It wasn't until we got to mid-February and the UAE Tour that it was starting to really affect things. I like Hatch and I approve of his pronunciation. While reminiscing on the Tour and his favourite race, the Giro, Rob also talks about his rare foray into swapping microphone for pen with his essay in the 2020 cycling almanack, The Road Book. I had to work hard at going out for a coffee or a run. Or Vingegaard. His latest cycling book, tape: the untold stories of the Tour de Frances defining stages, was published last June. It would be nice to be back together for Paris-Nice, the Monuments, the Grand Tours. Are you following The Telegraph Cycling Podcast? Cyc: What was your favourite race you commented on last year? And I didnt want him to think I was crap, because hes a nice bloke. 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. Date Day Stage Link Start time (BST). As of 2020, The Cycling Podcast is sponsored by Supersapiens, having until the end of 2019 been sponsored by Rapha [22] and after that by iwoca,[23]. Bigham helped to give deeper insights into the world of aerodynamics during the opening time trial of the 2021 Giro dItalia. To kick things off, they dusted off their turbo trainers and completed their FTP tests. I got home. Please share any bugs or issues you encounter HERE. If you have a training question, submit your question for Jonathan to answer on the next episode of TrainerRoads podcast. [13] In 2018, The Cycling Podcast was a Bronze medalist in sports podcast category at the British Podcast Awards. I thoroughly enjoyed writing it. In 2013, he published Hunger, the long-awaited autobiography of Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly. But it was Dennis who really did the damage that ride on the Stelvio physically and psychologically did the damage for the other teams. [14] It has been renominated in the Sports category in 2019. ..There's not a lot of competition on Eurosport though! 04611236. The one area Eurosport consistently come out on tops with is in HD picture quality. Unfortunately for her, her quarantine was brought in less than two weeks before the Tour, so she had no choice really. RH: For me, theres a sort of emergency protocol that subconsciously kicks in. So I do like being there, even if the travelling is tiring and you do want a break. Would we get home? Eurosport has a select core of lead commentators who find themselves describing the action we see. Laura Meseguer y Rob Hatch les ofrecen historias y anlisis del ciclismo desde dentro del pelotn profesional. Rob Hatch, cycling commentator; Simon Richardson, former professional cyclist; Giro d'Italia. 6,355 Followers, 1,951 Following, 550 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Rob Hatch (@robhatchinsta) 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. I certainly expect a commentator to make an effort to pronounce names and places correctly, but I'm also prepared to overlook mistakes when it comes to the names of lesser known riders. 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. for cycling's biggest show. It has to be natural. 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 . And they both happened in the one day. As soon as I landed in Spain, lockdown was declared. Yes, it's hard to believe that Eurosport are going to turn from the sublime to the ridiculous. With a good. To English people it is free. I always know when European Cycling season is in full swing because I get so many tweets meant for @robhatchtv #theylovehim #theyhatehim. Find your friends on Facebook. My impression is that Hatch carries out the required role better than the rest of the personnel. Listener numbers hit 9,000[11] halfway into the race which helped secure funding from Jaguar for the following year. On the Tube, going to work, there were three types of reaction to how I looked after the crash. 3. It's like me saying I want to be a footballer but I'm no good at football. During that period, instead of travelling back and forward between Spain and the UK, I only travelled once or twice. 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. 11/05/2021 AT 17:22. 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. 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. I really miss Carlton Kirby, glad he's doing the Tour. Please share any bugs or issues you encounter HERE. 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. He reports on cyclings largest events. Everyone knows that Rob Hatch is the guy who pronounces each foreign word ultra-correctly and that Carlton Kirby will be the one telling the dad jokes. 00:01:25, 29/03/2022 at 09:48 I felt the same. I actually reckon my accent has got broader since I moved away. 'A natural born superstar' - Rob Hatch hails Biniam Girmay Eurosport pundit and commentator Rob Hatch gives his thoughts on Biniam Girmay's incredible win. 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. Yep. Mainly when I've written it's been for Spanish publications. And as the riders rolled through kilometre zero and the stage officially began it become clear that no group stand was going to be forthcoming. 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. On the Tour de France, you don't only find professionals in the bunch, as this short clip of the BBC's commentators shows. We've all watched our favourite sports and not been happy with things. I mean, the fudge packers were wasting their time.. The Cycling Podcast Presentation Hosted by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe, Orla Chennaoui, Franois Thomazeau, Rose Manley, Lizzy Banks, Tom Whalley, Ian Boswell Genre Sports Language English Updates Thursday Production Production Jonathan Rowe, Jon Moonie, Tom Whalley, Alex Adey, Paul Scoins, Will Jones, Adam Bowie Audio format I don't think any of them has yet figured out how to pronounce Fuglsang. Almost exactly 48 hours later, as chatter on social media grew and clips of what had been said began to circulate, GCN issued an apology. All rights reserved. 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. People named Rob Hatch. At that time, I was amazed that the race carried on. I needed a new internet connection. Log In. I hardly listen to the commentary but I was listening yesterday and am listening today. Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. I didnt learn a great deal, but it did give me the opportunity to have a go at broadcasting. Todays [workout]felt like going for a bike ride more than any turbo session Ive done before. You have to have the voice. Theyre always paired with an ex-pro to provide the colour commentary, with insights about the racing, learned through their time in the pro ranks. We both ended up on the floor at one point. Hell usually be heard paired up with Dani Rowe for womens cycling and Jeremy Powers for the cyclocross. Does anyone have any idea how to achieve that with ESP? 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. Company No. Luckily at the headquarters of Eurosport, Discovery, they were already well into devising a system that would work. When would we all see each other again? 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. Hatch and Kelly are a good combination. Has professional cycling missed the memo and the moment? But you can do yourself a favour thinking of something in advance. And the back-up plan to work from the Eurosport studio was up in the air because we didn't know when they would be reopened. There was a lot of speculation. When he is pronouncing names and teams in a peleton you might as well not bother listening it is just garbled gobbledegook! Rob Hatch: It was a real social education. Honestly Never even noticed it. 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. And I wonder how they say Chris Froome back home! Contact Us. The Service Course,[21] a new tech show by The Cycling Podcast launched in 2019 with YouTube star Keira McVitty and radio producer Tom Whalley. Because that's the kind of race that forms a season within a season. 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. 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. None of the commentators or presenters were on site but we did have Bernie [Eisel] in the field. I have seen him defending these garbled pronunciations as 'respect', how about some respect for paying viewers! We arent completely sure, but youreinvited to follow along and find out. Does anyone have a clip of Hatch pronouncing Fuglsang and Vingegaard? You say it how you want I couldnt care less! Rob Hatch is back in our ears commentating the Volta ao Algarve on Eurosport this week. We tested and we were ready to go again. Do we really know what's going on in the heads of sportspeople? Apologies for the off-topic diversion, but when Arsene Wenger arrived at Arsenal and started hoovering up French talent, one of the Danish commentators confused the hell out of me by his pronunciation of our new French rmidfielder, Ray Parleuuuur. 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. I've just been. Yep. Everyone was wearing these makeshift neck-warmers out of fear. Dan Lloyd quickly moved the conversation on, McEwens comments were left unchallenged, but viewers had heard the 49-year-old. The full stage will soon be available in English without this section of commentary.. Borg. It increases the chance that you pronounce the names correctly should you ever visit the country. @SeanKellyCyclin @BriSmithy. It's something you have to work on. The Grand Tour Diaries, the second book by the team behind The Cycling Podcast was released in November 2019. 16 Apr 2023 11:21:22 I do it because I feel I have to do it. Remember Domenico Pozzovivo going down [on Stage 3 of the 2015 Giro]? All rights reserved. It was shortlisted for Irish Sports Book of the Year. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [4], The Cycling Podcast began as short audio dispatches from the 2013 Tour de France supported by sponsorship from Sharp. 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. 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. A former national track champion, Hannah Walker spent years on the road racing as well. In 2016, The Cycling Podcast team covered the Giro d'Italia for the first time, thanks to new sponsorship funding from Science in Sport. Cyc: Youre sometimes criticised for the simplicity of the questions you ask on air. Introducing: Luca Vergallito, winner of the mens Zwift Academy. After those moments, you're asking yourself whether you got it right, and it's difficult to switch off. But there was always the sensation of knowing he was better and waiting for that huge, huge performance from him a lot of people expected it a few years ago as a leader. Although a bit too excitable at times, his in-depth knowledge of riders and races exceeds all the other GCN-commentators, so a vital part alongside the ex-riders. I remember going to Belgium for Het Nieuwsblad and working for the host broadcaster. There was certainly more time for coaches to plan and more time for people to do new things. Do you think so ? Rob Hatch. BTW Ron Bahrain has never been pronounced Baaahhhrain! 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?? He might be dead here. Then you start changing your tone. Follow. A last-minute plan had to be formulated for. Sometimes you have ideas in your head. The American former pro rider won 4 national titles in cyclocross and was a top-10 ranked rider.