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I was mainly talking of ES. Gregorio and Magrini spend 50% of the time complaining about messages they receive from Twitter nobodies. Who cares?It really depends who is commentating, Borgato & Pancani are really good. Frankly I don't even mind Petacchi as a co-commentator alongside 1-2 good ones because he notices small things (someone having a different wheel afterwards, meaning he had to change it) and him being really pessimistic and realistic can be hillarious ("you think the breakaway has any chance of making it?" "No.")
It really depends who is commentating, Borgato & Pancani are really good. Frankly I don't even mind Petacchi as a co-commentator alongside 1-2 good ones because he notices small things (someone having a different wheel afterwards, meaning he had to change it) and him being really pessimistic and realistic can be hillarious ("you think the breakaway has any chance of making it?" "No.")
Petacchi was like that even as an active rider. He sounded like he was at a funeral when he was giving interviews after winning races, nevermind when things didn't go well for him.He sounds like the anithesis to Rolf Sørensen (who I like very much, it has to be said).
Which ones, on Eurosport or RAI2, because the later Italian commentators are far superior to Kirby, at least Panciani.I gotta admit sometimes I choose him over the Italian commentators, which should tell you how bad they are.
De Luca is highly cultured on many issuesDe Luca is plain terrible but as you say Pancani / Borgato are fine.
It's all in the name...Does this race always start on the west coast? I always imagined it was just an east coast thing
Does this race always start on the west coast? I always imagined it was just an east coast thing
Some more pics
Wait, who is that in the first pic? We are not supposed to talk about looks, but I would love to have dinner with him.
Jai Hindley.
You can't have dinner anytime. If you have it at noon it's called lunch. In the morning it's called breakfast.I would have dinner with Roglic anytime.