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Rachel Atherton is the GOAT.
Her to the world. " I'm going to take a few years off and start a bike company and bike park from the ground up with my family. I'm also going to have a kid, and then show up at the first event back with my beautiful toddler and kick all of your asses!!" Of course she wouldn't be that crass about it, but she did as much in her time off as most do in a lifetime.
Got a trial subscription for Discovery+ and see no sports. No UCI downhill. I found one article that says you need a “vpn browser” to watch on discovery+ in North America.
Is this true? Anyone watching on Discovery in North America/US?
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if anyone doesn't wanna pay to watch, just go to this site:
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/live2.php
Also has road races, etc on it
It's been true the whole time. In the US, you have to subscribe to GCN.Quote:
Originally Posted by Esses
FYI, this morning I went onto YouTube and searched for "Lenzerheide" and filtered to "Live" videos - I watched the last handful of racers for free.
From what I understand you can watch through semis on YouTube. You gotta pay if you want to see finals.Quote:
Originally Posted by smmokan
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Well, I watched it for free this morning. It wasn't the official UCI-sanctioned feed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Esses
The camera angles were a wash compared to last year. I'm sure the directing will get better as the season goes on.
I don't like the drone angle.
I missed the "virtual straight" and other Red Bull things that the old broadcast had worked in.
I like the British guy who was commentating, but Cedric was really, really bad.
Of course, it's going to be hard to top Elliot and Rob, but Cedric was hard to understand. It was like he was talking with a mouth full of marbles. I get that he's a legend and all that, but it was hard to listen to. I think he was trying to be "like Warner" with the shouting and tons of energy, but it fell flat for me. I think it's just not going to work for him in English. Maybe he'd do better on the French broadcast.
There is zero percent chance that I pay to watch any of this, especially at this level of production quality. I'll just poach a stream.
Yeah I have enjoyed Rick's commentary the last few years since he was doing all the EWS videos. Cedric not so much. Hate to say it but they need to find a different legend with clearer english.
Been In Lenzerheide for the weekend. Place is buzzing! Every event has ended with an awesome story. Off to Leogang this week for the next stop. Wife let me and the boy plan a vacation. Spent a few days with friends who live at this tiny ski area (tschapina)and all you hear at night is the sound of cowbells and the river. Damn the Swiss have it good!
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Damn, you look a lot like Finn Iles. Who's the goofy-looking guy with you?
Chris Blevin gets to start a lot farther forward next time!! Good race for him.
1. That race was all time! Watching Rachel win followed by Jordan winning was worth $9! I’ll cancel after the third race and start up again for the last 3. $18 bucks for all but one race (I’ll be on vacation then anyway).
2. Anyone who thinks the footage was better, please let us know about Kolb’s crash.
3. I thought the camera angles made it so you couldn’t see different lines very well. Lots of coverage, but less specific detail.
4. Cedric’s accent isn’t the problem. The problem is that they both thought they could shout their way through it. Very little substance and zero fun banter. Just lots of noise.
5. Splits, upcoming riders, leaderboard updates, were absolute garbage. They even found a way of making the starting gate boring.
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I'm with Clownshoe, it's not great, but I'm sure they'll get through the growing pains. CG reminds me of drunk freecaster Warner, just waaay too excited.
But not nearly as funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by t.odd
CG needs to go. Or at least move him to some sort of pre-show. Let him do the course preview and talk about some of the lines. And then let someone who speaks better English and has something interesting to say do the actual commentating.
The camera work was decent, but they need to get the cameras up higher. You can see the riders but not the ground. I don't care what their helmets look like, I want to see where they're putting their tires. Hopefully the show direction gets better too.
The whole semi finals thing seems kinda pointless. I don't get it. It just seems like another opportunity for injury.
On the whole, great race though. Bummed Amaury didn't race - lenzerheide is his track. Looking forward to the rest of the season. Seems like there are probably ~8 guys who are legitimately competing for the win this season, and another ~5 guys who could pull off an unexpected upset. That's awesome, and it makes for some exciting racing.
I thought the camera work left a lot to be desired. There were times of 10-15 seconds of scenic shots of the whole course and not the racer who was literally mid run.
The other thing about the camera work a few have touched on is the consistent shot. It's nice to see the same shot over and over again to see the different lines. I do understand that gets old for sum, but its why a lot of us watch.
I thought the camera work left a lot to be desired. There were times of 10-15 seconds of scenic shots of the whole course and not the racer who was literally mid run.
The other thing about the camera work a few have touched on is the consistent shot. It's nice to see the same shot over and over again to see the different lines. I do understand that gets old for sum, but its why a lot of us watch.
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MiniHeel isn’t mini any longerQuote:
Originally Posted by smmokan
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I’m definitely giving them the benefit of the doubt on the camera work. It was sub par, but I would imagine/hope it will improve significantly as they work through the season.
On the subject of Cedric, I speak French and I’ve seen him on some French broadcasts. He’s actually pretty good at it. I think the English broadcast is perhaps a step too far.
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Those are sweet looking pajamas.
Must certainly be faster than racing in Limp Bizkit cut shorts?Quote:
Originally Posted by buttahflake
Specialized's team kits are always fairly different from rider to rider. Makes them look not very team-ish.
Bike park race day.
'live' results here:
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/final-...-cup-2023.html
I guess there aren't much for options outside Leogang's bike park.
I believe bike parks are the only place you can legally ride a mountain bike in Austria. Any trails outside of the bike parks are off limits.Quote:
Originally Posted by grskier
That's what I'm starting to understand. Great network of rogue trails in Austria, but anything sanctioned needs to be in the park. Hence a very bike park enduro.Quote:
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I will say, I like how PB did this... A gopro of each stage and then the timing coming in.... It's the right amount for me to still want to watch the highlight show, but also give me what I want now.
What's with no-name race track previews on PB this year? Are they actually trying to take the stoke away from World Cups?
Can't tell you how many times I've wanted to watch Wyatt Harrington ride a bike. Literally can't give you a number because I haven't a fucking clue who he is. Sure he's a nice kid and all the Canadias in here hate me now.
He's a junior....Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
If you want the other course previews, go onto Gopro's youtubez.
Loic's quali:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-wm8GqG3Qc
Most of the track previews have always been random, lesser known guys. But redbull used to have their guys (i.e. Claudio) do previews, so those would be the ones that got attention. Discovery hasn't figured their shit out yet, so we're stuck with only having the lesser known randoms do the previews.Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
Cathro broke his back. Thibault Laly who's also riding pro for the team is covering more of the management duties while Ben is fucked up, so the junior got to film the preview for their content.Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
Check out Jackson Goldstone's track previews, he's the most funnest.
in case anyone needs a link to watch for free:
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/live2.php
So, CG not any better really. He struggles a little to announce in English.
I just watched Woman’s semis then put on finals… they act like they didn’t just announce the semis..
Camera work
Is a bit more consistent
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That was a great race. Goldstone was putting on a corning clinic until the last one that he screwed up. Cool to see Kolb finally come out on top. That guy rides clean.
Three of the top 20 xco women are USA. Freaking well done ladies!!
These first two DH races have been so freakin good. Riders doing their best to make up for the not awesome coverage.
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Second DH broadcast was way better coverage than the first. Only cut away to a team manager once while a rider was on track vs countless times first race. Ass clown announcers repeating each other the whole time though. Seems like they're both trying to be play-by-play guy with very little color commentary. Feels very lazy, like they're just winging it with near zero insight besides split times and teams.
Follow drones ok, overhead drone boring. Only guy who looked fast with overhead drone was Goldstone. Goldstone and Iles were flying, but both fucked the last chicane. Speaking of: that chicane looked flat and inconsequential on the overhead shot when I knew it was steep and the race was won/lost on it.
Overall stoked with the racing, hoping coverage improves. Kolb 👌
This year is nuts...Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
Young guns that can win at any time:
Iles
Goldstone
Williams
Then you have:
Greenland
Super Bruni
Kolb
Others looking up to spped
Luca Shaw
Deprella
Vergier
Never count out:
Minaar..
I know I'm missing a handful...
Dunne
More frenchies...
Brosnan, Coulanges, maybe Bernard Kerr when he's in the mood.Quote:
Originally Posted by grskier
Bummed that it looks like Amaury is out for a while.