# Why does Vuelta TV coverage drop the time gaps in the last few km?

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**Category:** 🚨 Races\
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**Created:** [September 11, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://community.escapecollective.com/t/why-does-vuelta-tv-coverage-drop-the-time-gaps-in-the-last-few-km/4320 "2025-09-11T03:09:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Williams](https://community.escapecollective.com/user_avatar/community.escapecollective.com/stephen_williams/32/6612_2.png) [@Stephen\_Williams](https://community.escapecollective.com/u/Stephen_Williams)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://community.escapecollective.com/t/why-does-vuelta-tv-coverage-drop-the-time-gaps-in-the-last-few-km/4320/1 "2025-09-11T03:09:34Z")

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The Vuelta TV feed drops the time gaps during the last few km. Any idea why they do that?

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**Author:** ![John\_Dalton](https://community.escapecollective.com/user_avatar/community.escapecollective.com/john_dalton/32/3387_2.png) [@John\_Dalton](https://community.escapecollective.com/u/John_Dalton)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://community.escapecollective.com/t/why-does-vuelta-tv-coverage-drop-the-time-gaps-in-the-last-few-km/4320/2 "2025-09-11T10:19:26Z")

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My assumption, as I idon’t have any inside information, is that they take the time gaps from the motorcycles, so towards the end they probably get moved around a lot ready for the finish so would not be reliable. Sometimes you can see this happen in the middle of a race when the gap suddenly start counting down quickly before they realise.

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**Author:** ![James\_Taylor](https://community.escapecollective.com/user_avatar/community.escapecollective.com/james_taylor/32/4133_2.png) [@James\_Taylor](https://community.escapecollective.com/u/James_Taylor)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://community.escapecollective.com/t/why-does-vuelta-tv-coverage-drop-the-time-gaps-in-the-last-few-km/4320/3 "2025-09-11T11:48:00Z")

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I’ve done a lot of work in live TV broadcast for cycling, and as was mentioned before, the time gap information is taken from GPS units mounted on the motos and/or official cars on course. So we are on generally the camera motos for time gaps but if they are out of the way then there is no information. Often a lot of manual manipulation of time gaps happens as well, so quite often time gaps are not as accurate as you would think!

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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Williams](https://community.escapecollective.com/user_avatar/community.escapecollective.com/stephen_williams/32/6612_2.png) [@Stephen\_Williams](https://community.escapecollective.com/u/Stephen_Williams)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.escapecollective.com/t/why-does-vuelta-tv-coverage-drop-the-time-gaps-in-the-last-few-km/4320/4 "2025-09-11T13:42:16Z")

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Thanks. Makes sense.