Bobsleigh IBSF World Cup 2020 - 2021

[heywoodu 16,459]

After the fiasco in Winterberg, the second women's monobob World Series event, yesterday in Innsbruck, already looked and felt a whole lot more like a top class event. If it keeps going like this, it'll have all chances to be a not totally terrible Olympic event in 2022 and a worthy one in 2026.

 

Just too bad Martin Haven was all "first ever televised race!!" and such, but I guess these IBSF streams are shown on TV....somewhere?  Other than that, of course Winterberg was streamed as well.

[Olympian1010 8,297]

16 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Just too bad Martin Haven was all "first ever televised race!!" and such, but I guess these IBSF streams are shown on TV....somewhere?  Other than that, of course Winterberg was streamed as well.

NBC broadcasts races on their various channels.

[heywoodu 16,459]

14 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

NBC broadcasts races on their various channels.

Even yesterday's race with zero Americans?  

[Olympian1010 8,297]

30 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Even yesterday's race with zero Americans?  

Not sure, but they most likely showed it on the Olympic Channel (US Television version). 

[heywoodu 16,459]

Friedrich got beaten in the 2-man race  

 

First time since the 2018/19 season  

[dcro 10,211]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Just too bad Martin Haven was all "first ever televised race!!" and such, but I guess these IBSF streams are shown on TV....somewhere?  Other than that, of course Winterberg was streamed as well.

'Televised' means high production value with commentary. Using backyard webcams like in Winterberg is not the same.

[heywoodu 16,459]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

'Televised' means high production value with commentary. Using backyard webcams like in Winterberg is not the same.

Definitely, although he could have at least mentioned the first race was streamed  

 

Oh well, we can count this as first big monobob race anyway considering the field. I'm just slightly annoyed that they couldn't just make it a World Cup but had to go with some 'special' thingy like World Series - as if putting the women in a sled designed for disabled and youth athletes wasn't enough  

[Gianlu33 5,999]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

After the fiasco in Winterberg, the second women's monobob 

Just too bad Martin Haven was all "first ever televised race!!" and such, but I guess these IBSF streams are shown on TV....somewhere?

This season, after years and years, is fully available in Italy on "SportItalia" 

[heywoodu 16,459]

2 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

This season, after years and years, is fully available in Italy on "SportItalia" 

Can you still watch the IBSF streams as well though? Because if having bobsleigh and skeleton on TV means IBSF streams get geoblocked, I really, really hope we will never have live bobsleigh and skeleton World Cups on Dutch TV  

 

For someone who often can't watch live, nothing beats a full event being available on YouTube to watch with great commentary and - importantly - no spoilers at all in the video titles and (unlike in luge ) thumbnails.

[Gianlu33 5,999]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Can you still watch the IBSF streams as well though? 

Yes, it's works (and it's very useful for the multiscreen)