Vuelta

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Any idea what station coverage of the vuelta will be on?

smithslist

its goin to be on eurosport if you have it......hopefully david duffield talking!!! but i dont think so.....

Chips Lovell

No, not Duffield. He's like a boring uncle droning on at Christmas dinner.

If you don't have Eurosport, Cycling.tv are showing it.

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Deadly. thanks.

ba

david harmon + sean kelly are commentating.
there was only 1 hour highlights of todays stage, and eurosport is swamped with tennis (not my cup of tea).

mloc123

ba wrote:

david harmon + sean kelly are commentating.

Excellent, they work quite well together. Anyone know who did the eurosport commentary on the tour of Burgos?

Hermy

David Harmon is in my opinion a terrible commentator who continuously mis-identifies riders, rarely gets the outcome of sprints correctly, and gets completely confused when the field splits up on the mountain stages. Surely if I can keep up with events as they unfold Mr. Harmon who's job it is to do so can do likewise.
I always enjoy Sean Kelly’s' sagacious observations bereft of the usual ornamentations of most commentators.
But Mr. Duffield is my favourite and I could listen to him morning, noon and night
rambling on about "the rough end of a ragman's trumpet" or suggesting that somebody "blast on the old banjo.":D

ba

did anybody catch that awful american commentator at the finish line of each stage of the tour of ireland? he was a feckin dumb*ss.

King Kelly

Have to disagree! Dave Towle was the US announcer at the start and finish on all the T of I stages. I was at Kilkenny and Galway starts and thought he was excellent. Spoke for up 3/4 hours each day, had a great knowledge of all the riders, especially the US riders obviously. Kept the neutrals in the crowd interested with stories of Kelly and Roche and gave the Irish boys a great talk up interviewing McCann, O'Loughlin, Kenneally, Deignan and Irvine among others. Spoke to him afterwards and he was a really nice guy, huge knowledge of cycling very friendly.

philstar

sean kelly accent makes me crack up:D

culchie irishman meets sophisticated frenchman

mloc123

philstar wrote:

sean kelly accent makes me crack up:D

culchie irishman meets sophisticated frenchman

I do love the way he pronounces gilet.

ba

dave towle had very poor understanding of race tactics, and how the life of a peleton changes. Steven Roche kept correcting him.

fairplay he knew a lot about the riders, but he was so annoying to listen to. the twang from his american accent blasting from the speakers, bloody headache.

i guess i am used to listening to kelly, roche and harmon, who we consider very calm, this towle guy was very energetic and loud.