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Marty sounds like he’s using a tin can into a 28.8k dial-up,modem for his commentary on the Exact Cross today.

Bliney, Kirby is shameless. Plugging his Norwich gig during commentary.

Happily no constant accent changes on names though. I’ll take it, much easier to listen to.

That was the worst case of “commentator’s curse” that I’ve ever seen!

Am I right there have only been 7 days World Tour racing so far this season? Just wondering where Rob Hatch was going with his ”INEOS yet to take a world tour win” comment.

Discovery+ is showing both the world cup cross races in the schedule this weekend, plus another men’s race on Saturday. None of them are on Eurosport 1 or 2 broadcast channels via Sky in the UK. Tennis and winter sports priority. I guess they may still be on the Eurosport website for subscribers.

Discovery+ including sports now free to SkyQ and Glass customers. They added the sports in time for the Australian Open. Free for as long as you subscribe to Sky apparently. once set up you can watch with your account using the app on Sky and also the mobile app.

Another year, still Rob Hatch is surprised when Nibali is dropped off the back on a mountain in a Grand Tour. I don’t get it. Surely by now that’s the expectation and we should be surprised if he doesn’t get dropped.

Not going to happen. He’s on record as believing it’s right to pronounce them the way they would pronounce it themselves and he’s not going to change because some don’t like it.

Dear Rob, he never had any pretensions, despite your excitement the other day.

It’s interesting. He doesn’t want us to hear his broad Accrington accent in performance (why?) but flips us to other accents at the drop of a hat for names. Why doesn't he say "Caleb Ewan" in an Aussie twang or "Joe Dombrowski" with an American accent? :) Presumably that would seen as...

I like any of them that aren’t performing at us, that sound like they’re having a conversation with each other, and are prepared to leave breathing space without voices so we have the space to consider what we’re seeing and hearing. Stephens, Lloyd, Blythe, Magnus in any combination are good to...

I think that’s because CK says “Brian” every time he needs to breathe in. I think he wants all airspace filled with voices.

Suggestion from the British Eurosport twitter feed when I asked if he was back on Saturday was that he is unwell so unable to travel. I think he's missed, although Rob Hatch does a decent job, especially when he's in tandem with somebody else rather than flyying solo.

So is Verbruggen accusing the Dutch newsagency of misreporting him on the "never, never" quote, or playing with semantics? From the Google translation surely 99.999% of reasonable people would conclude if the original Dutch quote was reported accurately, then he absolutely did say it, and...