Kwibus said:
Billie said:
Dan Lloyd interviewing Diego Ulissi in English for RCS in il Giro. What a farce
No. That's just the short interview for the international broadcast.
He'll get his italian interview for RAI, don't worry.
This has been happening for a while now in all big cycling races.
In most races the winner is interviewed in his preferred language and after that the interviewer asks him some questions in english for the broad audience.
Here Lloyd asks questions in English ( for a good part to riders who don't even speak english) and the rider halfly understood it and answers in either average english or in his own language which means Lloyd doesn't even understands him so there is need for a tolk. It takes the personal band between interviewer and interviewee away and thus takes all the emotion out of the interview. But the point of the flash interview is generally to show the winners emotion.
It shouldn't be that hard to find an actual journalist that speaks couple different languages (think Italian, English, Spanish and French).