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[Armchair Cyclist]

Started watching the Giro presentation (something that apparently only about 200 people in Turin bothered doing live) but soon turned off after Anthony McCrossan introduced Israel Premier Techah including Ethan Hayterah, Michael Woodsah, Riley Pickerellah, Simon Clarkah ....

You're from Southampton, man: Why???

 

[memyselfandI]

As long as Adam Blythe is not there. Used to like him when he first joined for his race insights but now he's a little too matey and jokey.

Luke Rowe could replace him every once in a while, or maybe even more me thinks.. I really like his voice and style of speaking after listening numerous Geraint Thomas podcasts. Then again he is super DS for any team if he chooses that way, time will tell.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Luke Rowe is very smart and will one day lead his own team I think
He also takes no prisoners and is not afraid to take on anyone ...

 

[Potomac]

Started watching the Giro presentation (something that apparently only about 200 people in Turin bothered doing live) but soon turned off after Anthony McCrossan introduced Israel Premier Techah including Ethan Hayterah, Michael Woodsah, Riley Pickerellah, Simon Clarkah ....

You're from Southampton, man: Why???

I hope you're joking about doing names that way

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I hope you're joking about doing names that way

I wish were. I made the mistake of tuning back in later on (I left it running with the sound off, turning it up if there was an interview) to even hear Antonio Tiberiah.

I know very little Italian, but enough to know that there are plenty of words that end with a consonant and are not finished in normal speech with a gratuitous ahhh, so I don't know why Italian podium announcers tend to do it*, but for a guy from the south coast of England to do it is nothing but a pathetic pastiche.

* @SafeBet , @Mayomaniac : why do they do it?

 

[tobydawq]

I wish were. I made the mistake of tuning back in later on (I left it running with the sound off, turning it up if there was an interview) to even hear Antonio Tiberiah.

I know very little Italian, but enough to know that there are plenty of words that end with a consonant and are not finished in normal speech with a gratuitous ahhh, so I don't know why Italian podium announcers tend to do it*, but for a guy from the south coast of England to do it is nothing but a pathetic pastiche.

* @SafeBet , @Mayomaniac : why do they do it?

The fact that that guy continues to be a voice in cycling is absolutely incomprehensible to me. An altogether awful listen, the worst voice imaginable, talks ALL the time and is SO boring.

 

[Potomac]

LMAO....I'm watching the presentation replay on Max and it is just as @Armchair cyclist says...

Simon Clarkah

I hope somewhere on twitter or something he is getting hammered.

edit....
funnier still American Luke Lamperti - ah

 

[RedheadDane]

Oh... so now they felt the need to inform people about the *** regarding a merger with HBO? In a "Oh, this is gonna be amazing" TV add.
You'd have thought it would be something they could have posted on the front page, but... no...

 

[Potomac]

McEwan left Australia to be part of the coverage team! In London.

 

[Potomac]

Blythe keeps saying G

 

[zlev11]

is there anything more useless than this roundtable discussion immediately after the stage ends? it took them like 10 minutes to show the goddamn standings of the stage.

 

[zlev11]

is there anything more useless than this roundtable discussion immediately after the stage ends? it took them like 10 minutes to show the goddamn standings of the stage.

answer: yes, Jens Voigt. *closes app*

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

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???

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

McEwan left Australia to be part of the coverage team! In London.

Bath rather than London, I think.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Blythe keeps saying G

I absolutely dread Thomas' retirement, because while I think he would actually make a good pundit in the studio, the sycophancy and forced humour and deference from the rest of the peanut gallery upon his inevitable arrival will be unbearable.

 

[zlev11]

id rather hear Blythe say "G" than hear him say "Pigatcha"

 

[Avoriaz]

LMAO....I'm watching the presentation replay on Max and it is just as @Armchair cyclist says...

Simon Clarkah

I hope somewhere on twitter or something he is getting hammered.

edit....
funnier still American Luke Lamperti - ah

How did he announce Pippo Ganna? Ganna-ah?

 

[awavey]

McEwan left Australia to be part of the coverage team! In London.

It's Bath not London

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Adam Blythe doesn't understand that the gaps on the screen are to the leader, wants to add the 2 minutes for the peloton to the one and a bit shown for the chasers, and declares that Piccolo is 3 and a bit ahead of the peloton. Has he ever watched a bike race before? Why is he employed?

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Adam Blythe doesn't understand that the gaps on the screen are to the leader, wants to add the 2 minutes for the peloton to the one and a bit shown for the chasers, and declares that Piccolo is 3 and a bit ahead of the peloton. Has he ever watched a bike race before? Why is he employed?

Its one of the greater mysteries of cycling what he brings to the table of a GT ...

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Its one of the greater mysteries of cycling what he brings to the table of a GT ...

I wouldn't trust him to bring a cup of tea and a sandwich to the table.

 

[awavey]

Adam Blythe doesn't understand that the gaps on the screen are to the leader, wants to add the 2 minutes for the peloton to the one and a bit shown for the chasers, and declares that Piccolo is 3 and a bit ahead of the peloton. Has he ever watched a bike race before? Why is he employed?

Hasn't he done that already this year ? when Dan had to point out to him he'd got the timegaps wrong

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Hasn't he done that already this year ? when Dan had to point out to him he'd got the timegaps wrong

They then followed it up with a stretch where Blythe called Dan a nerd for being able to understand basic addition and subtraction.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

I've said it before, but they need a GT expert, not another sprinter.........

 

[zlev11]

did I just miss it or did Eurosport never even show the podiums?