Credit where it's due, despite the commentary team doing their usual passive-aggressive thing I've enjoyed ITV4's coverage and I just wanted to say "Chapeau" to them for getting all the advert breaks out of the way to be able to bring us Froome's time trail run without interruption - that was over an hour without a break on what is obviously a commercial channel. Oh, and Froome did quite well himself too. I could have done without watching someone with a broken collar bone push it all the way on a descent until they inevitably crashed and landed on the injured shoulder, though. But that was out of their hands (thanks, French TV).
Phil Liggett is up there with the best commentators of any sport. The whole team are excellent though.
I prefer the eurosport commentary,but then again I only started watching the tour last year after conan mentioned it on here and i'd thought i'd take a look for somewhere to go with the motorhome a broken collar bone dunt bother me,i've watched motorcycle road racing all my life and seen far worse,in fact av ad far worse.
He should learn to differentiate between seconds and hundredths of a second. That bit today when Alajandro Valverde passed the first checkpoint almost a minute in the lead and Liggett was talking about him beating Van Garderen by less than a second was cringe-worthy, particularly as it went on for days. BTW Jean-Christophe Peraud is mental. He should never have got on his bike in the first place, but the speed he approached that corner... Even if he hadn't gone down he would have rode straight in to the barrier. He reccied the course that morning, he'd got a broken collar bone and he went in to that corner at that speed. Nutter.
My dad used to race motorbikes. He was quite good. He's got a great lump on his collar bone where he broke it once and it didn't heal properly.
