Is there an issue with the microphones, or is it just that every Eurosport commentator seems to make a very loud intake of breath as part of their vocal style? Kelly, Smith, Kirby and Lloyd all sound like they are drinking hot tea without separating their jaws before every sentence.
I was thinking the same thing. I can only assume that these guys are still calling races from the comfort of their own bedrooms and might have the mics too close to their mouths.
But yeah, it like hearing someone slurp their soup. Gross.
On another note, did anyone else catch the first bit of inter-generational tension between my man Carlton Kirby and the Brian guy against Dan Lloyd? Whooo boy, it was a doozy. Ok, not quite, but I think some nerves may have been touched.
Anyway, old fart Brian agreed with old fart CK that TP was not going to do all that work to catch up only to gift today's stage to another rider. Said Brian: "I agree with you, Carlton, he's not going to do all that work for nothing."
To which and incredulous and irritated Dan Lloyd jumped in and said the following: " He hasn't done all this work for nothing!" One could almost see the bullocks -and old -codgers and dim-witted- bloody -hell -bells going off in Lloyd's melon when my computer quit on me before I had a chance to hear a response.
At this point I didn't care who won the stage; I was waiting for a miracle and was praying to everything holy that my computer would wake up in time for me to survey the damage caused by that comment. Who was pissed at who? What passive aggressive remarks were being dished out, and where were they directed?
Uh yeah, what a race, huh?
p.s. Today my man made a blundering error when he said Woods had it in the bag with 25 km's to go. I was practically begging CK to stop talking before he went on the say Woods was a good descender. Oh, schit, I thought in reference to the cyclingnews message boards, here we go. Michael Woods is a terrible descender. But hey, no one is perfect.