Recent content by Albert Fishwick

If only. We shall probably be spared in the Giro as he will be doing the world feed (RCS seem to like him) but he has already said he will be doing the Tour and the Vuelta.

I fear that Quigley for Tirreno is probably going to be correct. I know ES runs on a tight budget and providing comms in several languages doesn't come cheap but it's hardly a long stretch to ship guys over for the day for the northern Europe races. It wouldn't be so bad if they would...

Rob Hatch has tweeted to confirm that Sean Kelly will join him for Paris-Nice. He also confirmed that for once they will follow the race so the commentary should be enhanced with some local colour and not just be called from a screen and laptop somewhere in the London suburbs!

A lot of those roads around Otley and back into Leeds are also quite narrow and not in the best condition. I can't imagine there will be a big budget for road repairs as there was for the Tour. Could be interesting!

Tour down Under will be on Sky again in the UK. Not much use to me, sadly.

Outside the bar at the foot of the Cauberg as the riders make the turn.

The Tour will never move by more than a few days as long as it continues to have the financial importance it currently has. ASO will always want it to straddle 14th July and any later finish would put it into prime French holiday season when it's already hard enough to move about the country at...

She's just Dutch, not Dutch-Brit, but if I could speak her language half as well as she speaks English I would be very happy. I did smile at the attempt to go for native pronunciation of all nationalities' names though - it would be entertaining to hear her alongside Rob Hatch to see who...

Brian Smith said on Twitter yesterday that he has done his last commentary for this year.

I agree that on the whole we do quite well in the UK for the number of races they cover. There are still some odd choices, though - a number of the late stages of the Vuelta came on quite late in the afternoon, in one case because of a David Cup tennis match between Italy and somewhere else I...

Not to mention "there you go". He also seems to have adopted feisty as his word of the month and still describes difficult passages as testy (bad-tempered, irritable) when he means testing (demanding).

Bumped on British Eurosport in favour of speedway which apparently couldn't happen yesterday. It stinks. Been a great race, jersey changing hands regularly, building up to a great climax, even a Brit in the top 10 but they just can the live coverage. I wish we could get ES International instead.

It always used to naff me off that British Eurosport cut away pretty soon after the end of the stage to watch the bald guy and pundit of the day (Smith, Backstedt, Hammond etc) blather on in a studio while International had reaction and interviews from the finish. So I was quite pleased at the...

Indeed. They missed his road savvy on several occasions last year. Very pleased to see him back.

I can understand why they have done it but they must think Porte is going to be back to his best. If Froome does a collarbone week 1 or loses a packet in the first mountain stages they are going to look a bit daft if Porte can't step up.