Eurosport commentary

[lemon cheese cake]

Today Adam Blythe mentioned Enric Mas, Enrico Mas and Enrique Mas.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Today Adam Blythe mentioned Enric Mas, Enrico Mas and Enrique Mas.

Jesper Worre also talked about Enrico Mas on Danish ES. Sometimes you get the feeling they're using the same script.

 

[Lequack]

Meanwhile on French Eurosport

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Meanwhile on French Eurosport

Do they also make stupid dance videos on thet show?

 

[RedheadDane]

Meanwhile on French Eurosport

Looks like the female presenter and the BEX rider are gazing lovingly into each other's eyes.

 

[argyllflyer]

Meanwhile on French Eurosport

Ooh La Orla?

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Interesting commentary team for the final couple of stages of l'Avenir on British Eurosport. José Been is obviously a regular lead commentator, but alongside her will be fellow dutchman and former junior cx world champ Jens Dekker. Obviously we've had two commentators whose English isn't their first language commentating together (Been and Bäckstedt) but probably haven't had two who both speak the same first language.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Interesting commentary team for the final couple of stages of l'Avenir on British Eurosport. José Been is obviously a regular lead commentator, but alongside her will be fellow dutchman and former junior cx world champ Jens Dekker. Obviously we've had two commentators whose English isn't their first language commentating together (Been and Bäckstedt) but probably haven't had two who both speak the same first language.

Dekker is half Australian though, so I assume he might have spoken more English as a child than Been, Bäckstedt and Kirby.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Cool. We seem to be getting a Hatch-free Vuelta.
More time for Carlton to tell us about wine, ham and whatever.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Dekker is half Australian though, so I assume he might have spoken more English as a child than Been, Bäckstedt and Kirby.

I think Kirby probably spoke the most as a child but it would most likely just have been random ramblings.

 

[wansteadimp]

Cool. We seem to be getting a Hatch-free Vuelta.
More time for Carlton to tell us about wine, ham and whatever.

Top quality reading of the road book yesterday as the peloton splintered on the descent.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Karsten Kroon quotes:
- The WC has Ewan written all over it.
-Roger, Rogéé, Rogger, Rocher, let's just call him Rogéééé Adria, from Barcelona. I don't know him

And only 2 minutes later
-Yes, like I said, with 4000m altitude the WC will be to hard for Ewan.

 

[argyllflyer]

Cool. We seem to be getting a Hatch-free Vuelta.
More time for Carlton to tell us about wine, ham and whatever.

They get two each: RH the Giro and Tour, CK the Tour and Vuelta.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Hearing Ned Boulting on Eurosport/GCN is different.

On a similar note, who is actually doing the commentary for the MTB world champs?

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Hearing Ned Boulting on Eurosport/GCN is different.

On a similar note, who is actually doing the commentary for the MTB world champs?

Downhill: Ric McLaughlin & Reece Wilson (2020 World Champion - Trek)
XCO: Ric McLaughlin & Oli Beckinsale.

 

[Alberto Fishwick]

Hearing Ned Boulting on Eurosport/GCN is different!

They took the world feed comms for once, on which Boulting was flying solo. I expect it was through gritted teeth as they had exhausted all their other options. Personally, I wish they would do it more often on races which are only on GCN+ and not Eurposport, where they don't have to factor in throwing to ad breaks. I have tried to give Jez Cox the benefit of the doubt but am afraid he doesn't quite cut it for me.

 

[steffr222]

just imagine an INEOS rider in Remco’s position today - it’s easy to guess Adam Blythe’s words in that situation lol

 

[kingjr]

just imagine an INEOS rider in Remco’s position today - it’s easy to guess Adam Blythe’s words in that situation lol

Bet he's a big fan of Cav, too.

 

[ashhutch1997]

I'm not one to moan about commentators, but Adam Blythe was chatting pure s**t on the breakaway today

 

[ooo]

disney+ discovery+ delayed Breakaway broadcast on Quest from 7pm to 1am
most likely because it had post-crash bloody images of Rogla

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

disney+ discovery+ delayed Breakaway broadcast on Quest from 7pm to 1am
most likely because it had post-crash bloody images of Rogla

Maybe they fired Blythe.
One can hope.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

I'm not one to moan about commentators, but Adam Blythe was chatting pure s**t on the breakaway today

I generally don't mind Blythe, but he does occasionally come out with some 'interesting' things and yesterday was one of them.

One of the things was obviously where he hypothesised that Evenepoel didn't even have a puncture as no sealant was squirting out. There are a couple of things there. 1 we don't know how soon after the puncture the cameras were showing him. 2 Tubeless sealant doesn't quite work that way. Unfortunately this probably isn't the greatest thing to say after Roglic's injuries, sealant will seal small to maybe medium holes and might spray out a small amount at the start, but it doesn't work in the same way as if you just punctured an artery.

 

[ooo]

Kirby at start of Vuelta stage 17 :

we understand that nothing is broken, it is possibly something to do with concussion protocols, who know, whatever, we will ride on without REMCO

then, he fixed himself

 

[Armchair cyclist]

I suspect that is only a temporary fix, the underlying problem remains...

 

[lemon cheese cake]

I've noticed a few times over the last couple of weeks that Brian Smith's mike occasionally cuts out. Is he still doing it from home and not Discovery in London?