Olympic cycling TV coverage
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Olympic cycling TV coverage
Postby Cardy George » Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:30 pm
Are we stuck with the five minute grabs every half hour from Channel 9?
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Re: Olympic cycling TV coverage
Postby norbs » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:07 pm
Cardy George wrote:What are the options for watching the cycling, particularly the road races?
Are we stuck with the five minute grabs every half hour from Channel 9?
Steephill.tv or cyclingfans.com
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Postby ozzymac » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:34 pm
At least it might be better than nine.
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Re: Olympic cycling TV coverage
Postby Cardy George » Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:14 pm
Not interested in paying for Foxtel for effectively two days of cycling. Having said that, what was/is their coverage like?
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Re: Olympic cycling TV coverage
Postby DavidL » Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:55 am
Had enough of the Olympic coverage already. It is based as the Big Brother viewing community and not people that just want watch the sports. Enough of the re-caps of what happened in the pool and the life stories of the QANTAS sponsored athletes. If there is sport on then bloody show it and fill in the day when there is no sport happening with the highlights and the stories.
God damn WWOS, this is going to be a long Olympics.
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Postby Aushiker » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:10 am
Uninterrupted coverage without an advert till the end; couldn't be better. Nine does not come close with two channels showing the same vision.darkelf921 wrote:The coverage on Foxtel is certainly not as good as TDF, however it really is quite good coverage. I'm enjoying it. it OS weird not seeing advertising on the jerseys
The vision etc is from the BBC (?) and really they don't have the experience. Can't blame Foxtel for that. All the commentators can do is commentate from the vision fed to them.
The Poms where complaining about Europsports - seems to have the same issue as Nine so we have it pretty good me thinks.
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Postby ozzymac » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:25 am
Couldn't agree more.Aushiker wrote:Uninterrupted coverage without an advert till the end; couldn't be better. Nine does not come close with two channels showing the same vision.darkelf921 wrote:The coverage on Foxtel is certainly not as good as TDF, however it really is quite good coverage. I'm enjoying it. it OS weird not seeing advertising on the jerseys
The vision etc is from the BBC (?) and really they don't have the experience. Can't blame Foxtel for that. All the commentators can do is commentate from the vision fed to them.
The Poms where complaining about Europsports - seems to have the same issue as Nine so we have it pretty good me thinks.
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Not having to put up with channel nines ravings and putting up with only seeing bits of what you want to see is great.
No adds, is really nice.
Woman's road race tonight at 8.50 pm.
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Postby RonK » Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:24 pm
But there is another way - Foxtel has released an Olympics app for iPad, and using AirPlay I can stream it to AppleTV and watch without ads or CH 9 commentary.
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Re: Olympic cycling TV coverage
Postby DavidS » Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:31 pm
This is a real bugbear of mine. You sit there and watch 2 inane TV people crap on about how they are doing the hard yards introducing the show (?), what's coming up, what has happened and what they ate for breakfast last Wednesday. Meanwhile 50 sporting events are happening and they're not being shown. I watch the olympics to see the sport, not the hosts of their sports show. They should be limited to 10 seconds telling us what is coming up and then off to the sport. Maybe a bit of voiceover to tell us what is coming up but no more. It's not like there's ever a time when nothing is happening. This has just got worse over the years. Don't suppose one can stream olympics given the tight way they control the coverage.DavidL wrote:Was stuck with the Ch.9 coverage.
Had enough of the Olympic coverage already. It is based as the Big Brother viewing community and not people that just want watch the sports. Enough of the re-caps of what happened in the pool and the life stories of the QANTAS sponsored athletes. If there is sport on then bloody show it and fill in the day when there is no sport happening with the highlights and the stories.
God damn WWOS, this is going to be a long Olympics.
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Postby Aushiker » Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:28 pm
Correction: I now believe the coverage comes from the Olympic Broadcast Services and not the BBC.Aushiker wrote:The vision etc is from the BBC (?) and really they don't have the experience. Can't blame Foxtel for that.
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Postby wurtulla wabbit » Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:14 pm
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Re: Olympic cycling TV coverage
Postby AUbicycles » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:50 pm
AND we can actually see the distance until finish which I read was a tech error from yesterday's race so in the UK TV coverage, the commentators couldn't judge the distance of the breakaway and peloton.
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Postby ozzymac » Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:52 am
Full uninterrupted coverage via foxtel.Cardy George wrote:Unfortunately they seem to have forgotten about the women.......
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Postby darkelf921 » Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:52 am
What was the the race like?
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Re: Olympic cycling TV coverage
Postby Cardy George » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:38 am
If you were watching Channel 9 you didn't miss much. Immediately after the tiny English girl (her name escapes me) attacked half up the final climb they cut away to something else. The next we saw the break was 1 minute up with 5km to godarkelf921 wrote:The women's race coverage was great from what I saw. I Ended up being too tired to stay up and missed the end though
What was the the race like?
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Postby darkelf921 » Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:35 am
I was amazed at the number of punctures from the start of the race until I stopped watching.
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Re: Olympic cycling TV coverage
Postby RonK » Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:22 pm
Got an email from my ISP this morning advising that I have used 70% of my monthly data allowance since I had to route my iPad into the Apple TV.darkelf921 wrote:I'm lucky enough to have Foxtel and the Foxtel Olympics App (which is brilliant).
I was amazed at the number of punctures from the start of the race until I stopped watching.
The Dutch team were mounting attack after attack when I went to bed, and had pretty much splintered the field on the first ascent of Box Hill. The Aussie girls looked to be out of it then, with only a select bunch of a dozen or so riders left in the front group.
So I was not at all surprised to discover that Voss was the eventual winner.
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