It’s mountain bike World Champs time! When are things happening exactly?
For reasons of clarity (and other things) we’re just going to pretend the ebike and pumptrack etc World Champs don’t exist and get straight to the classic disciplines.
In terms of watching the events on your telly/phone/computer, as usual the BBC will be showing some of the racing via the iPlayer Red Button thingy. And Warners Brothers Discovery+ will also being broadcasting stuff via its usual pay-to-view channels/sites/apps.
The Valais area of Switzerland is pretty big. Each different discipline is taking place quite far from one another. The XC Short Track is in Zermatt, the XC Olympic is in Crans-Montana and the Downhill will be in Champéry.
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Friday, September 5th
10:00am UK: Women Junior Downhill – Qualification
Followed by: Men Junior Downhill – Qualification
Saturday, September 6th
10:00am UK: Women Junior Downhill – Final
10:45am UK: Men Junior Downhill – Final
3:30pm UK: Women Elite Downhill – Qualification
Followed by: Men Elite Downhill – Qualification
Sunday, September 7th
10:00am UK: Women Elite Downhill – Final
11:30am UK: Men Elite Downhill – Final
Tuesday, September 9th
2:30pm UK: Women Under 23 Cross-country Short Track – Final
3:15pm UK: Men Under 23 Cross-country Short Track – Final
4:15pm UK: Women Elite Cross-country Short Track – Final
5:00pm UK: Men Elite Cross-country Short Track – Final
Thursday, September 11th
4:00pm UK: Cross-country Mixed Team Relay
Friday, September 12th
2:00pm UK: Women Junior Cross-country Olympic
4:00pm UK: Men Junior Cross-country Olympic
Saturday, September 13th
10:00am UK: Men Under 23 Cross-country Olympic
1:00pm UK: Women Elite Cross-country Olympic
Sunday, September 14th
9:30am UK: Women Under 23 Cross-country Olympic
12:30pm UK: Men Elite Cross-country Olympic
4 hours live coverage of the Great North Run on the Beeb though 🙄
Same here. Strange.
I’m in New Zealand and it’s showing “fine" (stable but that’s at 360p)
They’ve just restarted after what weems to have been a long delay – crash retrieval I thinkÂ
must be lots of folk trying the tiz cycling stream as its not working for any of the feeds.
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UCI only give a **** about lycra clad doped up freaks
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YouTube livestream 1080 via NZ VPN working fine.
This is rubbish. Went out for a ride this morning. All planned to be back in time for the dh on the BBC. And nothing… what a load of shite.Â
Going to fix some gutters instead and read about it on pinkbike later.Â
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Doing this now, working great 👌
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Who is the co-commentator with Needles?
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Oh Laurie 🤦
Buffering all the time if I try 720, even a bit at 480 but 360’s OK
That was ace, some surprises for sure. Just incredible speedÂ
The 2.5 minute “highlight" reel the UCI put up on Youtube last night got an immediate panning and was taken down within a couple of hours.Â
Gutted it wasn’t on the BBC and couldn’t find a feed anywhere.Â
DH broadcasting is a sh*tshow right now. **** the UCI
Well no, not really. It was full coverage of both Juniors and Elites, the same as each and every race. You just have to pay for it. The coverage is clear, crisp and drone footage is great. Some are not massive fans of Ric, but i don’t mind him too much.
But the simple answer is… Why should it be free to air ? No other sports (generally these days) are. From cricket to Grand Tours, to Rugby and football, F1, MotoGP, there’s a cost.. Why should DH be different ?Â
I’d possibly get the argument that World Champs maybe should be free… but i’d even debate that a bit.
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what an incredible winning race from Goldstone. He really is on a different level at the moment.
Tahnee’s brilliant save from her near OTB incident was greatÂ
@Speeder That would’ve been the BBC’s decision not to televise the race, not the UCI’s.Â
 Why don’t you just watch the full race free of charge on the UCI YouTube channel with the aid of a vpn set to any of the countries that doesn’t have an official broadcaster for the world champs ?Â
This under 3 min piece of crap is all I could find on YT. (I’m glad I didn’t have to watch the whole thing with that commentary!)
by the way he talks in his course previews, he is so within his comfort zone going those speeds it is insane. No wonder he won
Thanks for the spoiler @suspendedanimation. 🙄 I came on here to find out how I could watch it.
What do you expect from the world champs thread?
The race was over 24 hours ago.
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Apologies for the spoiler but a thread on a race is always going to be discussing the wining runs and highlights?
Mods, move or edit my comments if you like
I ran down a chunk of it the night after, as part of an ultra. Certainly way, way beyond my bike skill level!