Tells us what cycling is coming up on TV....

[Supersuperleeds]

The Cycle Show just IS painful @MrGrumpy. Close but no cigar, again.

"Chris Froome: How The Tour Was Won" is on itv4 now. Looks like a clip show of itv tour coverage with a new documentary-style voiceover.

I turned the Chris Froome one off after about 5 minutes. I was expecting interviews and all sorts of inside stuff, not a bloody clip show.

 

[MrGrumpy]

The Cycle Show just IS painful @MrGrumpy. Close but no cigar, again.

"Chris Froome: How The Tour Was Won" is on itv4 now. Looks like a clip show of itv tour coverage with a new documentary-style voiceover.

you are right it is painful sometimes there are interesting interviews/topics but yes on the whole its pish

 

[Legs]

An old race but Slaying the badger still on ITV player
Lemond v Hinault 1986

Mrs Legs and I went to bed with 40 mins of badger-slaying still to run, telling ourselves "we'll watch it on ITV Player". Can we heck?! "There appears to be a problem with this content" or somesuch... I'm guessing that Lemond won, though?

 

[Stonechat]

Mrs Legs and I went to bed with 40 mins of badger-slaying still to run, telling ourselves "we'll watch it on ITV Player". Can we heck?! "There appears to be a problem with this content" or somesuch... I'm guessing that Lemond won, though?

Just finished it this morning
Hinault won in 85 promising Le Mond he would support him.

However Hinault went into 5 minute lead in 86. Le Mond counter attacked with the likes of (Robert) Millar, Zimmerman etc, after Hinault made early break. By the time trial, Le Mond had 2 minutes to spare, Hinault only got 30 secs back. Next year Le Mond was in a hunting accident.

Following year was the epic between Fignon and Le Mond, when Le Mond won it by 8 secs on the time trial, using tri bars.

 

[Legs]

Just finished it this morning
Hinault won in 85 promising Le Mond he would support him.

However Hinault went into 5 minute lead in 86. Le Mond counter attacked with the likes of (Robert) Millar, Zimmerman etc, after Hinault made early break. By the time trial, Le Mond had 2 minutes to spare, Hinault only got 30 secs back. Next year Le Mond was in a hunting accident.

Following year was the epic between Fignon and Le Mond, when Le Mond won it by 8 secs on the time trial, using tri bars.

You could at least have put SPOILER onto your post!

Nah, you're right that the turkey hunt was 1987, but Lemond sat out 1988 as well and the Champs Elysees epic was of course 1989.

 

[smutchin]

you are right it is painful sometimes there are interesting interviews/topics but yes on the whole its pish

Cycling! What's not to like?

 

[Stonechat]

You could at least have put SPOILER onto your post!

Nah, you're right that the turkey hunt was 1987, but Lemond sat out 1988 as well and the Champs Elysees epic was of course 1989.

Well time is runniong out on itvplayer
18 hours left to watch (currently 7 am) for Slaying the badger

 

[mjr]

"Stage One of the Aviva Tour of Britain will be shown live on ITV between 1pm and 4pm, with subsequent stages shown live on ITV4. ITV4 will also broadcast a one hour highlights programme the evening of every stage. British Eurosport will also show live coverage and highlights of the race in the UK." Says http://www.velouk.net/2015/08/20/2015-tour-of-britain-news/

 

[uncle_adolph]

"Stage One of the Aviva Tour of Britain will be shown live on ITV between 1pm and 4pm, with subsequent stages shown live on ITV4. ITV4 will also broadcast a one hour highlights programme the evening of every stage. British Eurosport will also show live coverage and highlights of the race in the UK." Says http://www.velouk.net/2015/08/20/2015-tour-of-britain-news/

Does this mean we are going to have the something similar to the ridiculous scenario of last year when, on the Queen stage of the Vuelta, Eurosport had live coverage of the Stage One criterium instead?

I hope they've learned from that.....

 

[mjr]

Does this mean we are going to have the something similar to the ridiculous scenario of last year when, on the Queen stage of the Vuelta, Eurosport had live coverage of the Stage One criterium instead?

Tour of Britain Stage One appears to be highlights-only on British Eurosport but the listings for the final weekend won't appear on http://tv.eurosport.co.uk/ until Sunday at the earliest.

 

[mjr]

http://roadcyclinguk.com/racing/previews/tour-of-britain-2015-tv-schedule.html and http://tv.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/vuelta-a-espana_sto4862117/story.shtml confirms that the Vuelta stays on Eurosport (along with La Course) while ToB is on Eurosport2.

 

[mjr]

http://tv.eurosport.de/radsport/radsport-lombardei-rundfahrt_sto4929292/story.shtml suggests the usual world tour season closer, last monument and race of the falling leaves, the Tour of Lombardy, is on Eurosport from 1430 UK until it finishes, then at least three highlights repeats. I'd also expect it to be on rai sport 2.

Right, so when's the skiing start?

 

[mjr]

Lombardy is only highlights on rai sport 2. Live coverage is on rai 3.

But this is on sport 2 today:

12:05
Ciclismo: Tre Valli Varesine
13:30
Ciclismo: Giro del Piemonte

(For UK times, subtract one hour)

Both highlights I assume.

 

[mjr]

Paris-Tours is live on Eurosport on Sunday from 1430 UK time and they describe that as the end of the cycling season. I'd also expect it to be on France3

Eurosport has been showing the Tour de l' Eurometropole but I'd not noticed that.

 

[Buddfox]

Presumably Abu Dhabi is on somewhere?