I am sooooooo enjoying Universal Sports' tv coverage of the Giro and wanted to give them a little shout out.

Granted, I do miss Paul and Phil but there haven't been a bunch of crazy features and replays of profiles of the same riders over and over again.  (As much as I love to see George racing, I was pretty sure he wasn't winning last year's Tour.  Just sayin'.  And if I'm following along for 3 weeks, I saw the feature on him, and Christian and Dave and all the Garmin guys, and Levi, the first time it was played). 

I recognize tha this may be a function of the fact that U.S. didn't get the rights until the very last minute (and therefore didn't have time to develop all that extra content), but I'm willing to accept that the coverage is what they intended... 

Today's stage was an excellent example -- instead of some wacky blonde doing wacky things in wacky locations (away from the race), we got a phone interview with CVV.  Wow - timely and something I really cared about!  AND the cameras were on the race THE WHOLE TIME.  (Granted, they spent an inordinate amount of time asking him about Lance but that's just going to happen as long as LA's back in the game... I'm a big enough fangirl that it didn't bother me, but I realized watching it that some people might have been throwing things at their tv.)  That said, I come back to my original point - I don't even think we've seen our commentators, have we? 

Vs - take note:  We like to watch the race.   Keep the cameras on the riders.

And thanks again, Universal Sports - I'm with you for as many years as you continue to cover the Giro.  (Hey, you know there's a big race in Spain later in the year, too, right?)