(slow Italian music)
- [Italian Speaker] Scatto del fagiano.
- This rather strange phrase translates literally
to pheasant attack
and was coined by Italian Eurosport commentator
Riccardo Magrini.
Nicknamed il Magro.
It was used to describe a gradual creeping sort of attack
usually detailed as more of a stealth move.
I must admit, I like scatto del fagiano a little bit more.
So after the beep, say scatto del fagiano.
(beep)
- [Italian Speaker] Scatto del fagiano.
Scatto
Del
Fagiano
Fla, fla, fla, fla.
- Nice one.
- [Italian Speaker] Il gruppo.
- Il gruppo means peloton.
So when you hear gruppo compato,
you'll know that the bunch is all together
or the breakaway has been reeled back in.
So try this after me.
Gruppo.
(beep)
- [Italian Speaker] Il gruppo.
Il-grup-po.
- Oomph. You're getting better.
- [Italian Speaker] Scattare in facia.
- This cracking little phrase sounds more like an insult
than anything else.
As when translated,
it quite literally means take off in your face.
Now, what it's meant to be conveying, however,
is the moment you attack and drop another rider.
Or just simply blow them off your wheel
with a devastating turn of speed.
I love this one.
So try it after me.
Scattare in facia.
(beep)
- [Italian Speaker] Scattare in facia.
Scattare
in
facia.
- Pft. Brilliant.
- [Italian Speaker] Ventaglio.
- Have a guess at this one.
Ven, wind?
What happens when the wind cuts through the peloton
and it fragments into groups?
Yep, you get echelons.
And ventaglio is essentially the Italian
for that french word.
So again, after me, ventaglio.
(beep)
- [Italian Speaker] Ventaglio.
Ven-tag-lio.
Io, io.
- Very, very good.
- [Italian Speaker] Il fugitivi o la fuga.
- I kind of like the idea of the cycling fugitive
so what better way to describe the breakaway group
or the escapes than il fugitivi.
Romantic Italian in full flow,
if you ask me.
So try it after me.
Il fugitivi.
(beep)
- [Italian Speaker] Il fugitivi o la fuga.
Fug-gi-tivi.
Fuga.
- You are getting good.
- [Italian Speaker] Punta di sella.
- This phrase means quite simply,
tip of the saddle.
Used to describe a rider on the limit,
pushed right forward on the saddle.
Now, the English version would be on the rivet.
As in the rivet at the end of the saddle.
So after me, punta di sella.
(beep)
- [Italian Speaker] Punta di sella.
Punta-di-sella.
- Nice one.
- [Italian Speaker] Sali-scendi.
- This cuplet is used to describe the undulating nature
of hilly roads
and quite literally means rising and falling.
Now, strangely mangia a bevi
is also used to describe the same thing.
Mangia and bevi, well that means eating and drinking.
So say after me, sali-scendi.
(beep)
- [Italian Speaker] Sali-scendi.
Sali
scendi.
- Nice one.
- [Italian Speaker] Crisi.
- Crisi in Italian means crisis
and what more of a crisis can there be
aside from crashing or needing an urgent toilet stop
at the side of the road without toilet paper,
than the dreaded bonk.
Hear this word and weep.
Crisi.
(beep)
- [Italian Speaker] Crisi.
Crisi.
- Pf ff, very, very, good.
- [Italian Speaker] Succhia ruota.
- Succhia ruota simply means wheel sucker
and needs no further explanation.
So last one, repeat after me.
Succhia ruota.
(beep)
- [Italian Speaker] Succhia ruota.
Succhia
cchia
ruota.
- Pf ff, ten outta ten.
I think you'll agree the Italian certainly
have some creative ways of describing our sport.
But do you have any you'd like to add?
If you do, leave them down below in the comment section.
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