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Silverback
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Just browsing the TV listings for the week and see there's 3 hours of live coverage of Hyde Park tomorrow.
Wondering how the commentators are going to fill the time and which cliches are going to emerge...
Has he/she gone too soon?
they call transition the fourth discipline you know
You'll see the elite attach their shoes to their pedals
Any more?
Wondering how the commentators are going to fill the time and which cliches are going to emerge...
Has he/she gone too soon?
they call transition the fourth discipline you know
You'll see the elite attach their shoes to their pedals
Any more?
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BBC1 London 1:00pm-4:30pm (3 hours 30 minutes) Sat 15 Aug
ITU World Championship Series Graham Bell presents coverage of the men's race in the sixth round of the ITU World Championship Series, staged in Hyde Park, London. Britain's Alistair Brownlee starts the event second in the standings, 93 points behind Maik Petzold of Germany, and will be looking to repeat his form of earlier in the season, when he won the second and third rounds of the campaign in Madrid and Washington. Plus, highlights of this morning's women's event. With commentary by Matt Chilton
"Its TRI-athlon, that means its 3 sports",
"what? all at the same time?"
Gonna have to record it I think... Also, London Tri on Channel 4 Sunday morning 8am.
Hollie Avill was interviewed on R4 this monring wrt tomorrow; it was fairly naff questioning to be honest e.g. what would you excel at if you could only do one discipline? Err... that's the point... there is more than one! She effectively but very subtly and politely bascially said that
didds
What I heard this morning was Holly Avil being interviewed on Radio 4 and asked if she only focused on one of the disciplines, which one would it be and how good could she become at it?
What an utterly pointless question. At least she dealt with it with dignity, explaining that although she could rack up some competitive times on the running track, she is interested in triathlon as a sport. Triathlon.
The BBC simply cannot get its pretty little head around it at all.
blurredgirl
If anyone is recording it onto DVD or video, I may want a copy as I won't be able to watch it any capacity. Truly gutted about it as well.
didds
"The swim was extremely flat"
And has anyone else noticed that gomez was looking a bit chunkier than usual?
Pick an athlete-everytime name gets mentioned, take a sip...
Hic
"Its swim, bike, run but some say transition is the 4th discipline"
Come on Don, brownlee x 2 and clarke! With no gomez, kahlafelt, shoemaker its got to be brownlee's.
There's solace for us all
If I've got the timing right that was a sub 29min 10k????
Got home to watch the Elite Men... some of them loved the bike leg a little too much
if it doesn't appear on the site... i know a man who knows a man who can put a copy up. ill keep an eye out.
The commentary was embarrassingly awful though. Stuart Storey can't have ever seen a bike race before. "He's down to third... no.. fourth.. no fifth. Oh dear. No! Wait!! He's back to first again!!! Incredible!". Just when they were getting a bit organised and having getting a bit of chain gang going.
They need to sit him down and make him watch the coverage of the tour.
I'll let Michelle Dillon off as a beginner, but I'm sure the guy she was paired with was getting the giggles because she was just so lost for words. I'm sure she'll learn in time. She was a lot better commentating on the race, rather than doing the pieces to camera.
They commentators missed it, but you can see the moment when Pais came round and saw the running pack. It made me sick just watching that. How awful. Although it was their responsibility, it looked like the marshals had messed up - there was no one there waving the red flags at the dismount line - they were there in time for when the bunch arrived. So I can understand them getting a bit confused.
A great performance by GBR though. Brownlee is in a different league. Pity it all came down to the 10K run. Makes me more opposed to drafting than before - it just doesn't work in an individual sport.
The BBC really need to find some decent commentators to explain what was going on. To an outsider it will have just been confusing - and look like a running race with non-quite-up-their atheletes who for some reason have done a bit of a warm up with a swim bike/before hand - with a completely chaotic mass start at the start of the race.
It was great to have the whole triathlon shown, but could they not find a commentator who knew what they were talking about or at least had done a tiny bit of research.
As for the races Brownlee was immense, what a run. A good effort too from Stimpson and Swallow in the ladies race.
Mind you Jodie Swallow cant do anything wrong in my books!! What a woman i may be in love!!
Think we have to keep in mind two things
a) Sports commentary has been renowned for stupidity for decades (Colemanballs etc). Anyone of us who was to speak continually for an hour and forty are bound to say something wrong/inane. It's like your every thought being up for scrutiny-anyone really fancy that? I also suspect that the Sunday morning coverage on C4 puts commentary on after the event, though am happy to be proved wrong.
b) It was unfortunate that the event coincided with the world athletic champs and start for the premiership-the best commentators/cameramen are going to pick those over Hyde Park.
I thoroughly enjoyed it for what it was and am I alone in being pleased that the coverage wasn't great? I'm new to Tri and enjoy the minority sport aspect that still goes with it. It's been great fun finding out the best shops, kit, tricks of the trade thru the web/word of mouth. Were it to take off and be all over the media, the mystique would be stripped away and it become just another sport