Possible dumb question regarding watching fort bill race?

Yeah, I’m caught between wanting to watch it and support the sport and not wanting to give my money to the absolute bell-ends who are now in control 🤦‍♂️

Just checked the Eurosport program guide on Sky. Absolutely nothing being shown today, not even a highlight show. They are however repeating the Minnaar documentary 3 times today. We do get 5 hours of the Giro live, a highlights show in the evening, and then a pundits review of it.

Off I go instead to the Discovery Plus app on Sky. Immediately there’s a “Live and upcoming sport” section on screen. This will be easy… I have to click right 10 times to get to the first mention of DH which is the junior women’s race. 15 clicks takes me to the junior men’s race, 19 to find the women’s elite, 22 to find the men’s elite. All these clicks are me scrolling through the list of really exciting upcoming live sports like badminton, or futsal (that’s not a typo)…

OK, let’s navigate to the dedicated sport section on the Discovery app. Ooh, there’s a dedicated Cycling section. This must be it. Ah OK, they have dedicated sections by discipline and event, this is where it must be. Hmm, there’s no dedicated section for DH. There  is one for XC though but it’s not on this weekend. OK I’ll go to the generic “Mountain bike” section. Ah, there they are! Oh wait, this is weird. There are loads of DH broadcasts that seem to overlap with each other time wise:

A broadcast from 12:00 – 13:00

A broadcast from 12:45 – 16:20

A broadcast from 13:00 – 13:55

A broadcast from 13:55 – 16:20

WHAT ONE AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH!!!

There is the OKK Bike thing from Chur, Switzerland on Redbull at the same time…

There is the OKK Bike thing from Chur, Switzerland on Redbull at the same time…

Actually looks kind of interesting.

If my GCN-alternative (that rhymes with wiz) doesn’t show it (it’s not on its schedule for today) I might check that out.

There’s a Semis highlight package on YouTube on the official channel. Zero commentary, zero information on how the Semi is developing, zero information about who’s on camera. Utter garbage. How have they partnered with one of the biggest media Companies in the world, yet managed to make the coverage worse. An energy drink manufacturer did a better job than Warner Bros Discovery

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?

Junior girls first at 11:25

https://www.youtube.com/live/XSyJOcI-3xk?si=uaLz9-R2_NLvLI8T

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.

Ric Mclaughlin kicking things off with all the enthusiasm of a man reading his child’s eulogy at a funeral

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.

BoardinBob

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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.

Thanks Bob, that’s a great spot.

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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.