Olympic Commentators

Richard Simmonds is in my view truly awful. I have found it better to watch with the sound off. He doesn't know the rules or seem to understand much about racing in any of the fleets. When you watch tennis or cricket the commentators are armed with loads of facts and anecdotes to fill in. Richard doesn't even seem to have read the sailing instructions, evidenced by him saying that the wining Chinese sailor should have done two turns when called for pumping.

I'd be interested to know what people think of the current crop of TV commentators.  Richard Simmonds is starting to really annoy me. I don't care for his style and he makes some real clangers. eg. He is surprisingly unimforned about how they race lasers offwind, as one sailor perfomed a neat transition from bye the lee to broad reach he said " that was a bit of a hand break turn that will slow him down".  He also seemed oblivious to the fact that the brit boat had slipped from first to 6th on the first beat and then dropped down to ~ 15th during the race. This hardly seemed worthy of comment, (when the NZ boat climbed from last to ~6th  in the same race). If that was not a shocker of a race for the brit what was? He was wondering what his coach was telling him after the race!! ( 4/10)