Sports reporters don’t actually see as many live events as we think – and this is why

Spending the World Snooker Championship in busy press rooms away from the action may not sound fun, but they can make just as spectacular theatres for sport as being in the mix itself

People often ask how much live sport we get to watch when we’re out reporting. The answer is probably a lot less than you think.

This weekend I covered two very different sports. The first was the Tour de Yorkshire, which involved a level of multitasking to see anything at all: I left the makeshift media centre at Scarborough Cricket Club (where the match below bemused our French colleagues – “Why are both teams wearing white?”) and ran across the coastline to the finish.

It was my first glimpse of the race all week and there I watched the great Marianne Vos win a sprint while blogging on my phone, writing notes for my report and recording post-race quotes, before racing back up the hill to the media centre. Vos loved the Yorkshire crowds but wasn’t so keen on the freezing winds and hailstorms.