Our French producers will say, If you dont show it, its censorship. Ive had this argument, going back to my work experience. Were not happy about it and we understand what youre thinking at home. Were watching images and getting quite uncomfortable with the fact theyre being broadcast. Would we get home? For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Plenty for Froome to work on before Tour - does he have time to get it done? From talking about spring classics to grand tours, hell also be seen in the studio after races. Again, it's not a huge criticism of the people who devised the calendar. The Telegraph is a long standing media partner of The Cycling Podcast.[24]. To be honest, if I'd been approached before I'd have been too stressed to deal with it too wrapped up in doing the commentary. The biggest problem in our business is ego: Rob Hatch Q&A, Lige-Bastogne-Lige 2023, one day monument, April 23 (men's), Eschborn-Frankfurt 2023, one day classic, May 1, Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres 2023, one day monument, April 2 (men's), Paris-Roubaix 2023, one day monument, April 9 (men's), Amstel Gold Race 2023, one day classic, April 16 (men's). It depends. I think it added to the camaraderie and interaction between commentators and viewers this year that we disclosed where we were. Left disappointed. Decent amount of emotion yesterday - could do with more of that and a few more anecdotes. 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. Nothing has happened so far.. Blythe was a consistent lower-level classics racer and sometime sprinter. Another supporter of Rob Hatch, good to listen to unlike Matt Stephens, who I find painful to listen to as he continually uses short sentences. Sean Kelly is a great of the sport of cycling a 9-time monument winner, 4-time Tour de France green jersey winner and winner of the Vuelta a Espana in 1988. The UAE Tour was abandoned with Covid positives the first race to be hit by Covid and suddenly there was this scramble to lockdown in Europe. Geoghegan Hart wins Tour of the Alps, fellow Brit Carr soloes to final-stage victory, 'Too much' - Geoghegan Hart hits out at Tour of the Alps stage design as Gall crashes. Video: Watch BBC's Tour commentators' desk collapse live on air RH: Brexiters are the ones who give me crap on Twitter, about saying peoples names with the correct foreign pronunciation. JavaScript is disabled. I haven't done much writing in English. I know this isn't universally popular, but I would always have the Ardennes and hilly classics away from the spring and have them around Lombardy time. All rights reserved. She has done a lot of races paired with Magnus Backstedt this season. :P. The various accents, personalities and styles of commentary of the Eurosport commentary team may not agree with everyone but the fact is we are absolutely spoiled by the current standard of coverage. The Cycling Podcast features regular contributions from journalists Franois Thomazeau, Ciro Scognamiglio, Fran Reyes, Brian Nygaard and sports commentator Rob Hatch. But Ive got to steer him in that direction because thats when they shine. As a foreigner, I like him waaaaay better than Kirby. Jonathan Lee is a Level II USA certified cycling coach and the host of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast. Robert Hatch - YouTube As noted above, Rob could do with some more warmth to his commentary which can be functional, and while I do admire his attempts to pronounce team and rider names correctly, AG2R seems to have fallen somewhere: ah-jay-deuze-err is not correct. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Cyc: What are the hardest moments youve commentated on? 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I needed a new internet connection. So I didn't get into the Vuelta as a fan until the second week. Two days after the incident, on stage 12, it was still radio silence from GCN and McEwen. Hatch has toned down his OTT local pronunciations and is becoming less annoying. I remember going to Belgium for Het Nieuwsblad and working for the host broadcaster. 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. Next stop, Roubaix - by The Cycling Podcast And I didnt want him to think I was crap, because hes a nice bloke. We saw a few little bits of writing on masks, always welcome of course, things like No to Racism and a few slogans, but I havent seen any solidarity shown. I had nothing prepared for Tadej Pogaar. I would say that, in terms of the calendar, I was actually quite disappointed. Yes, it's hard to believe that Eurosport are going to turn from the sublime to the ridiculous. Smashing your head against a brick wall for an hour is no fun and it makes it hard to look forward to the next session. You are using an out of date browser. I think I only managed three bike rides during two Grand Tours I just didn't have the time. After training as a journalist he spent five years working for a local newspaper before joining Cycling Weekly in 1998. Then I was in Spain and Orla was in Amsterdam, where she lives, at the Dutch Eurosport studio. Hell often be heard covering non-WorldTour classics and stage races with his distinctive Irish accent. In his absence, Birnie and Friebe were the main presenters during the Giro d'Italia, and during the Tour de France, the podcast was hosted by Birnie, Franois Thomazeau and recently retired cyclist Mitchell Docker. There was a lot of talk between journalists and ex-riders that it was going to be different, but we didn't know how much. Carlton Kirby Kirby is the most marmite commentator there is. As ITV didn't typically cover the Giro d'Italia, he remained a key part of the team during the Italian Grand Tour. But in terms of the planning, I just thought the Monuments going up the Grand Tours, and the Grand Tours clashing with each other for a few days that should have been something that wasn't contemplated. Its nice that you can have a relationship I just wish people were a bit more civil and understanding. I've just been. So Ill tell you again whos in the breakaway, reiterating how many kilometres to go, what the gap is. At that time, I was amazed that the race carried on. I had to work hard at going out for a coffee or a run. It was shortlisted for Irish Sports Book of the Year. It proved to be a great World Championships, but I disapproved of the fact that, when the conversations took place, the Worlds seemed to be immovable objects. In 2016, The Cycling Podcast team covered the Giro d'Italia for the first time, thanks to new sponsorship funding from Science in Sport. In terms of technique, those bits of commentary were the starting points for me. In terms of the Grand Tours, I'd like them to all stay three weeks. Rob Hatch (@robhatchinsta) Instagram photos and videos When Im not on TV, obviously. Or any Danish name. 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. None of the commentators or presenters were on site but we did have Bernie [Eisel] in the field. for cycling's biggest show. He also was known to race on the road during US races. "We had been led to believe that there was going to be a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. I agree - it is good. It might not be what he'd personally prefer though, who knows. Hatch then shared an anecdote about how he and Kelly had spotted a fudge shop on their way back to the studio and how hed eaten the majority of it before their return to commentary duties. That performance is something we'll talk about for ever the way it came together it wasn't until the second rest day when, sitting down, I thought, hang on, he can win this. A few winters ago I did [trainer] videos and I found them great but after Id done each programme a couple of times I struggled to complete them with the same intensity the sessions are challenging but not ridiculously hard. You have to have the voice. I actually reckon my accent has got broader since I moved away. I like Hatch and I approve of his pronunciation. For me, you need someone who can fill the dead airtime and Stephens is doing that very well in California. The voices of the cycling commentators on Eurosport are beamed into our homes. Obviously, there was no mask enforcement at that point. With pride and bragging rights on the line, theyre taking their training seriously. But there was also talk of working remotely. You say it how you want I couldnt care less! Eurosport and GCN launch Giro d'Italia Classic Stages to bring global Expected to read about Liz Hatch. I was lucky to do my work experience at Eurosport News. I have seen him defending these garbled pronunciations as 'respect', how about some respect for paying viewers! There was talk of Spain, Ireland and the UK locking down. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe, along with a cast of special guests, have provided analysis and insight from each of the 21 stages of the race every year since.