The Vuelta with spoilers

[ColinJ]

FFS they've screwed this up.

Where did it go!?

(Watching on Eurosport now instead.)

 

[mjr]

Where did it go!?

(Watching on Eurosport now instead.)

Nobody knows. Deafening silence on QuestTV twitter and facebook in reply to some pretty annoyed viewers waking to find they recorded Polish Border Police.

Just when you thought Discovery wouldn't repeat the Giro mistake of repeating stage 1 instead of showing stage 4, they do worse.

 

[matticus]

Polish Border Police

Haha.
(Remember how much people used to complain about getting Women's Tennis??)

 

[ColinJ]

Discovery are advertising for a new office worker... Apparently, the operative they just fired lied in their interview when answering the questions "Do you know how to use a mouse?" and "Can you see these icons clearly and read the text below them?"

Anyway... Go Rog!!!

 

[cyberknight]

recorded quest , luckily when i got up the highlights were on europsort

 

[cyberknight]

To all of you frustrated at having missed the highlights. There really weren't many:

• Pidcock set off like a train for the first 200m but didn't set much of a time.
• Alanburu's "oh well, it was nice while it lasted" face when Rog beat his time.
• Mas lost his back wheel momentarily but recovered.
• There was a cable in a housing running across the road just after the finish. Watching the post-finish bunny-hopping was mildly entertaining.

That's about it.

If they had to choose a stage to screw up the coverage they picked the right one.

Indeed what numpty put that there ?

 

[Eziemnaik]

I think I prefer later date (last year's was perfect) for La vuelta. The country is greener, the heat is bearable and the season seems longer

 

[Mo1959]

I think I prefer later date (last year's was perfect) for La vuelta. The country is greener, the heat is bearable and the season seems longer

Watching it just now. The country looks very dry and drab have to say.

 

[roadrash]

Crash and a couple of Bora riders staying down

 

[matticus]

View: https://twitter.com/friebos/status/1426903270925209601?s=19

 

[Mr Celine]

Quest showing highlights as advertised tonight. I might have to turn the sound off, this commentator is as hopeless as he is irritating.

 

[Cathryn]

Watching it just now. The country looks very dry and drab have to say.

I was thinking how beige it all looked! Doesn’t make me desperate to go to Spain!!

 

[Mike_P]

Quest showing highlights as advertised tonight. I might have to turn the sound off, this commentator is as hopeless as he is irritating.

Just do not get Eurosport or GCN+ otherwise you will have even more of Carlton Kirby.

 

[ColinJ]

Ah, the usual Eurosport/GCN/Quest highlights show editing... Clearly done by somebody in a hurry, who has no interest in/knowledge of cycling!

"And we have a boring stage today which is very likely to end in a sprint. There aren't any hills. The breakaway will be caught. The only thing of real interest along the way is the intermediate sprint... And we are getting closer to the intermediate sprint... Oh, time for an ad break... We won't show you the intermediate sprint... Right, we can show you some more footage of riders riding along and occasionally falling off. We'll try NOT to show you footage of them peeing, though we do sometimes catch them at it. And they are riding really quickly now. OH NO... I thought some more were going to fall off, but they didn't... PHEW! Back to the race... the sprint is coming. WOW!!"

 

[Dogtrousers]

Just saw a replay of the crash at about 5k to go. Roglic was centimetres away and nearly got held up.