Cycling on Eurosport

applebiker
applebiker Posts: 33
edited March 2008 in Pro race
Below is a list of cycling on Eurosport 1 and 2 this year.

The Three Major Tours
10 May to 1 June - Giro d'Italia
5-27 July - Tour de France
30 August to 21 September - Vuelta a Espana

The World Championships
26-30 March - World Track Championships from Manchester
24-28 September - World Road Championships from Verona, Italy

9-16 March - Paris-Nice
12-18 March - Tirreno-Adriatico
22 March - Milan-Sanremo
6 April - Tour of Flanders
9 April - Gent-Wevelgem
13 April - Paris-Roubaix
20 April - Amstel Gold
23 April - Fleche Wallone
27 April - Liege-Bastogne-Liege
8-15 June - Criterium du Dauphine Libere
25-27 August - Eneco Tour (Tour of Benelux)
12 October - Paris-Tours
18 October - Giro di Lombardia
14-20 September - Tour of Poland

Comments

  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    awesome - I am gonna make sure they get my TV set up at work so I can watch this.. will also be recording all races on the V+ incase I miss them,, cant wait
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  • sicrow
    sicrow Posts: 791
    Getting giddy - bring on Sunday
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  • trig1
    trig1 Posts: 111
    gettin sky+ the morra im missin nothing i can barely wait! :D
  • Echappee
    Echappee Posts: 79
    don't get too excited - Flanders = 30mins live, Paris Rouxbaix = 1 hour live and thats if the events before don't over run
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    No Vuelta?
    don't get too excited - Flanders = 30mins live, Paris Rouxbaix = 1 hour live and thats if the events before don't over run
    True, we need to cross-refer to similar lists for moto GP / Superbikes and tennis.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Echappee wrote:
    don't get too excited - Flanders = 30mins live, Paris Rouxbaix = 1 hour live and thats if the events before don't over run

    Eurosport is a pile of crap. No one gives a toss about MotoGP and crap like that. Eurosport is always full of crap sport, then when they can show some decent stuff they won't show it all.
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  • Echappee
    Echappee Posts: 79
    redddraggon wrote:
    Echappee wrote:
    don't get too excited - Flanders = 30mins live, Paris Rouxbaix = 1 hour live and thats if the events before don't over run

    No one gives a toss about MotoGP and crap like that.

    Moto GP is a bigger draw than cycling hence the cycling gets bumped
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Echappee wrote:
    redddraggon wrote:
    Echappee wrote:
    don't get too excited - Flanders = 30mins live, Paris Rouxbaix = 1 hour live and thats if the events before don't over run

    No one gives a toss about MotoGP and crap like that.

    Moto GP is a bigger draw than cycling hence the cycling gets bumped

    Is it? I don't know anyone personally who's interested. Football - yes, rugby - yes, tennis - yes, F1 - yes, even snooker and darts- yes, but no one I know give's a rat's ass about MotoGP.
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  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    Glad to see they got their priorities right and that the womens' biathlon promptly bumped Andy Murray & his tennis chums out the way exactly on schedule today.
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  • Mog Uk
    Mog Uk Posts: 964
    Can't wait for the MotoGP season to start myself...

    3 evenings of Qatar action this coming weekend, bring it on.........
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  • cabledonuts
    cabledonuts Posts: 121
    Yeah, have to say I'd prefer to watch MotoGP than dull F1 any day of the week!

    MotoGP has excitement, it's actually a race where the vast majority of the riders can compete with each other. That makes it interesting to watch from a sporting perspective. It's not an event that turns into a procession after lap 1 like F1 is. Jostle for position from the start, hold your position and then that's it until engines fail etc. The only time any over taking goes on is when someone gets lapped. Just listen to the commentators during an F1 race "oh now look, someone's pulled into the pits!!!". Really? Interesting.. Anyone overtaken anyone yet to make a race of it? No.
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  • cabledonuts
    cabledonuts Posts: 121
    Oh and cheers for the info applebiker. Had been trying to find this info recently but couldn't.

    Paris-Nice is starting as I speak!
    "Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish bull. A friend of mine said recently; 'What do you get if you cross a ballerina and a b(a)stard?' His answer, Ballesteros."
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    cabledonuts wrote:
    Oh and cheers for the info applebiker. Had been trying to find this info recently but couldn't.
    In case you didn't see the other Eurosport thread... listings for British Eurosport are available here. Select British Eurosport in one of the channel selector boxes.
  • cabledonuts
    cabledonuts Posts: 121
    thanks colin.

    Further to what I was saying about F1 even their own are saying it's crap!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 282861.stm

    I'd thought about this a long time ago. Seemed it would make it more interesting. Got the idea when thinking back to when I played cricket at school. As we had such a good team we would reverse the batting order in order that it would make more of a match of it - and give the lower order batsmen a chance to have a go.
    "Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish bull. A friend of mine said recently; 'What do you get if you cross a ballerina and a b(a)stard?' His answer, Ballesteros."
  • girofan
    girofan Posts: 137
    Continental Europeans have different priorities in sport compared with the British. When bemoaning the lack of what YOU prefer on Eurosport, perhaps you may keep this in mind. :roll:
    I say what I like and I like what I say!
  • buspassman
    buspassman Posts: 35
    I'm sure I'm far from alone, but I have an old second-hand box and dish tuned to the International Eurosport signal, which still broadcasts with English language commentaries. There is far more cycling coverage there, particularly of the classics - the TV schedule is on Eurosport.de. No way would I pay Rupert Murdoch for an inferior service, and I would suggest any cyclist who really wants to see the big races should do as I and many others have done.
  • buspassman
    buspassman Posts: 35
    Try looking at the TV schedule for Eurpsport.de i.e. the International Eurosport channel, which is still free to air and has English language commentary. There is far more cycling on there, particularly with regard to coverage of the classics. Why pay Mr Murdoch for an inferior service, when you can (as I and many others have done) get yourself a second-hand box and dish and tune in to the international signal.
  • buspassman
    buspassman Posts: 35
    Try looking at the TV schedule for Eurosport.de i.e. the International Eurosport channel, which is still free to air and has English language commentary. There is far more cycling on there, particularly with regard to coverage of the classics. Why pay Mr Murdoch for an inferior service, when you can (as I and many others have done) get yourself a second-hand box and dish and tune in to the international signal.
  • captain_oakley
    captain_oakley Posts: 222
    Watching the Cycling on Eurosport over the w/end......... Duffers & Kelly what a
    double act, I do really think that Duffield should call it a day, there is only so much
    we can take re the local Fayre!!


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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Were Duffers and Kelly co-commentating? I thought Kelly was with Harman doing Paris-Nice whilst Duffers was as confusing as ever with some new sidekick who was worse on Tirreno-Adriatico?

    Anyway, did anyon eelse notice that during the Paris-Nice coverage yesterday the ticker at the bottom of the screen said they'd have live coverage of Milan-San Remo from 2 pm on Saturday on Eurosport 2? Fingers crossed.
  • Luke_284
    Luke_284 Posts: 7
    Yeah Kelly is usually on with Harmon, and he was for the Paris Nice. Duffers was on with the guy called Carlton Kirby (he seems to commentate on the Paris-Dakar 4x4 race, so I guess cycling isn't his main field of expertise).

    I too noticed the ticker, and I've seen a few adverts for the Milan-San Remo Live on Saturday - Eurosport 2, let's hope we get it!
  • pcd993
    pcd993 Posts: 74
    The commentating for Paris Nice was far better than Adriatica. The new guy alongside Duffers didn't spot that Freire won the stage until the results came up on the screen!

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