When the Cameras Are On and Still Miss the Race
Track cycling is no longer only being failed by what television does not show. It is being failed by what television chooses to show instead.
Two months ago, after Konya, the argument was straightforward. Too much of the sport still disappeared into the morning session. Important racing was happening, sometimes exceptional racing, but because only the evening block was treated as television, the public version of the event remained incomplete.
We discussed in February that coverage existed, but it existed in a way that still left too much of the sport unseen
Hong Kong did not weaken that argument. It sharpened it, because this time the problem was not only that important moments happened outside the broadcast window. It was that even when coverage existed, too much of the sporting truth still sat somewhere else.