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Personally, I think it's impressive how much random stuff he can throw in while still pointing out riders. I'm watching the race anyway, the commentary is background noise.
We have this "I don't like commentator x" thing every year. So now we have the "we have this commentator thing every year" every year.
hippy-
It did actually briefly cross my mind that he is quite good at ad-libbing nonsense and I wondered if he had planned some of it - but then I was distracted.
I shouldn't complain though, so let me frame my thoughts in a more positive way - the ITV4 coverage has been, and is consistently superb, and I'm very grateful for it. Ned Boulting is great, I have to admit that Millar is really good too, and Pete Kennaugh has got loads better as well.
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We have this "I don't like commentator x" thing every race.
Everyone should have a space to vent about Kirby
tbc
yoshy
I had to go out with 12km to go.
I watched it back on Eurosport and vowed to not listen to anything commentated by Carlton Kirby again.
In a very short time, there was nonsense riffs on the ring road, on battlements, on the flamme rouge and on Fred Wright's name. None was clever or funny, just irritating and distracting.
Also - I managed to see a spoiler on Twitter with 5km to go, but still really enjoyed the action.