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What is the best place to get cycling on telly?
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| Reap |
Posted on 30-12-2007 12:12
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Since Eurosport dissapeared from my free analogue satellite thingy I have not been able to watch much cycling on TV.
I am looking at getting freeview or something else, maybe cable as I am connected this way on t'internet.
But where do you watch Cycling? (Eurosport presumably)
I am an ex racer myself (like a fair few of you here I would imagine) and have been missing it for a few years. |
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| MarcoPRT |
Posted on 30-12-2007 12:17
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tvtuga.com ?
Cycling.tv ?
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Posted on 30-12-2007 12:20
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Sorry, perhaps I have should have added for the UK
as for cycling.tv and the other do they have English speaking commentators? |
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Posted on 30-12-2007 12:29
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Reap wrote:
as for cycling.tv and the other do they have English speaking commentators?
unfortunately yes. god those british accents are annoying. why can't they be more neutral like canadians or such? 
and to top it off they always find the british guys with the most insane accents. those that would make a welshman go "that's screwed up"
tvtuga.com is portuguese
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Posted on 30-12-2007 12:34
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The site is portuguese, but I think that Eurosport is from France...
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Posted on 30-12-2007 13:22
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I watch British Eurosport for any Protour race i'm interested in watching, its as English as you can get!!! (although, because it is a Euro thing, if you listen carefully you can hear the many different languages commenting on the same thing at the same time).
Also ITV4 when its on, which is rarely.
And i've seen Sky Sports 3 have shown some stuff this year, such as the Tour of Germany and Paris-Brusselsprout.
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Posted on 30-12-2007 13:48
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You can get quite a bit of cycling on Sky, but i don't have that:when there's a race you want to watch just type in on Google, f.e. Giro d'italia streams
something like that
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| issoisso |
Posted on 30-12-2007 13:53
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for random streams of the race, check the race's specific thread here at the forum. I usually drop the link for the stream if I can find one
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Posted on 02-01-2008 17:10
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I only really want to watch the Pro stuff tbh.
ITV 4, well tats on freeview isn't it? But thanks to the good old British mentality cycling is about as rare as hens teeth.
Sky, well if its not football its not Sport is it?
Trouble is I don't want to pay for the whole Sky or able package jus for a few bike races, oh well maybe i will get round to it eventually. |
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Posted on 02-01-2008 21:07
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Cycling.tv will show you a lot more than the mentioned channels do |
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Posted on 02-01-2008 21:23
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Cycling.tv will show you a lot more than the mentioned channels do
Do you mean more coverage of each race or more events?
I always thought cycling.tv was just clips? |
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Posted on 02-01-2008 21:27
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it shows quite a lot of races (live + highlights)
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Posted on 02-01-2008 21:32
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and the live races are free. only the archived content is paid for.
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Posted on 02-01-2008 21:48
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... with awful British commentators |
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Posted on 02-01-2008 21:54
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gaaaahhh don't remind me 
that and the bad video quality...unless you pay...which I won't.
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Posted on 02-01-2008 21:56
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Bad video quality (which is not that bad at all) is better than no video quality, I guess |
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Posted on 02-01-2008 22:09
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yeah, I guess. what really bums me out is that I probably won't ever get to see another Giro live (except for weekend stages). that's a real killer
but that's another story 
anyway, most races are covered by a combination of cycling.tv, DSF, Eurosport, RAI and random internet streams that I pick up.
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Posted on 04-01-2008 12:49
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I thought ITV4 only did tour de france? |
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Posted on 04-01-2008 13:09
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Here in Holland almost every race is on tv, it's on one of our main channels, and if it's not, we can still watch the belgian tv channel, they send out every match, they're cycling freaks
And a dutch site: www.telesport.nl has some live streams, f.e. tdf, but they also do track cycling live streams
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 04-01-2008 13:47
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chuckie wrote:
I thought ITV4 only did tour de france?
it does highlights of a couple of other races but only about 3 more classis
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