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No, really.
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I'm telling you.
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But there's always a glint of sly humour or over the top dandyism and no Irish ex-pro slurring and ah-ing like he's recovering from a few whiskies and a stroke, which is always a good thing. Or Carlton fucking Kirby trying desperately to fill the silence in between Kelly's words.
HAHA, I do quite like Kelly though. I always feel that he would talk more if Carlton Fucking Kirby would just shut up for a second but as he isnt going to, Kelly just gives up and lets him get on with it. Kirby really needs to go, hes as bad as Phil fucking Ligget
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I always feel that he would talk more if Carlton Fucking Kirby would just shut up for a secondt
Nah, Kelly was no more vocal with Harmon or Duffield. He's laconic and doesn't waste words. Certainly he has his routine phrases but he knows what he is talking about. Notice how uncomfortable he is when he is left on his own for a minute or two when the other one pops to the toilet.
I like Carlton Kirby but I can see why others don't. I cannot stand Rob Hatch though. And surely we can all agree that listening to one's own death sentence being read out would be preferable to even five minutes of listening to Brian Smith. -
True that Kelly is as laconic as they come but sometimes Carlton is yakking on about some useless irrelevance and then theres a vital attack/crash and...he carries on flaying his story to the bitter, bitter end. Kelly would surely at least comment on it if dickhead wasnt going on and on and on about nothing much (when Carlton does catch the important moment though he goes so oTT its almost embarrassing). agreed that hatch is worse than Carlton though.
In short, cycling commentary has a lot to learn from Test Match Special
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I suppose if you didn't live through the Duffiield years, hearing to his views on architecture, (which made Prince Charles sound like Richard Rogers) while the attack of the day was going, or the four or five ways, all incorrect, he found to pronounce Vinokourov, or his excuse-making for dopers, or his reminiscences of trike racing, or, well, just about all of it, then you don't know how lucky you are.
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Maybe it's worth posting all of these Duffiield gems
“I am sitting here with my chin on the counter, my mouth open like a great big whale scooping up plankton. I am gobsmacked!”
“Look down the valley…if you’ve got vertigo, sort of…don’t look down the valley.”
“Laurent Fignon just got bombed by a baguette!”
“As the french say, there’s nothing so long as a day without bread, and Laurent Fignon just got some but there’s nothing in it!”
If we had a yo-yo championship of the day, Riis would get the award.
No it’s not the bedouins! (roadside info tents).
In the blue shoulders, that is Jalabert.
One day they’ll tell him (El Diablo) where to put the fork, and it won’t be very pleasant either!
People are almost stripping down to their next-to-nothing.
The mountains look black and white. The white is snow because the snow is still up in the sky.
This is not for the lads back there who have any problems with their ticker-tockers! (on the descent).
If I wasn’t grey already, I’d go even greyer.
And the gap is down to 40 seconds, as I’m getting carried away by the statues!
This is like Wimbledon., Ascot and Silverstone all wrapped in together and plonked in the middle of Paris: amazing!
It could be all over bar the shouting, or until the fat lady sings.
It’s every man for himself- man the lifeboaaaats!
Monet was born in Le Havre or Paris, or was brought up there and then went to Paris to do his painting.
See now as they go up: the stunted trees, the sparse grass, the special alpine flowers that can withstand the hard winter.
Any of you who have just finished hoovering the house out and have turned on the old TV…..
My (steering) wheel’s on the right-hand side, and when you look down you can almost get vertigo and bumps on your tummy, it’s so far down!
Apurov (=Abdujaparov!).
If you ever get the chance to visit Paris, do go up to the d’Orsay….I love painters; they’ve got Monet, Ceganne and Déjà.
2, 4, 10, 20: there must be 100 photographers here on the line!
He had time to throw his hands up in the…er…
De las Cuevas is so far down on GC you could time him in with a calendar!
They cycle through the toll – and no one’s got their money out!
Escartin has a pursuiter’s hooter. A big nose spread all over his face to suck in lots of oxygen.
This is what I call a “beyond comprehensible” climb.
If you’ve got a grandmother in a wheelchair, now’s the time to take her for a walk so she needn’t see this!
Stephen Roche: What are they doing there, Dave? – DD: They’re riding their bicycles!
“It’s curtains for Karpets” (Vladimir Karpets)
“I heard a rumour that Karpets was off to Quick Step, but they were worried they tread all over him.”
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^Rep.
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It is indeed the best thing he ever said and entirely inadvertent.
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Chris Boardman only once co-commentated with Duffield. Duffield was going on, as he liked to, about his admiration for Pantani - this was after Pantani had been kicked off the Giro. He then asked Boardman what he thought of Pantani and got the reply "I don't know how he can show his face in public". There was an unusual silence from the great waffler after that.
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Ah, Duffers waffling about cheese and french castles whilst a decisive break moves away. Halcyon days indeed, the ultimate sleep inducer. :)
Incidentally I like to count the 'eh's' when Brian Smith is commentating. I lost count at 140 over a one hour period. That and him trying to be posh when he comes from Paisley :)
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Reading about monte zoncolan it's all a bit abstract.
Anything I've ridden of that gradient is a fraction of it's length.
Strava helps give is some context:
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It is a real word: la bonification.
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Anyone have up-to-date links to the BBC highlights?
I can't find them anywhere.
There should be a link on pages like this but there isn't:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27640878Oh, here's stage 16:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27604971
And 17:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/2761842818? 19?
The whole saying who won up front thing is awful.
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there's no 18 yet, it tends to be a day late
17 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27618428
16 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27604971
15 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27573961
14 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27557321
13 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27557321
12 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27542070
11 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27526626
10 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27487040
9 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/27468870link to the previous day are usually at the bottom of the page, but yes, it's fucking hard to find them, they're a day late, annoying that they say the winner in the headline...but they are the best highlights online. Maybe get a friend to click the link and full screen it while you have your eyes closed if you really care.
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Rather surprisingly, they're a lot funnier than the English-language commentators.