And for me they got in the way a bit. As a broadcaster, you also have to have the ability to read the moment and describe the moment, which is more what happened at the Tour. The first race I was covering was the Tour of Langkawi in the studio in London. Three months, and basically the first day I went in I was broadcasting. Its rare to watch either without hearing Martys voice in recent years. He might be dead here. Then you start changing your tone. Each episode features interviews with different professional cyclists, team staff and other actors from across the sport. Cyclist: You seem to be recovering well after coming off your bike a few weeks ago in what your co-commentator Magnus Bckstedt called an NBF: Nothing But Face. Only in cycling do we have to put up with indecipherable Italian, French and Spanish names of riders and teams! You used to hear Declan Quigley covering the Giro dItalia but now seems to find himself part of the B-tier. How is it, the whole of the winter sports on Eurosport, the commentators managed to pronounce all of the European names without having to resort to OTT pronunciations?? When Im not on TV, obviously. Would there be an outbreak in the hotel we were staying in at Richmond-upon-Thames? Leading journalists reported news of an expected stance, with Orla Chennoui saying: I understand the peloton will make some sort of gesture today against racism. Bear in mind that over the last decade I've lived in airplanes around the world. Every single bike race we watch has some commentator giving their spin on the action. At the end of the Giro, for example, I spent hours the night before going through what I would say if Jai Hindley won, or if Tao Geoghegan Hart won. And it would suit Pozzovivo's agrrrrrressive style of riding! Rob Hatch. As soon as I landed in Spain, lockdown was declared. It depends. Carlton Kirby Kirby is the most marmite commentator there is. Hatch now has at least two angry threads about him, maybe only Armstrong had more in this forum, more than a decade ago. Yes. I'm very privileged and lucky to do what I do because I realise that a lot of people would love to do what I do and will never have the opportunity. 61 posts. Increased coverage is provided at the Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espaa) where daily episodes are recorded at the end of each stage. Here, in an interview with Felix Lowe from his studio in Sller, Rob discusses the early warning signs of the pandemic, his experiences in lockdown and the season re-start. Obviously, there was no mask enforcement at that point. It is also published by the UK broadsheet newspaper, The Telegraph. He won a stage in the Tour de France in 1998 for GAN and after retirement, ran development teams in his adopted country the UK. - Froome 'warrants more respect' - Wiggins podcast. Stevens was trying too hard at the start of the week and now seems to be settling in. Robert Hatch - YouTube And I'd say he pronounced 'Fribourg' pretty much like I'd have expected: Cyclist: You seem to be recovering well after coming off your bike a few weeks ago in what your co-commentator. For mine, Carlton is the perfect commentator for the early shift on long, flat grand tour stages. Its nice that you can have a relationship I just wish people were a bit more civil and understanding. It might become clearer next season. But there was still disbelief about how big it would be and this denial about it being a strong flu. Log in or register to join the conversation. In terms of technique, those bits of commentary were the starting points for me. Announcement to be made before the stage., Classy Cavendish makes the time-cut with minutes to spare, And Daniel Friebe of the Cycling Podcast and ITV backed up those reports, saying: Kevin Rza will lead the Tour out of Mantes-la-Jolie later, alongside the jersey wearers, as the local boy and also to honour the Black Lives Matter movement, ASO say.. That sort of riding wasn't done by design. El Cycling Podcast The Cycling Podcast McVitty was subsequently replaced by Lizzie Banks, a double Giro dItalia stage winner. Almost exactly 48 hours later, as chatter on social media grew and clips of what had been said began to circulate, GCN issued an apology. Shes heard covering non-WorldTour classics most often where she can use her native Dutch to pronounce riders and place names perfectly. And you think, Right, what do we say here?. Only in cycling do we have to put up with indecipherable Italian, French and Spanish names of riders and teams! Ineos announce Giro line-up featuring Thomas, Geoghegan Hart & Ganna. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. 3. Left disappointed. Definitely posher than the one I have now. Things I find annoying about Rob Hatch "Dear oh Dear oh Dear!" Borg or Fry. BBC Radio 5 Live commentators Rob Hatch and Rob Hayles show true British spirit by keeping calm and carrying on as their desk full of notes and equipment falls apart at the seams. I felt guilty not sitting in front of my computer, not watching. It was taking each day as it comes, let's get what we can from the race. Cycling Commentators on Eurosport 2021 ProCyclingUK.com However, aside from a select group of riders writing anti-racist messages on their masks before the stage, there was no sign of a clear stand during the roll-out when the television cameras were rolling, with Kevin Rza left largely on his own during the opening kilometres. The Grand Tour Diaries, the second book by the team behind The Cycling Podcast was released in November 2019. RH: Brexiters are the ones who give me crap on Twitter, about saying peoples names with the correct foreign pronunciation. It makes sense when you find out that he was a languages graduate - Rob was in fact in his 4th year of Uni at Bangor when I started my 1st year there (also in the languages department). I like Hatch and I approve of his pronunciation. Cyc: Fortunately it didnt affect either of your voices. As his profile grew, he began compering cycling events like the 6 Day track racing and is regularly used by Zwift for their online commentary race events too. On the Tour de France, you don't only find professionals in the bunch, as this short clip of the BBC's commentators shows. Its frustrating at times you do feel like youre pissing in the wind with social media. It's understandable when you're watching something, you want it to be perfect, especially if you've been waiting for so long. Nothing has happened so far.. We had Carlton [Kirby] and Jonathan [Harris-Bass] in London at the Discovery studios in Chiswick, with Dan [Lloyd], Brad [Wiggins], Brian [Smith] and Sean [Kelly] in Bath at the GCN studios. Probably now the highest-profile commentator on Eurosport, the only criticism Rob seems to get is due to his perfect pronunciation of all words in all languages. The way that they rode was absolutely incredible. The retired sprinter, who says he was axed from commentary duties on SBS Australia earlier this year, got picked up by GCN in March to become part of their 2022 broadcast team. A recent addition to the Eurosport team and the only female lead commentator (even if the name catches plenty out on Twitter). Id like to think I dont need the validation. Rob Hatch Profiles | Facebook Freelance cycling journalist and broadcaster Graham Willgoss was previously chief-subeditor and cycling editor at Sport magazine. Find your friends on Facebook. Apologies for the off-topic diversion, but when Arsene Wenger arrived at Arsenal and started hoovering up French talent, one of the Danish commentators confused the hell out of me by his pronunciation of our new French rmidfielder, Ray Parleuuuur. Everyone was wearing these makeshift neck-warmers out of fear. I actually reckon my accent has got broader since I moved away. Not for the first time they leave us in shock. RH: We have things called cue points in commentary where you reset the scene. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. Are you following The Telegraph Cycling Podcast? As of today, the hosts are two weeks into their training plans and already seeing improvements in their fitness. Next stop, Roubaix - by The Cycling Podcast But we have to cater pandemic or no pandemic for everybody's tastes and talk about things that even to us may sound basic. So I do like being there, even if the travelling is tiring and you do want a break. I also missed my colleagues from other channels and media. Alison Jones. The voices of the cycling commentators on Eurosport are beamed into our homes. 2023 Eurosport, a Warner Bros. Ok, I'll accept if he speaks that language he'll do it naturally without thinking, still confusing as I'm having to re learn who's who and what teams are which. In early 2022, lead presenter Richard Moore died suddenly. But there's a lot more behind the scenes. As of 2020, The Cycling Podcast is sponsored by Supersapiens, having until the end of 2019 been sponsored by Rapha [22] and after that by iwoca,[23]. All rights reserved. Luckily at the headquarters of Eurosport, Discovery, they were already well into devising a system that would work. But it was Dennis who really did the damage that ride on the Stelvio physically and psychologically did the damage for the other teams. I felt the same. Its a performance because, if youre going to do it properly, you need to modulate your voice, you need to work on your intonation. Two days after the incident, on stage 12, it was still radio silence from GCN and McEwen. It might not be what he'd personally prefer though, who knows. Everybody was there at the start with the public around them, what an image that would have been in Mantes la Jolie. 2023 Eurosport, a Warner Bros. Borg. Video: Watch BBC's Tour commentators' desk collapse live on air Discovery company. Derrick Rae who does. There was talk of Spain, Ireland and the UK locking down. For the next 18 weeks, you can follow their progress. Amstel '19 was one of the greatest-ever races in the history of pro cycling The commentary in the finale from Rob Hatch, however, is also some of the greatest this sport will ever hear The passion & disbelief in his voice will always be associated with this iconic finale #AGR . What happens when three renowned cycling journalists decide to jump in the saddle for an intense winter of structured indoor training? I have seen him defending these garbled pronunciations as 'respect', how about some respect for paying viewers! A former F1 aerodynamicist, Bigham has turned his attentions to cycling and helped his track team beat national teams. That looks like Stephen Roche! It is Stephen Roche - Cycling Weekly The viewers in UK want to know what is going on and are poorly served by this commentator who seems more interested in pushing his linguistic qualifications than informing viewers what is going on, THAT is his job. cheers for the language explanations, my French colleague said pretty much the same and it was down to the 'R' sound being 'err' meaning the deux was fully sounded and the two words ran into each other. Follow. Whether you televise all of it from start to finish is a debate for another day. [15], Beginning in 2018, Daniel Friebe became a member of ITV's cycling coverage team for the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espaa, and started appearing on the podcast less frequently during those races, and often contributing in the way of a guest pundit. In the end, it all paid off for me. BTW Ron Bahrain has never been pronounced Baaahhhrain! I thought that Grand Tours and classics should never, ever clash. At that point we were worried because it was so new and confusing but we didn't think it would last all year, that there would be a lockdown for months. Stage start times and our English-language commentary team each day are listed below. The global pandemic meant Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch had to broadcast the Grand Tours from a makeshift studio at his home in Spain. We havent seen that, apart from a few slogans on some facemasks. He has a first class degree in Italian (and French and Spanish), so I think he's a bit above 'Allo 'Allo level. I needed a new internet connection. Obviously, he's been the world time trial champion, he's won stages before and worn the leader's jersey in every Grand Tour. So Ill tell you again whos in the breakaway, reiterating how many kilometres to go, what the gap is. Bigham helped to give deeper insights into the world of aerodynamics during the opening time trial of the 2021 Giro dItalia. I said, Our British viewers wont accept that. Definitely. Hatch and Kelly are a good combination.

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