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How to watch the Tour De France in India? – Updated for 2019

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How to watch 2017 Tour De France in India

So, you are also wondering how to watch the 2018 Tour De France in India?

Since I started cycling couple of years back I have really enjoyed watching the Tour De France, last year it was live on Ten Sports in SD/HD and even that was not the entire race they would start in between some 2 hours into the race.

This year things have gotten worse, there seems to be no live telecast at all! DSports or Discovery Sports (channel 495 on Tata Sky) is only showing the highlights. So I started hunting for How to watch 2017 Tour De France Live in India

I started hunting for How to watch Tour De France 2019 Live in India and to my surprise, there was no clear guide for this available on the internet. I have listed below the step I have taken.

You will need to take the following steps to watch the entire race live on Eurosport –

  1. Create an Express VPN account, you can use this link to join and you will get an additional free month of the VPN service
  2. Subscribe to Eurosport player through the VPN on your desktop or laptop.
  3. Download the Eurosport player app from Google play store or from this site if google play store won’t let you as you are in India.  Eurosport will detect your location on mobile from GPS and not let you access the app! This now works only on your laptop or desktop!
  4. Install the expressvpn app on your laptop or desktop or mobile and login and switch on the VPN select the location as UK
  5. Visit the Eurosport player website in chrome and login.
  6. You can now watch the Tour De France live from India and stream it to your big screen TV using chrome cast or an HDMI cable.
  7. To watch on mobile start the express vpn app as above and simply go to europortplayer.com and click on Desktop Site checkbox in the chrome browser menu. The desktop site will not detect your gps location or ask you to download the mobile app.

If you just want to get the highlights you can go to the official website of the Tour and watch the daily highlights, they also have a youtube channel and a nifty app with live updates (no streaming though).

I hope this post will help and you too will enjoy watching the Tour De France from India, please do let me know if you found another more efficient way to watch the entire race live from India.

I love mind mapping!

Have you tried mind mapping? If not you must try it today, I was introduced to this many years ago by a friend and have used it almost every day since. Back then there was no option but to buy MindJet Mind Manager and it is still the best choice out there. The Sad part is it costs a bomb, worry not you can do almost all the things using a free alternative – FreeMind!

Here are the links to download pages –

  1. Freemind – http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download make sure you download the correct version matching your operating system.
  2. Mindjet Mindmanager – https://www.mindjet.com/ they have a free 30-day trial and is totally worth trying out.

What can you use it for?

Once you have downloaded either one of them there is a lot of things you can use them for, I use them for all sorts of things –

  1. Brainstorming
  2. Making lists
  3. Project plans
  4. Article outlines
  5. Website structures
  6. SOP outlines
  7. Recording meetings and a lot more

Mapping is so easy to use!

You have to use 4 only keys to make a mind map –

  1. Enter – insert a point at the same level
  2. Insert – to add a sub point
  3. Delete – to delete a point
  4. Escape – to go back to the last point – you can delete a new point or undo something you wrote by mistake

As you make a mind map you won’t get tied up in the grammar or sentence formation just keep capturing the points in a logical flow!

If your colleagues don’t have or don’t use mind maps you can easily export the map into a variety of file formats and share them easily as PDF, JPG, PPT, Word, HTML and XML.

Here is a small mind map I made to show the different uses.

 

Example mind map
For what all do I use Mind Maps?

 

I hope this is helpful to get you started with mind mapping, do let me know our experiences in the comments below.

Starting over

It has been more than four years since I first created my personal blog. Somewhere in between, I stopped updating it and writing. Eventually, the blog was infected with some malware and I lost all the content and articles that I had written.

So this time I’m starting it again but with much better infrastructure hoping that I will not lose all the effort that I put in to share my thoughts and learning and all the jibber jabber that I feel like.