I gave up on it when they started featuring Suzy Perry’s moustache so prominently on motogp.
As opposed to Jenny Guy, or The Unwatchable Jenny Guy, as she was christened by Bike magazine. Watching her was real toe-curling car-crash stuff, can’t believe the Beeb have kept her employed (doing F1 on 5Live).
Huw Porter’s commentary was blood boiling, their radio commentary on the whole is better even though its more difficult (have to paint a picture without just stating bland facts). Gary Lineker asked Lizzie A if she was going to replay Emma Pooley in the time trial, though to be fair you could hear in his voice he’d realised half way through it was a stupid question and tried to recover.
Clare Balding is like Jake Humphreys; regardless of their knowledge of a particular sport at least they are capable of stringing coherent, even literate, sentences together which is a start.
-Vino, “a great win from someone in the twilight of their career, any worries about passing a dope test this time? should we delay the medal ceremony until after or are you confident the right masking agents have been bought and paid for?”
“how much did you pay Uran to throw the sprint?”