Team GB squad for MTB World Champs (plus how to watch it for free)

The UCI MTB World Championships are next week, and Britain will be fielding a decent squad across the age groups in XC and DH. Tahnee Seagrave, pictur …

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Don’t ask how I know this…?

Only Elites shown live?

@weeksy, hopefully that reference is only for the Beeb.

On a technicality it’s not free on iPlayer, you still need a TV Licence, which I don’t have.

It’ll be nice if they do follow the world cup’s lead and televise the juniors. Fingers crossed that there’s something to watch on Thursday

Whilst not having a TV licence is an offence its currently not possible to,prosecute for not having one .

Are the entry rules different for downhill and cross-country?

Given the difference in profile and funding british cycling have betwwen xc and dh its odd there is such a large team list for dh compared with the xc one.

https://www.tissottiming.com/2024/mtbwch/event-15/phase-2/live

 

Live timing on now for Juniors

So no live streams of any races so far; and we wonder why MTB is the poor relation. Not good enough in 2024.

If Cyclocross can manage to have live coverage of all their races, then what’s the excuse for MTB? If local organisers/ TV can’t afford it, then maybe the UCI shouldn’t give them the championships….

The XC Relay was definitely streamed live last year, and maybe even the XCO Juniors from memory, as well as U23, Elites…..

Wait till you hear that the BBC coverage of the DH is delayed not live ?????

How many men qualify for the Final?

Anyone know if the short track is on iplayer this evening? Its all a bit vague. If anyone finds a link please share!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095szlg/broadcasts/upcoming

It appears not! 🙁

Both good races (available on disco+ just like a regular WC)

nice short track course with more singletrack than most.

camerawork was poor.

Wait till you hear that the BBC coverage of the DH is delayed not live ?????

Well, doesn’t that just suck! Especially as D+ seem to have ended their £3.99/m offer…

Coverage of the short track on discovery+ was shocking last night. Cameras were in strange places and there wasn’t a side on view of the finish line.

The director failed SO many times to choose to follow the leading pair as things got close to the finish. Charlie A made a huge 50/50 overtake move into a flat hairpin but the camera didn’t pan to see how it finished. They almost missed Evie and PPV completely for the last half of the final lap.

It was awful.

I seem to recall that World Champs TV coverage is provided by the locals rather which is why it is so, ahem, varied..

BBC make it so difficult to find out if it’s on.

Link above from balfa suggests no livestream on BBC. Discovery+ has it on live fortunately.

Looks like the XC tomorrow should be live at least.

Woohooo. Evie won the stripes

DH is live on discovery+ in an hour

Big-bud I don’t know where you got the info that you can’t be prosecuted for no licence. Currently approximately 1000 per week are prosecuted for it.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/29/tv-licence-fee-scandal-1000-people-week-casually-criminalised

Just a heads up that the XCO has been brought forward (and combined / shortened) to miss the bad weather later. I guess that probably means it won’t be live on iPlayer now – boo!