Essentially OLN is what Englehart had hoped an ESPN 3 might be. To pluck the fruit of cycling and skiing, he turned to John Carter as his program director. Coming from America's Deep South, his love of sports centered on baseball. He focused on sports programming and wound up in Texas, where he saw his first bike race. The first thing I ever did in TV was in 1988 at the Tour of Texas for Turner Sports.
Cycling is a game of situations and positions.
He continued to get cycling gigs, mixed into his diet of sports that included Olympic coverage. He worked often with Kent Gordis, who had parlayed his junior racing alongside Greg LeMond into coveted access of the pro peloton. If Englehart had the job of selling cycling on TV, Carter would have the job of packaging the sport. He wears no tie, dressing in the sweatered and loose-collared style of producers. These are the folks who pay less attention to manners, spending more time with electronics than executives.