Eurosport commentary

[argyllflyer]

British Eurosport commentary pairings season 2020:

Vuelta a San Juan (live from Sun 26th Jan): Quigley & Smith
Tour Down Under (highlights): Liggett, McEwan & Vogt (International Comms package) (30 mins highlights from 28/1)
Challenge Mallorca (highlights): tbc (20 min highlights from 31/1)
Cadel Evans Great Ocean Race (90 mins highlights from 3/2): Kirby & Adam Blythe
Saudi Tour (live from 4/2): Kirby & Blythe
Herald Sun Tour: Matt Keenan & David MacKenzie (International Comms package)
Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (live from 5/2): Kirby & Gerrans
Tour de Langkawi (live from 7/2): Hatch & Backstedt
Tour of Provence: (ES Player only)
Clasica De Almeria: Stephens & Blythe
Volta ao Algarve: Hatch & Blythe
Vuelta Andalusía: Kirby & Stephens
UAE Tour: Hatch & Smith
Het Nieuwsblad: Dan Lloyd & Backstedt
Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne: Lloyd & Backstedt
Tour of Taiwan: Kirby & Stephens
Le Samyn: Harris-Bass & Backstedt
Paris-Nice: Hatch & Kelly
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Strade Bianchi: Kirby & Smith
Gran Trittico Lombardo: Hatch & Smith
Tour de Pologne (live from 5/8): Hatch & Backstedt
Milano-Torino: Kirby & Smith
Mont Ventoux Denivel Challenges: Kirby & Smith
Tour de l'Ain: Quigley & Smith
Milano-Sanremo: Kirby & Stephens
Criterium du Dauphine: Kirby & Stephens
Gran Piemonte: Hatch & Backstedt
Giro di Lombardia: Hatch & Smith
Tour de Wallonie: Hatch & Smith
French TT Championships: Kirby & Stephens
French Road Race Championships: Kirby & Stephens
Spanish Road Race Championships: Quigley & Smith
European TT Championships: Stephens & Blythe
Bretagne Classic: Stephens & Smith
European Road Championships: Stephens & Smith
European Mixed Relay TT Championships: MacDonald & Stephens
Tour de France: Kirby & Hatch with Kelly, Smith, Lloyd (and Stephens) supported by Harris-Bass
Tour de Hongrie: Harris-Bass (solo)
Tirreno-Adriatico: Stephens & Backstedt
Tour of Luxembourg: Jez Cox & Stephens (stages 1-4) / Stephens & Backstedt (stage 5)
World Championship TT Mens Elite: Hatch & Michael Hutchinson
World Championship Mens Elite Road Race: Hatch & Lloyd with Smith
Binckbank Tour: Kirby & Backstedt
La Fleche Wallonne: Hatch & Stephens
Giro d'Italia: Hatch & Smith
Liege-Bastogne-Liege: Kirby & Lloyd
Gent-Wevelgem: Kirby & Blythe
Scheldeprijs: Kirby & Blythe
Tour of Flanders: Kirby, Kelly, Lloyd and Blythe
Vuelta a Espana: Kirby & Kelly with Lloyd
Driedaagse Brugge - De Panne: Cox & Backstedt

 

[argyllflyer]

No mens road race live on Eurosport in UK - wall to wall French Open. It's on BBC though.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Home of cycling my arse

 

[argyllflyer]

Home of cycling my arse

Beeb have the live rights in UK perhaps. It is on the ES Player though.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Appalling station production: motorbiking commentary pasted over the top of post-race descriptions.

Noone monitoring the outputs at all. Very poor.

 

[Wyndbrook]

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Appalling station production: motorbiking commentary pasted over the top of post-race descriptions.

Noone monitoring the outputs at all. Very poor.

Also I could hear Magnus Backstedt commentating on the BinkBank tour in the background. In the booth next door I guess.

 

[luckyboy]

What does Eisel add to this exactly? Anybody sitting at home could say what he is saying

 

[RedheadDane]

Commentator (Rob Hatch?): And here comes Cofidis. Riding for, we think, Elia Viviani.

Who else would they be riding for? Nicolas Edet?

 

[Mayo from Mayo]

Appalling station production: motorbiking commentary pasted over the top of post-race descriptions.

Noone monitoring the outputs at all. Very poor.

I agree. Kirby introduced an interview with Mark Cavendish today during Scheldeprijs. We got two minutes of heavy breathing.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I agree. Kirby introduced an interview with Mark Cavendish today during Scheldeprijs. We got two minutes of heavy breathing.

It was worse during the Ewan interview.

 

[OnTheRopes]

It was worse during the Ewan interview.

I hit the kill switch at that point

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I hit the kill switch at that point

Lucky you

 

[argyllflyer]

Perhaps a first but this week's coverage of the Vuelta and the Giro will be merged together (on the TV guide anyway) - no idea how this will happen? Different rollout times? Jumping from one to another?
Edit: see they're doing same for Giro / Flanders today.

 

[Ricco']

Guess the two channels are only good when he have a big race conflicting with a small race.

Seems the greedy Discovery don't want to have the audience splitting between the two races. That's the only explanation I see since during tuesday, for example, Eurosport 2 will show replays all afternoon.

 

[argyllflyer]

So they seem to be jumping from race to race on the main channel - full race coverage online though.

 

[hayneplane]

You would think in 2020 they could split screen it with the viewer able to choose which feed they want audio from.

 

[Pricey_sky]

You would think in 2020 they could split screen it with the viewer able to choose which feed they want audio from.

You can sort of do it yourself if you have a second device.

Quite like the mixed coverage on the main channel rather than having to wait until this evening for highlights and trying to desperately avoid the result.

 

[DaveJones2]

Sean Kelly appears to be completely incapable of interrupting himself when something infinitely more relevant than what he's saying is on screen!

I find it incredibly irritating. He's just talked through possibly the most important move of the race.

The contrast between the fairly insightful commentary last week at GW and today is huge.

 

[kingjr]

Was checking the English ESP commentary for a bit during RvV, and I thought, hey these guys aren't doing a bad job at all. Then Kirby and Kelly came back on.

 

[42x16ss]

The Tao worship at the Giro was getting a bit OTT as well

 

[richwallone]

Interesting... I always choose a channel on may laptop from a country I barely understand the language, if at all, and set it a bit quieter and have it just as background noise... No need for the usual commentators platitudes and obsession with their "chosen" favorites they can't shut up about...

Love Basque eitb channel... They barely speak unless it's the last 40-60k to finish The Belgian Sporza is good too, I pick out some conversions but not enough to fully understand but I like the sound of the language If it's a Classics race, you gotta watch it on Sporza!!!

 

[Eclipse]

Was checking the English ESP commentary for a bit during RvV, and I thought, hey these guys aren't doing a bad job at all. Then Kirby and Kelly came back on.

Are you telling me you didn't enjoy Kirby describing Kwiato as the man with the least aero ears in the peloton?

 

[RedheadDane]

Are you telling me you didn't enjoy Kirby describing Kwiato as the man with the least aero ears in the peloton?

Surely that's Benoot.

 

[Avoriaz]

Are you telling me you didn't enjoy Kirby describing Kwiato as the man with the least aero ears in the peloton?

To be that was how I recognised it was Kwiato from that particular shot

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Sean Kelly throwing it back to 2012, calling the Sunweb car(who were Argos Shimano or 1t4i then) the Lotto Belisol car!