All My Love Is Gone

Sometimes, there are people or so called journalists or so called experts that really piss me off. Such a time was today when i saw some new and old on-line clips from Sweden Television (SVT).

The first clip i saw was this one : http://svt.se/svt/play/video.jsp?a=869470 and there weren’t much to do with anything called the truth. The clip is first of the crash of T-Mobile rider Marcus Burghardt into a Golden Retriever and in the clip they say that he withdraw from the race, which he hasn’t done. He is very much in the race and he is 2 hours 10 minutes behind the leader in 122nd place (as of the 14th stage). I think the reporter Staffan Harving should check his facts before he do any kind of reporting from the Tour de France.

The second one was the stupid people in the Sportspanelen (Sports panel), with Pamela Andersson, Chris Härenstam and Malin Ewerlöf-Krepp, who were talking about the Tour de France and not presenting any facts at all, they just spread lies and their own wicked opinions about the race. This is a program that has the following as description of it’s content and purpose : In English “We clarify wrong doings, training misses, medals, nominations and other essentials within sport”. In Swedish “Vi reder ut feltramp, tränarmissar, medaljer, uttagningar och andra väsentligheter”. You can see the clip here : http://svt.se/svt/play/video.jsp?a=871909

I really hate when journalists and so called experts say things that they don’t know shit about, just to miss credit a sport or in this case a race. I know that most parts of the people who enjoy cycling and especially Tour de France agree with me in terms of the stupid remarks by Pamela Andersson, Chris Härenstam and Malin Ewerlöf-Krepp in this mornings broadcast. All they want is to be noticed and uses sensational journalism to achieve it.

When it comes to the discussion about doping within Track & Field (in the clip), we all can hear the prejudice remarks by Malin Ewerlöf-Krepp, when she says that Bulgaria and Romania always have had used illegal substances.

I can’t believe that SVT actually pays these people money to express their views and expertise on topics that they are supposed to be experts at. Evidently they are not, they are just, in my opinion, stupid people. I don’t think it’s right for them to express their personal opinion on prime time TV, especially when they present lie upon lie and nothing is based on facts.

One thing i do agree with is to take strong steps towards preventing doping with in cycling and especially Tour de France, but one should remember that their hasn’t been a single rider who has been convicted of doping in the Tour de France 2007, as of yet. Since Patrick Sinkewitz was tested on the 8th of June and the results are announced after the Tour had started, so technically he wasn’t tested and convicted on the Tour de France, but it’s still bad.

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