Wasn't Lance Armstrong's seventh straight Tour de France bike race championship a big deal last summer? I remember lots of non-bicyclists following it on TV and in the newspaper, and OLN scoring its highest ratings ever during the event.
In spite of that, competitive cycling was mostly ignored for nominations in the Sports Emmy Awards. The 27th annual awards event for TV sports is scheduled May 1.
The Tour de France on CBS was nominated among four others for Outstanding Live Event Turnaround (CBS won Emmys for its TdF coverage in 2001, 2002 and 2003) and Outstanding Writing;
Chasing Lance #7 on the Discovery Channel received a nomination for Outstanding Edited Sports Special and Outstanding Editing;
And OLN, the network that broadcast daily live and taped coverage of the Tour de France for three weeks last July, was nominated for Outstanding Open/Tease for the Winter Gravity Games. Go figure.
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