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  1. 6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

    And to think Martin Haven (and John Morgan), the gods of bobsleigh commentary, are native English speakers...throw them a bag of money and let's go.

    Yeah, that’s what happened eventually. In the old days the BBC always used their contracted guys no matter how bad they were.  But that particular guy was just so terrible that they had to give that idea up.

  2. 5 minutes ago, Biathlonfan said:

    he had to have been sarcastic,there's no way someones this dumb

    Dunno about that. Our own :GBR athletics commentators who suddenly find themselves doing the Olympic bobsleigh have certainly matched that standard.

  3. For those that aren’t following road cycling day-to-day, :GBR are having a great week after a few quiet ones.

     

    Sunday - Tom Pidcock wins the Amstel Gold

    Wednesday - Simon Williams wins the Fleche Wallonne

    Thursday - Simon Carr takes Stage 4 of the Tour of the Alps.

  4. Got a very big weekend of early season athletics coming up.

     

    • Race Walking Worlds - own thread
    • Diamond League from Xiamen - own thread
    • Kip Keino Classic Continental Tour Gold meet from Nairobi :KEN
    • Velocity Fest sprint meet from Kingston :JAM
    • Marathons from Nagano, London, Vienna & Enschede
  5. 21 hours ago, copravolley said:

    Archibald, for example, is a phenomenon and on the road she meant nothing, but she is the only one now. Now the trend is to ride both on the road and on the track, except for ciclists in sprint and keirin. The French women regularly take part in road races, but they do rather poorly there, e.g. a similar situation was with Paternoster until this season. Balsamo, who started her career on the track, probably feels better actually on the road.

    Archibald came to cycling quite late, think she was eighteen or something when she started, so never learned to be comfortable on the road.  When she did the minor British races, she always just attacked at the flag and won that way.  It's too bad because she definitely could be winning road races. 

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