Cycling cover on TV

[speckytecky]

As a former competitive cyclist I just love watching the likes of the Tour de France and Le Vulta on The Television. ITV 4s coverage of the two I mention has always been absolutely fabulous and I just love the commentary around the race the presenters give where they even cover the history of the various features passed as the tour goes by. It's also excellent to see that the racing by females has started getting a decent bit of cover nowadays as well - that said, I must say I found the commentary was far from the quality of that of the men's races. Now moving on to the current Tour of Britain I wonder if I'm alone in finding the commentary appalling? One chap in particular just draws out his words and I find it so immensely irritating that I just can't watch the race with the sound on! His commentary when it comes to a sprint for a stage win is more like that given in a horse race than a cycle race. Am I alone amongst cycling fans in feeling this way?

[yurt]

I concur with everything you said - I could only take the first stage of the Tour of Britain because of the horse racing commentary "...and it's X coming up on the outside and Y seems to be flagging, but wait who is this sliding up the inside".

[mikeprice]

Yup - totally agree

 

the Tour and Vuelta coverage were great - even managed to watch the whole dya Tour a couple of times - it was awesome listening to the desperatly looking for something to talk about after the break had gone off and nothing was likely to happen for the next 200km!!

 

Tour of Britain coverage - REALLY irritating - but better than last year - marginally - one of the commentators in particular

 

I can only assume all the A B and C teams are at the Vuelta and we were left with the remainder