2015 Tour Down Under, Jan 18-25 (2.uwt)

[hmpower]

Hope George Bennett has a good race looked good at NZ Champs, hope gets top 5.

 

[Jancouver]

As TV coverage goes, road racing, especially stage racing is about as expensive and technical as it gets. It's certainly not a case of a couple of cameramen on motorbikes and it magically appears on your screen.

So you are telling me that they had millions to pay to some ex-doper to show up and promote the race but they dont (or didnt have) have fraction of that for a TV race coverage?

I guess you are right, the TDU race is so lame that no TV would wanted even for free.

I guess, after all, there is some correlation between the race quality and no interest from the media.

Luckily, the Arab races are coming soon so there will be plenty of high quality, well attended cycling to watch.

 

[wwabbit]

That's kinda complicated. They could go motorbike-->helicopter-->cell tower-->youtube--> all viewers.

If you want to watch the entire race from the same motorbike, sure.
There's also some director viewing dozens of live feed in realtime and selecting the one that will be in the broadcast, other technicians working on the overlays displaying gaps and stuff...

 

[stefank]

So you are telling me that they had millions to pay to some ex-doper to show up and promote the race but they dont (or didnt have) have fraction of that for a TV race coverage?

I guess you are right, the TDU race is so lame that no TV would wanted even for free.

I guess, after all, there is some correlation between the race quality and no interest from the media.

Luckily, the Arab races are coming soon so there will be plenty of high quality, well attended cycling to watch.

I'm beginning to get the impression that you don't much care for the TDU.

 

[Yingge]

Even CN cant get their act together (are we surprised!!).

From the banner at the top:

"Coverage of Santos Tour Down Under People's Choice Classic begins at 07:42 GMT"

And it is 08:10 GMT as I write this - and of course....NOUGHT!!!

 

[auscyclefan94]

http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8785996 - Live stream starting in 5 mins.

 

[jens_attacks]

Damn, the season is starting
Cancer classic is upon us wow

 

[auscyclefan94]

Thank god Robbie McEwen is commentating

 

[Yingge]

http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8785996 - Live stream starting in 5 mins.

And NOT Ge-restricted it seems, as I can see it here in Taiwan.

 

[Yingge]

And also Live now on Eurosport ASIA.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Live cycling!

 

[NairoQ]

What does this even mean?
https://twitter.com/zwoodpower/status/556690352724123649

 

[Akuryo]

What does this even mean?
https://twitter.com/zwoodpower/status/556690352724123649

Steal and Steele ... get it?

 

[NairoQ]

Somewhere, but he didn't come close to a win at the Australian championships, did he?

 

[Yingge]

Steal and Steele ... get it?

Von Hoff won the National Criterium title.

 

[auscyclefan94]

I can just hear Paul Sherwen saying, 'As they say in Italy, it's gruppo compacto'

 

[auscyclefan94]

Kittel takes it...Henderson threw shoulders at about 5 riders

 

[auscyclefan94]

Kittel
Lobato
Wippert
Sutton
Haussler

 

[indianfanboy]

Easy win for Kittel

 

[Yingge]

Lets hope that the Geo-block remains off for the rest of the week.

Stream quality was good, and only a couple of short SA Tourist ads.

 

[indianfanboy]

Lets hope that the Geo-block remains off for the rest of the week.

Stream quality was good, and only a couple of short SA Tourist ads.

Or just use Hola

 

[Nearly]

.... and Von Hoff also won the bunch sprint in the Aust Nat road race (for 9th)

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The sprint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wVFg3SaF8E

That looked easy.

 

[Jspear]

The sprint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wVFg3SaF8E

That looked easy.

Already it is harder for me to pick out riders...WHY did Giant switch to more black in their jerseys!...

 

[cineteq]

The sprint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wVFg3SaF8E

That looked easy.

Thank you!

Porte: "Look at someone like Tom Dumoulin for example. He could go for the bonus sprints and guys like him could be a real surprise"

1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin
126 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin +1:58

What happened?