Video: Official Highlights from the Fort William DH World Cup 2024
If you missed the live coverage from the first round of the 2024 DH World Cup series you can catch up on all the racing below.
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Rob would have you on the edge of your seat waiting for the split
Ric will be bleating on about something completely unrelated while the splits go by and people hit lines that no one else has
I’m sorry but it’s just desperately bad
Still not a fan of the coverage format / style and it starts with Who's that Lady / Soccer Mom intro vs. an insider, but Gwin kept the pants up for commentary and made it insightful, Ric not that bad & glad Cedric's out with his exceited puppy commentary every freakin run. Semi's are still a joke, hands down but at least race day is just race day again in spite of all the many kinks - f*ck the semi's... what a massive waste of time, brainspace, engery & resource.
I can bitch full on w/ the best of them and have lots of gripes but the pro's are still total destroyers in spite of UCI / Discovery endless bungling & nonsensical changes, and it looks like so many of the pros we know & love upped their game substantially during the off-season. Ft. Bill was a helluva start & I'll take it in spite of my suspicions & UCI disdain.
Saturday was worse, couldnt understand half of what they were saying.
Sunday though, clearly not riders, they should have had Toby (I think that was his name) that Si used to get for the BDS back in the day, that guy is an amazing commentator, even Si himself would have been much better. He did a decent job at Crankworx back in the day.
I still think the camera placement & choices of when to show the different camera angles is still subpar.
Having Gwin & Tahnee there def helped but even if they had not been there the normal commentator was much better than Cedric. I like Cedric but when he gets excited you can't understand anything he is saying.
Not even close to Red Bull but better. If I had not already had MAX I still would not pay for this separately.
I paid for a subscription to watch last year and between my isp video quality and the dialog, I gave up after two races.
Went looking for how to watch yesterday anticipating frustration but was pleasantly surprised to find there was coverage on Max which I already subscribed to.
I though the production value was good, nice graphics, appreciated the drone footage, I liked how they would split screen a run + interviews. And having the pros in the booth for discussion is key. Ric seems to be slowly coming into his own. Overall, not mad about it at all.
I'll tell you why; it's because they chose NOT to broadcast the Ft. Bill DH live in the UK and instead showed a 30 mins highlight reel on Monday evening. On Sunday afternoon Eurosport channels 1HD and 2HD had a choice of live Giro d'Italia or live Snooker.
All the advertising states that you can watch the racing live on Eurosport, but that's not true if the TV schedule doesn't actually include the broadcast. I hate to think what sponsorship deals were signed before the season began based on increases in live TV viewing figures....... because it wasn't on the TV.... NOT in the UK anyway.
didn't expect that did ya?