Returning: Tour de France
Cycling fans get ready for 21 stages of a world class race live on TV -and even Gabriel Gate serving up some local cuisine.
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The world’s most prestigious cycling event, Tour de France, returns to SBS from Saturday July 4 to Monday 27 July from 10.00pm on SBS TWO and SBS ONE.
Ther ace will depart from Monaco and will cover 3,500 kilometres before ending in spectacular fashion along the Champs-Elysees in Paris. For the first time in the tour’s history, riders will need to contend a mountain finish the day before the peloton descends on the final stage in Paris.
SBS plans a multi platform delivery of the Tour. Viewers can watch all 21 stages on SBS TWO.
Daily morning updates at 7:15am and half hour evening highlight will screen at 6:00pm on SBS ONE. Some stages of the Tour will also be screening live on SBS ONE in the event the Ashes Test Series is rained-out or not in play.
Michael Tomalaris hosts the tour for his 14th year, and will be joined by race commentators Phil Liggett, Paul Sherwen and Matt Keenan as well as cycling reporter John Flynn and cycling analyst David McKenzie.
SBS has also brought French chef Gabriel Gate to travel through the regions on each stage of the race dishing up fabulous local cuisine.
www.sbs.com.au/tdf will also host comprehensive tour news, stage by stage results, and live streaming.
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6 Responses
Actually, i am pretty tired of the incessant repetitve commentary by Phil and Co. Two yrs ago i welcomed it, but now particularly after stage two where they mentioned (about nine times) Lance’s quick thinking in staying with the breakaway group and that Cavendish’s team had all nine riders in that group………………Aaaargh. Painfully repetitive!
The tour is a beautiful spectacle, and i just wish the commentators would allow us a few secs of quiet to enjoy. The odd time to pick out certain riders would be handy, but that’s all.
For the first time i’m thinking of turning off the volume!
Just replying to your original comment Pete, the reason why the coverage starts halfway through the stage is because the world coverage that is received by SBS (and basically every other country showing the race) starts at that exact moment that SBS start showing the race. It’s nothing to do with SBS, they provide live footage as soon as it is available to the world
Coverage at 2330-0400 for Stage 1, 2200-0200 for Stage 2, 2200-0215 for Stage 3. Don’t know if that’s live or not, but sounds like it.
SBS always do a great job with the Tour de France. Phil Liggett is the best commentator in the world. His knowledge and passion for cycling is unbeatable. SBS Two arrived just in time.
Due to time difference, SA, NT and WA always lost out on early parts of live coverage of daily stages, when TDF was shown on SBS in the last two years. Hopefully with live coverage moved to SBS TWO, these regions will receive the full broadcast as in the eastern states.
How long will each stage be broadcast for??? Hopefully we get longer than last year as you miss the whole first half of each stage. It would be interesting to see the start of breakaways and not just the end of stages like usual.