Synopsis
A former amateur cyclist turned professional commentator, Phil Liggett has covered forty-seven Tours de France and fifteen Olympic Games. He made Australians stay up all night glued to the television. He has seen the giants of cycling come and go and he has outlasted them all. He has called every triumph, tragedy and scandal in the sport for half a century. Astonishingly poetic and whimsical, Phil's flights of rhetorical brilliance on the microphone are the stuff of legend and are globally known as "Liggettisms". Has anyone ever described the pain of the uphill climb, or the chaos of the sprint to the line with such grace or style? Phil Liggett has shaped the way the world sees cycling, and his name has become synonymous with the sport. With the clock ticking on his career, Phil has found a new and urgent vocation saving endangered rhinos from poachers -- but can this ever replace the thrill of calling the big races? How much longer can Phil continue to be the voice of cycling?
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Director
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Nickolas Bird,
Eleanor Sharpe
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Producer
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Nickolas Bird
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Screenwriter
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Eleanor Sharpe
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Production Co
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Post Lab IO
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Genre
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Documentary,
Biography
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Original Language
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English
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Runtime
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1h 54m
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