I’m writing this whilst doing what many people on the race will be doing on the Giro d’Italia rest day: waiting for my laundry to finish. After a week on the race, I managed to get a lie-in this morning, and a few hours to have a walk and not think about work, but the time ‘off’ goes quickly and it won’t be long until I’m planning logistics and prepping questions for tomorrow. No complaints, though – sitting here in the sun in Pisa is pretty good.
I’ll be penning some regular columns whilst I’m out here at the Giro, taking you behind the scenes of the race and my job at TNT Sports and Eurosport, plus plenty of off-bike anecdotes too, because a lot happens in three weeks! Before we get onto this week in Italy, I wanted to give you a little introduction to what my job looks like, and what goes into the stuff you see on TV.
Despite what some people think, it’s just me and my cameraman, Bob, in our car, doing all the driving, which can be a lot here in Italy, as well as all the filming, interviews and planning for three weeks. It can be a long time to spend with one person, and some long and busy days, but we’ve done a few Grand Tours together now, which definitely helps, and we’ve become great friends.
A typical day will always start with a good breakfast – pretty cake and crostata heavy here in Italy, plus a cappuccino and an espresso to set me up for the day – and then I’ll spend some time preparing for the day: reading the news, thinking about who I need to speak to at the start, what the storylines and questions of the day will be. Then we’ll head to the start, and it’s always straight to the buses for me. We have other reporters on the ground talking to the riders at the start, but I’m on team and DS duty.
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