La Vuelta -- Your TV Options
Published by Halverde on 9/06/2007 at 15:52.
As usual, we've managed to ignore the opening week of a grand tour. We're not sure why, really; this year's Vuelta's gotten off to an uncharacteristically interesting start. Probably just laziness, or trying to avoid e-mails from mentals who want to discuss Floyd Landis and David Millar with us.
It's more or less been the Oscar Freire show, which we can live with. He's got a pretty funky face, but we like the guy. This weekend is the big one, with the race's only proper time-trial on Saturday and one of them mountain things on the Sunday, so don't miss it.
But how will you watch?!
Eurosport
Do you like tennis, volleyball and snooker? If so, you'll love Eurosport's cycling coverage. It's a real demonstration of our dedication to the sport when we keep our deceptively costly subscription to their service, despite the fact that whenever we tune in to watch a race they're usually showing something like a repeat of the 2003 World Under 12 Curling Championships Second Qualifying Round instead. But David Harmon knows his stuff, even if he seems to be slowly catching David Duffield disease. Could be time to get some disinfectant on those Eurosport commentary booths before another good commentator starts babbling about how the Spanish paint their roads, and how some no-hoper is obviously going to win the stage because he's such a bally good guy.
Cycling.tv
This wins our award for best Vuelta coverage. Live, on-demand highlights, as-live. But only the live is free and despite being at a decent 400 kbps, that 1,200 kbps will start to look pretty tempting for €21. It's not a lot of money, but if you're as tight as we are you'll probably scratch your head for two and half weeks then buy it just in time to really, really enjoy the excellent coverage of that final stage. Plus there's some steamy studio action with Rebecca Charlton, who's even prettier than that girl on the internet who you think is your girlfriend. There's also rumours abound that we'll be making an appearance on this week's show, but we're trying our damnedest to wriggle out of it, so you'll have to watch it and see.
Belgian telly
Give it up, you'll never get your Sky dish to pick that up.
It's more or less been the Oscar Freire show, which we can live with. He's got a pretty funky face, but we like the guy. This weekend is the big one, with the race's only proper time-trial on Saturday and one of them mountain things on the Sunday, so don't miss it.
But how will you watch?!
Eurosport
Do you like tennis, volleyball and snooker? If so, you'll love Eurosport's cycling coverage. It's a real demonstration of our dedication to the sport when we keep our deceptively costly subscription to their service, despite the fact that whenever we tune in to watch a race they're usually showing something like a repeat of the 2003 World Under 12 Curling Championships Second Qualifying Round instead. But David Harmon knows his stuff, even if he seems to be slowly catching David Duffield disease. Could be time to get some disinfectant on those Eurosport commentary booths before another good commentator starts babbling about how the Spanish paint their roads, and how some no-hoper is obviously going to win the stage because he's such a bally good guy.
Cycling.tv
This wins our award for best Vuelta coverage. Live, on-demand highlights, as-live. But only the live is free and despite being at a decent 400 kbps, that 1,200 kbps will start to look pretty tempting for €21. It's not a lot of money, but if you're as tight as we are you'll probably scratch your head for two and half weeks then buy it just in time to really, really enjoy the excellent coverage of that final stage. Plus there's some steamy studio action with Rebecca Charlton, who's even prettier than that girl on the internet who you think is your girlfriend. There's also rumours abound that we'll be making an appearance on this week's show, but we're trying our damnedest to wriggle out of it, so you'll have to watch it and see.
Belgian telly
Give it up, you'll never get your Sky dish to pick that up.
