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.
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.
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 .
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
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.
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.
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.
It could be worse. At least Pogi isn’t winning every stage. While the TT pulled him ahead, he didn’t win. His stage win with the sprint against MVDP and Jonas was incredibly entertaining. MVDP is obviously a stronger sprinter but was more gassed at that point trying to hold the group.
Winning or not, I find Pogi’s aggressive tactics to be incredibly entertaining. They aren’t even always the smartest, but it’s clear that he just loves to race, and it’s hard to ask for more than that as a fan.
His tactics on the bike remind me of one of my favorite quotes:
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”
I think the evidence for him struggling in the heat might be quite thin. As much due to overall form, fueling, race situation as anything else. E.g. There was the day he cracked when Vingegaard and Roglic worked him over repeatedly, but he was also isolated that day and seemingly bonked. And then the day on Col de la Loze 2 years ago where he completely disintegrated, but that was also the year where he was recovering from a broken wrist and had conceded an unexpected amount of time on the TT so also could just be that he lacked 3 week fitness.
This, combined with him being weaker on longer climbs, is the traditional view
However - the last 1.5 seasons he seems to have addressed these problems. We might see them tested later in this Tour, and if not then heat performance will surely be tested if he races the Vuelta as scheduled
