World champs not on GCN+

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I’m in Canada. Was pissed that the UCI took the broadcast rights away from redbull and we lost the iconic Rob Warner commentary but I sucked it up and subscribed to GCN just to be able to watch the world Cup races. I woke up today excited to put on the world champs race only to discover that they want you to pay an additional $30 to subscribe to flosports to watch world champs. WTF is the UCI doing. I shouldn’t have to subscribe to multiple streaming services to watch the races, and $30 a month is absolutely ridiculous when I literally just want to watch this one race. I miss redbull. Rant over

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Use a VPN to watch it on GCN+ if you are in north america. I am currently watching it from Canada while connected through a european server.

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It’s just absolutely ridiculous that a mountain bike fan is expected to pay like $20 a month to GCN and $30/month to flobikes to watch essentially what, 11 races total?

The thinking that a “biking fan” is a fan of all bike disciplines seems incredibly off the mark with regards to MTB.

With other adventure sports seemed like the right fit with red bull.

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Its live on BBC 1 I’m the UK, I’m sure you can find a stream

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good thing I paid $60 a fucking year for this shit. shouldn’t need a vpn to watch what you paid for. this is harmful to the sport.

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UCI same as FIFA, corrupt European gangsters.

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First year I won’t be watching . Sad how they butchered it.

Hope it didn’t affect the riders too much . Viewer ship has to be at all time lows.

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Always good when you have the substitute cyclocross announcer covering a downhil MTB race.

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I’ve completely checked out of mtb racing because of this. Sucks because I loved it.

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I’m sitting here thinking the same god damned thing following live timing on PB

First World Champs and/or World Cup race I haven’t watched live in many many years

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Here in the UK it’s on free to air BBC and on Discovery/Eurosport. Still would rather it was on Red Bull with Warner though

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I don’t think it used to be broadcast on redbull tv either though? At least not in my country. As far as I know they sell the rights differently as more local broadcasters are interested in it than the normal races.

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UCI had it streaming for free on YouTube

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Se had a similar issue in Australia with the premier league. The rights got sold to Optus (which is a telco) so everyone including my 70 year old father had to use an app that was basically at alpha stage, wouldn’t work most of the time, couldn’t be streamed to a TV and had to be watched on mobile devices only. Terrible move.

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Thanks for the tip. Didn’t even think to use a VPN. Working like a charm. I stand by my thoughts on the UCI though. Redbull had a great thing going. Such a bonehead move to take the rights away.

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Double pro tip : use opera gx browser and their free VPN

Watched the tour de france this way

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GCN is $9/month. But I feel your frustration

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How absolutely god awful is the British commentator? Clearly has no clue whatsoever. Painful to listen to.

The South African guy is fantastic in comparison.

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I agree. They are killing the sport. If you want to grow the sport you don’t put it behind a massive pay wall. No one but the diehards are gonna pay that much to watch. Especially with the garbage commentary.

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They don’t care about the sport, they care about their revenue