What’s the deal with Canada? No live Giro coverage on TV, cable or on the internet. For some reason the Universal online coverage is blocked. 
I don’t get it. It’s the biggest international sports event going on right now, but not apparently in Canada. Strange, because Toronto has the largest single population of Italians outside of Italy!!
Rant over!
No Universal Sports on the Internet?
http://www.universalsports.com/mediaPlayer/media.dbml?CLIP_ID=133401&_MODE_=EVENT&db_oem_id=23000
Doesnt work in FF for me. But site clearly states: USA+CAN Under the Watch Live Now
Steve,
not sure if you found this one - just watching live on this link and seems ok coverage
cheers
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I live in Montreal and I’m getting universalsports.com coverage
derek
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I’m watching live coverage on Universal Sports right now and the video feed has been really good this morning.
It’s more frustrating than fun… Buffering every 10 seconds… blows!
So just because there are Italians in Toronto there should be Giro coverage?
That would be like saying just because there are Mexicans in LA they should televise the Tour of Mexico.
**“It’s more frustrating than fun… Buffering every 10 seconds… blows!” **
I’ve been there before…it sucks…but not this morning, the video feed has been great.
X2 on http://www.justin.tv/ferrari_dragon2
Was watching both Universal and justin.tv. Turns out the justin.tv coverage is a min. or two closer to “live”
The highlight’s from yesterday’s stage made it to YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/sportsnetwork ) pretty quickly so you should be able to catch today’s stage highlights there in a bit.
So just because there are Italians in Toronto there should be Giro coverage?
Well they cover all the soccer matches in Italy on various Italian cable channels and when Italy is playing the the World Cup, large sections of Toronto are shut down. I was just thinking that cycling which is big in Italy would have more coverage here.
Giro coverage is available NOW in Canada on www.universalsports.com. I’m sitting in Toronto on Rogers cable Internet watching stage 3. I was blocked from stage 1, but now it is working.
Ken
What’s the name of the guy doing the little editorial about the TdF among other things, in Montreal’s main newspaper in French? I remember reading that when I lived in MTL and always thought it was fun to read.
Ken,
Thanks.
I seem to be edging baby steps closer. I get the little intro commercial, but now I am looking at a blank/black screen.
Go to www.cyclingfans.com and click the link for www.universalsports.com on the right hand side of the page. That fixed that problem for me.
http://www.universalsports.com/...&db_oem_id=23000 This is the link I’m on right now.
Hope this helps,
Ken
Ah! Yes! Thanks mate.
Does that have English commentary?
Ken
Yes. Good commentators. Does anyone know if the “Sean” is Sean Kelly?
It’d be worth getting the www.universalsports.com one going as it is broadcast is much higher quality. The commentators seem better for the justin.tv link though. The feeds are separated by about a minute with justin.tv being ahead.
Ken
