Wow! Did you see the recital on the Italian Filippo Ganna’s stopwatch on Saturday to put on the pink jersey of the Tour of Italy? A mixture of brutal strength and bestial fluidity that left the followers speechless. And a vast majority of amateurs without images. This is the catch.
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In France, the three weeks of the Giro rhyme with curtain. Except for subscribers to the Player ofEurosport. In other words, a handful of enraged people. In reality, it is not the fact that the Tour of Italy, after four years of unencrypted broadcasting (The TV Team in this case), was recovered by the Discovery group which is questionable.
The television rights manna has been a part of the sport ecosystem for a long time. What annoys is thatEurosport has chosen not to broadcast the Giro on its two usual channels, included in various packages.
Towards a global disinterest
The aficionado already pays a subscription to satisfy his passion, but is asked to subscribe to another exclusive offer. This is forgetting that in “exclusive” there is “excluded”.
By the way, it is not by pulling on the viewer’s purse strings that piracy will be eradicated. Let us not be surprised, either, if the new generation is gradually losing interest in competitive sport …
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Yesterday, however, bike enthusiasts got (a little) for their money. Watching the last stage of the highly regarded Tour of the Algarve. Sure… Eurosport. Normal.
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