Some folks seem to be making this hard going for themselves.
Open discovery plus, click on mountain biking, click on the arrow to play. It's not really that hard to find. Coverage of all the finals today from men's and women's jnrs and elites - which is all that matters really. Same with XCC and XCO a couple of weeks ago.
Open discovery plus, click on mountain biking
On what platform? Neither the app op Sky or on my android phone has an immediately accessible "mountain biking" button to press
@BoardinBob, I just checked the app on my android phone & if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the cycling page there are icons for each discipline, scroll sideways a few & there's a specific Mountain Bike button & the first thing that shows is an upcoming list which has the races listed in order.
So…when is it on?
Discovery plus app on android TV the Elite men's is scheduled for 12.45 to 16.20 under sports>schedual requires a 6.99 a month subscription.
Quality of coverage might end up being irrelevant if the pea-souper doesn't start burning off a bit!
I have no idea how people find things difficult to find on Eurosport 🤷♂️
Didn't even know there was a Eurosport app!
So that's YouTube, Discovery Plus and Eurosport as potential places to watch
awful coverage on Discovery live feed
3 seconds of event rider at the top and then the same last 12 seconds of the course….. and repeat, repeat, repeat ….
why can we see other parts of the course !!!
Somehow they've taken last years poor show and made it worse. Words fail me.
Even their own website has been down since yesterday morning. Local rumours of staff leaving due to excessive micromanagement and lack of direction.
Is everyone else getting no commentary on the women's race?
It’s nice without them wittering on. Bit of crowd and bike noise!
Yeah currently no commentary
Is everyone else getting no commentary on the women’s race?
Yup, they must have taken your critique on board! 🤣🤣
The production is poor, isn't it. No obvious improvement on last year at all, really. Watching on Discovery app via Sky puck, and there's no commentary - don't know if that's specific to the platform I'm watching on or not. Shame, given Gwin's in the booth.
Some of the shots panning from a high drone that is a lovely view of the hills, but a bit Where's Wally in trying to actually see what's happening on track.
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Is everyone else getting no commentary on the women’s race?
Just checked, fine here
Missing half the run as well? 🙄
Just checked, fine here
Magic. So the Eurosport app is working but the Discovery one isn't.
This is embarrassingly amateur
No commentary here either
That was the quickest 3 minutes of a run I've ever seen , commentary all over the place FFS give it back to Red Bull 😡😡😡😁
No commentary for me.
Certainly not missing it.
Anyone else getting a big build up to each rider then missing half of their run 😡😡😡😡😡
Genius, just tried to interview Phoebe Gale at the finish line, during someone else’s run, and we couldn’t hear that either!
This is so embarrassing.
Oh ffs. Just worked out what's going on. It's these multiple broadcasts on Discovery.
If you've got no commentary you're watching the broadcast that's scheduled between 12:45 – 16:20 that has no commentary
You need to navigate to the Mountain Bike section in the app and find the broadcast that's 13:00 – 13:55. This is the women's race. That has commentary
The lot of them need sacked
Oh yeah, that’s worked for me. Rick’s voice is like fingers down a blackboard unfortunately.
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@BoatdinBob cheers eventually 👍what an absolute shambles 😡😡😡😡
I was watching the women's junior downhill earlier, the feed was billed as live but they were showing 10 seconds at the top, cut to a bit in the middle (but not at a split), another bit at the middle with a split then another cut to that rider on the boring cruise in to the finish. How's that live??
It's a bit poor.
Giro coverage is better.
Why are they concentrating so much on Nina when she didn’t win? Almost like the producer hasn’t realised who’s won !?
Giro coverage is better
I suspect they just take the feed from the organisers for the Giro.
I think this production is what's known in the business as an absolute shit show.
Yes, a shame to miss the top section for most of the women, 5 min course with 3 min gap between starters so they’ve got to cut out a bit of each run to stay live. The good news is that top 20 men are going in 4 min intervals so I guess we’ll get most of their runs
How’s that live??
Presumably they've cut some of the coverage of the top sections due to poor visibility - you couldn't see much in the junior races. In any case, it's never going to be completely live as the gap between riders is too short.
Am I the only one seeing just half runs ?Is it a visibility up top issue ?
You've always seen more in the highlights, than the live rounds because of the gaps between the start times. Irony.
That said, I've never understood when they don't leave longer starting intervals on the top three or so riders, so you see more of their runs. It wouldn't exactly add much to the overall race schedule.
I have Discovery+ as part of my broadband subscription. I just logged in to watch the finals to get a message saying this is not part of my subscription package.
no way am I paying for a subscription I already have to see it.
real shame as I was paying for GCN last year.
Gwin and Tahnee excellent on commentary
Very much
Men’s elite is stacked this year! Crazy racing and some top names fighting for the win…then they said the top 10 were coming!
Apart from Gwin I can’t think of any big names that are missing…
This might be of interest while trying to navigate what seems to be a clusterpuck of massive proportions concerning the live action - a look at the various bikes and technology in the pits.
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/tech-randoms-fort-william-dh-world-cup-2024.html
I have Discovery+ as part of my broadband subscription. I just logged in to watch the finals to get a message saying this is not part of my subscription package.
no way am I paying for a subscription I already have to see it
You'll have basic discovery plus which doesn't include any sports
Another one here who's not bothering to watch our follow the DH due to crap coverage.
I know I'm not the only one taking this approach.
