Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 11: Sorgues – Malaucène, 198.9 km

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yaco

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perico said:
because he is in England or Africa in a small studio, not NBC studios due to travel restrictions I presume. There was a big article about it in the Wall Street Journal before the Tour last year, and I know he is working in the same place this year while Bob Roll is in the States. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the only guys in the same location are the in studio guys.

That’s also why McCrossin and Gerrans took over the world feed from Keenan and McEwan last year. The Tour only allows so many in the press call the race now. I’m not sure about it this year, but last year that was the case. I’d much rather have McEwan and Keenan personally, though Gerrans is OK.

In NBC’s case, they aren’t putting any resources behind programming on NBC Sports Network programming anymore as the channel is shutting down this fall. Phil is on an open contract and won’t be replaced until he retires. As an American, that’s fine with me. It’s easy enough for me to know when he makes a mistake, so it doesn’t bother that much when you consider the alternative which would be a completely Americanized broadcast. Roll has improved and did a pretty decent job as the lead commentator with either Horner or VDV doing the commentary in the Vuelta last year, but for the Tour they’d probably dig up Trautwig out of the attic to replace Liggett.
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Gerrans is now based in Australia like Keenan and McEwan - It's interesting that he has chosen to travel to Europe while Keenan and McEwan have chosen to remain in Oz - Its probably a quarantine issue.

I have seen Ligget's studio - It's cramped while his TV monitor is small. l
 
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I reckon the stage winner will come from the breakaway unless there is a nuclear attack near the bottom slopes of the second ascent. There is still time but it would require an early attack. The gap was 5 minutes at the bottom of the first ascent and was still 5 minutes at the top despite Ineos riding and pulling the peloton all the way up.
 
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titan31

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ontheroad said:
I reckon the stage winner will come from the breakaway unless there is a nuclear attack near the bottom slopes of the second ascent. There is still time but it would require an early attack. The gap was 5 minutes at the bottom of the first ascent and was still 5 minutes at the top despite Ineos riding and pulling the peloton all the way up.
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Ineos rode up with an injured Thomas and Van Baarle took over then. They didn't really push it up there.
 
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Frankie Andreu is a much better reporter than Ligett these days, based on what I heard of him during the Tour of Utah.
He's with Fox of course, not NBC. But that would be a better alternative to Ligett, who simply has missed the time to retire.
 
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Leinster

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staubsauger said:
Frankie Andreu is a much better reporter than Ligett these days, based on what I heard of him during the Tour of Utah.
He's with Fox of course, not NBC. But that would be a better alternative to Ligett, who simply has missed the time to retire.
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I like Andreu and Vandevelde, except they could nearly be twins watching them. Bob Roll always makes me think he learned his camera manner from watching WWE interviews.
 
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