Exciting last part of today’s stage - still with 4KM to go
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If only the tv coverage was on par with the race itself.
Discovery plus states their premium subscription is ad free. Unfortunately when you’re watching the live feed, not only are there numerous adverts, but overly long and far to frequent.
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Tried playing around with those today: you can apparently skip the ads by restarting or switching the streams. At least on my Apple TV it worked out nicely today.
Still very pissed about the fact that there are ads at all though.
The one that really gets on my wick, is when theyve ran out of ads and just show ‘back in a bit’ 
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Yes, restarting also worked for me. I also began using Firefox with uBlock Origin. Since then, I have not seen an advert, but once the stream froze. My suspicion is that an advert was playing. I just reloaded the stream and continued.
Seriously considering cancelling the subscription. The last years were so nice watching cycling. Since the latest price increases in the Uk and elsewhere I was fearing price increases, but I never thought that adverts would come back so fast, especially since they have a second, cheaper tier with adverts.
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Based on today’s stage and his performance in the Dauphine, Jonas sure looks like he’s improved his punchy power. Coming in right behind MvP and Tade today was impressive and also cool to see him attacking over the top of that climb near the finish. Not sure it will make a difference against Tade when they get to the mountains, but it should make for some interesting racing.
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Can you please expand on what you did? I tried the multiscreen view but couldn’t get with it and then reverted back to the one screen live view. I kept switching to avoid the ads .
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That’s basically what I did as well:
As soon as those stupid ads appeared, I quit the current stream and returned to the menu to select the different streams. IIRC it does not matter if you select the same or a different stream. As soon as you select one the ad is gone and the normal feed resumes.
I didn’t watch the multi-view feed long enough to see if ads appear there as well, but I would assume so.
Just guessing on the implementation of this, but it seems the ads just come around unmoderated after a certain amount of time.
If this happens at a critical moment - think Vingegård attacks to take the lead from Pogacar - I don’t think my reaction will be very peaceful. It’s just plain stupid and - from a coding POV - primitive to implement it like this for such an event where critical moments can happen basically at any time
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Thank you👍
Oh man, Jasper Philipsen crashed a couple KMs from the intermediate sprint and is out of the Tour.
From being in the yellow jersey to this. The Tour is cruel.
As Americans, we have a long, proud tradition of playing dumb with the Metric system, even when we’re actually totally comfortable with it. It’s just a thing. Like Freedom Units, an ironic jab at the inability of many Americans to cope with two different systems.
Have I killed the joke sufficiently?
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Literally on top of the world and in a split second sliding my on asphalt with a broken bone. It’s hard to watch!
Joe
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The UCI doing UCI things by handing out yellow cards after yesterday’s stage. On every sprint, there are things happening that are 10x worse than what “caused” Jasper’s wreck yesterday.
If the UCI really wanted to make the racing safer, they would review every sprint and give penalties for dangerous riding whether it resulted in a wreck or not. But they typically wait for a wreck to happen and then throw out the penalties even when it’s just a racing incident.
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Super exciting stage - or at least the last ~40KM with significant GC (3rd step on the podium) implications
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Almeida was the MVP for UAE today - didn’t expect him to be closing gaps like that on a punchy stage
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Ugh. Not a good sign for a competitive tour (GC placing after Stage 5 ITT via procyclingstats)
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Barring a crash, the tour is over. But I’ll still watch since I’m a pog fan. He is locked and loaded and a step above everyone else.
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I tend to agree, but the Tour is long and brutal and one bad day could change everything.
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True. Jonas has taken minuets on Pogi before. One bad wreck or just off day could be a huge upset. As skilled as Pogi is, he hasn’t exactly had any real bad luck.
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