Cathal Dennehy: Farewell Eurosport and your voluptuous bounty of fringe sports

It was a channel that elevated sports outside the mainstream bubble, giving us a helping of things we didn’t know we wanted, but which we came to love.

GOODBYE EUROSPORT: The pack of riders cycles during the fourth stage of the AlUla Tour cycling race, from Maraya to skyviews of Hattat Uwayrid, on January 31, 2025. Pic by Loic VENANCE / AFP and LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images.

So long, Eurosport. Farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye. Hate to see you go but love to watch you leave, taking with you that voluptuous bounty of sports that you and only you could provide.

Not the mainstream types, your Premier Leagues or The Masters. No, you were the refuge of the sporting hipster, a Mecca for chin-stroking, deep-thinking, counter-cultural folk with passions defined by their relative obscurity.