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Eurosport offers viewers varied sports such as UEFA Champions League football, the Paris Dakar Rally, the Olympics, cycling, tennis, wintersports and youth sports like skating and surfing. The New Champions League Logo used from the start of the 2002/03 Season European Champion Clubs Cup The UEFA Champions League is an annual international inter-club football competition for Europes most successful clubs. ... The Paris Dakar Rally (or simply The Dakar) is an annual professional off-road race, currently sponsored by Total S.A. and organized by the Amaury Sport Organisation. ... For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ...

It is often provided as the sole sports channel by CATV operators. In the UK and Ireland many operators, mainly analogue ones, often promise "satellite sports channels" and provide Eurosport and Extreme Sports TV. The channel is popular, and when NTL replaced Eurosport on their Dublin analogue system with CNBC, there was outrage among the Irish tabloid press. Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional... For the Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact publication, see Astounding Magazine. ... NTL (NASDAQ: NTLI) is a US listed company providing cable services. ... Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath),is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin region. ... CNBC (formerly the Consumer News and Business Channel) is a group of cable and satellite television news channels from the U.S., owned and operated by NBC Universal, a subsidiary of General Electric. ... A tabloid is a newspaper format particularly popular in the United Kingdom, which is roughly 231/2 by 143/4 inches (597 by 375 mm) per spread. ...

Eurosport is shown in most countries across Europe, with the commentary in the local language, but not necessarily local advertising.

Eurosport is part of the TF1 Group. TF1 is a private French TV network, controlled by the Bouygues group. ...

Currently there are three channels broadcast under the Eurosport name: Eurosport, Eurosport 2 and Eurosport News.

External links

• Official Eurosport homepage
• Irish 'Bring back Eurosport' campaign website