#tbt – 2009 Cycling Media Awards
Yeah, we’re doing a #tbt today. One of the Ts stands for Tuesday.
Here are our media awards from 2009. Which seems a bit weird, since we were also earning a living working in that same media. At least we didn’t say that Cycling.TV was either really good or really shit this time, like we used to do depending on our general mood.
And that 2009 Armstrong – Contador feud turned out to be funnier than we expected. This entire article about it reads like a Striking the Sun chapter. “I went to see Lance before the race and he told me it was better for him that I won it. But then I saw he’d said on Twitter ‘we’ll see who is the leader in the time trial tomorrow’. It was a waste of my time and I missed out on a siesta as well.”
OK, onto the awards. But honestly, they’re not very funny. We don’t know what the Ghost Hunters reference is all about. Maybe he used to Tweet about it or something?
What DerailedUK Would Be Like If It Was Less Likely To Show Graeme Brown’s Penis, Had An Even Worse Name, And Was Actually Paying For The Food We Eat Rather Than Crippling Us With Its Cost
Winner: BLAZIN’ SADDLES
Best Website That We’ve Got Three Different Accounts On And Still Haven’t Even So Much As Entertained The Idea Of “Leveraging” To Build Derailed’s “Social Media Presence”
Winner: TWITTER
Best Cycling Apparel (That We Got Sent For Free (Because We Only Review Free Things (Because We’re Trying To Turn This Category Into A Joke About The Shills Over At [2020 update: this was mean and we removed their name])))
Winner: THE COLNAGO CASQUETTE PRENDAS MADE THAT WE DEFINITELY DON’T HAVE HONEST BECAUSE PRENDAS AREN’T ALLOWED TO SELL THEM
Most Tasteless Mailing List That We’re Sure We Didn’t Subscribe To In The First Place
Thing We Suddenly Realised We Don’t Even Care About Anymore Even Though We Used To Love It, Just Like That Nintendo Wii That’s Gathering Dust In A Box In The Attic. Only Worse Because We Can At Least Sell The Wii If We Delete All The Porn From Its Memory
Winner: TRACK CYCLING
Least Inspiring Accolade
Winner: WHOEVER IT WAS THAT SAID THAT STAGE 6 OF THE TOUR DOWN UNDER WAS THE GREATEST CYCLING EVER TO TAKE PLACE IN AUSTRALIA
“Who The Fuck Is He? Oh, A Chef. Why Does He Get Paid To Write His Abhorrent Opinions In A Newspaper Column Then?” Wanklord Of The Year
Winner: JAMES MARTIN
Possibly Pretend Rivalry Of The Year That Had The Terrible, Unforgivable Result Of A Wheel Being Purchased
Winner: LANCE ARMSTRONG AND ALBERTO CONTADOR
He Used To Be Good When He Cheated
Winner: IVAN BASSO
The Ghost Hunters™ Sponsored “Where Are They Now?” Award
Winner: DAVE ZABRISKIE
Haha, The Mark Hamill Lookalike Is Riding Like A Donkey Oh What The Fuck He’s World Champion Now
Winner: CADEL EVANS