Eurosport commentary

[fmk_RoI]

Perhaps there is more viewing interest in races with cobbles.

You mean they're better when they're talking cobblers? Shurley shome mishtake!

 

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If on Sunday one undertakes a cobbler. Not much one can do after. Maybe to watch some LBL. While snoozing. So best not to offer cobbler to the commentators before the race starts or during. After the race it's OK.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Perhaps there is more viewing interest in races with cobbles.

That maybe so, but it is still an important big race and they seem to just not care about it as much.

 

[Netserk]

That maybe so, but it is still an important big race and they seem to just not care about it as much.

Maybe it's to do with the women riding first and coverage of the men to start after the women's race is over? Then you'll want to get to the live pictures asap.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

I don't watch the pre show and often just have the post race analysis as background noise rather than just watching it, but I do find it strange that Eurosport/GCN never have a live studio show for Liege (or Lombardy for that matter) considering it is categorised as a monument, while other 'smaller' races like Omloop and Strade do have one.

Yes, I've wondered that....both races are the other Monuments, and you'd think they'd receive the same type of coverage. However, I think they're reinforcing the view that the 'cobble season' are the most interesting races of the year - and the 'Ardennes week is less interesting. By the time of Lombardia, it's been a long season, so can't be bothered with a studio show.....

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Maybe it's to do with the women riding first and coverage of the men to start after the women's race is over? Then you'll want to get to the live pictures asap.

It would make sense in some situations, but here the live coverage of the mens doesn't seem to start until after the women's race finishes.

 

[Alberto Fishwick]

I believe CK is working for the host broadcaster at Romandie so those of us in the nay camp and watching via GCN can enjoy a week off.

It looks like the grand tours will follow the same pattern as last year with Hatch leading for the Giro supported by Dan Lloyd, CK and Hatch sharing the Tour then CK main man at the Vuelta without Hatch.

 

[Wyndbrook]

I believe CK is working for the host broadcaster at Romandie so those of us in the nay camp and watching via GCN can enjoy a week off.

It looks like the grand tours will follow the same pattern as last year with Hatch leading for the Giro supported by Dan Lloyd, CK and Hatch sharing the Tour then CK main man at the Vuelta without Hatch.

Gradually going downhill then.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Commentator says that he doesn't now whether riders tied for first on GC will be determined by countback of finishing positions or by fractions of seconds from the time trial. Well you bloody well ought to know: it is your job to know, it is a fundamental in the rules of the sport without being subject to change by the race organisers, and as a commentator you should be informing the viewer, not declaring your culpable ignorance to them.

 

[Netserk]

Commentator says that he doesn't now whether riders tied for first on GC will be determined by countback of finishing positions or by fractions of seconds from the time trial. Well you bloody well ought to know: it is your job to know, it is a fundamental in the rules of the sport without being subject to change by the race organisers, and as a commentator you should be informing the viewer, not declaring your culpable ignorance to them.

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Incompetence is the norm; most people who engage in a task (even when incentivized for performance or engaging in it for countless hours) may still be making basic errors which could be remedied with coaching or deliberate practice.

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[lemon cheese cake]

Matt Stephens stringing together, "Interestingly, Incredibly, normally, perpetually, mostly," has to be a record for the number of adverbs used in a row during commentary!

 

[tobydawq]

Matt Stephens stringing together, "Interestingly, Incredibly, normally, perpetually, mostly," has to be a record for the number of adverbs used in a row during commentary!

Doesn't sound like the most eloquently structurally correctly spoken sentence, however.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Doesn't sound like the most eloquently structurally correctly spoken sentence, however.

No, it doesn't! I reckon the producer at eurosport accidently pressed a wrong button and Dictionary.com appeared on the screen immediately after seeing Bob Jungels.

 

[memyselfandI]

Yet ever so slightly.

 

[memyselfandI]

And every time Nicolas Roche pronouncing Majka, makes me cringe very deep. But how beautiful is his French as he slips in to it sometimes.

 

[gunara]

Yet ever so slightly.

I'll be yet ever so slightly bound to the Jaws music with Simon Clarke

 

[Barnacle Bill]

I believe CK is working for the host broadcaster at Romandie so those of us in the nay camp and watching via GCN can enjoy a week off.

It looks like the grand tours will follow the same pattern as last year with Hatch leading for the Giro supported by Dan Lloyd, CK and Hatch sharing the Tour then CK main man at the Vuelta without Hatch.

Yep, I was listening to the 'international feed' from Romandie today and was blessed with the dulcet tones of CK. He did mention he was currently unemployed for the Giro weeks and urged his fans to write to their host broadcasters... so perhaps things could still change.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

And every time Nicolas Roche pronouncing Majka, makes me cringe very deep. But how beautiful is his French as he slips in to it sometimes.

And someone needs to have a word with Stephens about the different between the letter J in Spanish and Central/Eastern European accents. Constant reference to Harold Teyada today made me almost wish that Hatch was commentating. But only almost.

 

[Potomac]

So who will be doing the Giro?

 

[HelloDolly]

So who will be doing the Giro?

The usual I suppose = Rob Hatch, Adam Blyth, Dan Llyod, Robbie McEwan

 

[HelloDolly]

And every time Nicolas Roche pronouncing Majka, makes me cringe very deep. But how beautiful is his French as he slips in to it sometimes.

He is very good friends with Rafa so one imagines he is pronouncing it as Rafa does in Polish ??

I had to laugh when he kept calling Joel Suter , Joel Stutter ...Shades of English Cycling Expert that

 

[lemon cheese cake]

He is very good friends with Rafa so one imagines he is pronouncing it as Rafa does in Polish ??

I had to laugh when he kept calling Joel Suter , Joel Stutter ...Shades of English Cycling Expert that

D, d, d, did he s,s,s say it while stumbling over his words?

 

[Wyndbrook]

The usual I suppose = Rob Hatch, Adam Blyth, Dan Llyod, Robbie McEwan

I believe commentary is Hatch and Lloyd.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

What's happened to Dani Rowe? Through the classics it was mostly Dani Christmas and Joanna Rowsell is alongside Marty Macdonald for La Vuelta.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What's happened to Dani Rowe? Through the classics it was mostly Dani Christmas and Joanna Rowsell is alongside Marty Macdonald for La Vuelta.

Rowe gave birth four weeks ago, so I assume she's on maternity leave.