It’s mountain bike World Champs time! When are things happening exactly?
For reasons of clarity (and other things) we’re just going to pretend the ebike and pumptrack etc World Champs don’t exist and get straight to the classic disciplines.
In terms of watching the events on your telly/phone/computer, as usual the BBC will be showing some of the racing via the iPlayer Red Button thingy. And Warners Brothers Discovery+ will also being broadcasting stuff via its usual pay-to-view channels/sites/apps.
The Valais area of Switzerland is pretty big. Each different discipline is taking place quite far from one another. The XC Short Track is in Zermatt, the XC Olympic is in Crans-Montana and the Downhill will be in Champéry.
Friday, September 5th
10:00am UK: Women Junior Downhill – Qualification
Followed by: Men Junior Downhill – Qualification
Saturday, September 6th
10:00am UK: Women Junior Downhill – Final
10:45am UK: Men Junior Downhill – Final
3:30pm UK: Women Elite Downhill – Qualification
Followed by: Men Elite Downhill – Qualification
Sunday, September 7th
10:00am UK: Women Elite Downhill – Final
11:30am UK: Men Elite Downhill – Final
Tuesday, September 9th
2:30pm UK: Women Under 23 Cross-country Short Track – Final
3:15pm UK: Men Under 23 Cross-country Short Track – Final
4:15pm UK: Women Elite Cross-country Short Track – Final
5:00pm UK: Men Elite Cross-country Short Track – Final
Thursday, September 11th
4:00pm UK: Cross-country Mixed Team Relay
Friday, September 12th
2:00pm UK: Women Junior Cross-country Olympic
4:00pm UK: Men Junior Cross-country Olympic
Saturday, September 13th
10:00am UK: Men Under 23 Cross-country Olympic
1:00pm UK: Women Elite Cross-country Olympic
Sunday, September 14th
9:30am UK: Women Under 23 Cross-country Olympic
12:30pm UK: Men Elite Cross-country Olympic
Not looked on BBC, but it’s deffo on Discovery. Watched juniors yesterday and getting ready for finals this morning.
All I can find after much digging on the BBC iPlayer is this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jqlf
It looks like all they have is the XC next week, which is disappointing right now.
Please can someone tell me that I’m wrong!
After trawling pink bike comments it would appear no coverage on BBC if true.
I always try to watch world’s, what’s the cheapest route to doing so? 😭
VPN and find a country that’s no geoblocked on YouTube? Or if you don’t have a VPN one month TNT
You’re right unfortunately, no Dh coverage at all on BBC by the look of it, not even highlights
Is anyone else having trouble getting it to play on Tiz?
I’m on Tiz 480p. Can’t make the HD one work yet.
It’s live on the UCI YouTube channel if you have a VPN and can find a country where it’s available.
My free VPN doesn’t give enough options.
I’m in Nigeria at the moment (honest!) and it’s live on the UCI YouTube channel.
I have travelled to Algeria in order to watch the YouTube coverage and it’s working perfectly.
Watching tiz backup 480p without sound, which is a mixed blessing I suppose.
Video stream is solid and it’s starting to look like Myriam’s time is within reach.
Its on TNT 1
Prefer the Saffa and the English geezer over Irish Rik.
YouTube link, please….!
I’ve nipped over to Singapore personally, worked spot on for women’s race, the youtube link won’t show on here without the vpn and I can’t get on here with the vpn set to Singapore, there’s a link to it in the comments at the bottom of Pinkbike results page
Starting coverage at 12. Switching on and seeing Les Gets confused me no end there!
4 hours live coverage of the Great North Run on the Beeb though 🙄
Same here. Strange.
I’m in New Zealand and it’s showing “fine" (stable but that’s at 360p)
They’ve just restarted after what weems to have been a long delay – crash retrieval I think
must be lots of folk trying the tiz cycling stream as its not working for any of the feeds.
UCI only give a **** about lycra clad doped up freaks
YouTube livestream 1080 via NZ VPN working fine.
This is rubbish. Went out for a ride this morning. All planned to be back in time for the dh on the BBC. And nothing… what a load of shite.
Going to fix some gutters instead and read about it on pinkbike later.
Doing this now, working great 👌
Who is the co-commentator with Needles?
Oh Laurie 🤦
Buffering all the time if I try 720, even a bit at 480 but 360’s OK
That was ace, some surprises for sure. Just incredible speed
The 2.5 minute “highlight" reel the UCI put up on Youtube last night got an immediate panning and was taken down within a couple of hours.
Gutted it wasn’t on the BBC and couldn’t find a feed anywhere.
DH broadcasting is a sh*tshow right now. **** the UCI