Neither have I. I think people could empathise and it was a way for everyone to realise that we were in it together. 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. We still need to educate people. 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. Does anyone have a clip of Hatch pronouncing Fuglsang and Vingegaard? Youve gone in the fudge shop and youve consumed it straight away, McEwen chimed in. I had to work hard at going out for a coffee or a run. The first race I was covering was the Tour of Langkawi in the studio in London. Once I moved house in August, I fitted out the studio and tested new programmes with Eurosport and GCN. Whatever way they wish to do it, whether that be taking a knee or not, we were led to believe that something was happening, but it looks as though unless theyre going to pleasantly surprise us now that the moment has passed. Last week was the journalists first week of structured training. It was while writing for the original London freesheet that he won the media TT at a Team Sky winter training camp, where Sir Dave Brailsford questioned how it was possible for a group of people to ride quite so slowly. 2.36 w/k sounds so pathetic but before this week I had no idea how good (or bad) I was at cycling.. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Co-commentator Dan Lloyd followed up on those comments, saying: I think everybody has been waiting for some show of solidarity amongst the pro peloton since day one of this years Tour de France, as people have done in other sports, other athletes across other sports. I actually reckon my accent has got broader since I moved away. 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. I enjoy his insights into aspects such as Italian dialect and sayings. He inspires such devotion that he has his own fan club, yet also is on the receiving end of a petition to get him sacked. Date Day Stage Link Start time (BST). I think it added to the camaraderie and interaction between commentators and viewers this year that we disclosed where we were. In early 2022, lead presenter Richard Moore died suddenly. Football, Volleyball, Cycling & more. Each episode features interviews with different professional cyclists, team staff and other actors from across the sport. In 2013, he published Hunger, the long-awaited autobiography of Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly. 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?? As soon as I landed in Spain, lockdown was declared. People at home only see or hear the on-air personalities. There was a real will in the industry to make it. [4], The Cycling Podcast began as short audio dispatches from the 2013 Tour de France supported by sponsorship from Sharp. Its a performance because, if youre going to do it properly, you need to modulate your voice, you need to work on your intonation. "We had been led to believe that there was going to be a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. It might sound sad, but my work is my life. It makes me want to cancel my account with GCN. 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. 'A natural born superstar' - Rob Hatch hails Biniam Girmay Eurosport pundit and commentator Rob Hatch gives his thoughts on Biniam Girmay's incredible win. 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. We met for a pre-dinner beer in the centre of Gent in the middle of Holy Week. In terms of technique, those bits of commentary were the starting points for me. Yes Hatch is doing a good job, not Harmon standard yet but getting close. 3. Only in cycling do we have to put up with indecipherable Italian, French and Spanish names of riders and teams! Thats bad taste. And I had a shouting match, in French, in the middle of the office. As a foreigner, I like him waaaaay better than Kirby. The voices of the cycling commentators on Eurosport are beamed into our homes. Meanwhile their YouTube content is unwatchable unless you are a fan of Top Gear. We chose not to publish Stage 10 coverage until an offensive phrase was removed and we apologise to anyone offended during the broadcast. I was heartened to hear when people didn't actually realise that I was broadcasting from home in Spain. Following the stage, won by Biniam Girmay, no apologies were issued. He helped develop the Endura, NetApp (became Bora-Hansgrohe) and MTN-Qhubeka teams in their early days before becoming a staple on Eurosport. Derrick Rae who does. I saw Kevin Rza looking quite an alone figure near the front, just a few of his French friends chatting to him. Tour de France riders were expected to show solidarity with anti-racism messages at the start of the final stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, but the paucity of the gesture was striking. [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. Robert Hatch is a game designer and writer who developed key role-playing game releases for White Wolf Publishing from 1993 to 2001. ..There's not a lot of competition on Eurosport though! But you can do yourself a favour thinking of something in advance. Taken from Eurosport's 2012 season races & IMG's Tour de. 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. The Ardennes week would fit better alongside the hilly Italian classics towards the end of the season around the Worlds. Then it became serious, very, very serious. Hatch and Kelly are a good combination. Listener numbers hit 9,000[11] halfway into the race which helped secure funding from Jaguar for the following year. 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. 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. Oh he's so so so much more pleasant than Kirby. I also missed my colleagues from other channels and media. My favourite is still CK, with his jokey, relaxed style. I haven't done much writing in English. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. 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. Phenomenal Pogacar has changed cycling - Wiggins, Fearless Pogacar forced crack in Roglic's resolve. I came back to Spain for a few days, then went to London for Paris-Nice. Once a week I might do the chaingang but most of my riding is varied fast bits, slow bits, easy bits, hard bits. Grounded from doing the job he loves, Rob Hatch thought outside the flat-pack box to set up a home studio in Mallorca where he managed to cover the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia for Eurosport. Launched in 2013,[3] weekly, hour-long episodes provide insight, analysis and often irreverent take on professional road cycling. He will write a book about the experience one day. 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. Mr Paris-Nice won that race 7 years in a row during the 1980s. "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. Everyone was looking around, hoping people wouldn't be sitting next to them. I know people disagree with this, but I feel the most important thing about broadcasting is getting those moments for archive. We have now completed scheduled maintenance. The global pandemic meant Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch had to broadcast the Grand Tours from a makeshift studio at his home in Spain. 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). Maybe take the opportunity to learn something instead of demanding the world be sanitized to your POV. Ill ask questions that people at home will think, God, thats a basic question!. Cycling is a sport for all & everyone should feel welcome, GCN said. Complaining about Rob Hatch pronouncing riders' names correctly is the equivalent of British holidaymakers complaining when people in France speak to them in French. 447 following. 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. I love the coverage of cycling that GCN do but Rob Hatch is the worst commentator of the lot. It's difficult to say you're going to ride like that, though. Highlights: GC favourites have late tussle in rain as Dombrowski triumphs. Rob hatch has been fab! Rob Hatch, cycling commentator; Simon Richardson, former professional cyclist; Giro d'Italia. He reports on cyclings largest events. And from my point of view, I was suffering quite a lot because it took away a bit of work. So I do like being there, even if the travelling is tiring and you do want a break. Another former National Road champion, in 2016, Blythes relaxed style has seen him move from the studio to behind the mic. Of course, in the back of my mind, and [co-commentator] Sean Kelly's mind, we were thinking about getting home. When would we all see each other again? And because of that you might come across less ignorant to local people. Again, it's not a huge criticism of the people who devised the calendar. 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]. And also try to stay true to my own style, which is quite neutral. 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. You are using an out of date browser. Take nothing away from Pogacar and his teams celebrations. No I didn't. Felix Lowe hooked up with Hatch for a chat about the. Hard to imagine Lloyd (for example) building the finishing excitement to exaltation. You used to hear Declan Quigley covering the Giro dItalia but now seems to find himself part of the B-tier. It was a crazy day and the race commentated for itself, really. But we have to cater pandemic or no pandemic for everybody's tastes and talk about things that even to us may sound basic. It's exhilarating when it goes well. He reports on cycling's largest events. on every little minor mishap. You have to have the voice. Cyc: Whats the thing youre criticised for the most? I bought a brand-new computer, a microphone (an old-fashioned lip mic), a sound interface box to broadcast, desks, things like that. I wrote it immediately after the Giro the week after, when it was all still fresh. 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. I didnt learn a great deal, but it did give me the opportunity to have a go at broadcasting. Cyc: What was your favourite race you commented on last year? 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. As ITV didn't typically cover the Giro d'Italia, he remained a key part of the team during the Italian Grand Tour. The lead commentator for cyclocross and womens cycling on Eurosport. Not for the first time they leave us in shock. A former national track champion, Hannah Walker spent years on the road racing as well. I was thinking that Dan Martin should be Brummie with a touch Wicklow, loik ;-). Unfortunately for her, her quarantine was brought in less than two weeks before the Tour, so she had no choice really. His latest cycling book, tape: the untold stories of the Tour de Frances defining stages, was published last June. Introducing: Luca Vergallito, winner of the mens Zwift Academy. Discovery company. Why? Once you click onto hearing his penchant for listing riders, you cant un-hear it! Anyone whos watched the Tour Series/Womens Tour/Tour of Britain in person or was at the Harrogate Worlds will have heard Jez on the mic. Three of the industrys biggest names in the world of professional cycling journalism Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch of The Telegraph Cycling Podcasthave committed to training hard and smart this winter. To kick things off, they dusted off their turbo trainers and completed their FTP tests. Rob Hatch. for hours talking cycling especially this Giro . Shes heard covering non-WorldTour classics most often where she can use her native Dutch to pronounce riders and place names perfectly. Do we really know what's going on in the heads of sportspeople? Plenty for Froome to work on before Tour - does he have time to get it done? Cyclist: You seem to be recovering well after coming off your bike a few weeks ago in what your co-commentator And I didnt want him to think I was crap, because hes a nice bloke. Exceptional job. 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. Get access to more than 30 brands, premium video, exclusive content, events, mapping, and more. 101 Followers, 447 Following, 61 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Rob Hatch (@rob.hatch) rob.hatch. And the other was sort of between the two: semi-suspicious, bit of pity, the whole crossing to the other side of the carriage thing. The American former pro rider won 4 national titles in cyclocross and was a top-10 ranked rider. I unintentionally used an offensive phrase during my commentary on Stage 10, and I regret both saying it and not immediately apologising on air, McEwen said. Monumental Mohori. JavaScript is disabled. However, for the Tour, nobody expected what happened. 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. ah-jay-deuh-err would be closer surely? Mental. If London was going to be behind the curve coming out of lockdown, then we had to be ready to work on those other races which were happening before the Tour, but maybe remotely, because we knew travel could be complicated. On the Tube, going to work, there were three types of reaction to how I looked after the crash. I don't think any of them has yet figured out how to pronounce Fuglsang. When he is pronouncing names and teams in a peleton you might as well not bother listening it is just garbled gobbledegook! Hatch has toned down his OTT local pronunciations and is becoming less annoying. 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. AG2R: Association gnrale de retraite par rpartition. So I started really thinking seriously about it. Robert Hatch 41 subscribers 28 Dislike Share 7,659 views Dec 27, 2012 Cycling commentary reel by British Broadcaster Rob Hatch. 2. For me, you need someone who can fill the dead airtime and Stephens is doing that very well in California. He was initially mixing his GCN duties with the odd spell of commentary but soon changed the balance towards commentary. Suddenly everybody in every movement was a bit more wary. Without the strict medical and social protocol part of it, we've always been living in bubbles anyway in Grand Tours for years. Left disappointed. S1 Ep33. In broadcasting half of getting it right more, even is in the voice. Notably, The Cycling Podcast was referenced in the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee's report into Combatting doping in sport.[12]. You only take notice of what's going on outside the race once it's over. But we are waiting and we desperately hope that something will happen. One visit to the supermarket, then the police started driving around the area with recorded messages: stay inside your homes. A last-minute plan had to be formulated for. He is now a consultant for high-profile teams like Canyon SRAM and the Danish national track team. All rights reserved. We arent completely sure, but youreinvited to follow along and find out. It's understandable when you're watching something, you want it to be perfect, especially if you've been waiting for so long. Let us know what you think of the show in the comment section below. McVitty was subsequently replaced by Lizzie Banks, a double Giro dItalia stage winner. Domestique for the rider 16th on GC gets a puncture with 137km to go on Stage 8, "Dearohdearohdearofdearohdearohdear!". 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. Sorry, Declan Quigley is not a good listen. It's not something that I do particularly often. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Following the title sponsorship of cycling clothing brand Rapha, The Cycling Podcast added the third Grand Tour to their coverage in August 2016. We've all watched our favourite sports and not been happy with things. Or any Danish name. I needed a new internet connection. Cyc: Youre not afraid to reply to people who knock you on Twitter, are you? None of the commentators or presenters were on site but we did have Bernie [Eisel] in the field. "We chose not to publish Stage 10 coverage until an offensive phrase was removed and we apologise to anyone offended during. Contact Us. We wont take any credit for that. [13] In 2018, The Cycling Podcast was a Bronze medalist in sports podcast category at the British Podcast Awards. In summer, I dont go out and smash myself for an hour on the road. I lost the battle and the war on that one. Off the back of two Grand Tours and the Worlds, everything was a bit of a blur. There was talk of Spain, Ireland and the UK locking down. Rob Hatch and Rob Hayles persevere despite their desk collapsing during commentary on the final moments of stage four of the Tour de France. Company No. (function ($) { window.fnames = new Array(); window.ftypes = new Array(); fnames[0] = 'EMAIL'; ftypes[0] = 'email'; fnames[1] = 'FNAME'; ftypes[1] = 'text'; fnames[2] = 'LNAME'; ftypes[2] = 'text'; fnames[7] = 'TRUSER'; ftypes[7] = 'text'; }(jQuery)); var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true);
Luckily at the headquarters of Eurosport, Discovery, they were already well into devising a system that would work. And should it look like an accident? He pronounces them like someone who is attempting to pronounce them correctly. In 2016, The Cycling Podcast team covered the Giro d'Italia for the first time, thanks to new sponsorship funding from Science in Sport. It was just strange not seeing anyone not just my co-commentators, but the off-air staff such as production staff, technicians, managers. It might not be what he'd personally prefer though, who knows. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Rob Hatch, Sean Kelly and Brian Smith are LIVE on our Facebook page right now, recapping the . Or Vingegaard. 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. Lionel Birnie isa journalist, author and publisher. If we don't make it accessible to everybody then we're not going to get any more viewers. GCN; GCN+ pass information . A recent addition to the Eurosport team and the only female lead commentator (even if the name catches plenty out on Twitter). 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. Yep. 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). That's how the cycling season began and abruptly ended for me. No one has yet reached an agreement why the racing was so different. The next was pity. [1] : 227. Smith was twice a winner of the National Road Championships, in 1991 and 1994, as a rider before becoming a directeur sportif. Besides, there's no alternative for someone - like Hatch - who speaks a foreign language and therefore knows the approximate pronunciation. You need your eyes tested if that's the case. Why is it that Rob Hatch has to pronounce names of riders and places in accents that are not understandable to English speaking viewers? 2023 Eurosport, a Warner Bros. I hardly listen to the commentary but I was listening yesterday and am listening today. I felt guilty not sitting in front of my computer, not watching. The Cycling Podcast has been nominated for several awards since 2016. Mainly when I've written it's been for Spanish publications. [14] It has been renominated in the Sports category in 2019. Borg. The first time I did a broadcast this posher voice came out. 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. Hatch is often on the biggest races and usually covers the race finishes too. 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. Hammond is in his own league though and it would be great to have him back. In 2013, he published Hunger, the long-awaited autobiography of Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly.
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