great shout, thanks 
Also live on the iPlayer app (UK) if that’s preferable to you: (eg. to watch it on a TV) - although wasn’t that obvious to find:
- within iPlayer searched on “cyc”;
- selected the result titled “Cycling Two-wheeled action”;
- selected any of the results shown (eg. recording of World’s Mens ITT)
- once that starts playing, then with the on-screen controls still displayed you should see “More episodes of Cycling” displayed below, and one of these is Live coverage of the Women’s Road Race, and selecting that gives you the option to “Watch from Start” or “Watch Live” - pick the latter.
Maybe there’s an easier method, but the above works for me.
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France has them.
I use the GCN race pass on an android and Google cast it to the TV and on live broadcasts it works flawlessly. On the highlights shows it buffers every 2/3 minutes. Every time! Eurosport player doesn’t so it seems it’s something to with the GCN app. Anybody got a clue as to why it might be happening.
If it’s any comfort, I’m using the same kit as you (Android casting to Chromecast-equipped TV) and I see exactly the same - flawless for live streams, frequent buffering for the recordings.
It does this in two different houses (ie. two different WiFi setups, but both with excellent signal strength) but the same Chromecast. Although I’ve not tested to a great extent, as far as I can tell I don’t see this same buffering of recordings if I just watch via a laptop, pointing the finger towards the Chromecast/recording combo.
I’ve just ordered one of the new “Chromecast with Google TV” gizmos that’s just come out so will see if that sees the same problem with GCN recordings buffering…
What can I expect in terms of daily highlights/summaries for the Giro?
Benchmark would be Eurosport’s 4min Youtube clips …
Full replay of live coverage
Long highlights - 25 mins
Short highlights - 3 mins
The breakaway - sofa-based chit chat hosted by Dan Lloyd with guests like Wiggins and Brian Smith
(in UK - don’t know if it varies by region)
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Yep, same for me too. I’ve tried the web player, and I remember that having issues too, but just with World of Cycling and The Breakaway. Not sure how those shows are different, but idk.
Exactly the same for me too. Full replays always work fine (don’t even need to be live), but highlights packages and The Breakway always consistently buffer. Also on Android with Chromecast to the TV.
Also worth noting that if I watch the highlights directly on the phone the buffering doesn’t happen.
The only combination I’ve found that doesn’t buffer too much is on my laptop when I turn the resolution down in settings. I wondered ( knowing little about these things) if it might be therefore be something to do with a possible resolution/definition difference between the live feeds and the highlights. IE filmed in 4k but transmitted live in say 720, meaning my WiFi can’t cope properly with the higher definition highlights
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Hadn’t realised that GCN/Eurosport’s coverage of the Giro (highlights) is free-to-air on UK tv on Quest.
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Yes, can also watch on catch up on their DPlay app
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I’ve just signed up to the GCN Race pass for a month to catch the Giro, so only slightly annoyed to discover the highlights are on freeview somewhere 
Have to say it is excellent in terms of coverage of races. CX races, Giro, mens and womens one dayers.
The app works flawlessly on my android phone and on the laptop directly (useful for ahem multitasking whilst working!).
As for casting, I suspect the limitation is the chromecast device. I had all sorts of trouble with all sorts of casting apps (all 4, iplayer etc) with the chromecast.
Searching around, I discovered a device called an Nvidia Shield and this is so much better - much better performance and spec.
Not cheap though, £120 ish but worth it in terms of lack of issues I’ve had since getting it.
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I’m on the eurosport app, which has the same coverage as GCN race pass.
during the tour and giro (so far, they will sometimes highlight a rider, and show
time in “red zone” since start
does anyone know what this means, or how it is calculated? is it based on power or HR? it would make sense to be time over FTP but surely they dont have a reliable FTP metric for the whole peloton.
I have both GCN Race Pass and Eurosport Player. Disappointing that Eurosport don’t seem to have “The Breakaway” available the following morning “On Demand”.
Could be tied to the UK highlights I guess, or the first differentiation with the Race Pass? Irritating I can watch the race from the day before on the Fire Stick Eurosport App, but then have to switch to flakey casting (and the interference with the turbo) for the analysis show.
The Breakaway is on the Eurosport iOS App. Are you watching the Eurosport “Amazon Channel” rather than the app ? Or have you installed Google Play Services and then then the Eurosport App ?
I gave up on the channel on the fire stick after I complained to Amazon about the differences between the content and they just shrugged their shoulders. So I dropped it and went the app route.
Is anyone else using a VPN to watch some of the GCN content and finding races that are listed for countries aren’t working? I’m trying to figure out whether it’s a change in what GCN list as available in certain countries (like the last minute change with world champs) or a problem with my VPN. For example, no issues watching the Giro for the first 5 stages via Italy, then from stage 6 I get ‘error communicating with the server’. Fine watching the women’s Brabantse Pijl, but can’t get the men’s to work.
I use expressvpn. Served me well in the past for geo restrictions. In the past few days I had some issues with the GCN webplayer (in chrome) But I think it was more an issue with that than the VPN. Because some stages of the giro worked, some didn’t (with and without VPN). On the phone (android) it worked fine.
No, the FireTV Eurosport App. Actually the day after I posted it seemed to be back to normal. Forgot to check this morning, as I was catching up on the actual racing from the weekend!
It’s supposed to be time spent above FTP, but to be honest I don’t know if they have accurate values for everyone.
They get the data from Velon, which has live power, HR, cadence and so on data from every rider.
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