As I said in my post, when he gives names of riders and teams in a peleton he is just speaking gobbledegook to English speakers. Talking about the days events and doing analysis with the touchscreen TV. Italian journalist Ciro Scognamiglio[17] of La Gazzetta dello Sport is a regular contributor during the three-week stage race. 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?? Rumours were circulating overnight and this morning that finally the bunch are going to get together and show their solidarity. I'm sure if you had the equivilant of Rob Hatch with a native language of german or italian but can speak several languages either fluently or professionally well, then they'd do the same. Oh he's so so so much more pleasant than Kirby. A few of the guys had complaints about breathing. [CDATA[ He is known primarily for three games he co-created: the science fiction game Trinity, the super-hero game Aberrant (1999), [1] : 221 and the epic fantasy RPG Exalted (2001). Jonathan Lee is a Level II USA certified cycling coach and the host of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast. An Olympic, World and European champion on the track, Dani Rowe can now be heard covering womens cycling on Eurosport. What does it pay? Skip to main content. But Ive got to steer him in that direction because thats when they shine. 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. Why is it that Rob Hatch has to pronounce names of riders and places in accents that are not understandable to English speaking viewers? 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. Going on-site at the Tour had been ruled out: too complicated and too risky. I didnt learn a great deal, but it did give me the opportunity to have a go at broadcasting. But thats the state the worlds in. Three months, and basically the first day I went in I was broadcasting. So, Sean, why are they not going to chase the breakaway now? Well, its bloody obvious, isnt it? Over an Orval (Mitch Docker's favourite Belgian beer), we traded anecdotes about rounding off seat post bolts, indulged in some Pogaar-based Paris-Roubaix speculation, and . As a foreigner, I like him waaaaay better than Kirby. Youve gone in the fudge shop and youve consumed it straight away, McEwen chimed in. Please share any bugs or issues you encounter HERE. Video: Watch BBC's Tour commentators' desk collapse live on air "Cycling is a sport for all & everyone should feel welcome," GCN said. 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. And we knew that one of two people was going to win the race. Log in or register to join the conversation. But you can do yourself a favour thinking of something in advance. He pronounced it with what sounded like a T. While it might be watched by other than English, that is not the language he is commentating in and therefore he should be able to make the names understandable to his main audience. Borg or Fry. To be fair, these days he aren't just commentating for people in the UK, what with races being available through GCN+ and the Eurosport Player. His latest cycling book, tape: the untold stories of the Tour de Frances defining stages, was published last June. She retired from racing in 2018 whilst at WNT and transitioned to a Marketing/PR role for the team. RH: Previously people would just forget about something that might have annoyed them, but now its so easy to pick up your phone and tweet. He reports on cyclings largest events. Definitely posher than the one I have now. I was thinking that Dan Martin should be Brummie with a touch Wicklow, loik ;-). There was certainly more time for coaches to plan and more time for people to do new things. Sorry, Declan Quigley is not a good listen. Rob Hatch. 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. 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. RH: Mathieu van der Poel winning the Amstel Gold Race was the moment of the season. She initially was heard commentating on womens cycling races but has also been seen in the studio during coverage of 2021s Giro dItalia. He was an absolute pleasure to watch. Nothing wrong in commenting on that - it's a discussion forum after all. For me, you need someone who can fill the dead airtime and Stephens is doing that very well in California. Do we really know what's going on in the heads of sportspeople? Cyc: What are the hardest moments youve commentated on? Heres what Birnie, a skeptic with the opinion that turbo trainers are instruments of torture, had to say about his first week of training with TrainerRoad: The first session was so engaging but I thought, Well, Im always enthusiastic for the first session, its the second or third one thats the problem. [Now] Im two rides in and already Im finding it really beneficial and different to anything else Ive ever done. 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. I can understand the view on censorship, but I still think thats bad taste. Robert Hatch 41 subscribers 28 Dislike Share 7,659 views Dec 27, 2012 Cycling commentary reel by British Broadcaster Rob Hatch. Hopefully they will be doing the Tour as well. But I was also getting quite annoyed by a lot of people in the industry who, in the first two or three weeks of this, said it. 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). I don't think any of them has yet figured out how to pronounce Fuglsang. [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. Misread thread title. There was a lot of speculation. Everybody was there at the start with the public around them, what an image that would have been in Mantes la Jolie. Borg. The American former pro rider won 4 national titles in cyclocross and was a top-10 ranked rider. I remember going to Belgium for Het Nieuwsblad and working for the host broadcaster. Hatch now has at least two angry threads about him, maybe only Armstrong had more in this forum, more than a decade ago. . Discovery company. Just like the cyclists they report on all year long, they too are preparing for a big race: a three-man4K Pursuit at the Herne Hill Velodrome, the iconic venue in South East London. Read our interview with Hatch on arguing with French TV producers, talking posh and why people get angry about his pronunciation of Vincenzo Ni-ba-li here. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Rob Hatch Retweeted. Log in or register to join the conversation. That sort of riding wasn't done by design. Todays [workout]felt like going for a bike ride more than any turbo session Ive done before. 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. In summer, I dont go out and smash myself for an hour on the road. Do you think so ? So I didn't get into the Vuelta as a fan until the second week. Unfortunately for her, her quarantine was brought in less than two weeks before the Tour, so she had no choice really. RH: We have things called cue points in commentary where you reset the scene. Rob Hatch: It was a real social education. Only in cycling do we have to put up with indecipherable Italian, French and Spanish names of riders and teams! You have to find the right language, read the race, have knowledge of your subject. 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. Hatch says his prep for the Grand Tours will start in the autumn before and expresses frustration at the changes to the Giro d'Italia this year as he'd "done more prep than ever". From a free read and a slow ride to three years co-hosting Eurosports Bradley Wiggins Show podcast, for which Graham followed the 2021 Tour around France with Brad. People at home only see or hear the on-air personalities. Blythe was a consistent lower-level classics racer and sometime sprinter. It's like me saying I want to be a footballer but I'm no good at football. It makes me want to cancel my account with GCN. A former rider who has stepped up to lead commentary after initially being a colour commentator. I think I only managed three bike rides during two Grand Tours I just didn't have the time. So I do like being there, even if the travelling is tiring and you do want a break. Renowned Cycling Journalists Take On Structured Training - TrainerRoad With Rob Hatch on the world feed coverage this season, Quigley covered a lot more of the classics in 2021, including the womens Tour of Flanders. Sounds like it was a rider-initiated move, in conjunction with the CPA. And this existence of not leaving the house too much apart from going for the odd run or to meet up with one friend on a Friday for a quick beer it was a really important thing to take those lines as a starting point, and it helped me write it. Cyclist on Twitter: "Rob Hatch is back in our ears commentating the On the Tube, going to work, there were three types of reaction to how I looked after the crash. Were shocked because at this point in the lead-out we were expecting to be talking about something a little bit different, said Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch.

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