Giro d'Italia - Online coverage

I have been checking to see where we can find online coverage for the Giro and found these two potential sites:

  1. Universal Sports, but as yet it may be restricted to the US

http://www.universalsports.com/SportSelect.dbml;jsessionid=4E30D12666EDD4<BR%20/>146222?DB_OEM_ID=23000&&SPID=13044&SPSID=105618

  1. This seems to be the best site as it lists a number of potential sources for coverage:
    http://www.steephill.tv/giro-d-italia/#live

Stage One TTT is Sat @ 9:00

Universals coverage will be for US and Canada. But you will have to download the new silverlight thingamabobber

A note about all this “restricted streaming” garbage (i.e. sites that can only be viewed in Italy or the US or whatever):

If you want access to a restricted feed then run a google search for “hotspot shield” and download the software. When you want to access a restricted feed, connect to the hotspot shield (which you’ve installed on your computer) and it will do something to your computer (something about the IP address) that will allow you to watch the feed. I’m not 100% sure that it works for everything but it’s worked for me before and could do the trick for some of the feeds for the Giro.

p.s. my prediction: Levi will grab pink in the early mountain/TT stages and choke in the third week, losing it to Basso, who will test positive (again) for drugs in a few months and subsequently retire. Lovkvist will win the young rider’s jersey

Alright Nostradamus, whatever.

thats a pretty cool tip there Dave, is this the software you’re talking about?

and btw, do you know if it still works? cause i was reading about it an apparently some sites seemed to have blocked users that employ this software? in any case, if that is the link, i can try it out with diverse links…

thanks!

For Alternative Stream and audio :

http://www.cyclingfans.com/

does anyone know if Canal Évasion is covering this again? Their website is a bit unclear about it and i can’t find anything about it on internet.

I had a look this morning and it doesn’t look like they cover it. Anyway, you have plenty of good coverage on the web.

Cavendish will remain in Pink for the start of Stage 3

yeah but i only have dial-up internet here…

even the forum is almost too heavy with those pics scrolling at the top!

I’d burn you a copy but I can’t find the torrents yet…

Ew…looks like Velde came out of the crash better than his bike did: