IS Private Frazer your spirit animal? Scots have often traded on their reputations for a pessimism. Folk baulk at the cliché of Scots being miserly…
The recent UCI Cycling World Championships demonstrated once again that vast swathes of the Scottish media have a reflexive negativity to anything and everything that happens in this countryScots have often traded on their reputations for a pessimism. Folk baulk at the cliché of Scots being miserly these days but we often seem more comfortable leaning into the glass-half-empty side of the character.
Reid wonderfully captures that feeling of a bright unexpected, unearned day breaking under a clear sky – the kind of mild summer weather only people at risk of Seasonal Affective Disorder in August could experience with a joy calculated to baffle folk from the balmier belts of the world. The world biking championships were indeed winding down in Glasgow, having hosted 2600 elite cyclists from 120 countries, as well as almost 8000 journeymen cyclists participating in associated events, and local, national and international visitors who came to Scotland to participate.
For readers in Scotland during the UCI Cycling World Championships, the somewhat surprising answer was – yes. As a result of private contractors getting the jump on blocking off roads in central Glasgow before the times they’d agreed with the council, one city centre donut shop was unable to open for one day.
Such stories can illuminate the differences between an event’s appearance and reality, highlighting the gap between what PR bods claim an event is about and its lived values and impact, or even just ambivalences about them which wall-to-wall cheerleading ignores. The coverage of the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 is another case in point.
Listen. I’m as indifferent to competitive cycling as any other sporting activity. The interest of it all escapes me. I’d rather put sea urchins in my shoes than visit a velodrome or stand around waiting for the pack to sweep by.
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