As there will be no ISU livestream on the ISU page, I doubt that there's going to be an ISU livestream on eurosport:noshake:
Not necessarily. Look at some of the other sports on the Eurovision website.
On the Nordic Skiing page (
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/fis/nordic/ ), the only event in the video archives is the 2015 Worlds. Yet, Eurosport Player puts up streams for the World Feeds for every World Cup competition in Ski Jumping, Cross Country and Nordic Combined.
Similarly with the Alpine Skiing page (
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/fis/alpine/ ). Again, the only event in the video archives is the 2015 Worlds. Yet, Eurosport Player puts up streams for the World Feeds for every World Cup competition.
And if you do manage to watch the World Feeds of any of the above ski-sports, you will see on the credits at the end that the coverage is actually produced by the EBU (the owners of Eurovision). So, it is not as if the EBU don't have the rights to the ski-sports. It is just that somebody (be it the FIS, the EBU or the TV broadcasters) doesn't want the World Feed broadcast on the Eurovision website.
And it looks like the same is happening here with this year's Figure Skating Worlds.
Compare that with the Biathlon page (
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/ibu/ ), where the World Feed is broadcast for
EVERY IBU competition, be it World Cup; IBU Cup (the second tier tour); World Championships; European Championships; Junior Worlds; etc.
The Biathlon World Cup, World Championships and European Championships are broadcast on Eurosport. And the World Feeds for these get streamed on
BOTH Eurosport Player and Eurovision. Hey, the Eurovision stream even uses the Eurosport commentary (which can get amusing when Eurosport are showing recorded clips when the World Feed is showing LIVE pictures!)
Yet the
ONLY places the Eurovision stream ever gets blocked are France and Poland (presumably because biathlon is also shown on other channels in these countries, and there is something written into the contracts with those local broadcasters that doesn't allow the World Feed to be streamed on Eurovision).
To me, this is perfect.
So, perhaps the ISU (and the FIS) could learn something from the way the IBU does things.
CaroLiza_fan