Video: Trackside Highlights & Rider Reactions from the Bielsko-Biala DH World Cup 2024

 Totaly agree

 Make a very minor effort and find people who know about the sport. Terrible and inexcusable.

Sounded like zero knowledge and even less preparation. Plus, who's the audience they're editing for? People who also know absolutely nothing about the sport and have attention deficit disorder?

 Awkward moment with Vali Unconfortable overall Any exDh rider Would have better insights to the interview..

 She could learn a few names at the very least, and stop calling everyone mate...

 I couldn't get through 2 minutes! I she related to Claudio?

 It's the traditional Eurosport way of hosting, which I've never understood myself. Have someone (a woman) looking like they're dressed for the office dropped on site and standing out like a sore thumb. Their main thing indeed isn't to know about the sport or the athletes, but be some kind of "normal" TV host. Since I'm paying for it, I've been watching some Giro road action again as well and even with the team in the studio it's a bit weird the guys (commentators, ex cyclist experts etc.) are dressed casually in jeans and sneakers and the female host on the other side of the desk is wearing a cocktail dress and super high heels. It's like some weird booth babe phenomenon of the traditional sports world, now seeping into MTB too thanks to WBD.

 @donimo: although she’s not an ex rider herself she’s actually pretty knowledgable of the sport and the riders.

 @Bertrude: Are we talking about Kate Mason or the woman doing the road stuff/ Giro? (I'm sorry I can't remember her name, but then again I can't remember most of the guys' names either - I'm not that into road cycling even though I do like watching it.) The latter I absolutely agree with. It's the fact that for some reason we need to have women looking like they don't belong to the sports world being the hostess on these shows that gets to me being so weird. It kinda puts the focus on their looks and general presence, ignoring the fact that they might actually know something about something.

Then again I also don't get the business style dressing of many team sport coaches either, or - at least here in Finland - some ex hockey players and such dressing up to the nines to do some comments in the studio. But especially with (mountain) bikes it looks so odd, when everyone else on location is dressed so super casually.

 I can't upvote this enough.

 I came here to say that. 100% agree