Giro 2007 Viewing

Autobus Straggler
Autobus Straggler Posts: 47
edited May 2007 in Pro race
Hey, I am an unfortunate American whose only option for watching the Giro is to pay to watch coverage online. I was wondering if there were any other ways to watch online for free? Thanks for your help.

Give me pave or give me death!
Give me pave or give me death!

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  • Ussing
    Ussing Posts: 6
    About half an hour after the stage you can watch the final 1-3 minutes at http://www.gazzetta.it/Ciclismo/
    At least it was possible last year!
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,719
    Is cycling.tv not covering it?
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  • Autobus Straggler
    Autobus Straggler Posts: 47
    by the way, you can watch the race for free on italian channel rai, its all italian, but who cares?

    Give me pave or give me death!
    Give me pave or give me death!
  • esmit208
    esmit208 Posts: 41
    Navigating a site with a foreign language is quite a challenge and unfortunately I don't have all afternoon to figure it out. I did find the GDT link though. CYCLING TV is airing it albeit with some tech glitches but I haven't decided if I want to pay for it yet.<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, Verdana" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Autobus Straggler</i>

    by the way, you can watch the race for free on italian channel rai, its all italian, but who cares?

    Give me pave or give me death!
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    Edward G. Smith
    Edward G. Smith
  • Autobus Straggler
    Autobus Straggler Posts: 47
    I got there via steephill.com, i think that is the sight, it takes you right to the viewing, the streaming is a little iffy sometimes though...i have it going in one window, and the eurosport ticker in another...cause i dont speak a lick of italian!

    Give me pave or give me death!
    Give me pave or give me death!
  • Stark.
    Stark. Posts: 108
    If you go to www.cyclingfans.com I think there are links from there to pick up live video streaming from RAI (the Italian TV company covering the Giro). Or if not live, pretty near as dammit.
  • Spack
    Spack Posts: 18
    eurosport might be an option

    http://www.eurosport.com/mclivevideo.shtml
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Certainly good coverage by Eurosport of today's stage, especially the well-endowed young lady carrying an airbed and wearing little but a smile! (:))

    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.
    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.
  • campagchris
    campagchris Posts: 773
    Yes the helicopter pilot certainly like to view the mountains,they were two lovely mountains today[:D]
    He did it the other day also and poor David Harmon nearly had seizure [:)]
  • esmit208
    esmit208 Posts: 41
    Yeah I saw that SCANTILLY CLAD litle lady. One thing about the Italian director he is not shy abotu what he likes!<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, Verdana" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by OffTheBackAdam</i>

    Certainly good coverage by Eurosport of today's stage, especially the well-endowed young lady carrying an airbed and wearing little but a smile! (:))

    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.
    <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

    Edward G. Smith
    Edward G. Smith
  • Julspro
    Julspro Posts: 51
    Hey - I am from the States, and I was wondering how you were watching the Italian Channel Rai? Does that come from your Satellite provider? If so, who do you have?
    I have FOX Sports World - so I get all the Premiership games and Italy's Serie A.
    But so far, no Cycling Channel.
    Thanks for your help. Coverage for me is every Sunday for 2 hours on versus. Other than that it is reading live coverage on line.
    Juls

    Caribbean Soul
    Caribbean Soul
  • Spack
    Spack Posts: 18
    try this link in Window media player [url]mms://rntlivewm.rai.it/giro2007live#cf[/url]

    RAI in Italy have a lot of sport live on the web

    Their are other Italian links on http://www.cyclingfans.com/

    This is the link is to a page on Eurosport which has audio in English http://eurosport.yahoo.com/audioplayer.html
  • Spack
    Spack Posts: 18
    Another option is to have the following sites open

    If you want to watch the Giro in English get coverage from RAI sport mute sound and listen to Eurosport audio in English

    Follow instructions on http://www.steephill.tv/2007/giro-d-italia/

    I find it best to open windows media player then go to

    http://www.cyclingfans.com/

    and click on direct link to RAI Sport and start it in windows media player itself.

    If you have the live stage on Eurosport and Cycling New Live Report there tickers will tell you what is going on http://eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/giro/

    and have the Eurosport audio feed from the above site in ENGLISH (cause my Italian is not up to speed though I do like the excitement!)
  • Julspro
    Julspro Posts: 51
    Thank you! I am watching the Giro live and listening in English!! Thank you, thank you!
    This is great.
    Have a great day everyone!

    Caribbean Soul
    Caribbean Soul
  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    shhhhhhhhtttt

    I'm not telling you this, OK? But all the stages are on BitTorrent, in lower quality and in super-nice High Quality. Demonoid.com has them all. Allow 2 days for video conversion and proper seeding to take effect, after that, the downloads fly!

    But I didn't tell you this, right?

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