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In defence of the BBC’s Sochi commentators

Ed Leigh, Aimee Fuller and Tim Warwood are hardly Dan Maskell, but they set an exciting tone

22 February 2014

9:00 AM

22 February 2014

9:00 AM

You can trust the BBC to behave like a leaf blown by any breeze, but even that spineless leviathan (if such a beast could exist) might have tried to grow a pair and stick up for its admirably manic commentators at the Sochi Winter Olympics. It was Ed Leigh, Aimee Fuller and Tim Warwood on the opening weekend’s snowboarding contest that really got people going.

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Roger Alton is an executive editor at the Times.

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