tour down under

jwshooter

not a lot about it on sky sports ,any one know about coverage

Captain Havoc

jwshooter wrote: »

not a lot about it on sky sports ,any one know about coverage

FB linky

Sunday @ 5 on Sky Sports 2

Davemcfar

Are eurosport showing it ?

E@gle.

Davemcfar wrote: »

Are eurosport showing it ?

Dont think British Eurosport is thats the one we get here, the European one is afaik

jwshooter

they showed a race on at 5pm team sky had a 1-2 .coverage starts at 5 or5.30 tue of the TDU .

armstrong streched the legs and looked cool in the new kit.

Davemcfar

Yeah we get British eurosport, think they'll just show the highlights at the end of each day.

Beasty

Don't think Eurosport will be covering this if Sky have it. Eurosport are also showing wall to wall Australian Open Tennis this week, so I suspect they don't have capacity in their schedule anyway.

JacksonHeightsOwn

its on sky, live tonight from midnight, i have it on +

oh, and if anyone wants to know the result of the first "stage" if you can call it that

Team Sky made a dream start to 2010 as Greg Henderson and Chris Sutton made it a one-two in the Cancer Council Helpline Classic in Adelaide, we wont hear the end of this on sky sports news now

Davemcfar

Dont have sky sports - do sky operate a player? as in pay for a month and see it live on line?

jwshooter

chrisbonnie wrote: »

its on sky, live tonight from midnight, i have it on +

oh, and if anyone wants to know the result of the first "stage" if you can call it that

Team Sky made a dream start to 2010 as Greg Henderson and Chris Sutton made it a one-two in the Cancer Council Helpline Classic in Adelaide, we wont hear the end of this on sky sports news now

just looked at sky ,its on at 2am .where are you looking

JacksonHeightsOwn

Davemcfar wrote: »

Dont have sky sports - do sky operate a player? as in pay for a month and see it live on line?

actually, if you have xbox live i think they have a skyplayer

DirkVoodoo

Yeah 2am for me too, and only 30 minutes of coverage/highlights, whatever it is they are showing.

You still need an account to use the sky player either online or on xbox I think, it just allows you to watch it without having to be on a TV/sky box combo. I must stress the "I think" though, as I haven't yet set either one up.

Captain Havoc

25mins highlights

Home:Ballyhoura

Captain Havoc wrote: »

25mins highlights

Thanks for that! I saw it earlier anyway but just looking at it again there (just the first minute to see if it was the same thing) I spotted something mad. Look at 24-25seconds, the (Rabobank) rider who gets second in the sprint is flying along with just one foot clipped in looking like superman! Madness

Captain Havoc

Maybe he was saving his other leg for the following sprint

c0rk3r

Cheers for that Captain Havoc. Good to see the columbia pain train broken up

jwshooter

Captain Havoc wrote: »

25mins highlights

thanks for that link ,thats me late to work ,after 4 weeks off.

DirkVoodoo

Sky still don't seem to want to cover an entire race, at least not until saturday, very annoying. But then you wouldn't want cycling to interfere with 2 hours of WWE or 4.5 hours of cricket:

Beasty

Charity Special highlights just started on Sky Sports 4 (bet you didn't know there was a SS4 - I certainly did not!) - Channel 404

JacksonHeightsOwn

pissed off at Sky, they had in our their guide that it was on from 2am until 11am this morning, i recorded that puppy, only to wake up and see it was only the half hour highlights, and then 5 hours of the ****ty Ab roller adds :mad:

jwshooter

on again at 12 to nite .

i like the raido shack kit.

JacksonHeightsOwn

jwshooter wrote: »

on again at 12 to nite .

i like the raido shack kit.

its mint, i love it to, cant wait to get my hands on one, my finely chisled keg should pack nicely into that top i reckon

treborm

Captain Havoc wrote: »

25mins highlights

Will You be putting up Highlights tonight?:)

Davemcfar

jwshooter wrote: »

on again at 12 to nite .

i like the raido shack kit.

The kits not bad, dont think much of the bike though, its a bit fussy

Davemcfar

chrisbonnie wrote: »

pissed off at Sky, they had in our their guide that it was on from 2am until 11am this morning, i recorded that puppy, only to wake up and see it was only the half hour highlights, and then 5 hours of the ****ty Ab roller adds :mad:

Sky are satins spawn of the media

jwshooter

the pics did not do the bike justice ,it looks well on the road as did armstrong on it.

In a interview LA wore a nike T shirt with 2010 with a R in the last zero , the girl friend thought he looked cool on him .:eek:

team sky ,just might us set the pecking order this week .

DirkVoodoo

Mmmmm....satin, sacralicious:



Give me an Astana specialized any day!

Captain Havoc

Dave11

Anybody else really dissappointed with the coverage from Sky or were ya expecting it???

Stokolan

Dave11 wrote: »

Anybody else really dissappointed with the coverage from Sky or were ya expecting it???

Yeah Im not impressed with it. I think its a bit poor.

JacksonHeightsOwn

Dave11 wrote: »

Anybody else really dissappointed with the coverage from Sky or were ya expecting it???

piss poor!!

the camera work for the sprint was rubbish, the first you saw of greipel was when he crossed the line

Grrrrr :mad:

at least Sky didnt win

ednwireland

the old (ish) guard seems to have put the sky upstarts down

i see phil and paul still having a lance love in

jwshooter

coverage is crap ,the BMC and shack kit is very alike in the peloton .hard to get a feel for the race with only a half hour highlights

DirkVoodoo

Yup, it feels like someone is sitting there flicking channels while I'm watching. Ah the race is starting...oh now an attack....oh, the break away has split up on a climb....oh now it's a sprint for the finish line. Plus it's 30 minutes minus the ads, minus the pre-race report, minus pre-race interviews, minus post-race interviews.

But at least it's something.

Dave11

I agree its better then nothing but what will happen is people will stop watching it cause it's such poor coverage. Sky will look at the viewing figures and think 'F**k this' and that will that for Sky....

I say lets hammer them with emails about how poor it is and how it needs to improve!!! Anyone on for it??

jwshooter

its on live at 12 midnite friday.

Zipp101

Just watched stage 1...Roll on Paris-Nice!

ColSheehan

Just watched the first Stage highlights, seemed okay to watch, was looking forward to seeing what actually happened when the peloton got split up with most of the riders. I heard one of the lads hit a reflector in the road and thats all I heard. Pity it wasn't caught on camera (or maybe it was)

Looking forward to the other stages, would be nice to see what happens in the sprints for the next few stages (the 1st stage sprint replay was brilliant)

ednwireland

greipel = beast a fight for lead sprinter a htc ?

TinyExplosions

ednwireland wrote: »

greipel = beast a fight for lead sprinter a htc ?

Na, it'll be the same as it was last year I reckon

jwshooter

this 20 minutes coverage is pissing me off

ednwireland

jwshooter wrote: »

this 20 minutes coverage is pissing me off

ahhh i dont know cant really expect more from the opening race of the season which is basically nothing more than the tour of ireland (except it has top ranking points 1) its just a nice training run i think for most riders.

paris- nice is the real season opener 7th march

anyone notice btw tour of ireland scheduled for 18 to 22 august 4 days !
a 2.1 event.
http://www.uci.ch/templates/UCI/UCI2/layout.asp?MenuId=MTUyMjQ&LangId=1

Zipp101

I can already picture this years headlines:

Cavendish Vs. Greipel,Clash of the titans,World War 3 :P

Reporter:So who's the better sprinter:

Cav: "lt's hard to say blah blah we both have very different techniques..Andrei focuses more on his power output at 150 metres blahblahblah.." :rolleyes:

jwshooter

Zipp101 wrote: »

I can already picture this years headlines:

Cavendish Vs. Greipel,Clash of the titans,World War 3 :P

Reporter:So who's the better sprinter:

Cav: "lt's hard to say blah blah we both have very different techniques..Andrei focuses more on his power output at 150 metres blahblahblah.." :rolleyes:

Greipel has pumped a bit of iron in his time ,a savage lump of a man.

irishpeloton

Dave11 wrote: »

I say lets hammer them with emails about how poor it is and how it needs to improve!!! Anyone on for it??

Don't think it's a Sky production. I'm pretty sure it's the American channel Versus that make the program and Sky just buy it off them.

decrrrrrr

Stage 5 live on Sky Sports 1 at 12am...

jwshooter

cracking race today, speeds of 100kph :eek:

DirkVoodoo

Watched an hour of the sky coverage last night.

Race was brilliant, the actual race commentary was pretty good (Phil Liggett and some other chap).

I felt a bit sorry for Chris Boardman in the surprisingly cheap looking sky studio. The host was obviously trying to introduce people to cycling which was fair enough, lots of "why isn't wiggins here?", "Everyone on the team has different jobs, right Chris?", but it was basically a team sky promo. This is fine to a degree, I mean it is there team and their channel, they are a new team, but if this continues all year it's going to really leave new viewers clueless to the world of cycling and simply there to cheer on team sky. For everyone else it is just going to be very annoying, no other team information, no discussion of tactics (unless it is how sky can win).

Shock, maybe this is what they want?

Slideshowbob

is saturday's stage hilites on web?

stevie_b

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Watched an hour of the sky coverage last night.

Race was brilliant, the actual race commentary was pretty good (Phil Liggett and some other chap).

I felt a bit sorry for Chris Boardman in the surprisingly cheap looking sky studio. The host was obviously trying to introduce people to cycling which was fair enough, lots of "why isn't wiggins here?", "Everyone on the team has different jobs, right Chris?", but it was basically a team sky promo. This is fine to a degree, I mean it is there team and their channel, they are a new team, but if this continues all year it's going to really leave new viewers clueless to the world of cycling and simply there to cheer on team sky. For everyone else it is just going to be very annoying, no other team information, no discussion of tactics (unless it is how sky can win).

Shock, maybe this is what they want?

agree the commentary isn't bad. the host in the studio doesn't seem to have a clue though. how many times does he need to look at his sheet of paper to remember greipel's name? overall i can see sky annoying me more and more - a bit like stuart barnes and sky rugby

jamsieboy86

I think the commentators weren't just Sky's, they seemed to be the the commentators the host broadcaster had. A few times after the commercials an australian voice handed it over to the coms. I do agree thet they were good.