questions" i mean i could think of better ones and generally felt i was better informed about the rider
***even if they didn't make shit up while translating which they totally do everyone who knew anything worth knowing about cycling knows that you interview jens in english.
i don't know, man. it just feels strange, y'know?
by strange i mean has potential for greatness.
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