For the next 18 weeks, you can follow their progress, Riding by Feel: TrainerRoad Outside Workouts With RPE, Winter Cycling Training Guide: 11 Ways to Become a Faster Cyclist. From talking about spring classics to grand tours, hell also be seen in the studio after races. Unfortunately for her, her quarantine was brought in less than two weeks before the Tour, so she had no choice really. We both ended up on the floor at one point. He is now a consultant for high-profile teams like Canyon SRAM and the Danish national track team. I never minded him early on, but in more recent times I suspect he's been told by those higher up to be more excitable, esp in the finales - so now he's starting to yell himself almost into Kirby territory, nowhere near as bad, but I have found myself muting him on some of the finishes lately. After training as a journalist he spent five years working for a local newspaper before joining Cycling Weekly in 1998. Esteemed French journalist[18] and author Franois Thomazeau[19] (winner of the 2015 Prix Jacques Goddet) has joined them in their coverage since 2017.[20]. Not for the first time they leave us in shock. JavaScript is disabled. Cyc: What was your favourite race you commented on last year? For me, you need someone who can fill the dead airtime and Stephens is doing that very well in California. 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). He helped develop the Endura, NetApp (became Bora-Hansgrohe) and MTN-Qhubeka teams in their early days before becoming a staple on Eurosport. He heartily endorses pre-recovery cake as part of riding slowly throughout Europe with Richmond Hill Cycling Club. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Once I moved house in August, I fitted out the studio and tested new programmes with Eurosport and GCN. But it was Dennis who really did the damage that ride on the Stelvio physically and psychologically did the damage for the other teams. 447 following. Ganna was good for the team, obviously, especially the morale his wins brought. An Olympic, World and European champion on the track, Dani Rowe can now be heard covering womens cycling on Eurosport. 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). Introducing: Luca Vergallito, winner of the mens Zwift Academy. 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. The voices of the cycling commentators on Eurosport are beamed into our homes. To subscribe, or for other enquiries, please contact us. Do we really know what's going on in the heads of sportspeople? Do you think so ? A few news articles started to appear about the peloton entering Malaysia. And should it look like an accident? Taken from Eurosport's 2012 season races & IMG's Tour de. // ]]> If youre not familiar with who Moore, Birnie and Hatch are, heres a quick rundown on each of them: Richard Mooreis a journalist and the award-winning author of the biography, In Search of Robert Millar. Once you click onto hearing his penchant for listing riders, you cant un-hear it! 16 Apr 2023 11:21:22 Then it became serious, very, very serious. Because that's the kind of race that forms a season within a season. Italian journalist Ciro Scognamiglio[17] of La Gazzetta dello Sport is a regular contributor during the three-week stage race. The full replay of the days live coverage is usually made available online by early evening but stage 10 was missing. 6,355 Followers, 1,951 Following, 550 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Rob Hatch (@robhatchinsta) You must log in or register to reply here. The full stage will soon be available in English without this section of commentary.. Support from sports nutrition brand Science in Sport saw The Cycling Podcast cover their first Giro d'Italia in 2016 and title sponsorship from cycling lifestyle brand Rapha, secured the future of the podcast for the following two years. All three experts will be training roughly 3.5 hours per week until their big event, which is expected to take place the first week of March. Rob Hatch | Cyclingnews Forum There was talk of Spain, Ireland and the UK locking down. 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. 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. How does a young potential fan of this sport feel tuning in to hear a prominent commentator say a really common and deeply unpleasant slur, even accidentally, and more importantly what does the subsequent non-response and attempt to just ignore the issue say to that fan? another viewer commented. For someone who usually travels the world commentating on sports events while living out of a suitcase, 2020 has been a sobering year. Is it fair to say you have a TV voice and a regular Rob Hatch voice? I hope we do whether it's Ineos or another team. Each commentator has their own style and you only have to listen for a few seconds to work out who they are. Rob hatch has been fab! Im a Blackburn Rovers fan, but I used to watch Accrington Stanley when Blackburn played away. All rights reserved. Again, it's not a huge criticism of the people who devised the calendar. Contact Us. 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. It might not be what he'd personally prefer though, who knows. 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. The cobbles should be together and the hilly classics should be together. Id hope more than half the time that I know the answer, but Im steering the expert the way I want them to go to explain certain things. 'The biggest problem in our business is ego': Rob Hatch Q&A His description of the city of Milan on the Giro was so 'passionate' I thought he. Mainly when I've written it's been for Spanish publications. . 2. For example, if somebody pronounced a French Martin like an English Martin, it would definitely take me a few seconds to figure out who they are talking about. Commentary may not be easy - but some (Harmon, Kelly, possibly Hatch) are better than others (Kirby, Stevens) - though currently none are terrible (late career Duffers) and some (Stevens) are new to the job and so it's probably fair to say they show potential. I enjoy his insights into aspects such as Italian dialect and sayings. Although Rob Hatch's knowledge of cycling seems good, his insistence of pronouncing every foreign word in the right dialect annoys me. Someone died in a car crash at a motorsport event and the French wanted to show it. GCN and Robbie McEwen have apologised after the latter said a homophobic slur live on-air during coverage of the Giro dItalia. I needed a new internet connection. But you can do yourself a favour thinking of something in advance. She brings insider knowledge of the womens peloton to the race commentary. Sorry, Declan Quigley is not a good listen. It features my chat with the voice of cycling, Eurosport and GCN commentator Rob Hatch. Off the back of two Grand Tours and the Worlds, everything was a bit of a blur. A recent addition to the Eurosport team and the only female lead commentator (even if the name catches plenty out on Twitter). Rob Hatch: 8/5/2021: Saturday: Giro d'Italia Stage 1: Click here to watch: 12:50: 07:50: 04:50: Rob Hatch, Sean Kelly, Daniel Lloyd. Create a personalized feed and bookmark your favorites. Will someone please shut Rob Hatch up!! - Cyclingnews Forum Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Why? Remember Domenico Pozzovivo going down [on Stage 3 of the 2015 Giro]? Next season because this is clearly going to go on well beyond the roll out of a vaccine I'm hoping that by the time the Giro comes we can work from a studio. With a good. Why is it that Rob Hatch has to pronounce names of riders and places in accents that are not understandable to English speaking viewers? "And aside from a word hearing that Nicolas Roche and Luke Rowe tried to organise something today, I have to say that Im pretty indignant, angry, disgusted that nobody has shown solidarity with the man at the front (Rza) at all. But given the situation the world was it, we were extremely lucky to be able to do some work, so that's not something I'd complain about. There was a lot of speculation. From what I've read on this forum, some people would pay good money for that, but I'd like to hear Messrs Hatch and Kelly too. Its rare to watch either without hearing Martys voice in recent years. If you have a training question, submit your question for Jonathan to answer on the next episode of TrainerRoads podcast. 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. For many hours of the day, doing what I do is a solitary job anyway. 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Having chosen foreign language stations for the Kirby classics, I have found myself switching back to Eurosport, (except for the infuriatingly frequent ad breaks) almost exclusively. Graham has also narrated Eurosports Re-Cycle cycling history podcast, called the 2022 Tour for talkSPORT, spent four years subbing on the sports desk at The Sunday Times and written for Rouleur, BikeBiz and various others. I also missed my colleagues from other channels and media. Bear in mind that over the last decade I've lived in airplanes around the world. 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. A lot of the time, people think we should just talk and not get excited. 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. It was the big unknown. Ill ask questions that people at home will think, God, thats a basic question!. How about a thread in praise of Rob Hatch? Or that 83% of the peloton is in the "Form of His Life"? Copyright 2015-2023 ProCyclingUK - All rights Reserved, 2024 Womens WorldTour Promotion/Relegation Standings, Jumbo-Visma win opening TTT of 2023 Vuelta Femenina, Shimano 105 Groupset: A Comprehensive Guide, Ally Wollaston wins Stage 2 and GC at Festival Elsy Jacobs. In summer, I dont go out and smash myself for an hour on the road. 'More than disappointed, I'm quite angry' - Tour peloton misses the Nothing has happened so far.. It's exhilarating when it goes well. Although I keep thinking he sung the Neighbours theme tune. Yep, hopefully ES will see sense and make him their number one with Stephens / Smith as the backup team and Carlton demoted to tea making duty. Yep. I had nothing prepared for Tadej Pogaar. Rob Hatchis afreelance broadcaster that can be found commentating on cycling for Eurosport television, BBC Radio 5 Live, IMG Media and more. Or Vingegaard. Giro d'Italia 2021: English-language commentary team & start times As soon as I landed in Spain, lockdown was declared. 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. 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. There was a real will in the industry to make it. Hatch and Kelly are a good combination. Monumental Mohori. Theyre basic things that if youve just tuned in you want to know. It has to be natural. In 2013, he published Hunger, the long-awaited autobiography of Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly. . To kick things off, they dusted off their turbo trainers and completed their FTP tests. I mean, the fudge packers were wasting their time.. But that wasn't their fault they were using new kind of headset that was extra sensitive. Alison Jones. It was very much a last-minute idea. McVitty was subsequently replaced by Lizzie Banks, a double Giro dItalia stage winner. @giroditalia. We got to May and there was talk of things maybe starting up again. I think it's better not to plan word-for-word because it can sound wooden. 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. It's not something that I do particularly often. Cyc: During a six-hour stage you will often repeat yourself. RH: Mathieu van der Poel winning the Amstel Gold Race was the moment of the season. Spanish cycling journalist and communications manager for Lizarte, Fran Reyes provides insight during the Vuelta a Espaa coverage. It's difficult to say you're going to ride like that, though. for hours talking cycling especially this Giro . 04611236. And I wonder how they say Chris Froome back home! Three months, and basically the first day I went in I was broadcasting. Id like to think I dont need the validation. I felt the same. During that period, instead of travelling back and forward between Spain and the UK, I only travelled once or twice. But there was still disbelief about how big it would be and this denial about it being a strong flu. 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. But in those cases I think they should try to learn it for the next race he or she competes in. Now it's the best in the world: I've got 600 mega bites, fibre optics. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Youve gone in the fudge shop and youve consumed it straight away, McEwen chimed in. It was just strange not seeing anyone not just my co-commentators, but the off-air staff such as production staff, technicians, managers. Cycling Commentators on Eurosport & GCN 2022 - ProCyclingUK.com On the Tube, going to work, there were three types of reaction to how I looked after the crash. His description of the city of Milan on the Giro was so 'passionate' I thought he was going to have an orgasm on air. We both had to get flights. Each episode features interviews with different professional cyclists, team staff and other actors from across the sport. Tour de France 2016: Desk collapses during stage four commentary Cyc: What are the hardest moments youve commentated on? Next stop, Roubaix - by The Cycling Podcast All rights reserved. RH: I was born and raised in Accrington. Football, Volleyball, Cycling & more. She retired from racing in 2018 whilst at WNT and transitioned to a Marketing/PR role for the team. On the opposite end of the scale you have Sean Kelly talking about the Tour du Romondia and Primoz Rojlick. I tried to go through my notes and remember what happened each day. I saw Kevin Rza looking quite an alone figure near the front, just a few of his French friends chatting to him. English & Spanish (bilingual with regional accents) as well as Italian & French (fluent). To English people it is free. 2023 Eurosport, a Warner Bros. "Cycling is a sport for all & everyone should feel welcome," GCN said. The Cycling Podcast was the first podcast ever to be accredited to the Tour de France. 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. Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. I've lived in lots of different countries and I just want to be entertained no matter who wins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Blythe, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_McEwen, 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). 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. It is also published by the UK broadsheet newspaper, The Telegraph. But there was also talk of working remotely. The Cycling Podcast has been nominated for several awards since 2016. Blazin' Saddles: The stand-out cycling moments of 2020, Blazin' Saddles: The top 10 riders of the 2020 cycling season, Blazin' Saddles: The riders who must do better in 2021, Blazin' Saddles Winners and losers of the 2020 Tour de France, Exciting, exhilarating and unpredictable: Cycling produces spectacular season. Calm down Rob it is only a city! I can now watch both without getting distracted by bad commentry, which I can't with Kirby. Past contributors: Matthew Beaudin, Ned Boulting, John Bradley, Caley Fretz, Rupert Guinness, Andy Hood, Matt Rendell, Owen Rogers, Owen Slot, Anthony Tan, Hannah Troop and Moeen Islam (avid fan of the show). And it would suit Pozzovivo's agrrrrrressive style of riding! You only take notice of what's going on outside the race once it's over. But Siena is beautiful any time of the year. Nothing wrong in commenting on that - it's a discussion forum after all. 10. I thoroughly enjoyed writing it. I think it added to the camaraderie and interaction between commentators and viewers this year that we disclosed where we were. He's been talked up for years. If I had to make a criticism he is just that little bit too bland, a little bit more personality or as FF says emotion would complete the package. Top 10 Audio AIPS Sports Media Awards 2018, Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast, The Cycling Podcast Fminin, Explore by The Cycling Podcast, This page was last edited on 11 February 2023, at 00:00. Discovery company. 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. The Pro Cycling Thread (Part 2) - Page 483 Digital Spy Mar 31, 2022. Broadcasting is a skill, contrary to what a lot of people believe, and if you don't have the tools then you're not a broadcaster. 2023 Eurosport, a Warner Bros. Besides, there's no alternative for someone - like Hatch - who speaks a foreign language and therefore knows the approximate pronunciation. [4], The Cycling Podcast began as short audio dispatches from the 2013 Tour de France supported by sponsorship from Sharp. The way it was this year, we decided early on to be honest with people, instead of trying to maintain the illusion that we were in France or at least actually all together. I'd be happy to have the chance of hearing Rob Hatch's commentary! He was an absolute pleasure to watch. I agree - it is good. For anyone who knows me, I'm not particularly attached to a flag or a nation. And you think, Right, what do we say here?. Hatch tries to make everything exciting even when it clearly is not. 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. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. I think my line was, Ive never, ever seen anything like this in my life! [Co-commentator] Matt Stephens was on his knees laughing as Van der Poel came across the line, it was that crazy. 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?? Carlton Kirby Kirby is the most marmite commentator there is. I felt guilty not sitting in front of my computer, not watching. Did you know that the 2020 Giro had 17 "Ride of the Century"s? Sign up to the Cyclist newsletter to receive curated emails direct to your inbox. Sign Up. Most people hadn't invested in a home set-up like I had but they don't live abroad and they were expecting to go back to the studio. "We chose not to publish Stage 10 coverage until an offensive phrase was removed and we apologise to anyone offended during. 'A natural born superstar' - Rob Hatch hails Biniam Girmay - Cycling Rob Hatch: It was a real social education. Rob Hatch and Dan Lloyd react to the underwhelming promised display of solidarity with anti-racism sentiments at the start of the final stage of the Tour. Does anyone have a clip of Hatch pronouncing Fuglsang and Vingegaard? Maybe it's the quality of his voice that some find disliking. It's stressful with technology, hoping that it's going to work. RH: My main job as lead commentator as well as to get the voice right and call the action and the moments right is to get the best out of the experts Im with. It was shortlisted for Irish Sports Book of the Year. On the Tour de France, you don't only find professionals in the bunch, as this short clip of the BBC's commentators shows. Would we be stuck in hotels? Neither have I. I'm not somebody who's done a lot of written journalism because I'm broadcasting for the whole year. Rumours were circulating overnight and this morning that finally the bunch are going to get together and show their solidarity. I think the biggest problem in our business is ego. 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 . But there was part of you that felt it was way more serious than that. I was thinking that Dan Martin should be Brummie with a touch Wicklow, loik ;-). Following the title sponsorship of cycling clothing brand Rapha, The Cycling Podcast added the third Grand Tour to their coverage in August 2016. Its not realistic and its also not how anyone actually rides a bike outdoors. From a spectator's point of view, I thought it was strange to have to decide which classics to watch. 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. Everyone did their best and it was great that we could have as many races as we had. 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. - Froome 'warrants more respect' - Wiggins podcast. And because of that you might come across less ignorant to local people. El Cycling Podcast The Cycling Podcast When he is pronouncing names and teams in a peleton you might as well not bother listening it is just garbled gobbledegook! I've been disappointed by Stevens at California and as a commentator he needs to up his game. I do it because I feel I have to do it. When would we all see each other again? Obviously, there was no mask enforcement at that point. I have rarely been less in agreement with an opinion than here. Obviously, financially it was good for us. As someone who speakstwo dialects of Chinese, I would never dream of pronouncing names in their correct way to an English speaking friend, that is considered downright rude, as they wouldn't know who or where I was talking about!! 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. You need your eyes tested if that's the case. AG2R: Association gnrale de retraite par rpartition. "Form of his life" and "ride of the century" for every moderately good performance. He pronounces them like someone who is attempting to pronounce them correctly. Dan Lloyd quickly moved the conversation on, McEwens comments were left unchallenged, but viewers had heard the 49-year-old. 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. Its a performance because, if youre going to do it properly, you need to modulate your voice, you need to work on your intonation. The bad thing, from my point of view, is when there's something you could have done better. The Cycling Podcast was recorded live with an audience at the 2019 World Championships.[16]. In broadcasting half of getting it right more, even is in the voice. Date Day Stage Link Start time (BST). I actually reckon my accent has got broader since I moved away. 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. 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).
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