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Summary: A Lot of Great Racing
Review: Commentary by Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen. Same content as broadcast on OLN but much more - 90 minutes on the L'Alpe d'Huez stage alone. High quality production.
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Summary: A Lot of Great Racing
Review: Commentary by Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen. Same content as broadcast on OLN but much more - 90 minutes on the L'Alpe d'Huez stage alone. High quality production.
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Summary: Homerun!
Review: Well here it is, the mother of all DVD packages! A six disc monster covering every minute of the 2003 tour. Basically they put together all the OLN network coverage of every stage together, so consequently you'll be pushing the FF button when race results are posted at the end and beginning of every stage. For fans of Lance, there's excellent coverage of his trials and triumphs, and post-stage interviews, but you have to put up with the continual face-time of pretty-boy Brit cyclist David Millar (OLN's a Brit network). In addition, Phil Liggett makes Howard Cosell look like a mute, which in turn makes me push the mute button. Overall, if you must have every minute of the 2003 tour in your collection then go for it. But for the average fan the short version has all the amazing highlights of Lance's 5th consective tour victory. Go Armstrong!
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Summary: For the cycling fanatic
Review: Well here it is, the mother of all DVD packages! A six disc monster covering every minute of the 2003 tour. Basically they put together all the OLN network coverage of every stage together, so consequently you'll be pushing the FF button when race results are posted at the end and beginning of every stage. For fans of Lance, there's excellent coverage of his trials and triumphs, and post-stage interviews, but you have to put up with the continual face-time of pretty-boy Brit cyclist David Millar (OLN's a Brit network). In addition, Phil Liggett makes Howard Cosell look like a mute, which in turn makes me push the mute button. Overall, if you must have every minute of the 2003 tour in your collection then go for it. But for the average fan the short version has all the amazing highlights of Lance's 5th consective tour victory. Go Armstrong!
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Summary: Homerun!
Review: Well produced and edited from the broadcast tapes and live commentary. Tastefully limited use of historical film and background info. I had seen most of this footage from OLN broadcasts; however, the producers have maintained a sense of challenge and suspense. I was especially pleased with the treatment of the stage 19 time trial - good set-up, coverage and summation of a series of events anyone who purchases this set most certainly already knows well. I was also pleased with the extended coverage of the final stage in Paris. Prior year productions have severely limited coverage of this stage. All the other key moments are here, as well, as they should be.I continue to be disappointed by the fact several stages are split across two discs, but the editing of this year's package is nicely done so the transitions between discs are not at all jarring as they have been in prior years. That's a quibble at this point - the difference between the ball landing in the bleachers or out on Waveland - still a homerun for World Cycling Productions!
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