Commentary on TNT and other WB brands

[TMP402]

Tony Gibb doing Catalunya today.

 

[argyllflyer]

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Tony Gibb doing Catalunya today.

I have a vague recollection that happened last year as well?

 

[GuyIncognito]

If either Kirby or his sidekick refer to the International Asset Management Cycling Team as 'I Am Cycling' one more time, I'm going fly over just to punch them. It's an acronym you morons, it's not a childish motivational f***ing sentence

 

[argyllflyer]

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[del1962]

How do you know Hatch and Kelly are doing Roubaix, Giro and LBL

Also have Eurosport got Romandie?

 

[snccdcno]

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How do you know Hatch and Kelly are doing Roubaix, Giro and LBL

Also have Eurosport got Romandie?

Will be on the bike channel I believe.

 

[Cannibal72]

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According to his tweets, Rob Hatch is covering Roubaix, LBL and the Giro with Sean Kelly.

With Hatch covering Catalunya for Incycle, Simon Brotherton and Dan Lloyd are covering Gent Wevelgem on Bike Channel.

Brotherton also did DDV today.

I just watched this, and his calling of the sprint is one of the most gloriously incompetent pieces of commentary I've ever heard. In his haste to list every rider who has ever ridden for Trek Factory Racing (I can see that Trek are amassing on the left; can't you wait until one of them has actually started sprinting before you tell us all their names?) he fails to mention Debusschere or Coquard. Failing to identify Debusschere, who comes from a few metres back, is one thing (although trying to identify him would be rather more helpful than just screaming 'DESPERATELY CLOSE' three times); how on earth do you miss Coquard, who sprints from about 300m out and ends up metres clear of the Trek riders? How do you mention Gaviria three or four times in the last ten km and then completely forget to mention him when he actually starts sprinting? How do you commentate on a sprint finish with zero mentions of riders' names (except the aforementioned Trek riders), zero descriptions of what's going on (except for 'up towards the line', which I think even the most intellectually impaired viewer could grasp is one of the basics of cycling without having it shouted at them), zero uses of the word 'sprint', the word 'opening', the word 'tiring'?

(on another note, the bike channel's description of Dwars door Vlaanderen is 'an annual cycling race between Flanders and Belgium'. Between Flanders and Belgium. That's a hell of a national-existential crisis this race is going through. Perhaps it's a vision of the future, where DDV is held on the militarised perimeter of Jette.)

 

[argyllflyer]

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How do you know Hatch and Kelly are doing Roubaix, Giro and LBL

Someone posted that Rob H tweeted it.

Edit: can only see reference to him and Sean doing Roubaix so will remove the others unless I track down the tweets.

 

[argyllflyer]

Again non-Eurosport but a number of channels are picking up Trentino this year:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/nibali-and-landa-expected-to-clash-at-mountainous-giro-del-trentino/

Not been on British screens for a couple of years but BIKE will have it, going by the above.

 

[RedheadDane]

Are we allowed to talk non-Brit Eurosport?

I personally quite like the Thomas Bay/Brian Holm duo of Danish Eurosport. Even though they sometimes talk completely black talk! Here's an example from today's morning stage in De Panne:

(After a talk about life expectancy of scouts during WWI)

Bay: It's a bit foggy today, but it's so flat you can almost see De Panne where the riders are going to finish.
Holm: Of a u-boat.
Bay: What?
Holm The life expectancy

(Doesn't work quite as well in Engish...)

 

[TMP402]

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Are we allowed to talk non-Brit Eurosport?

I personally quite like the Thomas Bay/Brian Holm duo of Danish Eurosport. Even though they sometimes talk completely black talk! Here's an example from today's morning stage in De Panne:

(After a talk about life expectancy of scouts during WWI)

Bay: It's a bit foggy today, but it's so flat you can almost see De Panne where the riders are going to finish.
Holm: Of a u-boat.
Bay: What?
Holm The life expectancy

(Doesn't work quite as well in Engish...)

I would have thought Holm was too busy for any Eurosport toomfoolery. I can understand Brian Smith having time but he's only a "consultant" to DD or whatever.

 

[RedheadDane]

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Are we allowed to talk non-Brit Eurosport?

I personally quite like the Thomas Bay/Brian Holm duo of Danish Eurosport. Even though they sometimes talk completely black talk! Here's an example from today's morning stage in De Panne:

(After a talk about life expectancy of scouts during WWI)

Bay: It's a bit foggy today, but it's so flat you can almost see De Panne where the riders are going to finish.
Holm: Of a u-boat.
Bay: What?
Holm The life expectancy

(Doesn't work quite as well in Engish...)

I would have thought Holm was too busy for any Eurosport toomfoolery. I can understand Brian Smith having time but he's only a "consultant" to DD or whatever.

Well... Holm is not DSing for Etixx in every race.
I'm assuming that first he gets his race schedule with Etixx and then he gets his commentating schedule with Eurosport, and if Etixx decide/realise they need him for a race he was going to commentate, then Eurosport will just need to find another commentator.

One thing I like about is that even though he sometimes hypes his riders a little bit - funnily enough he "betted" on Kittel for both sprint stages in De Panne - he'll just as often start talking about how stupid they are.

 

[robin440]

Talking about non-brit eurosport, the german "replacement" guy who only commentates when 2 races run parallel is really ticking me off,

always uninformed, the sound of his voice and the way he speaks is horrible + always turns names around ("Nice attack from Thomas Geraint" "Oh there is Costa Rui")

And always overlooks things ("Oh apparently there had been a crash at 3 km to go?! I overlooked that one") I don't know what is wrong with that guy. haha

 

[staubsauger]

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Talking about non-brit eurosport, the german "replacement" guy who only commentates when 2 races run parallel is really ticking me off,

always uninformed, the sound of his voice and the way he speaks is horrible + always turns names around ("Nice attack from Thomas Geraint" "Oh there is Costa Rui")

And always overlooks things ("Oh apparently there had been a crash at 3 km to go?! I overlooked that one") I don't know what is wrong with that guy. haha

Janschi has just gone old. Once he was a very well-informed co commentator to Karsten Migels. He had a wide knowledge about the riders and their background during the Zeros. Now he really mixes up things up a bit too often. But once in a while he still finds his old glory back.

Migels & Leclercq though are superb for non Belgian commentators. Migels is around since my teenage years and Leclercq probably is the best expert Eurosport ever had. Sorry Mister Rominger!

 

[AlexNYC]

I almost spilled my coffee today when Kirby (I think) suggested that Sagan might let Cancellara and Vanmarcke catch up, so that he could out-sprint them at the finish

 

[barmaher]

I was watching with my sons, and even the younger one (7yo) knew that was horsesh1t.

 

[Billie]

rewatching some parts of the race. Found a gem when Greipel attacked

"I'm struggling to see if it actually is Andre Greipel"

ofcourse couse the peloton is full of cyclists that look like bodybuilders

 

[Cannibal72]

I enjoyed Kirby's pure joy as, with about 3km to go, Sagan was looking a sure bet to win, and he shouted 'And now, this man, rides himself into being the favourite for winning the Olympic road race, for the gold medal.' What? Have you seen the route recently?

 

[mariposa]

Agree on all the other quotes. My favourite bit was towards the end when he spotted a Movistar rider coming up the climb behind Sagan et al and is convinced that it is Jasha Sutterlin! He had been commenting all day with Erviti in the break and who had just been passed by the others so why suddenly does he think it is Sutterlin?

 

[vedrafjord]

Kelly was on great name and sentence-mangling form yesterday, including the "Patersberg" and this gem "For a Belgium to get top 3 in this race is major importance". I don't care to be honest - he's always very insightful and he cuts Kirby's more ridiculous remarks to pieces, often without Kirby realising it.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Kirby did well to mention the Euskal Bizikleta today......unfortunately he called it the Euskatel Bizikleta.
Which is like calling a certain september race in the UK the 'Tour of Birtish Airways' (the misspelling is intentional...unlike Kirby's)

JFC Kirby, if you were a horse you'd be glue by now

 

[Miburo]

Backstedt should stop commentating. This guy thought for a sec tinkoff was riding for paulinho cause he had a good sprint

 

[TMP402]

The Reichenbach obsession today was really offputting.

 

[argyllflyer]

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[argyllflyer]

Bit of video from Apr 1 of Carlton Kirby and Matt Stephens playing with Lowland Euro stereotypes...

https://twitter.com/EurosportUKTV/status/715807822793953280

Kirby & Stephens a pairing not heard of enough on ES.