Giro d'Italia 2021 Giro d'Italia, Stage 9: Castel di Sangro - Campo Felice (Rocca di Cambio) 158 km (Sunday May 16)

[El_ojo_del_Tigre]

I'm always surprised how insanely bad the commentary can be.

There are 2 AG2R riders in the break: Bouchard who is 2nd in the mountains classification, and Gallopin who has 0 KOM point. One of the 2 leads the other one out, who takes the mountain points at the top.
Commentary: "I thinks it's Gallopin who came first there."

Jesus ***, how do people like this get employed.

 

[dulais_valley]

I'm always surprised how insanely bad the commentary can be.

There are 2 AG2R riders in the break: Bouchard who is 2nd in the mountains classification, and Gallopin who has 0 KOM point. One of the 2 leads the other one out, who takes the mountain points at the top.
Commentary: "I thinks it's Gallopin who came first there."

Jesus ***, how do people like this get employed.

Nothing surprises me with cycling journalism of any type. The BBC seems to use what I can only guess is an intern to write their articles these days. Particularly enjoyed their claim that Yates and Carthy "gained time" on the mountain stage the other day despite losing time to most of the other GC riders. Apparently, because a load of the breakaway riders from the prior stage no longer featured in the GC standings that represented a gain for the pair of them. Completely lacking in any context.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Mohoric concussion but conscious.

 

[BlueRoads]

I'm always surprised how insanely bad the commentary can be.

There are 2 AG2R riders in the break: Bouchard who is 2nd in the mountains classification, and Gallopin who has 0 KOM point. One of the 2 leads the other one out, who takes the mountain points at the top.
Commentary: "I thinks it's Gallopin who came first there."

Jesus ***, how do people like this get employed.

Be content they are actually talking about the race

 

[spalco]

They drained that whole *** lake? Crazy.

 

[El_ojo_del_Tigre]

Be content they are actually talking about the race

I'd prefer if they talked about things they actually know something about.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm always surprised how insanely bad the commentary can be.

There are 2 AG2R riders in the break: Bouchard who is 2nd in the mountains classification, and Gallopin who has 0 KOM point. One of the 2 leads the other one out, who takes the mountain points at the top.
Commentary: "I thinks it's Gallopin who came first there."

Jesus ***, how do people like this get employed.

To be fair to Dan Lloyd, he did add that it could have been Bouchard because he was better placed in the competition.

 

[El_ojo_del_Tigre]

Nothing surprises me with cycling journalism of any type. The BBC seems to use what I can only guess is an intern to write their articles these days. Particularly enjoyed their claim that Yates and Carthy "gained time" on the mountain stage the other day despite losing time to most of the other GC riders. Apparently, because a load of the breakaway riders from the prior stage no longer featured in the GC standings that represented a gain for the pair of them. Completely lacking in any context.

I'm used to Sporza, so this is a huge contrast.

 

[BlueRoads]

I'd prefer if they talked about things they actually know something about.

After being so upset the past days I have thought about it and I think not talking about the action when action is happening is actually the worst that can happen in commentating to me, because I am an incredibly bad multi-tasker and as soon as someone talks about something entirely else - like food, I can't follow the race anymore. So mistakes are something I can deal with better in comparison.

 

[Breezy1985]

Nothing surprises me with cycling journalism of any type. The BBC seems to use what I can only guess is an intern to write their articles these days. Particularly enjoyed their claim that Yates and Carthy "gained time" on the mountain stage the other day despite losing time to most of the other GC riders. Apparently, because a load of the breakaway riders from the prior stage no longer featured in the GC standings that represented a gain for the pair of them. Completely lacking in any context.

In Ireland on RTE News they love announcing when Sam Bennett has a bad day by losing time in the mountains in the TdF

 

[El_ojo_del_Tigre]

To be fair to Dan Lloyd, he did add that it could have been Bouchard because he was better placed in the competition.

The co-commentator gently corrected him, yes, thankfully.

After being so upset the past days I have thought about it and I think not talking about the action when action is happening is actually the worst that can happen in commentating to me, because I am an incredibly bad multi-tasker and as soon as someone talks about something entirely else - like food, I can't follow the race anymore. So mistakes are something I can deal with better in comparison.

Correctly calling the race > talking about random stuff > incorrectly calling the race, for me. I'm used to cycling commentators getting things roughly right (yes, I'm privilegd).
Also, I find mistakes quite distracting. When commentators say things that don't make sense (like Gallopin snatching the KOM points ahead of Bouchard) it makes me question my sanity for a while until I realise the person paid to follow cycling got it wrong. Again.

I guess you get used to it. Personally I prefer commentary in languages I only half understand to this stuff. "Bouchard dos cervezas scorchio puntos!" in an excited voice just does more for me. As long as they get the riders names right I'm happy.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The co-commentator gently corrected him, yes, thankfully.

It was himself and not the co-commentator. But since they were listening to the Remco interview when it happened and it wasn't really an important part of the race, I just think it's a weird "mistake" to pick up on. Worse things are definitely being said during a Giro

 

[spalco]

Time to turn up the tempo, gc guys!

 

[titan31]

Time to turn up the tempo, gc guys!

Hopefully. Might fall asleep soon if not.

 

[bambino]

Ineos time

 

[spalco]

Yes, ineos to the front.

 

[Samamba]

Finally

 

[ppanther92]

Ineos going for pink today.

 

[broppo]

I'm always surprised how insanely bad the commentary can be.

There are 2 AG2R riders in the break: Bouchard who is 2nd in the mountains classification, and Gallopin who has 0 KOM point. One of the 2 leads the other one out, who takes the mountain points at the top.
Commentary: "I thinks it's Gallopin who came first there."

Jesus ***, how do people like this get employed.

yeah its crazy how little these commentators know, they should hire some young people who really know what is going on, but you always see these old tards who prefer to talk about what they ate yesterday and are totally clueless to what tactics and strategies are being used.

 

[Breezy1985]

Yes, ineos to the front.

Don't often hear people get excited by that on here

 

[JRanton]

Has Ganna been dropped?

 

[spalco]

Cute little horse there.

 

[BlueRoads]

Don't often hear people get excited by that on here

worse, with Remco such a threat and Bernal being nice and having back problems I find myself cheering for Ineos

 

[dulais_valley]

Looks like it might be raining for the gravel at the end

 

[Red Rick]

Gap growing again or is GPS Giroing again?