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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    It may also depend on the contract Eurosport have with Super Bikes (or whoever the governing body is). They may well have to show every minute of every race (minus ad breaks), podium ceremony and press conference. Where as the contracts for cycling may not be as tight.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Well the Tour of Flanders highlights are supposed to be on now, but they've got swimming on , why don't they put on what they're supposed to have on?
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  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    The highlights were only an hour at most, so I guess they set the shedule times before the editing was done.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    ricadus wrote:
    The highlights were only an hour at most, so I guess they set the shedule times before the editing was done.

    Well G-W starts live coverage in 37 mins (supposedly).......and the swimming is still on.........what's going on? We're getting shortchanged again.
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  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    redddraggon wrote:
    ricadus wrote:
    The highlights were only an hour at most, so I guess they set the shedule times before the editing was done.

    Well G-W starts live coverage in 37 mins (supposedly).......and the swimming is still on.........what's going on? We're getting shortchanged again.
    The International Eurosport coverage started as the riders were racing towards the hills. We saw the peloton do them all twice, then there was the long frenetic run to the finish. - great stuff!
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    ColinJ wrote:
    redddraggon wrote:
    ricadus wrote:
    The highlights were only an hour at most, so I guess they set the shedule times before the editing was done.

    Well G-W starts live coverage in 37 mins (supposedly).......and the swimming is still on.........what's going on? We're getting shortchanged again.
    The International Eurosport coverage started as the riders were racing towards the hills. We saw the peloton do them all twice, then there was the long frenetic run to the finish. - great stuff!

    Aye the streaming started at the same time as it came on the TV, I was clicking away on the computer trying to get a stream, but it started on the TV just as it came up on cyclingfans.
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  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    Hi guys.

    Eurosport are doing you all a favour!

    You should all be out riding your bikes on Sunday afternoons, then you can sit and watch the highlights package in the evening with a couple of cans of lager as the perfect recovery drink.

    Leave the afternoon drinking to the motorbike crowd!

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  • grimpeur
    grimpeur Posts: 230
    andrewgturnbull wrote:
    Hi guys.

    Eurosport are doing you all a favour!

    You should all be out riding your bikes on Sunday afternoons, then you can sit and watch the highlights package in the evening with a couple of cans of lager as the perfect recovery drink.

    Leave the afternoon drinking to the motorbike crowd!

    Cheers, Andy

    No, no, no, tradition dictates, hammer yourself into the ground for 4-5 hours on a Sunday morning. Come home, collapse on the coach, refuel and watch some bike racing.

    Sheesh, are you a triathlete or something. ;)
  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    grimpeur wrote:
    andrewgturnbull wrote:
    Hi guys.

    Eurosport are doing you all a favour!

    You should all be out riding your bikes on Sunday afternoons, then you can sit and watch the highlights package in the evening with a couple of cans of lager as the perfect recovery drink.

    Leave the afternoon drinking to the motorbike crowd!

    Cheers, Andy

    No, no, no, tradition dictates, hammer yourself into the ground for 4-5 hours on a Sunday morning. Come home, collapse on the coach, refuel and watch some bike racing.

    Sheesh, are you a triathlete or something. ;)

    Guilty. I did just manage to get home from racing today in time to see Eurosport's live coverage though - all 25 minutes of it!

    Cheers, Andy
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    I caught the extensiver coverage when I was setting up my Dads DVD/VCR/Recorder thingy. For some reason I flicked the TV to Eurosport.
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  • jackfeeder
    jackfeeder Posts: 269
    Does anyone know when ITV3 will show highlights - I know it's only an hour but they might show some of the earlier action if it's the same as the last couple of years.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    jackfeeder wrote:
    Does anyone know when ITV3 will show highlights - I know it's only an hour but they might show some of the earlier action if it's the same as the last couple of years.

    Next Saturday.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    iainf72 wrote:
    jackfeeder wrote:
    Does anyone know when ITV3 will show highlights - I know it's only an hour but they might show some of the earlier action if it's the same as the last couple of years.

    Next Saturday.
    On ITV4 rather than ITV3 I think.
  • nwallace
    nwallace Posts: 1,465
    hammerite wrote:
    It may also depend on the contract Eurosport have with Super Bikes (or whoever the governing body is). They may well have to show every minute of every race (minus ad breaks), podium ceremony and press conference. Where as the contracts for cycling may not be as tight.

    Sacrilige confusing SuperBikes for MotoGP totally different series, like British Touring Cars and Aussie V8. Contract probably isn't with the FIM either but some 2 wheeled Bernie.

    Jsutas well ITV will have some highlights, I've missed the lot on Eurosport :(
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  • reverendmark
    reverendmark Posts: 67
    andyp wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    jackfeeder wrote:
    Does anyone know when ITV3 will show highlights - I know it's only an hour but they might show some of the earlier action if it's the same as the last couple of years.

    Next Saturday.
    On ITV4 rather than ITV3 I think.

    Yes, Saturday 19th April on ITV 4 from 10:25am to 11:30am
  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    This is the German version I think. The old "Sky" Satellite dish.
    This Sunday, the Eurosport coverage was only with the last 20km. Before that, I was watching Paris Roubaix on a German station with about 55km to go. The German Eurosport seem to have the coverage live or later recorded. They sometimes have the big races on other German Channels if Eurosport aren't playing ball.
    I get to watch the Tour of Switzerland, Tour of Romandy and the other big German one day races on this Satellite and it's also free!!
    I got Freeview for my usual viewing and Astra Satellite for my Cycling. I think the Astra Sat' can still be picked up for cheap; Electrical Shop maybe??
    PS- The German Channels are in German of course but my Eurosport is still in English. Good stuff!!
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  • OllyBianchi
    OllyBianchi Posts: 89
    It's must be a sign of the times - I think I've seen more racing on the internet this year than on TV - Rotterdam 6, Tour of California, Flanders (Eurosport), and final 75ks of Roubaix in Danish (thanks to Cyclingfans).

    Couple more years and it won't be old Astra systems we'll need to find, it will be faster broadband.
  • yogi
    yogi Posts: 456
    Just watched ITV 4's highlights of Paris-Roubaix, it was so much better tha Eurosports hatchet job, you actually got a good impression of how the race tatics played out.

    Well done ITV4, looks like I wasted my money upgrading to British Eurosport.
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  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    FWIW:

    I downloaded (and just watched) a 2h50m Australian broadcast of Paris-Roubaix from a torrent which started from the Forest of Arenberg. Here are some useful links:

    http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=cycling
    http://www.demonoid.com/files/?category ... id=0&sort=
    http://thepiratebay.org/search/cycling/0/3/200
    http://www.youtorrent.com/tag/?q=cycling

    And now I've signed up to easynews.com I'm getting even more full(er) coverage of races than Eurosport provide. Lots of nice little TV segments too, like a Belgian bit pre-GW about the new descent on the Kemmelberg, and in about 50 minutes, a programme about the Tour of Flanders sportive.
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  • heathrow86
    heathrow86 Posts: 228
    I also watched the ITV4 highlights and thought they were spot on. Its a shame they cannot show more of the classics, although they do coverr the Tour de France and will show a nightly review of the 2008 Tour of Britain.
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    update: I just got a 3h 13m continuous AVI of the last 100km of the Tour of Flanders with commentary by Harman and Kelly from easynews. For the completists like myself it's a dream come true - I even managed to see myself for a whole frame. Don't quite get why they only showed half an hour of this race on British ES.
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Just watched the recording of Tro Bro Leon on Eurosport.........

    why even though it's not live do they not show the highlights instead of just the last few kms?

    All the riders were caked in mud and then the commentator (Harmon I think) said "we've now gone through 19 of the 20 farm track sections"....... do they not realise these are the bits that most of us want to see. Not the last 20k when the race is so strung out that you can't tell who is in what position!
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    It was Mike Smith, not David Harmon. They shoulda given us an hour of Tro Bro Leon instead of Amstel Gold! Looked like helluva race, and tbh I found Amstel Gold a little dull. What's the point of having 31 hills when it's only ever the last one that decides the race!
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    Reasonable coverage today I thought - watched a bit of the free feed on cycling TV - couldn't get the Danish TV feed to work - then the highlights on Eurosport - I wont complain about the Tour of Leon because that was a bit of a bonus.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    afx237vi wrote:
    It was Mike Smith, not David Harmon. They shoulda given us an hour of Tro Bro Leon instead of Amstel Gold! Looked like helluva race, and tbh I found Amstel Gold a little dull. What's the point of having 31 hills when it's only ever the last one that decides the race!
    Eh? It's a bike race, of course the final (in Sean Kelly speak) will decide the race!
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Tom Butcher wrote:
    Reasonable coverage today I thought - watched a bit of the free feed on cycling TV - couldn't get the Danish TV feed to work - then the highlights on Eurosport - I wont complain about the Tour of Leon because that was a bit of a bonus.

    I agree, it's nice to get some coverage at all.

    Although I think they could just put in a tiny bit more effort! It wasn't live so they could've shown 30 mins highlights of the whole race as opposed to the last 30 mins of the race.
  • juggler
    juggler Posts: 262
    Liege Bastogne Liege looks good for the weekend - LIVE coverage from 1:30 on Eurosport i think.

    Amstel coverage yesterday was all chops up so no real idea of what was going on in the race... and btw it is not always decided on the last climb of the Cauberg.

    ITV4 coverage of Paris Roubaix was excellent - shows all the good bits going through the crowd on the cobbles.... not been a fan of Phil Ligget in the past, but he really tried to make the viweing exciting. Eurosport Harmon etc can be really deadpan - they never seem to try and enthuse you with the excitement of the racing.
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    Eurosport never seem to do much of an editing job on recorded cycling. I don't watch other sports so I don't know about their coverage of them.

    When I used to watch the Ch4 Tour coverage, they managed to give you a reasonable idea of what had happened in a 30 minute slot including an ad break. A 30 minute Eurosport cycling broadcast would probably have a 5 minute intro and then cut to the last 15 km or so, with a couple of ad breaks squeezed in.

    Kinda - "Wow, you missed some real fireworks earlier. Some major crashes, fabulous attacks, spectacular descending, eh Sean?" "Er, yuss David..." " And now we can see i]insert name of talented cyclist here[/i doing a time-trial to a wonderful victory!"

    It can be very frustrating...
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    ColinJ wrote:
    Eurosport never seem to do much of an editing job on recorded cycling. I don't watch other sports so I don't know about their coverage of them.

    When I used to watch the Ch4 Tour coverage, they managed to give you a reasonable idea of what had happened in a 30 minute slot including an ad break. A 30 minute Eurosport cycling broadcast would probably have a 5 minute intro and then cut to the last 15 km or so, with a couple of ad breaks squeezed in.

    Kinda - "Wow, you missed some real fireworks earlier. Some major crashes, fabulous attacks, spectacular descending, eh Sean?" "Er, yuss David..." " And now we can see i]insert name of talented cyclist here[/i doing a time-trial to a wonderful victory!"

    It can be very frustrating...

    Exactly what I mean, everyone was caked in mud, so they kept trying to describe these "farm tracks" which had to be seen to be believed. Instead of describing them they could have just shown a couple of minutes footage!!
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    andyp wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    It was Mike Smith, not David Harmon. They shoulda given us an hour of Tro Bro Leon instead of Amstel Gold! Looked like helluva race, and tbh I found Amstel Gold a little dull. What's the point of having 31 hills when it's only ever the last one that decides the race!
    Eh? It's a bike race, of course the final (in Sean Kelly speak) will decide the race!

    Well I know that, but they make a big deal of the race having 31hills and how hard the course is, yet the peloton is still 100 riders deep as they go up the 30th. It would've been nice to see someone try to break the race up a bit earlier (Johan Vansummeren doesn't count). Maybe it was just a boring edition and we've been spoiled by some of the great attacking races we've already seen so far this year.

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