Rob Hatch 'where were you when you were watching this', just calm down FFS. It's an impressive ride from Pogacar but given the opposition, it's hardly a suprise..
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I don't know of where she was brought up but it almost seems like she was brought up in an area like wales and was brought up speaking Welsh with a thick original accent and she has trouble with regular standard English and when she starts her segments it like she has trouble to spit out the words in English at first which smooths out with a few other bouts as she spits out the English words later in her segments.
Dunno just sounds like that to me.
its not her accent thats grating.Hannah? No she's from the Greater Manchester region, and I think either shes been told by the producers to tone down her northerness, or at least she thinks she has to, so you get this kind of what we would call received pronounciation English, which is speaking with a hot potato in your mouth, classical BBC voice attempt, which yeah doesnt really work.
which is a shame as I dont have any problem with her normal accent and shes genuinely a really nice person to talk to, knows alot about cycling, and just seems to get lumbered with these bit part roles on Eurosport.
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It is fair for us to compare cycling commentators to those in other sports. The studio bits are a matter of what styles people like, so I don’t have any criticisms. For the in-race announcer, you don’t have to be an experienced speaker to know when someone is making inane comments, or are being extremely redundant, or are not adequately prepared as a professional should be.I believe the Discovery+ / Eurosport team do an excellent job! Rob Hatch is, in my opinion, the best cycling commentator at this time in the media, along with Dan Lloyd, Adam Blyth and Robbie McEwen,
Luke Rowe is also doing well, and it's important to remember that he is still a professional bike rider, not a professional live broadcaster.
I'm not a massive fan of either Sean Kelly or Carlton Kirby, but that's just my personal taste in style; they do an excellent job.
The female commentators are all excellent. Danni Rowe offers great insight into the women's peloton, as do Danni Christmas and Hannah Walker. I've grown to like Orla, she does a good job interacting with the rest of her team.
I've been reading the comments here and I think there is a clear misunderstanding of what a commentator's job entails. Firstly, they have no script to work from, they are under huge pressure as they work with the feed-to-event broadcaster sends out. They are given almost no time to prepare what they say, so any failings are going to show. In my sporting past, commentating was the one job I would not do, even in an emergency but I did hire commentators. There are too many so-called experts, who know almost nothing about the role yet are quick to point out what they think is wrong. I challenge anyone to do just a five-minute commentary on a live event, tape yourself, play it back and see how YOU did! You will soon see it is NOT easy especially when you have to fill in when there is nothing to report on! then consider that these guys often do one or two hours at a time.
Ned Boulting and Matt Stephens. Boulting is almost as bad as Kirby, he just refrains from laughing at his own stupid jokes, which makes him a little better I guess.Does anybody know who’s commentating the Giro on Flobikes currently?
For the multi-lingual folks on here, are there some particularly good announcers/commentators on non-English broadcasts? Just curious.I actually thought of this specific Bender, but i didn't know he is a commentator for Eurosport. OK there is hence one great one, who else?
For the multi-lingual folks on here, are there some particularly good announcers/commentators on non-English broadcasts? Just curious.
I like Dutch Eurosport. Very relaxed atmosphere, less declamatory and theatrical than the Germans or English. I generally prefer the Dutch style of commentating, even in 2006 during the soccer World Cup I watched NOS rather than German TV when possible.For the multi-lingual folks on here, are there some particularly good announcers/commentators on non-English broadcasts? Just curious.
We only ever hear good stuff about most Danish commentators but I don‘t speak Danish so I don‘t know. The Germans are generally bad, but Aldag is actually good. He is only rarely there, though because he‘s a DS at Bora.For the multi-lingual folks on here, are there some particularly good announcers/commentators on non-English broadcasts? Just curious.
I believe the Discovery+ / Eurosport team do an excellent job!
We only ever hear good stuff about most Danish commentators but I don‘t speak Danish so I don‘t know.
Rene Wenzel is a race commentator? People respect him there?Wenzel seems to be quite unpopular. However, he mostly focuses on US races, and those don't really happen a lot these days - or technically nights, from a Danish perspective - so, he's not doing a lot.
Rene Wenzel is a race commentator? People respect him there?
Most Belgian broadcasters tend to be allright. On the VRT you have Karl Vannieuwekerke (journalist) , José De Cauwer(ex-rider), Sven Nys (ex-rider) or Renaat Schotte (journalist) for the mens. Ine Beyen mostly does the women's alongside sports journalist Ruben Van Gucht.For the multi-lingual folks on here, are there some particularly good announcers/commentators on non-English broadcasts? Just curious.