Bulgarian Open 2015

Did you know that the Bulgarian Open 2015 is going on right now? According to wikipedia, Bulgarian Open is a professional and amateur, minor-ranking snooker tournament. No, we're not turning this bicycle blog into a blog about snooker. We just felt a need to complain a little. Because today, when we were watching TV we zapped by Eurosport. From 8:30 to 20:30 they were, and are, broadcasting live from the Bulgarian Open. They are broadcasting twelve hours of live snooker! How is snooker even considered a sport?

Snooker fans all over the world might exult, but we would consider having to watch twelve hours of snooker a cruel punishment. And honestly, twelve hours live? You really couldn't find anything else to fill your tableau with, Eurosport? Especially considering that there almost always seems to be some snooker tournament going on somewhere - how important are these tournaments anyway? Is snooker really that popular? We would prefer watching Tour de... South Dakota, or Kalaallit Nunaat Grand Prix, to watching more snooker. Actually, we would prefer watching almost anything, to watching more snooker.

In the meantime, in the 2015 UEC Cyclo-Cross European Championships, today. Admittedly, cyclo-cross isn't our favourite sport, but it sure would have beat snooker. Anyway Sanne Cant won the women's title, and Lars van der Haar won the men's title, so congratulations to them both. Well done!

And luckily we have other things to do anyway. Like writing this blog post. Or learning to build bicycle wheels (it's harder than one would think). Or reading a book!

Ride safe!