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OPQS vidVideo: Omega Pharma’s Tour de France
This is a really entertaining little video comprising out-takes from Omega Pharma-Quick-Step’s coverage of the Tour de France.
Like many teams, OPQS shoot a lot of footage, put it together and stick it up on their official website, their Facebook page, and so on. This video is made up of stuff that didn’t make it through the initial edits.
We all know that when sports teams try to be funny, they usually aren’t. Sorry, but let’s face facts. Witness Orica-GreenEdge’s recent AC/DC tribute, which seems to have mysteriously gone missing from YouTube. For comedy value, we much preferred their coach-based work on Corsica.
OPQS’s video is different in that it is actually funny… largely because it’s just people goofing around in front of the camera and stuff that they didn’t expect you to see. You can’t go wrong with people falling into water and spilling trays of drinks. It’s classic comedy. Anyway, see what you think…
Oh, by the way, the guy looking like Catweazle is Sports Director Brian Holm. And check out Cav’s headphones; they’re pretty cool.
Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
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Orica Greenedge forgot about the whole music copyright thing so got their promo taken down.
Maybe the blooper was the video, not what's in the video.
I much preferred Brian Holm in 'Chariots of Fire'.
I likes 'em, kendalkenny. You cover a lot of ground there!
Thanks loads more over at the youtube channel and I'm aiming to harass the pro peloton at the Vuelta Burgos and ToB. Two very different races.
youtube.com/evadeverett
Shameless self promotion here. I managed to get a few video interviews with the some of the guys at the TDF.
Hansen and Henderson are well worth chatting to for pure non cycling related tour info.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpKCEVNZPL0
Then theres Holm and Ellingworth talking Cav listening to that Lady GaGa and Boonen getting a tin tin cut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhSGlId1kLE
Hope you like them
Comedy gold! Well maybe not gold. More like comedy brown.
Never getting those 30 seconds back…
Never getting those 5 mins back
Wish I'd read the comments first before watching this - what the hell was that music?
It's like getting hodwinkes into some sort of time share presentation.
I guess you had to be there.....which I wasn't.
where did all the good bits go?
Can I have the 5 mins of my life viewing this vid back please. And a Belgium beer?... please.