Commentary on TNT and other WB brands

[RedheadDane]

What a horrific mistake

He made the time dillation mistake twice.
Funny mixup to make two times.

It's a great shame that Bay is no longer commentating (all) the biggest races.

Why would that even matter for a race that's available through TV2?

 

[Netserk]

Agreed.

They must somehow like Mielke ...

 

[tobydawq]

They must somehow like Mielke ...

Well, he is not as bad as you make him sound like, but he is not as good as Bay.

I'm very happy, though, that Holm finally seems to have a smaller role.

 

[RedheadDane]

And now for a couple of phrases which - when taken literally - could be misunderstood.

First - from Scheldeprijs - "It's falling with sprinter" ("Det vælter med sprintere", which means something like "there are a lot of sprinters", but for that particular race it certainly was an odd choice of words.)

Then "Almeida is kissing a spectator" (Meaning "he was really close", I don't think he was actually kissing a spectator...)

 

[RedheadDane]

The commentator for BP (W) just described the Val di Sole CX race as thus:
"You basically spend an hour sliding with style."

 

[MartinGT]

Someone needs to be kind to Brian Smith and stop him from commentating, he's awful.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

I don't know about you, but a new year of cycling wouldn't be complete without Chris Horner chiming in with his analysis and making up words to describe things like bonus seconds. It's "bonification" time, baby! Let's go!

Sean Kelly has been using that for years and it's a word more widely used in French than English.
Just did and search and the Oxford English Dictionary reckons it has "Fewer than 0.01 occurrences per million words in modern written English"
Let;'s get it up to 0.02 before the end of the season!

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Sean Kelly has been using that for years and it's a word more widely used in French than English.
Just did and search and the Oxford English Dictionary reckons it has "Fewer than 0.01 occurrences per million words in modern written English"
Let;'s get it up to 0.02 before the end of the season!

Kelly's other great import to the language from French is "support" in the sense of "cope with": We may have to change our opinions about whether Evenepoel can support the cobbles.

 

[Potomac]

I don't know about you, but a new year of cycling wouldn't be complete without Chris Horner chiming in with his analysis and making up words to describe things like bonus seconds. It's "bonification" time, baby! Let's go!
....

That's the word for it, "bonification" he didn't make it up.

 

[will-10]

Someone needs to be kind to Brian Smith and stop him from commentating, he's awful.

Ambient sound only option today. Crowds were awesome which also helps

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

That's the word for it, "bonification" he didn't make it up.

But the Merriam-Webster definition (and I strongly suspect the usage dating back to 1650s attested by OED) is "betterment of housing conditions and farming practices in a particular area"; was the cycling application of it in existence pre-Kelly?

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

That's the word for it, "bonification" he didn't make it up.

It probably makes Hatch squirm when Sean Kelly says it without a French pronunciation. I'm sure he always says Par-is instead of Par-ee just to wind the resident linguist up.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

But the Merriam-Webster definition (and I strongly suspect the usage dating back to 1650s attested by OED) is "betterment of housing conditions and farming practices in a particular area"; was the cycling application of it in existence pre-Kelly?

Back in Sean's day the winnings went back into running family farms around Flanders, Ireland and France.
Winning a stage of the Tour = new roof on the barn.

 

[DJO]

Jose Been, just hard work to listen to.

 

[awavey]

Jose Been, just hard work to listen to.

I find it alot easier muted

 

[DJO]

I find it alot easier muted

I found a stream on YT that had all the noise of the race, sans comms. So much better.

 

[tao bleeding heart]

When will commentators ever get the message to STFU about giving spoilers of same day cycle racing results?
Case in point... just finished watching final stage of Giro dAbruzzo (thankyou Tiz), when Ned Boulting tells me that Team ***'s day just got even better, after having had good result in an earlier finish of De Brabantse Pijl... Womens & Mens races I had lined up ready to watch.
Big mouth git.

 

[RedheadDane]

When will commentators ever get the message to STFU about giving spoilers of same day cycle racing results?
Case in point... just finished watching final stage of Giro dAbruzzo (thankyou Tiz), when Ned Boulting tells me that Team ***'s day just got even better, after having had good result in an earlier finish of De Brabantse Pijl... Womens & Mens races I had lined up ready to watch.
Big mouth git.

Didn't Abruzzo finish before either version of BP?
So if Boulting could talk about the results of those races, he was probably commenting on a re-run/pre-recorded images, and - not unreasonable - assumed that people had already watched the BPs.

How long afterwards do you expect commentators to keep quiet about the results of other races? Would the person commentating AGR be expected - in your opinion - be allowed to talk about the result of BP?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Didn't Abruzzo finish before either version of BP?
So if Boulting could talk about the results of those races, he was probably commenting on a re-run/pre-recorded images, and - not unreasonable - assumed that people had already watched the BPs.

How long afterwards do you expect commentators to keep quiet about the results of other races? Would the person commentating AGR be expected - in your opinion - be allowed to talk about the result of BP?

The final stage finished after the women's race.

 

[RedheadDane]

The final stage finished after the women's race.

Ah, okay.
I do sometimes get a little confused about the exact order I watched races in on multi-race days such as Friday.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Ah, okay.
I do sometimes get a little confused about the exact order I watched races in on multi-race days such as Friday.

Still, I wouldn't really bother to be angry about getting results spoiled if I decided to watch races two days later, which I would never do anyway.

 

[awavey]

I found a stream on YT that had all the noise of the race, sans comms. So much better.

Link ?

 

[tao bleeding heart]

Still, I wouldn't really bother to be angry about getting results spoiled if I decided to watch races two days later, which I would never do anyway.

Boulting's spoiler wouldve actually ruined a mere 2 hour delayed viewing, let alone 2 days.

 

[DJO]

Link ?

Sorry about the delay replying, I was up and out most of yesterday,. The Reds were at Leicester, and so was I.

Here's the link.

MTB Cross Country XCO

The best of MTB Cross Country

www.youtube.com

 

[HashRouge]

I've hit on my absolute favourite commentary combo: Carlton Kirby paired with Robbie McEwan. Robbie has the cycling expertise and tactical know-how, and Carlton is great at the back ground chatter and I love how warmly he speaks about the riders. I know he gets names wrong sometimes but I don't really care. I'm quite keen on Rob Hatch and Sean Kelly too; I quite like all their idiosyncrasies. Adam Blythe is my least favourite, even though I can accept he knows his stuff.