Saturday's OLN coverage

[Mapei81]

Am I the only one who thought it seemed unusually glitchy? Time after time, Phil-Paul-Bob were
talking context when some rider actually made a move that they either didn't notice or ignored until
they finished a couple more sentences. At least twice, I caught them missing riders in between
groups on the mountains that I noticed and in one case identified. At one point, the

like that. And it seemed like more commercials and promo spots than I can ever remember in OLN's
coverage before. I also thought Garzelli consistently looked stronger than Simoni on the climb, when
P-P-B repeatedly said the opposite.

Don't get me wrong, I love these guys, and we are very fortunate to have them to gripe about. But
this was not one of their finer days.

Meanwhile, Simoni, Garzelli and (hats off to) Noe rode great today. Say goodbye to the chances of
Casagrande and Aitor.

 

[Chiefhiawatha]

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Mapei81) wrote:

> Am I the only one who thought it seemed unusually glitchy? Time after time, Phil-Paul-Bob were
> talking context when some rider actually made a move that they either didn't notice or ignored
> until they finished a couple more sentences. At least twice, I caught them missing riders in
> between groups on the mountains that I noticed and in one case identified. At one point, the

> like that. And it seemed like more commercials and promo spots than I can

and then they went to Lance riding his bike shirtless, pleasing chang to no end.

I thought the coverage was good aside from that.

Garzelli: Talk about revenge from last year's smearing.

 

[Hawke]

"chiefhiawatha" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Mapei81) wrote:
>
> > Am I the only one who thought it seemed unusually glitchy? Time after
time,
> > Phil-Paul-Bob were talking context when some rider actually made a move
that
> > they either didn't notice or ignored until they finished a couple more sentences. At least
> > twice, I caught them missing riders in between
groups on
> > the mountains that I noticed and in one case identified. At one point,
the

sounded
> > like that. And it seemed like more commercials and promo spots than I
can
>

> and then they went to Lance riding his bike shirtless, pleasing chang to no end.

"Pleasing Change"! Is he Gay?

Hawke .

 

[Nev Shea]

[email protected] (Mapei81) wrote in news:[email protected]:

> Am I the only one who thought it seemed unusually glitchy? Time after time, Phil-Paul-Bob were
> talking context when some rider actually made a move that they either didn't notice or ignored
> until they finished a couple more sentences. At least twice, I caught them missing riders in
> between groups on the mountains that I noticed and in one case identified. At one point, the
> screen went to dark while someone said,

Right after a commercial break they were warming back up, and then Phil said something about them
loosing the feed, then it sounded like Paul

and then we had about 8 more commercials while they straightened it out.

> And it seemed like more commercials and promo spots than I can ever remember in OLN's coverage
> before. I also thought Garzelli consistently looked stronger than Simoni on the climb, when P-P-B
> repeatedly said the opposite.

Just because you think sucking Simoni's wheel made Garzelli look stronger doesn't make the
commentators wrong. Or did you only watch the last 100 meters?

> Don't get me wrong, I love these guys, and we are very fortunate to have them to gripe about. But
> this was not one of their finer days.

first you make the case that they had technical glitches, and now you're making it sound like the
commentators were screwing up. Think about it -- Phil and Paul can't do their job if their feed
sucks; as for Roll, well, see the other thread.

NS

 

[Steve McGinty]

On 17 May 2003 21:22:40 GMT, [email protected] (Mapei81) wrote:

>Am I the only one who thought it seemed unusually glitchy? Time after time, Phil-Paul-Bob were
>talking context when some rider actually made a move that they either didn't notice or ignored
>until they finished a couple more sentences. At least twice, I caught them missing riders in
>between groups on the mountains that I noticed and in one case identified. At one point, the

>like that. And it seemed like more commercials and promo spots than I can ever remember in OLN's
>coverage before.

Count yourself lucky - Eurosport in the UK pulled the advertised coverage in favour of a
Serie A game.

Regards! Stephen

 

[Jan]

Steve McGinty wrote:
> On 17 May 2003 21:22:40 GMT, [email protected] (Mapei81) wrote:
>
>> Am I the only one who thought it seemed unusually glitchy? Time after time, Phil-Paul-Bob were
>> talking context when some rider actually made a move that they either didn't notice or ignored
>> until they finished a couple more sentences. At least twice, I caught them missing riders in
>> between groups on the mountains that I noticed and in one case identified. At one point, the
>> screen went

>> like that. And it seemed like more commercials and promo spots than I can ever remember in OLN's
>> coverage before.
>
> Count yourself lucky - Eurosport in the UK pulled the advertised coverage in favour of a
> Serie A game.
>
> Regards! Stephen

Thats why I'm glad I insisted on keeping the analogue system when we got Sky digital ;-). Today
British Eurosport were showing motorbike racing til about
3.30.Jan

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[Mapei81]

>Just because you think sucking Simoni's wheel made Garzelli look stronger doesn't make the
>commentators wrong. Or did you only watch the last 100 meters?

Love your friendly attitude. I hope *you* have a nice day, too.

>first you make the case that they had technical glitches, and now you're making it sound like the
>commentators were screwing up.

Exactly. I think that, in this case, there were technical glitches in some parts of the broadcast
and announcer screwups in others. But, hey, they do a great job generally, and I thought they were
outstanding in Sunday's coverage.