TRACKSIDE RAW | Semi-finals Fort William UCI Downhill World Cup

Check out the trackside highlights from qualis and training in Fort William ahead of the UCI Downhill World Cup.

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[SimonHeritage]

WTF was that? Where's the livestream for semis?!

[Frechen]

no quali and semifinal livestream is a massive fail of this org

[joshmayoj]

Paying over $30 a month in Australia to watch what???? Imagine having every fan of the sport disappointed with what you’ve done.

[jgervenvan]

Discovery and UCI: SHAME on you! You are killing this sport!

[marcbeecroft]

Whoever is in charge of the broadcast has no idea how to market DH. Absolutely rubbish. You've ruined the format and now hiding the racing from the fans.

[cedrichochreuter]

fucking shitshow with the coverage, paying 7 euros a month for finals only. semis not even broadcasted

[Piaggio.]

Please bring back Red Bull TV, these people are killing the sport.

[henrycann]

Any explanation why the semi finals wasn’t live streamed today? Already Seemed like a huge unnecessary risk for the riders which is utterly pointless if you aren’t going to even show it.

[Fever]

You had cameras there but you didnt live stream it :(

[Finnspin_unicycles]

So last year the semi final broadcast didn't really take off, so now they decide to go super low budget? Not even a produced highlight, just putting 2 people with cameras to the track with no commentary?
That's not going to cut it. I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt last year, but this is just a sad showing. Might just as well let Pinkbike and other media outlets film the semis, they'll come out with something at least as good as this.

[Quedz]

I paid to watch these live and you didn't deliver. Cut my ride short to get back and watch

[diaboloseven]

DID YOU JUST GIVE A KID AN IPHONE AND SEND HIM UP THE HILL....

VERY PROFESSIONAL FOR ALL SUBSCRIBERS DOSH ..🙃

[NorminkoDH]

I wasn't as disappointed as most people with your coverage last year but the fact that the semi final runs were filmed but not broadcasted is ridiculous.

[James]

How is this a highlights? Are they trying to kill this sport?

[joeyj]

What the hell was that! I thought moving semi's to Saturday was a great idea, but no mention anywhere that you were not going to stream it! Last year we watched around 130 elite runs in one day this year we get 40 in a whole weekend. Way to destroy our sport!

[BlueKnows]

sort yer sh!t out, that was so bad. nobody think to do an outro or even show who's through to the final?

[ChampyOnPC]

WTF where can we watch it???
Your links literally doesn't work... also if we can't watch it live then what's the point???

[chrisjacobs]

Not even going to watch this poor excuse of a highlight. Will spend my time watching highlights from people who care avout the sport. Mainly the riders and people like pinkbike. Will also cancel my subscription to discovery+ if this continues. 😤

[thatpeskylimey]

This is the official uci and whoop foootage?? For shame. It’s a bunch of phone cam footage.
And not live as part of everyone’s subscription deal.
For shame.

[piast]

If Discovery wants more money from me, let them go back to streaming the DH semi-finals live. I don't even mention enduro - you guys didn't keep your promise from two years ago and I don't expect that to change.