24-17 August, Pal Arinsal

World Champs are there in August.

Any news on how much it’s going to cost to watch on Discovery+?

@weeksy thanks – will check my sky subscription to see if we get it!

Looks like I’m sorted – I get free Discovery+ with my Sky Q package.
Hopefully it includes the MTB stuff.

You probably want to edit this article that mentions “Kicking things off is the Enduro series down in New Zealand in March.”. The double header in March is in Tasmania. Not sure the locals of Maydena and Derby will be too chuffed.

@arkike – Tasmania….

“You can watch the UCI Mountain Bike World Series on the Eurosport App”

Even better than that! I can watch it on the Eurosport channel on my tellybox.

Comes included with the base Sky package, I’m pretty sure.

XC Short track or summink live on Euro1 from 4:45pm tomorrow, so we’ll see

£39.99 for a year of GCN+. Just subscribed this week. In time for the giro too. The player is a bit shit on my Samsung tv. Randomly stops and restarts somewhere else you’ve already watched. Did it 350 metres from the end of the stage 6 highlights tonight. Most annoying. Hope it works better on live stuff.

I pay for Eurosport, get all the cycling then winter sports as well. Love Biathlon. Can watch most stuff ad free, live and replay. We use a chrome cast to throw it to the TV.

Has anyone managed to confirm whether the actual racing, works on the ‘free’ Discovery+ access that sky customers get (through Sky Q, Sky Glass, or specifically Sky Stream)?

There was mention that you dont actually get the same level of content as a proper, standalone Discovery+ account.

I’m strongly considering consolidating all my various subscriptions (now tv for the F1, eurosport,  Netflix etc) into one Sky Stream Account and ability to watch the MTB racing is a key factor!

The very fact that this is the key topic of conversation is interesting – if you look at all the social feeds relating to the new season, it is the number one topic of discussion/confusion/annoyance/agression.

This weekend will be very telling, if they dont do a superb job of the coverage after a year of mixed hype and confusion, people are going to be very upset, me included!

Thought in general the GCN+ coverage of the XC World Cup was excellent this weekend – plenty of live coverage of Elite and U23 – Great Camera coverage covering all the track – I even like the Rick Mac and Bart B commentary link up with Cedric Gracia popping in for a chat. Only problem was lack of coverage of those racing behind the leaders. The whole Live show set up was ok but Bart seems to be centre stage in the new coverage.

Signed on for a year with GCN and it works perfectly streamed to a Mac Mini and the telly. Coverage was good, commentary fine and though I do miss Rob W, the current team are pretty good.

GCN also has some good documentaries which I found were pretty watchable too.

Overall, pretty good.

I have tickets for Lenzerheide DH and XC weekend so I wonder what an actual event will be like without RedBull or, after seeing NM-NM, no Mercedes either.