as someone pointed out c.a.200,000 people go to wendyball games every week, multiples more of that watch it down the pub, and just about every man, woman and child goes for a kick about down the park once in a while. Put every mountainbiker in britain together and we’d probably struggle to fill one footie stadium!.
It takes 2 or 3 cameras to cover a football game, you’d struggle to cover a DH race with less than 10x that. Freecaster stuggled with 3, 2 up top for the first few corners, nothing in the woods (youd struggle to keep riders in sight for more than a few seconds), then one covering the finishline.
Ski sunday worked because you had a sport that looks good even if you’ve no long term intrest in it (just like DH MTB) and you could cover it with the bare minimum of camera’s.
Anyway, even if they did report it, all that would happen is, the TV rights would be sold, meaning no more freecaster, we’d get some numpty presenter gawping at disk brakes and saying his 21speed shopper has more gears and full suspension, so why youd spend £6k for only 9? Every debate from the last 20 years would be dragged up by the commentators (why not skin suits, surley its all the bike etc etc). And it would generaly be rubbish. At least with the status quo we get good (ish)coverage on freecaster.