The bad thing, from my point of view, is when there's something you could have done better. So, Sean, why are they not going to chase the breakaway now? Well, its bloody obvious, isnt it? For me, you need someone who can fill the dead airtime and Stephens is doing that very well in California. 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. Would we be stuck in hotels? 'More than disappointed, I'm quite angry' - Tour peloton misses the 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. Registered in England. 'A natural born superstar' - Rob Hatch hails Biniam Girmay - Cycling We wont take any credit for that. Follow. 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. If you saw the Vuelta Ciclista Valenciana this season, you would have heard Jez and Ive also heard him in a couple other races on the mens side this season too. I thought, visually, it was different. Each expert has the same goals: They want to get faster and win the race against each other. Cyc: Youre not afraid to reply to people who knock you on Twitter, are you? There will no doubt be loads of events I'm going to have to cover from here because we won't be on site soon, unfortunately. But I'm not counting any chickens. Hatch tries to make everything exciting even when it clearly is not. You must log in or register to reply here. He was initially mixing his GCN duties with the odd spell of commentary but soon changed the balance towards commentary. Slightly off-topic I've made a short list of weird pronounciations on German Eurosport: Yea, that sentence is downright hilarious, after all the years of "Dorothy Wierer" (replete with dental fricative), "Jarkko Meaty-Eye" (Mtt), "Michael Hey Beck" (Michael Haybck), "Ida Ings mah daughter" (Ida Ingemarsdotter) and literally Goldstrom going with "Eva, and apologies to Eva but I'm not going to try her last name" for Eva Puskarkov. In terms of technical stuff, because I had invested a lot in my set-up, I was quite pleased how it sounded. We chose not to publish Stage 10 coverage until an offensive phrase was removed and we apologise to anyone offended during the broadcast. A GCN spokesperson directed CyclingTips to McEwens Twitter statement when asked for comment from their commentator, while a further statement from the broadcaster was not forthcoming. There was a lot of speculation. 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). Did you know that the 2020 Giro had 17 "Ride of the Century"s? The Cycling Podcast was the first podcast ever to be accredited to the Tour de France. View the profiles of professionals named "Rob Hatch" on LinkedIn. His description of the city of Milan on the Giro was so 'passionate' I thought he. On the Tour de France, you don't only find professionals in the bunch, as this short clip of the BBC's commentators shows. And I wonder how they say Chris Froome back home! Off the back of two Grand Tours and the Worlds, everything was a bit of a blur. 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. 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. 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. From a spectator's point of view, I thought it was strange to have to decide which classics to watch. To follow along as Moore, Birnie and Hatch document the highs and lows of their winter training program with TrainerRoad, listen to The Telegraph Cycling Podcast, follow their online training journal andsubscribe below to get bi-monthly updates with training news and event details: // It was taking each day as it comes, let's get what we can from the race. Blythe was a consistent lower-level classics racer and sometime sprinter. I think I only managed three bike rides during two Grand Tours I just didn't have the time. So Ill tell you again whos in the breakaway, reiterating how many kilometres to go, what the gap is. It's exhilarating when it goes well. Mr Paris-Nice won that race 7 years in a row during the 1980s. Calm down Rob it is only a city! - Froome 'warrants more respect' - Wiggins podcast. Again, it's not a huge criticism of the people who devised the calendar. Mainly when I've written it's been for Spanish publications. Of course, in the back of my mind, and [co-commentator] Sean Kelly's mind, we were thinking about getting home. During stage 10 of the Giro dItalia, McEwen and Dan Lloyd were handing commentary duties back over to Rob Hatch and Sean Kelly after the latter pairs lunch break. Thats bad taste. And I had a shouting match, in French, in the middle of the office. Usually, I get ill because I'm exhausted, and when you stop, your body just gives up. 'The biggest problem in our business is ego': Rob Hatch Q&A Rob Hatch. If he pronounces the names correctly you should be happy he does it like this. I was working on the Giro and, from a professional point of view, I tried to watch the end of the Vuelta each day, but I didn't want to pay too much attention to it in case I got it mixed up with the job in hand. He's been talked up for years. Kirby is the most marmite commentator there is. Take nothing away from Pogacar and his teams celebrations. She has done a lot of races paired with Magnus Backstedt this season. Discovery company. Unfortunately for her, her quarantine was brought in less than two weeks before the Tour, so she had no choice really. ..There's not a lot of competition on Eurosport though! Yep. He is now a consultant for high-profile teams like Canyon SRAM and the Danish national track team. Log in or register to join the conversation. Watch Results Snooker Cycling Football . 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). Todays [workout]felt like going for a bike ride more than any turbo session Ive done before. Watching the last stage of the Tour de Romandie, I gave up trying to understand the town of the finish.

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