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Who are the Tour de France commentators?

Find out who's behind the mic and reporting on the ground for the respective Tour de France broadcasters

The Tour de France is cycling's biggest event and transcends the everyday fans of the sport to reach millions of people around the world.

Because of the level of interest, TV channels up their coverage and provide wall-to-wall live broadcast of the race as well as in-depth highlights programmes and analysis.

That enhancement of coverage includes recruiting the sport's top commentators and pundits to scrutinise the goings on in the race, but who are the people behind the voices we hear every day on television?

ITV Tour de France commentators

ITV has been a long-time broadcaster of the Tour de France on free-to-air television in the UK, and their line-up of commentators has been set for some time.  

Commentary veteran Phil Liggett and the late Paul Sherwen provided commentary from a US feed up until 2016, when ITV brought in their own commentators. Journalist (and Rouleur columnist) Ned Boulting took over the mic along with former British pro and four-time Tour de France stage winner David Millar, and the pair have been working on the Tour for ITV ever since. 

Two-time British champion Peter Kennaugh works as a pundit on ITV, analysing the racing alongside another former pro and three-time Tour stage winner Chris Boardman and host Gary Imlach.

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ITV also send reporters to work on the ground at the Tour. Author and journalist Daniel Friebe provides colour segments for the highlights programme as well interviewing riders pre- and post-stage. Another author and journalist Matt Rendall provides interviews and on the ground from the Tour as well.

Eurosport/GCN Tour de France commentators

In the UK, Global Cycling Network have upped the ante after launching their online race streaming platform in 2020. Since being acquired by Discovery, subsequently part of  Warner Bros. Discovery, the GCN and Eurosport coverage has converged and now holds pre-race and post-race shows every day, as well as start-to-finish coverage without adverts (on streaming).

In the commentary box is a mix of Eurosport veterans and newer recruits. Commentator and author Carlton Kirby has been on Eurosport's cycling coverage for a very long time, and shares the lead commentary duty with another long-time Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch, interchanging throughout the day. There's also the voice of Jonathan Harris-Bass from Eurosport HQ to talk about food and other stuff when the action lulls.

They're joined by former pro and four-time Tour de France green jersey and five-time stage winner (amongst many other victories) Sean Kelly on analysis commentary. Another Tour great, Australian Robbie McEwen, who sprinted to 12 stage victories and three green jerseys, joined the channel this year also drops in on commentary as well as appearing in the studio programmes either side of the race.

Likewise, GCN presenter and former British pro Daniel Lloyd combines stints on commentary with appearing in the studio.

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The analysis show either side of the race is hosted by journalist and presenter (and Rouleur columnist) Orla Chennaoui. She is joined every day by McEwen, Lloyd and former British champion Adam Blythe in the studio to discuss the daily happenings.

On the ground, retired Austrian pro Bernhard Eisel, former British champion Matt Stephens, and former British pro Hannah Walker interview riders.

NBC Sports Tour de France commentators 

Phil Liggett and Bob Roll host the NBC cycling coverage for the Tour de France (Getty Images)

Over in the US, British commentator and journalist Phil Liggett is covering his 50th edition of the Tour de France and his 45th as a commentator, having first travelled to the Tour in 1973.

He's joined by former US pro Bob Roll on co-comms, with NBC journalist Steve Porino and former South African pro (and Tour de France stage winner) Robbie Hunter reporting from the ground.

As well as hosting wall-to-wall coverage, NBC also has analysis programmes for each stage, with retired US pro and Vuelta a España winner Chris Horner joined by another retired American pro, Christian Vande Velde, to provide expert insight. Presenter Paul Burmeister hosts the pre- and post-race shows.

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Thanks to all our official broadcasters, you can follow the Tour de France on TV in more than 200 countries worldwide. Find out right away who the official broadcaster is in each country and visit their website to get all the practical information for following live coverage, stage summaries and special programmes.

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NBC Tour de France Announcers 2023 and Coverage Schedule

By Priyadarshi Nepal , On 4 July 2023 07:03 AM

NBC Tour de France Announcers 2023 are Phil Liggett, Bob Roll, Steve Porino and Christian Vande Velde. Liggett is popular as the voice of cycling.

The biggest cycling event in the world, Tour de France started on 1st July 2023 in Bilbao, Spain, and will come to an end on July 23, 2023, in Paris.

As the tournament started heating up, more and more people are tuning in to watch the famous competition from the comfort of their homes.

For American fans, Tour de France will be broadcasted by NBC and Peacock and every stage will be covered live with Phil Liggett's play-by-play commentary from the site. He will be accompanied by analyst Bob Roll and reporters Steve Porino and Christian Vande Velde.

Paul Burmeister will host pre-race and post-race segments from the studio. He will be joined by analysts Sam Bewley and Brent Bookwalter with their valuable insights and opinions.

Announcers for NBC Tour de France 2023

Tour de France 2023 NBC announcers are:

• Phil Liggett
• Steve Porino
• Christian Vande Velde

Phil Liggett is an English cycling announcer and commentator. He is also nicknamed the voice of cycling as he has been covering major cycling events for the past five decades. Phil will be covering the 2023 event as his 51st Tour de France coverage.

Liggett is a former amateur cyclist and instead of turning professional after receiving a contract in 1967, he opted for sports journalism as his career which turned out to be a great decision from his side.

Apart from cycling, Phil also commentates on triathlons and ski jumping. He is also a published author and has written four books, his first book Tour De France for Dummies was published in May 2005.

Bob Roll also known as Bobke to his fans is an American former professional cyclist and sports commentator. He works as an onsite analyst for NBC covering cycling competitions for the network from around the world.

As a former professional cyclist, Bob has participated in Tour de France himself and is able to speak from his experience in addition to his expertise in the field. He competed in 1986 finishing 63rd, in 1987 which he did not complete due to an injury, and in 1990 completing 132nd.

Roll has been working for NBC since 2012. He is a member of NBC's elite cycle commentary team alongside Phil as the duo has been working together to bring live actions from the field to viewers for the Tour de France, Vuelta an España, Giro d'Italia, Paris–Roubaix, and Tour of California, among others.

Steve Porino, who has been working with NBC since the late 1990s covering Ski Events, now covers Cycling events for the network. The former professional downhill ski racer is now an ‘Inside-the-Race’ correspondent and commentator for the network.

Christian Vande Velde is a former professional cyclist turned broadcaster from the United States of America. He currently serves NBC as a cycling analyst after joining the network in 2014. Velde will be present live on-site in every stage of the 2023 Tour de France covering the event.

NBC Tour de France Commentators 2023

NBC Sports Tour de France commentators are;

• Paul Burmeister
• Brent Bookwalter

Tour de France announcers NBC Paul, Sam, and Brent will cover the event from the studio, Paul will host the pre-race and post-race coverage and Sam and Brent will give their insights as analysts from the studio to the viewers enjoying the action from the comfort of their homes.

Paul Burmeister is an American sportscaster. He joined NBC in 2014 and has been covering a variety of sports as a play-by-play commentator and studio host for the past decade. Prior to joining NBC, he was the studio host of NFL Network for over ten years.

Apart from NBC, Burmeister is also the radio voice for Notre Dame football having made play-by-play commentary for the team in all of their home and away games since 2018. He partners with Ryan Harris for the job.

The former college football player, Burmeister attended The University of Iowa where he played as an offensive captain. The veteran broadcaster quickly made sports reporting and anchoring his career after his graduation by joining KCRG in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1998.

Sam Bewley joined NBC as a studio analyst for the 2023 Tour de France. He is a former professional cyclist from New Zealand and has had a solo experience riding at the French event in 2020. Sam retired from professional cycling at the end of 2022.

In his career spanning nearly two decades, Bewley cycled for teams including Trek–Livestrong, Team RadioShack, PureBlack Racing, and Orica–GreenEDGE. He also represented New Zealand at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal for the team.

Apart from covering cycling for NBC as an analyst, Sam also hosts the cycling podcast The Social Distance Podcast alongside George Bennett and Dan Jones. He also currently works as the team director for Premier Tech cycling team, an Israeli professional cycling team.

Brent Bookwalter is a former professional cyclist from the United States. He joined NBC as a studio analyst to cover the 2023 Tour de France alongside Sam Bewley. Bookwalter ended his successful 16-season cycling career last year before transitioning into a broadcasting career.

Among many prestigious titles and races, Brent has participated in four Tour de France events. He finished 147th in 2010, 114th in 2011, 91st in 2013, and 117th in 2016. He has also participated in Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.

NBC Tour de France Coverage Schedule

NBC Tour de France Coverage for American fans started on Saturday, July 1, 2023, at 8 am ET on NBC. Peacock is also covering the event live.

The TV schedule will include live coverage of events at every stage and pre-race and post-race coverage from the studios. Cycling fanatics will get a chance to witness the action live with added insights from field and studio commentators and announcers.

Fans can tune in to NBC or Peacock both on television and on their mobile application to enjoy the 2023 Tour de France. Here is a complete schedule for the coverage in the United States of America. (all times are in Eastern Time).

Saturday, July 1, 2023

8 am Stage One live on NBC.

Sunday, July 2, 2023

6:05 am Stage Two live on Peacock.

Monday, July 3, 2023

6:50 am Stage Three live on Peacock.

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

7 am Stage Four live on Peacock.

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

8 am Stage Five live on Peacock.

Thursday, July 6, 2023

7 am Stage Six live on Peacock.

Friday, July 7, 2023

7:10 am Stage Seven live on Peacock.

Saturday, July 8, 2023

6:20 am Stage Eight live on Peacock.

Sunday, July 9, 2023

7:05 am Stage Nine live on Peacock.

Monday, July 10, 2023

No live coverage; Break Day

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

6:55 am Stage 10 live on Peacock.

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

6:55 am Stage 11 live on Peacock.

Thursday, July 13, 2023

6:55 am Stage 12 live on Peacock.

Friday, July 14, 2023

7:30 am Stage 13 live on Peacock.

Saturday, July 15, 2023

6:55 am Stage 14 live on Peacock.

Sunday, July 16, 2023

6:55 am Stage 15 live on Peacock.

Monday, July 17, 2023

No live coverage; Break day

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

6:50 am Stage 16 live on Peacock.

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

6:05 am Stage 17 live on Peacock.

Thursday, July 20, 2023

6:55 am Stage 18 live on Peacock.

Friday, July 21, 2023

7:05 am Stage 19 live on Peacock

Saturday, July 22, 2023

7:30 am Stage 20 live on Peacock

Sunday, July 23, 2023

10:10 am Stage 21 live on Peacock.

5 pm Stage 21 encore on NBC.

Note: All the events available on Peacock are also available on NBC Sports.

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The Transcendent Thrill of Watching the Tour de France

By Bill McKibben

I live in the mountains of the Northeast, and normally the last thing I want in the spacious days of summer is something to watch on TV. But this year we’ve had one flooding rain after another, and when the skies have cleared they really haven’t––the plume of smoke from Canada’s wildfires has hovered day after day, and many mornings, like this one, the roadside sign that usually offers up warnings about construction ahead has instead flashed this grim warning: “Air Quality Alert/Limit Outdoor Activity.” So I’ve been grateful for the daily distraction from climate dread provided by the Tour de France, arguably the world’s biggest annual sporting spectacle.

And in this case I come to praise not mainly the noble rivals Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar (more on them later) but the broadcast crew assembled by Peacock, the NBC streaming service, to cover the contest’s twenty-one days of racing. Since each broadcast lasts five or six hours (the daily stages are hundreds of kilometres long, and even at the astonishing pace of these cyclists it takes a while), that’s more than a hundred hours of coverage in a month—maybe equivalent to an N.F.L. season’s worth of broadcasting time. And yet it is a steady pleasure.

The coverage begins each morning in a Connecticut studio where a trio—Paul Burmeister, Sam Bewley, and Brent Bookwalter—stand quite formally behind a lectern, wearing suits, ties, and pocket squares. (I have no idea why—perhaps a contract with some haberdasher.) Burmeister is a TV guy—his smooth patter has graced everything from Notre Dame football to ski jumping. But his two partners are bike guys—Bewley, a former Olympic bronze medallist for New Zealand, and Bookwalter, a Michigan native and a veteran of the Grand Tour, in Europe. They begin by forecasting the day ahead, which is a more complicated task than you might think.

The Tour de France is famous for the yellow jersey that its over-all leader wears—when the race finally ends up on the Champs-Élysées, on Sunday, the Danish cyclist Vingegaard will almost certainly wear the maillot jaune for having made the 3,405-kilometre trip in the shortest elapsed time. But his duel with the Slovene Pogačar has been only part of the story. The race also features the polka-dot jersey, awarded to the man who wins the most summit climbs in the mountains of the Alps and Pyrenees, and the green jersey, which goes to the fastest of the sprinters. On “flat stages,” which avoid the mountains, those sprinters usually wind up in a chaotic dash to the line; on mountainous stages, the sprinters gather far behind the main peloton, willing their bodies slowly up the hills to meet the daily time cutoff and stay in the race. Meanwhile, each day’s stage is a race of its own, with glory to whoever manages to win; each rider, in turn, is a member of an eight-man team, and they can and do work together, breaking the headwinds for their stars. All in all, there’s plenty to talk about.

And the talk, after half an hour of studio preliminaries, moves to France, and the persons of Phil Liggett and Bob Roll, as natural a TV pair as I’ve ever seen. Liggett, an Englishman who will turn eighty shortly after this Tour concludes, has covered the Tour for more than fifty years, which is very nearly half of its hundred and ten renditions. Roll is merely in his sixties, and declares his youth by pre-riding many of the hill climbs on the morning of the stage, the better to describe the pain the racers are about to endure. He is, I think, the actual heart of the coverage. Liggett talks more, chattering happily away with many useful references to the long history of the race. But sometimes he gets a name or a team or a time wrong. (He occasionally conflates young riders with their fathers or even grandfathers, who raced before them.) Roll, like the patient wife of an endearingly addled older husband, offers a gentle correction, but mostly he provides strategic insight that comes from his own long career in the saddle; he has an almost preternatural instinct for the glorious moment each day when one of the leaders will launch a superhuman uphill “attack” to open a gap on his rivals.

When that happens, the other key member of the team—another former pro cyclist, Christian Vande Velde—is often on hand to commentate. He spends each race day on the back of a motorcycle, watching the action up close and chatting through car windows with the directors of the various teams who will share bits of strategy. This sounds like an easy enough job, until you remember that, much of the time, he’s whipping downhill at sixty miles per hour or more, following the racers through the harrowing descents. (In the Tour de Suisse, a warmup race for this year’s Tour, one rider died after a high-speed crash.) Oh, and then there’s also Steve Porino, a dead ringer in look and affect for the late Fred Willard in his role as the broadcaster in “Best in Show”; Porino ranges ahead of the riders, looking for people along the road to interview, often managing to find the stars’ parents, whom he coaxes from their camper vans to offer anecdotes about the athletic precociousness of their sons as small boys.

Even with all these voices, there’s a lot of air to fill, and so Roll often serves as tour guide: the broadcast feed, provided to TV channels around the world by the Tour organizers, features many long helicopter shots, and when nothing much is happening in the race the camera tends to linger on châteaux and churches, and so there’s an ongoing impromptu lesson in medieval history. All in all, a low-key way to pass the day, a gentle frame for the eventual injections of high drama.

And, oh, that drama! This year’s two stars are so evenly matched that two weeks into the race only ten seconds separated them. (Vingegaard finally surged ahead on Tuesday’s time trial.) Many of the stages end with massive ascents into the lunar landscape of high and treeless mountains, and sooner or later one of the two tries to shake the other with a massive acceleration; the tension hinges on whether his foe will be able to match the pace or will watch his rival disappear up the mountain. The commentators are fully up to the task of capturing the nobility of these painful assaults, coming after hours of fast pedalling. (Oh, how one hopes these two are not doping.) That catharsis—it often lasts just seconds—is the centerpiece of these long broadcasts, and a daily reminder of why sports are, in some way, a serious part of our lives: there are few other venues for such public displays of courage and resolve, and the resulting joy or despair.

That’s a point, perhaps, that’s less obvious now than it once was. The Times announced earlier this month that it was disbanding its sports department. It will now send its readers to a subscription service that it recently acquired, the Athletic. I read it, and it occasionally offers long and engaging features in the lineage of Sports Illustrated . But mainly it provides acres of words about the main team sports in the U.S., often to do with contracts and statistics. It is sports as business—the comments sections are filled with disgruntled fans moaning about the general managers of their local teams. (One suspects that its most devoted readers are the ever-growing ranks of sports gamblers.) Transcendence is rare, unless you find it in a spreadsheet.

Endurance sports such as the Tour de France, which traditionally receive little coverage in the U.S., are perhaps a more reliable vehicle for that transcendence, and Peacock deserves credit for covering them—Liggett and Roll have also worked the Grand Tours of Spain and Italy, and the network also offers up coverage of swimming and track and field. Doubtless this has something to do with NBC owning the rights to the Olympics; we are always on the Road to Someplace (at the moment Paris, next summer). And my plaudits have limits: the network recently stopped covering Nordic skiing, which means that the winter TV sports scene features very little long-distance agony.

Still, the Tour de France redeems much else. There’s no escaping reality entirely—the weather has been heating up in Europe as the Tour proceeds, and this is easy to see as the racers warm up in ice-filled vests. But, when the race finishes, the commentators help viewers wind down their heart rates with another half hour of commentary—Roll is even able to translate from most of the European languages that the racers use to offer their post-race clichés. England was wise enough to award Liggett an M.B.E. (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), some years ago; we have no such way to honor our broadcasters save devoting a few hours each day to listening and appreciating. ♦

An earlier version of this article misstated the location of NBC Sports’ studios.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 6th, 2023

LIVE COVERAGE OF THE 110TH TOUR DE FRANCE CONTINUES THIS WEEKEND ON PEACOCK

Live Coverage of Stage 7 Begins Tomorrow with the Tour de France Pre-Race Show at 7 a.m. ET on Peacock; Live Race Coverage Begins at 7:10 a.m. ET on Peacock and Continues at 8 a.m. ET on Peacock and USA Network

Defending Champion Jonas Vingegaard Leads General Classification; Two-Time Champion Tadej Pogačar in Second Place Coming Off First Stage Victory of this Year’s Race in Stage 6

Final Round Coverage Concludes Sunday, July 23, at 10 a.m. ET Exclusively on Peacock

Peacock to Stream Live Start-to-Finish Coverage of Every Stage, Plus Daily Tour de France Pre-Race Shows

STAMFORD, Conn. – July 6, 2023 – NBC Sports’ live coverage of the 110 th Tour de France continues this weekend live on Peacock as the Tour enters Stage 7 tomorrow, Friday, July 7.

Live coverage of Stage 7, which begins in Mont-De-Marsan and finishes in Bordeaux, starts tomorrow, Friday, July 7, at 7 a.m. ET with the  Tour de France Pre-Race Show  on Peacock. Tomorrow’s live race coverage begins at 7:10 a.m. ET on Peacock, and continues at 8 a.m. ET on Peacock and USA Network.

Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard  (Team Jumbo – Visma) wears the yellow jersey with the general classification lead. Two-time champion and 2022 runner-up Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) is in second place following his first stage victory of this year’s race in Stage 6, and the 10 th in his career. American Neilson Powless  (EF Education-EasyPost) heads into Stage 7 wearing the polka dot jersey as the King of the Mountains leader.

Daily live coverage of all 21 stages culminates with final stage coverage on Sunday, July 23, live on Peacock at 10 a.m. ET. NBC will present encore coverage of the final stage at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday.

Peacock streams live start-to-finish coverage of every stage of the 2023 Tour de France , featuring NBC Sports-produced coverage, as well as commentary from the world feed. Peacock will also feature full-stage replays, highlights, stage recaps, rider interviews, and more.

To sign up and watch every minute of live action from the 2023 Tour de France, click here .

Peacock’s expansive programming offers the most live sports of any SVOD service in the United States , including live coverage of Sunday Night Football , Big Ten football (beginning in September), Olympic Games, MLB Sunday Leadoff , Premier League, Notre Dame Football, NASCAR, NTT IndyCar Series, and much more.  Peacock also offers daily sports programming on the NBC Sports channel.

COMMENTATORS

NBC Sports’ cycling play-by-play caller Phil Liggett , universally known as the ‘voice of cycling,’ covers his 51st Tour de France alongside analyst Bob Roll . Liggett and Roll are on-site at each stage, along with reporters Steve Porino and former professional cyclist Christian Vande Velde .

Paul Burmeister hosts daily pre-race and post-race studio coverage alongside Sam Bewley and Brent Bookwalter , who make their NBC Sports debuts as cycling analysts .

NBC SPORTS SOCIAL MEDIA

Fans can keep up with the Tour de France through NBC Sports’ social media platforms throughout the race, including exclusive behind-the-scenes photos, interviews, video clips, up-to-date news reports and stories from around the cycling world through the NBC Sports Cycling Facebook page and @NBCSNCycling on Twitter. In addition, fans can visit NBCSports.com/cycling for a live stream schedule, stage maps, results, routes and more.

NBC SPORTS’ 2023 TOUR DE FRANCE SCHEDULE

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Tour de France Commentary: A Change Of The Guard

Several years on from major generational change, Matthew Keenan, Bridie O’Donnell and Robbie McEwen are again providing the call for not just Aussie audiences – but the English language world feed of the Tour de France.

In 2017 Keenan & McEwen replaced the highly-respected commentary team of Phil Liggett, known around the world as ‘the voice of cycling’, and his long-time friend and co-commentator, Paul Sherwen. Sadly Paul Sherwen passed away in December 2018 – you can read our tribute to Paul here.

“Matthew Keenan and Robbie McEwen are at the helm of SBS’s commentary and Australian voices will call every stage from start to finish,” SBS said at the time.

Keenan & McEwen Go Global

“Three-time green jersey winner Robbie McEwen and renowned cycling commentator Matthew Keenan also take up the new role as commentators for the Tour de France’s official world feed, broadcast in over 50 territories.”

Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen continue to offer analysis and insight into stages, regions and individuals. The pair will also continue to provide Tour de France commentary for the American NBC network.

Following last year’s announcement Matt Keenan told AAP he was ‘pinching himself’. “Phil is an iconic figure in sports broadcasting,” Keenan said. “You don’t try to replace him — you can’t.”

Your Thoughts?

Over on the Bicycling Australia Facebook page many continue to have their say on the change of guard. Responses have been mixed, with many saying Liggett and Sherwen are, and will always be,  the voices of the tour.

“Going to miss Phil and Paul. What they do well is capture the romance of the Tour,” wrote Ben Kingsbury.

“For me The Tour is not all about the cycling. It’s about the food and the chateaus and the landmarks and the spectacle. Matt and Robbie are excellent with dealing with the technicalities of racing but struggle with the rest. It is wonderful to watch as the cyclists pass a 16th century monastery, the camera pans back and Paul gives the perfect French pronunciation and proceeds to explain from personal experience details of what we are looking at. I understand Phil in particular is a little past it and mixes up the cyclists names, and uses his usual phrases such as “going into the red zone” but for me he will be sadly missed. The Tour won’t be the same without the duo.”

Karyn McDonald wrote “As much as I love Robbie McEwen and Matthew Keenan, Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen are THE voices of Le Tour de France as they have been for many years. Won’t be quite the same without them…their dulcet tones of commentary will be sorely missed.”

Many have expressed bitter disapointed, a stream of followers clearly upset with the SBS decision.

Michael Begley: “Nooooooo!! Big mistake SBS. Phil and Paul capture the beauty of the whole tour. Not just the cycling.”

Peter Signorini: “Keenan and McEwan are competent enough, but just boring in comparison to Ligget and Sherwin.”

Shaun Walford: “Phil Liggett is the best commentator in the world for cycling, what’s the point in getting rid of him?”

We are keen to hear your thoughts, have your say in comments below.


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Take a leaf from Sean Kelly’s commentary……. I’ve actually had to mute the tv so I can enjoy the racing without hearing the continuous dribble.

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Commentary: sam bennett proves that there is crying at the tour de france, we all shed a tear for sam bennett after his emotional tour de france stage win on tuesday. bennett has been waiting his entire career for a chance to win at the sport's biggest race..

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I’m not crying, you’re crying.

Wait — why are we crying? We’re all crying because Sam Bennett was crying.

Bennett, the Irish sprinter on Deceuninck–Quick-Step, fought back tears midway through his post-race television interview after he won Tuesday’s 10th stage of the Tour de France in a hectic sprint into Île de Ré. Seb Piquet, the longtime host of Radio Tour, asked Bennett if the grandeur of his first Tour de France victory had set in, and Bennett was simply overcome by the moment.

Bennett sat, unable to speak, as the emotion washed over him.

Watch the video below and prepare for the waterworks.

https://twitter.com/SportTG4/status/1303355159846690818

“You dream of it and you never think it will happen. It did, and I don’t know, it took me a while before it hit me,” Bennett said. “Sorry, I don’t mean to be a crybaby.”

No apologies needed, Sam Bennett. Your emotion is a welcomed sight at this nervous and uncertain pressure cooker of a Tour de France.

Over the past 10 days we’ve watched the race unfold under the storm clouds of COVID-19 , and we have nervously twisted our hands while seeing overhead images of fans alongside the roads and crowds on the mountains . We’ve no doubt asked ourselves whether it’s been worth it to hold this Tour at all — a legitimate question that should be asked.

Amid all of this tension and nerves, Bennett’s tears of joy on an otherwise drab Tuesday morning is a reminder of the happiness and joy that this race can bring to the lives of the riders and fans watching at home.

And there’s a compelling backstory to Bennett’s tears. His emotion undoubtedly sprung from the years of disappointment and setback that Bennett weathered as he waited for his moment to shine at the Tour . Bennett is back at the Tour de France after a four-year hiatus, now at the not-so-tender age of 29, which is well past middle-aged in pro cycling’s topsy-turvy sprint ranks. For years Bennett has banged bars with the fastest sprinters, however he’s struggled to get opportunities at grand tours.

There are no guarantees in pro cycling, of course, and for several years there it seemed as though Sam Bennett might never race the Tour again. That’s a huge setback for an Irishman who grew up in the hometown of Tour legend Sean Kelly.

Why was Bennett a Tour no-show? Bennett came of age on the German pro team that in 2017 became the Bora-Hansgrohe squad of the sport’s biggest superstar, Peter Sagan. And when you’re the sprinter on Peter Sagan’s team, it’s a bit like being the backup quarterback to Tom Brady. Sure, you can hope and dream of one day playing in the Super Bowl, but in all likelihood, you will be a benchwarmer as long as you’re on the team.

Thus, Bennett watched from the sidelines as Sagan gobbled up Tour de France stage wins, year after year. Would his opportunity to win ever come at the Tour de France? He didn’t know.

Perhaps that’s why Bennett told us he “felt disposable” in today’s market for sprinters. 

A steady contract is hard to secure in pro cycling, and at the end of 2019 Bennett seemed destined to stay at Bora-Hansgrohe for the coming years, even though he was continually passed over. The German team had discovered a GC threat in Emanuel Buchmann and another sprint star in Pascal Ackermann, and the two German stars jumped ahead of Bennett in the pecking order. The Tour, it seemed, might never happen.

“The thing is, you are not considered a top sprinter unless you win at the Tour,” Bennett said in late 2019. “And especially when you are negotiating a contract—without that, it is like you are not up there. That’s even though I can beat all the guys that have won stages there.”

But at the end of 2019 a lifeline opened up, as they often do, amid pro cycling’s transfer window. Elia Viviani, the star sprinter at Deceuninck–Quick-Step, left the Belgian team for a heftier paycheck at Cofidis. The move left a gaping hole in the Belgian team’s plug-and-play sprint train. Over the past few years, the team’s so-called “Wolf Pack” has acted as a kingmaker for sprinters: Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel, Fernando Gaviria, and Viviani.

All Bennett had to do was force his way out of Bora-Hansgrohe. He had reportedly signed a letter of intent to stay with Bora-Hansgrohe, even though he sought a new job with Deceuninck–Quick-Step. Lawyers got involved, and the case went to the UCI’s arbitration panel. In the end, Bennett was given the OK to leave, but only after months of uncertainty.

Tuesday’s stage win was confirmation that the stress, the lawyers, and the uncertainty were all worth it for Sam Bennett.

But then there was the added pressure of racing and actually winning on Deceuninck–Quick-Step. What fate would greet Bennett if he became the only sprinter to plug-in and  not win on the Belgian squad? Tuesday’s win erased such a grim reality.

“It’s a relief when there are so many great sprinters that pass through this team and delivered here. I needed this — to come to the Tour de France and deliver for this team after Deceuninck–Quick-Step and Patrick [Lefevere] gave me this amazing opportunity,” Bennett said after the stage. “I really wanted to deliver for them and also for my teammates who worked superbly for me all day. The mechanics, the soigneurs, even the press officer, the whole team, the whole wolf pack.”

Yep, it was a whirlwind of pressure, self-doubt, legal struggles, and waiting, and it produced a whirlwind of emotion inside Sam Bennett.

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