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| Deadpool |
Posted on 16-06-2008 23:56
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I'm watching the 7th stage of the Dauphine and the 2nd stage of the Tour de Suisse on Versus, the american tv channel that shows cycling. I used to have great respect for Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen, both former pro's who call the races. However, over the course of the two hours I have been watching, they have made numerous mistakes. Here are my three favorites.
1 - Saying that Johan Vansummeren (Silence-Lotto) is probably working for his team-mate, Stijn Devolder (Quick-Step).
2 - Continually impling for about 15 minutes that Damiano Cunego is Fabian Wegmann until finally announcing their mistake, despite - 1) Wegmann wouldn't be among the favorites on a cat.1 mountain, 2) Everything that Cunego is wearing besides the white jersey of the protour leader is pink and blue. And 3) Cunego doesn't have the German stripes.
3 - The non-stop refering to the ProTour as the World Cup
Anyone else had problems with wrong and just downright stupid announcers in any sport (besides Chris Kamara, everyone knows how idiotic he is, but just in case you don't, look here)?
Edited by Deadpool on 16-06-2008 23:56
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 17-06-2008 00:03
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phill ligget is REALLY old, give him a break. He's better than bob roll
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Posted on 17-06-2008 00:05
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Good point, but still, idiotic job by the two of them |
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Posted on 17-06-2008 00:06
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A while ago but in the Pro20 world cup, there was this female comentator who was completely incompetetent She once said "He's hit the ball, that's a good thing" and also "He has hit that for 4, that gives him 4 runs" She really pissed me off
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| matt493 |
Posted on 17-06-2008 01:17
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I say who cares. Everyone makes mistakes. They are probably worn out from looking through all the tapes and then talking for 2 hours straight.
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| dave92 |
Posted on 17-06-2008 01:18
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the 2006 world cup, ESPN on more than one occasion tried to convince me that Keller was the best keeper in a group that had Buffon and Cech. Euro 2008 has been much, much better in that respect with Andy Gray, Derik Rae, one or two of the others who call the game.
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| Takitdown |
Posted on 17-06-2008 01:24
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Guys 2 words:
Paulo Martins 
belive me i would be here all night if i talked about all his mistakes
i just loved when he said that he spoke with Paulinho in the day before and that he was on competition but was delayed because he had worked so much and Paulinho was at home injured, still he got loaded with e-mails saying that Paulinho wasn't there but he kept saying the same thing
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| issoisso |
Posted on 17-06-2008 07:26
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Takitdown wrote:
Guys 2 words:
Paulo Martins
belive me i would be here all night if i talked about all his mistakes
i just loved when he said that he spoke with Paulinho in the day before and that he was on competition but was delayed because he had worked so much and Paulinho was at home injured, still he got loaded with e-mails saying that Paulinho wasn't there but he kept saying the same thing
The worst part is that when he doesn't know something, he immediately makes it up.
My 2 favorite Paulo Martins moments:
Vattenfall Cyclassics 2006
Insisting that Paulinho was no longer in the front group because he'd "worked very hard for many many kms. I saw him there, he was very brave". Paulinho wasn't racing that day.
Tour de France 2006
Insisting despite everyone telling him otherwise that Landis' advantage in TIME over his pursuers would diminish quite a lot once the pursuers started descending "because he's going downhill while they're still going uphill. the distance is longer because of that"
Honorable mentions:
- Pfannberger and Lloyd side by side in national champs gears. he immediately says "Peffaberga" (or something) "is the australian champion"
- 3 or 4 different Lotto guys keep attacking. He calls every single one of them Van Summeren, despite the fact that none of them is a 2m tall blond. Then Van Summeren attacks and he remarks how "what Van Summeren is doing is amazing. his energy never ends"
- Talking at length about "short prologues"
- "Not only is the third place at stake. the 3rd place on the podium is also up for grabs"
- both Schlecks are together. Frank keeps attacking. he keeps alternating between calling him "Andy" and "Frank"
- Always insisting he is right with a very smug and superior tone to his voice, no matter how painfully obvious it is that he is wrong
- Moorenhout wearing the dutch champion's jersey: "here comes the belgian champion"
- misspronouncing the name of every single rider's who isn't from a latin country in a way that makes you have absolutely no idea whatsoever who he's talking about
Edited by issoisso on 17-06-2008 07:29
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 17-06-2008 07:46
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I could right an essay on David Duffield, everytime he comes on I tempted to bash my head of the glass coffee table in front. Blabers on about random things, names are extremly incorrect. He thinks he knows what riders are like and how they ride but he just doesnt. Thats about it i think, i know he is really old but you cant beat, David Harmon and Sean Kelly when they commentate B) |
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| mattiasgt |
Posted on 17-06-2008 08:02
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What a contrast, the commentators here in Sweden was the reason which made me follow cycling.
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Posted on 17-06-2008 08:54
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mattiasgt wrote:
What a contrast, the commentators here in Sweden was the reason which made me follow cycling.
Yes, Roberto Vacchi and Anders Adamsson is great commentators. They are making it really fun to watch cycling.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 17-06-2008 09:11
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David Duffield loves bloody france. During the Dauphine 'Well then viewers they make great wine here'
or during every 10 minutes 'Let's talk about the tour of britain' - no why not the Dauhpine.
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| Takitdown |
Posted on 17-06-2008 09:42
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Paulo Martins
Trúchóve- Thor Hushovd
Van Der Broken- Van den Broeck
Pefanberger- Pffanberger
Askelsson- Axelsson
Lonkist-Lovkvist
Terreno Adriático- Tirreno Adriático
Nick Nóis- Nick Nuyens
Ricky Sorensen- Rolf Sorensen (this one was writte on the screen in the last winners chart, still he got it wrong)
Paris-Robé- Paris-Roubaix
Jiesinking-Gesink
And many, many, many more...
Some sentences that even translated are funny
"He won a victory"
"He won with clarity" (he meant he won clearly)
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Posted on 17-06-2008 09:45
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In Denmark we used to have Jørn Mader and Jørgen Leth who you either love or hate. They have numerous legendary comments from the Tour de France. Here are a few (my translation.):
They referred to Miguel Indurain as "The big brown muscle".
About Jan Ulrich on a TT "The powerplant form Rostock. A big massive trampling German, a torpedo shot through the air, a bomb of power, almost plows up the tarmac, the legs goes like large pistons in the German machine, a rolling Bismarckslump (some sort of candy).
Leth: "Look at the Mauris smile" Mader: "Yes that man could smile a raccoon down a tree."
About Armstrong: "Look how calm he is sitting in his saddle. Even when he is standing up."
And finally: "He treats his bike like an old bitch who deserves it."
There are many more for the danish who are feeling nostalgic here: https://www.totalt...thor/30/10 |
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Posted on 17-06-2008 09:49
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Takitdown wrote:
Van Der Broken- Van den Broeck
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Posted on 17-06-2008 09:50
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jacknic wrote:
In Denmark we used to have Jørn Mader and Jørgen Leth who you either love or hate. They have numerous legendary comments from the Tour de France. Here are a few (my translation.):
They referred to Miguel Indurain as "The big brown muscle".
About Jan Ulrich on a TT "The powerplant form Rostock. A big massive trampling German, a torpedo shot through the air, a bomb of power, almost plows up the tarmac, the legs goes like large pistons in the German machine, a rolling Bismarckslump (some sort of candy).
Leth: "Look at the Mauris smile" Mader: "Yes that man could smile a raccoon down a tree."
About Armstrong: "Look how calm he is sitting in his saddle. Even when he is standing up."
And finally: "He treats his bike like an old bitch who deserves it."
There are many more for the danish who are feeling nostalgic here: https://www.totalt...thor/30/10
Brilliant! 
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Posted on 17-06-2008 11:26
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I must say that although Mader was quite a character, I got fed up with him, all the mistakes he made and how little he knew about contemporary cycling. It almost became a ritual that if the camera cut to a rider all loaded up with bottles struggling to get back to the peloton he'd go "OMG attack!". That he also had an alcohol problem for years, helped make things slightly surreal sometimes. I never saw it myself, but in one edition of the Vuelta he was supposed to have been seriously drunk, uttering complete nonsense for hours. I always remember how he kept insisting that Garcia Acosta looked like a horse, or how he characterised Rué as "a donkey on speed". The funniest episode I remember was when he mistook the camera helicopter's down-draught for windy weather and went on about how you could see the riders struggling in the rough wind.
Our current duo, Dennis Ritter and smug Rolfie, are more, shall we say, stable. It even seems that Rolf doesn't talk about his own career all the time anymore, and he's certainly a heck of a lot more articulate than a lot of other ex pros (like Sean "yes, certainly" Kelly). I like how he's seemingly always had time to talk to every single rider in the peloton on the morning before each stage, or how he'll say that things have turned out exactly as he predicted, except that he didn't actually predict anything to begin with.
But yes, David Duffield, ugh. He's like Jørn Mader on acid. Thankfully they don't use him that much anymore.
A few more Mader&Leth goodies:
"If I was a fortune teller, I would take my crystal ball, paint it yellow, write the name Bjarne Riis on it, and roll it down the Champs Elysses."
"The kind of stage that sends your dreams to an x-ray check."
"There's only one word to describe it: Bad preparation."
"And he's off!...with a napkin on his head."
"And here's Jalabert, boiling in the pot of resignation."
Don't call me Jens Fuck! It always sounds like that when you Danish people say my name.
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Posted on 17-06-2008 11:47
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I remember on time, when Sastre attacked on a mountain, and then Mader said that he was behind until he saw the peloton coming around the corner.
And it's quiet anoing when Rolf Sörensen contantley called Boogerd Bogart, and i'm 100% shure that Rolf will talk for hours about his victory at Superbesse at the stage to Superbesse in the tour.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 17-06-2008 11:50
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This could turn out to be a funny thread. After all, most commentators make mistakes when commenting on stages four hours in row 21 days  |
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Posted on 17-06-2008 11:54
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The swedish commentators are great I have to say, something funny though is that in 4 years I never think they have guessed the correct winner |
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