From bad to worse as women’s Tour of Guangxi offers no live broadcast

No live footage was produced for the women’s Tour of Guangxi
No live footage was produced for the women’s Tour of Guangxi (Image credit: Getty Images)

Last Friday, this writer pointed out the differences in broadcast quality between the women’s Tour of Chongming Island and the men’s Tour of Guangxi, highlighting the lower standard applied to the women’s race. However, the disregard with which the organisers of the Tour of Guangxi treat their own women’s race is on a level that would almost be comical if it weren’t so saddening.

Getting to see only the final 19 kilometres of stage 2 of the Tour of Chongming Island wasn’t ideal – but overall, the quality and length of that race’s live broadcasts were alright. But there was no broadcast whatsoever of the women’s one-day race, a neglect made even more glaring by comparison to the six-day men’s stage race that enjoyed between 70 and 90 minutes of live coverage each day.

Lukas Knöfler started working in cycling communications in 2013 and has seen the inside of the scene from many angles. Having worked as press officer for teams and races and written for several online and print publications, he has been Cyclingnews’ Women’s WorldTour correspondent since 2018.