Sporting journalists should stop putting TDF spoilers in the headline!

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    Ride On

    I remember tuning in to BBC Iplayer to catch up on the olympics after a hard day at work to be met with; ​”Watch Usain Bolt Storm to 100m victory”. I didn’t bother.

    I, like many people who also have full time jobs and busy lives, watch most of my TDF on highlights shows or on catch up and it really takes the edge off when I know how the stage is going to end.

    Journalists will often make the reader get to the end of an article to discover which tyre lever is the best on the latest consumer test but are falling over themselves to tell you the outcome of a sporting event. This is arguably one of the few headlines where clickbait is genuinely justified.

    I don’t want to have to avoid road.cc during the racing season so please stop giving the result away in the headline.

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    Steve K

    You might pick up some tips

    You might pick up some tips to avoiding the result here – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0077jrd

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    pockstone

    Have you seen how they live

    Have you seen how they live now? Try not to gasp!!!

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    Ride On

    Yates brothers net worth will
    Yates brothers net worth will no doubt surprise me ?

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    mark1a

    You won’t BELIEVE what

    <clickbait>
    You won’t BELIEVE what happened today…
    </clickbait>

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