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great job by Rob Hatch and Brian Smith! especially, after 9 days of blunders and abysmal commentary by Quigley and Sean. big 'em up!
Declan Quigley. It's obvious.deValtos said:Brajkovic on twitter "I dont wanna be disrespectful, but as an int tv commentator, you cannot only talk about ur favorite rider...insane"
I don't know which commentators he's talking about though, who does he watch ?
Hence why it was posted in this thread i guessthe asian said:Declan Quigley. It's obvious.
Do you know Quigley's Twitter handle? (Never mind, found it)The Hitch said:Hence why it was posted in this thread i guess![]()
Thankfully not on Eurosport!staubsauger said:Don't worry pal's your favourite cycling commentators good old Phil & Paul will be back soon enough.![]()
I cannot believe the poor quality of commentary on British Eurosport at the moment particularly the Tour of California. The Tour of Norway is not much better but at least Magnus Backstedt is there to correct the mistakes.woodenswan said:great job by Rob Hatch and Brian Smith! especially, after 9 days of blunders and abysmal commentary by Quigley and Sean. big 'em up!
ahhh yes welcome to my threadNormandy said:I cannot believe the poor quality of commentary on British Eurosport at the moment particularly the Tour of California. The Tour of Norway is not much better but at least Magnus Backstedt is there to correct the mistakes.
Do the Eurosport commentators do any homework before races, considering its their full time job? As a viewer it would be nice occasionally to learn something new about the race or riders from the commentators. Instead, all they waffle on about is the British riders and get the facts wrong about any other riders.
This is true, there are times with Harmon where I think Sean is as bored with him as the rest of us. Been good to hear Kelly talk with some enthusiasm and a bit of banter even if he does make mistakes sometimes (they all do).Cycle Chic said:ahhh yes welcome to my thread
Quigley is doing a stellar job with Sean there to talk to. Kelly has done more talking during this Giro than he has for the past 20 years to Harmon.
He's a nice man. he at least responded to my Tweet.Zam_Olyas said:Quigleys vocabulary is limited now that Mr. Wiggins has withdrawn.![]()
I can just speak for the German ones. Jansch, altough he is a bit absentminded as main-comentator, definitely does. He's a real fairy tale uncle and has a story about nearly every rider and every team. In the past when he was the co-commentator of Migels, he always knew where some rider was training and what's his family background etc. He is/was also often in touch with other professionals, directeur sportifs to get some information via SMS etc. That's why I always really liked him. Earlier on he was also very good in spotting riders. But know he has got some problems to identify the jerseys, but he's in his mid 60's now. So that can happen, nothing to blame him for. He has some problems with French & Spanish names, but he always tries to learn them. He's very good in pronouncing Dutch and East-European names. I remember one day after a race interview from Koos Moerenhout at the Eneco Tour, he was giving a very good summary of what Koos was telling in Dutch. He closed it with his excuse that he can't speak Dutch at all, but he's able to affilate most of the things due to his knowledge of other languages.Normandy said:I cannot believe the poor quality of commentary on British Eurosport at the moment particularly the Tour of California. The Tour of Norway is not much better but at least Magnus Backstedt is there to correct the mistakes.
Do the Eurosport commentators do any homework before races, considering its their full time job? As a viewer it would be nice occasionally to learn something new about the race or riders from the commentators. Instead, all they waffle on about is the British riders and get the facts wrong about any other riders.
There was no need for him to be able to identify Santambrogio anyway, if a Vini Fantini rider is there at the finish on a stage like that then it's obvious who it's going to be. Shocking stuff.argyllflyer said:Well, that was a very difficult day for DQ and SK in terms of keeping the conversation going, but yet again DQ falls short with rider identification when the live footage kicked off at the top of the climb. Samtambrogio is pretty distinctive looking "Could it possibly be Di Luca?", as it Betancur's riding style, even in the distance "it looks like one of the AG2R riders is trying to chase him down, it could well be the Colombian Betancur" "Could it have been Betancur, could it have been Pozzovivo?" and neither were identified by him until he could see a number ("it's not Di Luca...," Sean stepped in with the name) for MS, and when he saw Pozzovivo for Betancur. The past 14 days have been an ongoing nightmare for him.
I'm sorry, but I expect someone who's being paid to talk about the race to know more than me. I buy their (Eurosport's) coverage in the first place!TourOfTexas said:I doubt their badness at rider ID bothers the hard core fan who can ID the riders himself and figure out what's going on. It reminds me of when I was a boy watching F1 with my dad. He was always correcting the announcers and having great fun doing it.
How is DK going without Wiggins?argyllflyer said:Well, that was a very difficult day for DQ and SK in terms of keeping the conversation going, but yet again DQ falls short with rider identification when the live footage kicked off at the top of the climb. Samtambrogio is pretty distinctive looking "Could it possibly be Di Luca?", as is Betancur's riding style, even in the distance "it looks like one of the AG2R riders is trying to chase him down, it could well be the Colombian Betancur" "Could it have been Betancur, could it have been Pozzovivo?" and neither were identified by him until he could see a number ("it's not Di Luca...," Sean stepped in with the name) for MS, and when he saw Pozzovivo for Betancur. The past 14 days have been an ongoing nightmare for him.
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