Where does everyone watch cycling races? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Chouxfleur@lemmy.world to c/bicycling@lemmy.world

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I had a GCN subscription until they were bought up by discovery, and now I've found out that the TdF won't be on free-to-watch tv in my home country any more I'm running out of places to view it; where you lot get your professional cycling fix from?

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[-] SoJB@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Tiz cycling 😬

[-] Chouxfleur@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

This might just be it 🙃

It's a shame that competition for this stuff is piracy or get shafted because I'm absolutely fine spending a reasonable sum on watching it but I can't justify paying for Discovery+ - I just want to watch cycling not more reality TV!

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Flobikes/Flosports has the rights to the TdF and most other races here. I tried to use them once and gave up. They are incompetent, shitty, greedy, and evil.

So if I'm going to watch, it's down to pirate streams.

[-] Chouxfleur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah this might be the way - it's such a shame because on its own GCN+ was great (their awful attempt at a social media platform notwithstanding). Even if Discovery had a cycling only tier I wouldn't mind as much - but I don't give a toss about any of their other sport or content other than the cycling. My winters are much worse now I can't watch the CX!