On the Giro live feed on OLN they occasionaly show heart rate information for a few of the riders including Danilo Di Luca. Since I can’t read/speak one bit of Italian, can someone tell me if the upper range number represents their max HR or LT?
Ciao
i would have to assume max since they showed DeLucca at 99-100% when they were hammering up the last 6km hill and there was no way they were riding at threshold on that. they were freaking flying at that point. Plus some of those high numbers were in teh 188 - 190 range. I’m no expert but 190 seems pretty damn high for anyone’s LT
Using a mac I can’t get the oln feed so I used the RAI and streamed it with the Eurosport live audio and it worked well. I do wish OLN was covering it on TV, hopefully next year!
What is the link for the live stream? I used Google to translate the RAI site (http://www.raisport.rai.it) but can not seem to find a link to the video stream.
Bump!
I’ve never tried the video feed but given that I speak Italian here’s where it looks like it is on the site:
on the homepage at the top there is a very small menubar with a bunch of things, the rightmost two are ‘altri sport’ and ‘giro d’italia’, click on ‘giro d’italia’
in this page there is a square box on the right of the screen, titled ‘altri articoli’, the first line in that box is ‘segui in tempo reale la tappa di oggi e il processo’ (which means live coverage of today’s stage and post-stage show)
click on it and you should end end up on a page that looks like it has a real stream in the middle (can’t see it from here, firewall issues)
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The link is: http://www.olntv.com
We have been watching this and I have to say, its great not to have ad’s every 30 seconds like they do on the weekend coverage on TV. Its not the same without Bob Roll’s hands, but I would trade that for the ad free coverage.
Are you sure that the percentile scores are the HR data? That seems improbable. I would have thought that was their position within the peloton. They put up their exact ranking in the race, and their percentile position in the race, along with their race number. Thats the way I was reading it. Otherwise, it looks like they are readlining an awful lot!
Are you guys in the US getting the Giro on TV? Tell me it ain’t so.
Nothing up here in Canada on OLN.
Its on TV on the weekends, and you can watch it live on weekdays online. Its pretty good coverage - better online than the tv stuff…
I’m trying to listen the Eurosport audio feed from the Giro, but the link on the page doesn’t seem to work. Is anyone else having a problem? Does anyone know if the audio is im Windows Media Player or if it is in Realplayer, at my desk I don’t have access to anything other than Windows.
Eurosport is Real Audio (Real Player) and I have found that it can be finicky if you have more than one instance of your web browser open - Internet Explorer in my case! If I have multiple browser instances active (not minimized to the taskbar on a Windows PC), the Popup browser window returns a ‘Page not found’ or something like that error. Minimizing or clsoing all other browser windows save Eursport, then clicking the ‘LIVE AUDIO’ link (must have Real Audio installed :^>) works properly.
I am listening to Eurosport and watching the video stream on RAI (must start Eurosport first) so for those interested, here is the RAI direct link for streaming video at RAI (only active during the stage covereage): http://www.raisport.rai.it/raiSportSezioneIndex/0,5785,_78_143_7370,00.html
On the Giro live feed on OLN they occasionaly show heart rate information for a few of the riders including Danilo Di Luca. Since I can’t read/speak one bit of Italian, can someone tell me if the upper range number represents their max HR or LT?
Ciao
The cyclingnews folks have concluded it’s nominal max HR.
What’s really funny is that as of last weekend, Phil, Paul and Bobke sitting in the east coast OLN studio and trying to interpret the raw feed had no idea what that data was - they concluded it was some sort of GPS position snapshot using the on-bike location transponders, somehow showing how far down that rider was in the peloton at that instant(since the max number happens to be pretty close to the size of the field). So, every time it popped up, they thought whoever it listed was sitting in the group 60-80% of the way back. Hopefully by this weekend they will have figured out that it’s HR data.