The Tour of the Basque country wraps up today. I’m convinced there are no straight, flat roads in that part of the world. A couple of the one-man descents this year have been kind of scary to watch from the moto.
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Mixed feelings about NBC deciding to broadcast the World Feed of the women’s roubaix instead of doing their own production
Don’t have to hassle with Flo to avoid Phil 
No investment in women’s cycling👎
So Peacock has Ant McCrossen and Hannah Walker announcing?
So I VPN’ing into Canada for no reason? 
Correct!
What US commentators does NBC have lined up to commentate on the women’s field? We can’t complain about Phil and then turn around complain if NBC puts someone on there even less knowledgeable than him on there for a women’s race.
I’ve watched US Pro nationals for several years now and the options NBC has available are very limited. I’m certainly for the women having the best broadcast we can get and it seems the fact that this is broadcast live in the first place is a solid step towards the end goal. It would make zero sense for NBC to invest funds when the viewership just isn’t there…YET
They are using the world feed, so it’s Ant and Hannah
Not complaining about the commentators just that they spent zero dollars on it
Challenge accepted?
I know they’re using the world feed, I’m watching it. My question was what actual production would you like to see different from the world feed that NBC would do with available resources?
While we’re sitting here watching, the viewership is not there yet to justify investing more $ beyond putting on the world feed at this point.
Commentary aside, this is a cracking race. 
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Sorry that wasn’t clear to me
Minimally in race interviews with DSs, airing pre race interviews with the racers, and (sigh) airing some of the pre produced segments they will inevitably use tomorrow
Also a pre and post race show with talking heads to explain the race and the season for the various teams
They have this largely in place for tomorrow, I assume, so it’s an iterative increase in cost
Very dynamic, loving the back and forth of power between the teams. Back foot to front foot - repeat! Terrific racing
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Kopecky cracks!!
Did not have that on my Bingo card!
Wow what a race. I was sure sdworx was winning before the race and would’ve doubled down after the visma crash
Love the tactics today, feels like strength and tactics won the day, not mechanical issues, which is all I ever hope for in roubaix
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Given things may be in place, I actually assume the opposite. If it was just a small increase and the projected return would be larger than the investment then they’d do it without question. My assumption is the analysis has been done and we got the option that makes most financial sense for NBC - companies don’t generally do things that don’t have the goal of maximized return, I’d expect no less from NBC, despite the fact that I’d rather listen to Kristen Armstrong or similar.
Savage gradients and usually plenty of rain. Looks fun, bit like Britain on steroids 
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I cursed the Basque Tour at lunch. When we were in the pub I said something about Basque County aside the races in Europe have had awful weather this year. The finish of the Basque Tour today looked very sketchy 
Do we have any insight was to what was shown on Eurosport? Or Sporza? Or any other broadcasts? I’m wondering how much extra they put into it.
Not certain. I do know that most of the feeds for the women’s races on Flo with a vpn are the world feed so I don’t think a separate broadcast is available for most, but not positive.
If the sport continues to grow in viewership though I anticipate it’ll get there - at least I hope it does
Given the piss poor job American “networks” do with cycling coverage I’d rather they saved their $$$ and didn’t produce their own programming but put the $$$ saved to expanding their men’s and women’s (especially women’s) race coverage. Don’t give us fewer poorly done races, but more races with announcers who understand the sport (world coverage)
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Personally, I’m hoping that NBC doesn’t renew their contract with ASO, and Flo with Flanders Classics, for the US coverage, and it ends up on Max, with most of the other coverage. The feeds would be largely the same, but the commentary would be SO much better. And maybe we’d get The Breakaway, too.
Too late….they renewed last year. Re-upped through 2030, I believe.
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