Video: The Winning Runs From the Val di Sole Downhill World Championships

 I tried to do the right thing and paid for shitty flosports but still left the feed to go to redbull on a VPN. That guy sucked. Not to mention listening to him clear his throat and blow his nose on a hot mic from the end of the womens race until they started actually announcing the men. He also lamented to someone on the phone about "why don't they put the fastest guys first and save us two hours?" It appears to be similar experiences across the globe where a network other than redbull had the rights. They put zero effort into it.

 +1

Got to give credit where it is due. Commentary is a very hard thing to do right but the chap on the BBC...well...he wasn't Warner put it that way. Many mistakes from coverage,screen displays and commentator. At one point I thought to myself is he even watching the race? Like is he a blind commentator? He was speaking about Reece coming down and loosing all his speed in the last corner when it was blindingly obvious he had a front puncture. It was pretty cringy alot of the time, way too much detail was said about so many things, missing time gaps and incorrectly saying someone was behind when they were in front..list goes on.

Now I assumed he was getting the same screen as I was watching if not better, in advance and with more information and I was getting frustrated. The womens coverage got it worse then the mens but still a bit poor.

Long Live Redbull Coverage and the team!

 Redbull seems to get a hard time but you’ve got to hand it to them they have massively opened up the sport

 Agree
Commentary is extremely hard especially for the nervous or inexperienced. I used to live with junior tv reporters and news anchors who had trained for their roles and did it every day or multiple times per week.
Amazing that Tracey has only done it a few times. Loved that she is using more adjectives than before and that she brings a connection to the riders because she knows them very very well personally and can talk about stuff that another commentator couldn’t .
Eliot comes across as a seasoned professional. A perfect fit to sit beside Rob. keep it up
Great that there was no faux noob questions from Rob like in the past. A legend of the sport.
Lauren is great too
Long live this redbull commentary team
Great stuff team.



@grip-cycle-works:

 @gcrider: Yep, the commentary team as it stands right now is as good as we could hope for. Tracey is getting better each event and is really growing in the role. Elliot was awesome.
One thing I noticed, when ever things got really sketchy on track, Rob would say "Woooah OMG!!", and Elliot was like "hehehe", and to me it just highlighted how well balanced they are

 So much this !!!

 Lucky for you ! i have to deal with some Brazilian dudes at redbull.tv who don't even know how to speak the riders names, don't know shit about downhill, and don't shut their mouth for a second, not even in the winners interviews . Just the most annoying guys EVER !!!

 @ajayflex: You could hear a few muttered F***'s and S***'s from Elliot as some of the American riders came across the line or crashed, found it hilarious that he couldnt contain himself at times.

 @anonimous666: This begs the question, how would you have responded if they were some Portuguese dudes who don't know how to speak (pronounce*) the riders names, don't know shit about downhill, and don't shut their mouth for a second, not even in the winners interviews?

 @mi-bike: did i hurt your brazillian feelings ?

 @mi-bike: ..and this begs for a proper answer, YES, I Had to see the replay on EUROSPORT with portuguese coments and they truly know what they are talking about and it was Awesome

 Eurosport2 had Bas de Bever in the Netherlands. It wasn't the usual team, but at least someone who knows a great deal about the sport. Sucks that the replays are geoblocked too.

 @PTyliszczak: in eurosport Spanish commenter said it was not a such demanding track...

 @HF3: it wasn't available for me on redbull.tv, it kept saying georestricted and I came to find out it was only for Italian sites, so I went across several free vpn websites to get it through an Italian vpn but most you have to pay for etc.

It was getting late in the day and I couldn't stay off insta all day so I found BBC had it and endured it lol

 The BBC commentary was horrendous...I think he said "drop in" 500 times in the 10 minutes I watched before firing up a VPN

 @PTyliszczak: I came here to say the same thing. UCI coverage was so poor. That hot mike was so pure schadenfreude.

Need to figure out the vpn thing so I can get around the geoblocking

 @hjulier: I complained to FloSports and while they did not give me the entire $150 annual subscription back they offered two options. I took number two and made sure to cancel right away.

1. We can offer you a 20% discount on your current subscription and any renewals as long as your account remains active.
2. We can downgrade you to our discontinued monthly plan at $29.99 and issued a refund for the difference. *This does not cancel the monthly billing cycle, but you can cancel from your account settings.

 At least you had commentary. Nothing but crowd noise for the men's elite race on GCN+....

 Played the VPN game and enjoyed being Swiss for a brief moment. I agree about the commentary and have always thought Elliot was the right fit next to Rob. He is positive, knowledgeable, didn't release anyone's retirement info prior to them having a chance to do it respectfully with their sponsors and others close to them or constantly comment on a single mistake as sinking a run only to be surprised that they are up when the split shows, and has a good presence on the mic. Half joking, really enjoyed Claudio and know he is a legend and has given lots to the sport- I just really appreciate Elliot's commentary and his balance with Rob.

 I really prefer Claudio's commentary to Elliot. Elliot's way of speaking has so many pauses, it was kind of annoying to try and follow what he was saying imo. I didn't think Elliot's analysis added much either. It was a lot of "How do they...I can't...I can't even...understand...wow, these guys today are just...".

 more like 0.1%

 So disappointing. Bowl of dicks to the UCI as usual.

 I set my VPN to Thailand. Problem solved

 @short-but-sweet: Thank you!

 @short-but-sweet: Also got some sweet lady boy videos as a bonus for free

 @rrsport: Couple black snakes?

 @rrsport: ahahahah

 Here you go guys, full race:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO3yPkfOnnY

 Proton VPN for the free win! Great race viewed from “Japan”

 @LuvAZ: thank you

 My hero

 God bless you!

 legend

 In the US - I watched this live with BBC commentary (couldn't get the VPN and redbull to work) and it was like watching a different race without Rob's commentary....

 Thank you

 Mtb4lyf
You’re my world champ.

 Japan is beautiful this time of year!

 It was this GOATV:


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 legend, thanks mate, my VPN wasnt working

 Yeah so stoked whoever has the distribution rights in the states completely fucks us.

 @NorCalNomad: it says on red bull tv if you click on the georestrict popup…. I watched from the comfort of my living room in Colora… I mean the UK

 in Mexico works fine

 Lucky you! I'm one year older than Minnaar so I will never know what's awaiting me.

 A list of countries and their highest elevation where it would be difficult (but not impossible) to mtb:

Tuvalu - 5m
Maldives - 5m
Gambia - 53m
Bahamas - 63m
Nauru - 71m
Vatican City - 75m
Bermuda - 76m
Kiribari - 81m
Qatar - 103m

 For anyone that's ridden in Whistler, magic chair/base2 to the village is 96m elevation haha

 It’s not really that complicated. Someone else, in this case a website called Flosports, bought the US broadcasting rights to this event. That means no one else is allowed to show the event in the US but them, which means the redbull broadcasts are blacked out here.

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 @finnbuckley: Thailand server works too

 I just watched it on my phone as normal on Redbull TV from Gairloch (near the edge of some of the UK's big mountains on the NC500 route).
Was it not being broadcast in the UK on RBTV?

 There were a number of times that run could have gone wrong. Another where he almost snagged the course marker/tape.

GOAT status confirmed.

 I'm currently visiting Germany and I can watch it!

 it's not pinkbike or Redbull its UCI selling rights to make a quick buck. Just turn on your vpn to japan quickly and load clip an then turn it off

 you're my hero