Blazin' Saddles: The stand-out cycling moments of 2020, Blazin' Saddles: The top 10 riders of the 2020 cycling season, Blazin' Saddles: The riders who must do better in 2021, Blazin' Saddles Winners and losers of the 2020 Tour de France, Exciting, exhilarating and unpredictable: Cycling produces spectacular season. Robert Hatch. Everyone's been suffering this year it's been a nightmare for us all. I'm very privileged and lucky to do what I do because I realise that a lot of people would love to do what I do and will never have the opportunity. 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. Following the title sponsorship of cycling clothing brand Rapha, The Cycling Podcast added the third Grand Tour to their coverage in August 2016. Decent amount of emotion yesterday - could do with more of that and a few more anecdotes. In early 2022, lead presenter Richard Moore died suddenly. The global pandemic meant Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch had to broadcast the Grand Tours from a makeshift studio at his home in Spain. 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. A former national track champion, Hannah Walker spent years on the road racing as well. The way it was this year, we decided early on to be honest with people, instead of trying to maintain the illusion that we were in France or at least actually all together. Log In. 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). 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. 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. 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. 10. She initially was heard commentating on womens cycling races but has also been seen in the studio during coverage of 2021s Giro dItalia. 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]. Do we really know what's going on in the heads of sportspeople? Monumental Mohori. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. What does it pay? Misread thread title. 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. You have to have the voice. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. Stevens was trying too hard at the start of the week and now seems to be settling in. I liked Hatch several years ago but the last few years have been too much for me to handle in large doses. Conscious of the fact that we have viewers all over the world and that we were exclusive in both Australia and the UK I wanted to make sure their thoughts were represented. S1 Ep33. Registered in England. See more Mr Paris-Nice won that race 7 years in a row during the 1980s. I always know when European Cycling season is in full swing because I get so many tweets meant for @robhatchtv #theylovehim #theyhatehim. He pronounces them like someone who is attempting to pronounce them correctly. To ensure that, you need a good strong voice, otherwise it won't sound right. Meanwhile their YouTube content is unwatchable unless you are a fan of Top Gear. But in those cases I think they should try to learn it for the next race he or she competes in. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Taken from Eurosport's 2012 season races & IMG's Tour de. Theyre basic things that if youve just tuned in you want to know. There was a lot of speculation. My impression is that Hatch carries out the required role better than the rest of the personnel. My Eurosport player is transmitting the background sound (crowds cheering, motorbikes accelerating etc) but no commentary. Nothing wrong in commenting on that - it's a discussion forum after all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oashhn4TnY. 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. Football, Volleyball, Cycling & more. 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. Yep. Going on-site at the Tour had been ruled out: too complicated and too risky. 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. The Cycling Podcast is an independent sports audio production created by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, and Daniel Friebe. In the end, it all paid off for me. I really miss Carlton Kirby, glad he's doing the Tour. I do it because I feel I have to do it. For me, you need someone who can fill the dead airtime and Stephens is doing that very well in California. There were lots of different factors, including a psychological one. And then to be there again a couple of days later at Sestriere that was scarily good. And I wonder how they say Chris Froome back home! Un podcast que sigue los pasos de su hermano mayor, The Cycling Podcast pero ahora para hispanohablantes. Cyclist: You seem to be recovering well after coming off your bike a few weeks ago in what your co-commentator Magnus Bckstedt called an NBF: Nothing But Face. We know that Kevin Rza is a local rider here in Mantes la Jolie and he was going to lead them out. So I do like being there, even if the travelling is tiring and you do want a break. This year, working from home, meant there was no disconnect. I can now watch both without getting distracted by bad commentry, which I can't with Kirby. Cyc: Youre not afraid to reply to people who knock you on Twitter, are you? It might annoy people, but its proper broadcast practice. 101 Followers, 447 Following, 61 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Rob Hatch (@rob.hatch) rob.hatch. 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. Expected to read about Liz Hatch. Exceptional job. 61 posts. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. 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 . I think it's better not to plan word-for-word because it can sound wooden. Let us know what you think of the show in the comment section below. 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. Ok, I'll accept if he speaks that language he'll do it naturally without thinking, still confusing as I'm having to re learn who's who and what teams are which. I hardly listen to the commentary but I was listening yesterday and am listening today. Were shocked because at this point in the lead-out we were expecting to be talking about something a little bit different, said Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch. Heres what Birnie, a skeptic with the opinion that turbo trainers are instruments of torture, had to say about his first week of training with TrainerRoad: The first session was so engaging but I thought, Well, Im always enthusiastic for the first session, its the second or third one thats the problem. [Now] Im two rides in and already Im finding it really beneficial and different to anything else Ive ever done. Borg. Definitely posher than the one I have now. Rob Hatch. We've all watched our favourite sports and not been happy with things. Without the strict medical and social protocol part of it, we've always been living in bubbles anyway in Grand Tours for years. Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. Nothing has happened so far.. When a Grand Tour is on, I can't function as a human being because all my energy is tied up in the race. Would we be stuck in hotels? Voiceover artist in 4 languages. 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. A recent addition to the Eurosport team and the only female lead commentator (even if the name catches plenty out on Twitter). Im not a huge fan. For many hours of the day, doing what I do is a solitary job anyway. Although I keep thinking he sung the Neighbours theme tune. Oh he's so so so much more pleasant than Kirby. 2023 Eurosport, a Warner Bros. My impression is that Hatch carries out the required role better than the rest of the personnel. 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. Then it became serious, very, very serious. Spanish cycling journalist and communications manager for Lizarte, Fran Reyes provides insight during the Vuelta a Espaa coverage. Cyc: Whats it like for you working with Sean Kelly? She has done a lot of races paired with Magnus Backstedt this season. ah-jay-deuh-err would be closer surely? The Telegraph is a long standing media partner of The Cycling Podcast.[24]. It depends. For mine, Carlton is the perfect commentator for the early shift on long, flat grand tour stages. To manage an existing Cyclist magazine subscription, please visit Manage your account or visit our subscription FAQ page. And you think, Right, what do we say here?. Do you think so ? You may be alongside someone, but you're concentrating and in your own world. The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe, along with a cast of special guests, have provided analysis and insight from each of the 21 stages of the race every year since. 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. Maybe it's the quality of his voice that some find disliking. - Froome 'warrants more respect' - Wiggins podcast. 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. I've been disappointed by Stevens at California and as a commentator he needs to up his game. For me, being on site and travelling is the best thing. Half an hour later, after McEwen had handed over stage 12 commentary to Hatch and Kelly, the Australian also issued a statement. 101 followers. Most famous for winning the 2004 edition of Paris Roubaix, Magnus Backstedt had a long pro career. You are using an out of date browser. 447 following. It's understandable when you're watching something, you want it to be perfect, especially if you've been waiting for so long. 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. Id just done a masters degree in Madrid that was sort of run in conjunction with Eurosport. Once a week I might do the chaingang but most of my riding is varied fast bits, slow bits, easy bits, hard bits. The next was pity. Only in cycling do we have to put up with indecipherable Italian, French and Spanish names of riders and teams! Luckily at the headquarters of Eurosport, Discovery, they were already well into devising a system that would work. 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. 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 the other was just before that, when Katarzyna Niewiadoma won. I'd have still had them, but maybe at the end of the season. 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. It was shortlisted for Irish Sports Book of the Year. Ill ask questions that people at home will think, God, thats a basic question!. Just like the cyclists they report on all year long, they too are preparing for a big race: a three-man4K Pursuit at the Herne Hill Velodrome, the iconic venue in South East London. Only in cycling do we have to put up with indecipherable Italian, French and Spanish names of riders and teams! 2.36 w/k sounds so pathetic but before this week I had no idea how good (or bad) I was at cycling.. His latest cycling book, tape: the untold stories of the Tour de Frances defining stages, was published last June. In terms of the calendar, there's a few things that I would have changed anyway before the pandemic. @giroditalia. A few of the guys had complaints about breathing. GCN and Robbie McEwen have apologised after the latter said a homophobic slur live on-air during coverage of the Giro dItalia. RH: I was really nervous when I started working with him. There was the Oohhh, hes a dodgy character. I was head boy, for Gods sake! It's something you have to work on. View the profiles of professionals named "Rob Hatch" on LinkedIn. Although Rob Hatch's knowledge of cycling seems good, his insistence of pronouncing every foreign word in the right dialect annoys me. Certainly in the Giro you could start to see that the shadows were longer, the light was different, certainly the mountains were different. Usually heard doing .Pro level races (and the odd WorldTour one too), it would be great to hear him able to do some more womens cycling commentary on Eurosport as well. I tried to go through my notes and remember what happened each day. Complaining about Rob Hatch pronouncing riders' names correctly is the equivalent of British holidaymakers complaining when people in France speak to them in French. Weve seen it in so many different areas of sport since competition resumed, and we havent really seen it in cycling. The first race I was covering was the Tour of Langkawi in the studio in London. Things I find annoying about Rob Hatch "Dear oh Dear oh Dear!" 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. cheers for the language explanations, my French colleague said pretty much the same and it was down to the 'R' sound being 'err' meaning the deux was fully sounded and the two words ran into each other. I wrote it immediately after the Giro the week after, when it was all still fresh. 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. The UAE Tour was abandoned with Covid positives the first race to be hit by Covid and suddenly there was this scramble to lockdown in Europe. You have to find the right language, read the race, have knowledge of your subject. 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. Im genuinely sorry for the language I used, and for letting the team down, but mostly I want to say sorry to anyone who I offended.. Which is bizarre! Fair point I thought! Most people hadn't invested in a home set-up like I had but they don't live abroad and they were expecting to go back to the studio. If you have a training question, submit your question for Jonathan to answer on the next episode of TrainerRoads podcast. The general public is becoming wiser to cycling, but were nowhere near as big as we think we are. It was just an unfortunate product of it. To be fair, these days he aren't just commentating for people in the UK, what with races being available through GCN+ and the Eurosport Player. I felt the same. I felt guilty not sitting in front of my computer, not watching. Disagreed. We got to May and there was talk of things maybe starting up again. Shes heard covering non-WorldTour classics most often where she can use her native Dutch to pronounce riders and place names perfectly. Powers can be heard exclusively during cyclocross races, usually paired up with Marty McCrossan. :P. The various accents, personalities and styles of commentary of the Eurosport commentary team may not agree with everyone but the fact is we are absolutely spoiled by the current standard of coverage. I lost the battle and the war on that one. Sounds like it was a rider-initiated move, in conjunction with the CPA. In terms of technical stuff, because I had invested a lot in my set-up, I was quite pleased how it sounded. In the end, the last day was cancelled and we managed to get our flights pulled forward by a day. Or that 83% of the peloton is in the "Form of His Life"? One visit to the supermarket, then the police started driving around the area with recorded messages: stay inside your homes. How about a thread in praise of Rob Hatch? Amstel '19 was one of the greatest-ever races in the history of pro cycling The commentary in the finale from Rob Hatch, however, is also some of the greatest this sport will ever hear The passion & disbelief in his voice will always be associated with this iconic finale #AGR . I would say that, in terms of the calendar, I was actually quite disappointed. Metropolis International Group Limited, 10th Floor, Southern House, Wellesley Grove, Croydon, CR0 1XG. Take nothing away from Pogacar and his teams celebrations. You are using an out of date browser. Cyc: Whats the thing youre criticised for the most? RH: My main job as lead commentator as well as to get the voice right and call the action and the moments right is to get the best out of the experts Im with. As a broadcaster, you also have to have the ability to read the moment and describe the moment, which is more what happened at the Tour. Our French producers will say, If you dont show it, its censorship. Ive had this argument, going back to my work experience. 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. There are so many different things behind the scenes that we're not aware of. I think it added to the camaraderie and interaction between commentators and viewers this year that we disclosed where we were. Hatch and Kelly are a good combination. Rob hatch has been fab! At that point we were worried because it was so new and confusing but we didn't think it would last all year, that there would be a lockdown for months. ah-jay-deuh-err would be closer surely? Obviously, financially it was good for us. People named Rob Hatch. When he is pronouncing names and teams in a peleton you might as well not bother listening it is just garbled gobbledegook! He will write a book about the experience one day. In 2016, The Cycling Podcast team covered the Giro d'Italia for the first time, thanks to new sponsorship funding from Science in Sport. He reports on cycling's largest events. People at home only see or hear the on-air personalities. Im not saying everybody has to say the names like I do. Domestique for the rider 16th on GC gets a puncture with 137km to go on Stage 8, "Dearohdearohdearofdearohdearohdear!". Hatch has toned down his OTT local pronunciations and is becoming less annoying. There was a lot of talk between journalists and ex-riders that it was going to be different, but we didn't know how much. There was certainly more time for coaches to plan and more time for people to do new things. Once I moved house in August, I fitted out the studio and tested new programmes with Eurosport and GCN. There are 100+ professionals named "Rob Hatch", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. Discussions during the "empty" kilometers are a thing of experience, imo. RH: I was born and raised in Accrington. Probably now the highest-profile commentator on Eurosport, the only criticism Rob seems to get is due to his perfect pronunciation of all words in all languages. Definitely. Top 10 Audio AIPS Sports Media Awards 2018, Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast, The Cycling Podcast Fminin, Explore by The Cycling Podcast, This page was last edited on 11 February 2023, at 00:00. Currently, Moore, Birnie and Hatch are working through TrainerRoads Sweet Spot Base and Pursuit training plans to prepare for their big event. That's how the cycling season began and abruptly ended for me. I know this isn't universally popular, but I would always have the Ardennes and hilly classics away from the spring and have them around Lombardy time. The Cycling Podcast has been nominated for several awards since 2016. As ITV didn't typically cover the Giro d'Italia, he remained a key part of the team during the Italian Grand Tour. After training as a journalist he spent five years working for a local newspaper before joining Cycling Weekly in 1998. He initially started combining riding with Eurosport work in his final season in 2019. But the atmosphere was eerie. "Cycling is a sport for all & everyone should feel welcome," GCN said. Rob Hatch is back in our ears commentating the Volta ao Algarve on Eurosport this week. It was the big unknown. Honestly Never even noticed it.
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