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| Phil Liggett-Racer, Journalist, Announcer (Race Commentator) |
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| This information about Phil Liggett was gleamed from http://www.canada.com/life/voice+professional+cycling+still+talk+tour/3479987/story.html?cid=megadrop_story and paraphrased:
- As a teenager Phil hung around cycle shops near Liverpool.
- Phil`s first bicycle was a Raleigh Triumph.
- Phil`s attraction to bicycles flourished and he started racing as an amateur riding a Freddie Grubb frame which was produced in London. He raced for 12 years as a high level amateur.
- Phil did some announcing at bike races in England. In 1966 he was employed as a journalist for Cycling and Mopeds, a popular British cycling magazine. He also accepted a position of bicycle commentating for the BBC Radio station. In 1978 the Independent Television Station in Britain invited him to do commentating for TV
- Phil`s last competitive bicycle race was in 1975
- Currently (2010) Phil is the bicycle race commentator for four (4) television networks and can be seen and heard while announcing most of the major bike races worldwide. At age 67 he still manages to cycle about 4,000 km per year
- Phil`s knowledge of bike racing and bike racers (current & past) and the exciting manner in which he describes the races make him a very popular commentator/journalist.
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The number and Phil's name on an identification badge attached to his bike at a fund raising bike ride in 2010. Photograph by: Shaughn Butts, edmontonjournal.com |
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Phil sitting on the rear of a technical assist vehicle (or sag wagon) at a fund raising bike ride in 2010. Photograph by: Shaughn Butts, edmontonjournal.com |
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