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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? :p Other than that, of course Winterberg was streamed as well.

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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? :p Other than that, of course Winterberg was streamed as well.

NBC broadcasts races on their various channels.

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14 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

NBC broadcasts races on their various channels.

Even yesterday's race with zero Americans? :yikes: 

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30 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Even yesterday's race with zero Americans? :yikes: 

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

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Friedrich got beaten in the 2-man race :yikes: 

 

First time since the 2018/19 season :d 

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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? :p 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.

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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 :p 

 

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 :p 

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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? :p

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

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2 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

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

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 :p 

 

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 :mad:) thumbnails.

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