Recent content by Okeydokey

Nothing like Hatch, by a long way!

Not anywhere near as overpronounced as Hatch's version. That commentator says it like I would.

That is the what Hatch calls the race.

But not Paree-Nice?

I cannot believe that the neighbours of Phillipo Gana, greet him like Hatch. "Good morning Mr. GAnAAH. If they did there would be a lot of sore jaws!

So why was the finish in Milan not in Milano, why does the last day of the Tour de France come 'the run in to Paris' not Paree?

It seems I have the only post on this thread that comments on watching a bike race. Most of the thread is a fight between different European countries about which pronunciation is correct. It has gone from my comment on me being unable to understand the names of riders and teams when Hatch is...

I give up, we are now saying we have to use the dialect of the area the rider comes from. I'll switch the sound down and read the subtitles and leave you Europhile to speak among yourselves!

How is it, the whole of the winter sports on Eurosport, the commentators managed to pronounce all of the European names without having to resort to OTT pronunciations?? Only in cycling do we have to put up with indecipherable Italian, French and Spanish names of riders and teams! His description...

How can you learn anything if it is all gobbledegook? I learn more from the subtitles. As ai said the name of the town the race finished in was not understandable, I had to look up on Google the name of the rown it ended in. So I learnt nothing from him, only from Google!

To English people it is free. Borg or Fry. Borg. He pronounced it with what sounded like a T. While it might be watched by other than English, that is not the language he is commentating in and therefore he should be able to make the names understandable to his main audience. As I said in my...

I am a fairly new follower of cycling on Eurosport. Why is it that Rob Hatch has to pronounce names of riders and places in accents that are not understandable to English speaking viewers? Watching the last stage of the Tour de Romandie, I gave up trying to understand the town of the finish. In...