Discovery World Champs on T.V. This Week

Rob / 22.06.2002

The long awaited film on last year’s AR World Championship in Switzerland will air on Discovery Channel in the UK this week.

It’s a 4 hour mini series (first shown in USA back in March) and there will be several opportunities to see each episode, which is fortunate as we’ve been given virtually no advance notice of the showing times.

The race was the first World Championship, with qualifiers from other races around the world, including our own Adrenalin Rush and took place in Switzerland last September. It was an exceptionally tough course, running for 400km and 4 days over Alpine terrain and few teams managed to finish it. The winners were Nokia Adventure and Parrot/Lythgoe were the only UK team to make the finish line, but from a UK perspective the canyoneering accident involving Carolyn Jones overshadowed everything else.

Discovery Channel were the race and series sponsors and made an impressive effort with their filming, with a huge number of cameras, specialist sports cameramen, helicopters, and even shoulder-cams carried by teams during the race. It will be interesting to see the final result.

The showing times are expected to be as follows, but check before you set the video:

• Sat 22-Jun-2002 19:00 Episode 1
• Sat 22-Jun-2002 20:00 Episode 2
• Sat 22-Jun-2002 03:00 Episode 1
• Sat 22-Jun-2002 04:00 Episode 2
• Sun 23-Jun-2002 20:00 Episode 3
• Sun 23-Jun-2002 21:00 Episode 4
• Sun 23-Jun-2002 03:00 Episode 3
• Sun 23-Jun-2002 04:00 Episode 4
• Mon 24-Jun-2002 08:00 Episode 1
• Tue 25-Jun-2002 08:00 Episode 2
• Wed 26-Jun-2002 08:00 Episode 3
• Thu 27-Jun-2002 08:00 Episode 4

After sponsoring this one year there is no news yet on a new sponsor for the second AR World Champs, which are scheduled for Spring 2003.