For a decade and a half, Rob Warner was always there when there was something to say about mountain bike racing. He was the megaphone of the World Cup incarnate. Every syllable he shouted into the microphone made it clear to anyone listening: history was being made here.

But then the plug was pulled on him. A new TV distributor is making a fresh start. ride.ch showed just how successful it was.

Warner has not lost his sense of humor, and his signature punchlines are as sparkling as ever. However, the question arises as to what he wants to communicate with his slapstick clip "The Way Back". That he doesn't take it all that seriously? Or the opposite, namely that he has no choice but to laugh at himself out of sheer despair?

In the podcast The Ride Companion, he talks about what being sacked as a World Cup commentator has done to him. There, too, he mainly expresses himself in funny anecdotes, and it's not sure whether he's exaggerating when he says he was absolutely devastated and didn't get out of bed for two weeks.

In any case, he presents it in this serious format in such a way that the loss took a heavy toll on him. And he would probably like his job back. Discovery and GCN+ will stop broadcasting the World Cup after one season. Perhaps another door will open for Rob, aka The Voice of Mountain Bike World Cup.