Bad news - Flotrack just bought the rights to the Dubai Marathon - Put it behind its paywall

No biggie. Download the free Hola extension for chrome. Change your IP. It takes 2 seconds and you can watch for free. I use it all the time to watch BBC broadcasts of major events.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unlimited-free-vpn-hola/gkojfkhlekighikafcpjkiklfbnlmeio/related?hl=en

The Eversport TV got just wrote me back and says US and Canada were blocked as of yesterday. Here is the updated list of IP addresses that aren't available for eversport.

Countries:

Angola

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Botswana

Brazil

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

China

Comoros

Congo

Congo, The Democratic Republic of the

Costa Rica

Cote d'Ivoire

Djibouti

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Ethiopia

France

French Guiana

French Polynesia

Gabon

Gambia

Germany

Ghana

Guadeloupe

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Haiti

Honduras

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Martinique

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Monaco

Mozambique

Namibia

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Panama

Rwanda

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

South Sudan

Sudan

Swaziland

Switzerland

Tanzania, United Republic of

Togo

Turkey

Uganda

United States

tech savvy wrote:

No biggie. Download the free Hola extension for chrome. Change your IP. It takes 2 seconds and you can watch for free. I use it all the time to watch BBC broadcasts of major events.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unlimited-free-vpn-hola/gkojfkhlekighikafcpjkiklfbnlmeio/related?hl=en

+1. I've watched many a races using Hola.

Now just have to find a country to use.

I'm going to use that hola add on as well.

If anyone knows of countries that are NOT blocked we can use to disguise IP as, please let me know.

Dubai the rights when there's money to make

Sunshine and shady games, flosports is shades

yo where da flonase

I can't take the fake

whendidit wrote:

If anyone knows of countries that are NOT blocked we can use to disguise IP as, please let me know.

I discovered a trick but try to keep it a secret... if you find a list of all the countries, you can just pick one that isn't on the blocked list. But again, keep this quiet, I wouldn't want this valuable trick getting leaked to too many people.

I don't recommend hola, however.

Whats time does the race actually start here in the states? The official website says 6:30 AM...so that's 9:30 Eastern Time right?

Flotrack is really killing the audience for our sport for their own monetary gain. What really bothers me is how they get their "rights" literally days before said running event just like with the NCAAs (which I payed for and didn't get a free trial like they promised... my subscription also ended so I'm salty). Not to mention their hosting quality has been pretty sub par for the cost they require. They should just focus their marketing towards ads and build their youtube channel and host streams there to build an audience and generate revenue. Their one video with Grace Ping at griak had over 500k views. Having a potential video of Bekele breaking the WR in the marathon could do wonders for their channel and give our sport more light as well. They could limit their payment requirements to those lengthy documentaries and workouts instead of actual races!

OTCSucks wrote:

Whats time does the race actually start here in the states? The official website says 6:30 AM...so that's 9:30 Eastern Time right?

0 Hrs Dubai

-3 Hrs UK

-8 Hrs Eastern

-11 Hrs Western

Here is a world time zone map.

Oh dang so it's actually on tonight for us in the USA! Cool Thanks!

What can the common running fan do to basically say f*** the Flo-police? I'll write as profusely as necessary to any executive or politician

It's bad enough this isn't on ESPN 2, now we can't watch it at all :( fvcking flo track!

whendidit wrote:

I'm going to use that hola add on as well.

If anyone knows of countries that are NOT blocked we can use to disguise IP as, please let me know.

I've used Hola without any issues before.

The UK didn't seem to be on that list, so it should work.

I thought all LetsRunners loved free market capitalism, no?

Blotrack sucks! Maybe their announcers will say Bekele's chasing the ghost of Steve Scott!!!

i figured out a trick wrote:

whendidit wrote:

If anyone knows of countries that are NOT blocked we can use to disguise IP as, please let me know.

I discovered a trick but try to keep it a secret... if you find a list of all the countries, you can just pick one that isn't on the blocked list. But again, keep this quiet, I wouldn't want this valuable trick getting leaked to too many people.

I don't recommend hola, however.

Good to know.

Does anyone know if Cape Verde will work to watch the marathon?

This all but cements my decision to NOT get FloTrack - I was recently considering paying for the subscription.

New norm wrote:

Does anyone know if Cape Verde will work to watch the marathon?

Yes I do. The answer is no it will not work, it is on the blocked list.