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The women's Giro has an ad-free version, but not Le Tour. Livid with them and hope some sort of pressure is brought to bear, as they have breached advertising standards regulations.

but theyre stating the multi view is the ad free feed for the TdF, so I cant see theyll have breached anything, youve got ad free coverage


whats more annoying is the slow assed pace in the TdF today meant theyre coverage overran, so I got 20mins of the tedious breakaway instead of the womens giro highlights, which meant I missed the podium and post stage interviews again, because somehow the live coverage cut early too, probably to go to the TdF :mad:
 
Not surprised, they cannot even get the womens giro highlights right, programme ends before race finishes!
they got it right tonight, well in so far as it was a complete program that is, the highlights themselves well it was just the last 30km of the stage in full, and no podium/interviews.

as I said a few posts back yesterday I think the Tour just overran and the epg didnt update, and clearly no-one checked the hour they picked off their content servers for streaming, so it just copy pasted the exact same hour when the Giro highlights were supposed to be, which was half of the breakaway, and only upto 10kms to go of the stage, Id guess the point is ultimately you werent missing any great package of highlights theyd put together, and you could still go rewatch the live stream of the race and get the same experience.

could happen again on stage 4, as the highlights are due right after their TdF coverage finishes.
 
Migels on German ES, who is already renowned for his endless cycling stories from years past, seems to try to remember even more stuff off the top of his head. He just told a story about Cancellara in the 2016 Tour abandoning, but then mentioned some unnecessary details like that the next stage finished in Finhaut-Émosson in France which is not the country Finhaut-Émosson is in, and which Cancellara still raced and then about the time trial to Megève, which he said was won by Rohan Dennis, who had already abandoned before. I know it‘s nice to know stuff, but just saying stuff that‘s wrong isn‘t that useful.
 
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I normally swap channels as soon as they cross the line, but there was nothing else worth watching so i left in on for once so is the post kind of wander round the team buses and sticking microphones in front of riders and DSs a new thing ?
 
Rob Hatch is just so super annoying with his prententious over-pronunciation and overhyping of everything that goes on in a bike race.

Also, I really do miss Rolf Sørensen. Second year in a row he misses out and Im fearing he's not coming back in TdF at least. Super sharp race analysis most of the time. And if he doesn't, I hope they pick up Michael Rasmussen who's the best analyst in Denmark by a mile and most importantly, calls it as he sees it with no regards of nationalities. But that ship has probably sailed a while ago
 
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It seems to me that Carlton has been relegated to 2nd commentator this year. Usually they switch each stage between CK and RH for who does the last few dozen km to finish but as far as I can see, RH has done every finale so far. Is CK doing a global ES commentary for the closing stages like he did in Giro (where he did whole thing?)
 
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It seems to me that Carlton has been relegated to 2nd commentator this year. Usually they switch each stage between CK and RH for who does the last few dozen km to finish but as far as I can see, RH has done every finale so far. Is CK doing a global ES commentary for the closing stages like he did in Giro (where he did whole thing?)
I've noticed that as well. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm going to assume my man Carlton Kirby has health problems that prevent him from providing the commentary we desperately need.
There's no other logical reason for replacing a maestro with deadwood.
Godspeed, CK!
 
JHB describes a reservoir during an ad-break, while none of the 4 cameras are showing it, then McEwan and Hatch advertise the virtues of the quad screen while only people watching it can hear them. McEwan talking about scanning from one screen to another while two of the screens are identical, so he obviously wasn't looking at it at the time.
 
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So, they send Adam Blythe to the Tour to sit on the back of a motorbike and espouse half-baked theories as to what tactics the leading teams should employ.

1. He could do that from a studio (I would rather he didn't but he thinks it is his job)
2. All his theories contain ridiculous assumptions
3. All his theories are complex and multi-step so take minutes to explain.
4. He struggles with the technology to some extent.

He has been sent to the Tour to spot what is going on in the race that the cameras don't see and to get info from team cars. The show director needs to have a word. Jens Voigt and Romain Bardet managed it perfectly well.

I understand that Adam Blythe is the light relief, the joker in the pack, so the show doesn't get too serious but he needs to be firmly managed.
 
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I'm reminded of last year's Vuelta, when for the first 10 days we had Laura Winter, Matt Stephens & Nathan Van Hooydonck on The Breakaway.....and it was far better.
Then Blythe came back and said he hasn't really watch any of it, and had done no prep........it was a definite downgrade - and he drags the others down to his level, including Orla.
 
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Why does Carlton Kirby consider himself in any way professional when he hasn't even taken the time to look at the UCI rules and discover that the penalty given to Martinez yesterday was, short of disqualification, the maximum available.

Instead, he rails about how he cannot understand the decision they made. Yes Carlton, there is a reason you can't understand it: you don't know what you are on about, and hope that the indignation of the ignorant is entertaining.