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Concluding the year with Eurosport Australia

Basketball: Euroleague Twenty-four of Europe’s best professional basketball teams collide in the most important club competition outside of the NBA. Divided into four groups of six, each team play 10 rounds, after which the top four teams from each group progress to the final 16 round. The season then moves to and the final four to determine the season’s champion!

What Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul (TUR) vs. Olympiacos Piraeus (GRC) When Friday 19/12 at 5am LIVE Aussies Nathan Jawai (Galatasaray)

What Real Madrid (ESP) vs. Anadolu Efes Istanbul (TUR) When Friday 19/12 at 7am LIVE

What Crvena Zvezda Beograd (SRB) vs. Laboral Kutxa Vitoria (ESP) When Saturday 20/12 at 5am LIVE

What Top 16 Begins (Teams TBC) When Wednesday 31/12 at 5am LIVE Wednesday 31/12 at 6.45am LIVE Saturday 2/1 at 5am LIVE

Rugby Union: The premier club rugby competition in sees the top 14 teams play off for the title. At the conclusion of each season the two lowest ranked teams are relegated to the second tier Rugby Pro D2, while the top two teams from the secondary competition are elevated to the top flight.

What vs. Stade Francais When Saturday 20/12 at 6.45am LIVE Aussies Dayna Edwards, Ben Hand, Peter Kimlin, Henry Vanderglas (Grenoble) Hugh Pyle, Richard Kingi, Digby Ioane, Krisnan Inu (NZ) (Stade Francais)

What Montpellier vs. When Sunday 21/12 at 12.45am LIVE Aussies Ben Mowen (Montpellier)

What Stade Toulousain vs. Racing Metro When Monday 29/12 at 1am LIVE

What Stade Francais vs. Toulon When Monday 29/12 at 7am LIVE Aussies Hugh Pyle, Richard Kingi, Digby Ioane, Krisnan Inu (NZ) (Stade Francais) Drew Mitchell and James O’Connor (Toulon)

What Racing Metro vs. Bordeaux When Sunday 4/1 at 12.30am LIVE

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Aussies Blair Connor (Bordeaux)

What Montpellier vs. Toulon When Sunday 4/1 at 2.30am LIVE Aussies Ben Mowen (Montpellier) and Drew Mitchell (Toulon)

What Clermont vs. Stade Toulousain When Monday 5/1 at 7am LIVE Aussies John Ulugia and Brock James (Clermont)

Winter Sports: Snowboard It’s one of the toughest and popular snow sport disciplines that takes place over the course of a season, and the best winter sport athletes will lock themselves in to compete in the parallel slalom, snowboard cross and the ever popular halfpipe! The men’s competition also includes the big air contest where the athletes let it loose and take off with style.

What Snowboard: World Cup, Montafon When Thursday 18/12 at 11.15pm LIVE Friday 19/12 at 8.45pm LIVE What Snowboard: World Cup, Istanbul When Sunday 21/12 at 4am LIVE

Winter Sports: Ski Jumping The winter sports season continues to thrive as the best athletes in the ski jumping world cup come together to compete for the coveted crown. With many hoping to maintain their fine form at each event, the focus will be on who can maintain consistency throughout the season.

What Ski Jumping: World Cup, Engelberg When Friday 19/12 at 11.30pm LIVE Monday 22/12 at 12.15am LIVE

What Ski Jumping: World Cup, Garmisch-Parten When Wednesday 31/12 at 11.30pm LIVE Thursday 1/1 at 11.45am LIVE

What Ski Jumping: World Cup, Innsbruck When Sunday 4/1 at 11.45pm LIVE

Winter Sports: Cross-Country Skiing It’s a test of endurance as the best cross-country skiers come together for the next round of the cross-country skiing World Cup! Not only will the athletes need to be on top of their game on race day, they will need to be at peak performance over the course of a season, if they hope to take home the coveted overall World Cup victory.

What Cross-Country: World Cup, Davos When Monday 22/12 at 2am DELAYED

What Cross-Country: World Cup, Oberstdorf When Saturday 3/1 at 8.30pm LIVE Saturday 3/1 at 10.30pm LIVE Sunday 4/1 at 9pm LIVE Sunday 4/1 at 10.15pm LIVE

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Winter Sports: Alpine Skiing The Alpine Skiing World Cup is the top international circuit of Alpine Skiing competitions! Staged annually, it is considered the premier competition in alpine ski racing together with the quadrennial Olympic Winter Games and biennial FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. The longevity of the season and the need for athletes to perform on a consistent basis ensures the world cup is one of the toughest crowns to attain.

What Alpine Skiing: World Cup, Val Gardena-Groeden (Men) When Friday 19/12 at 10pm LIVE Saturday 20/12 at 10pm LIVE What Alpine Skiing: World Cup, Val d’Isere (Women) When Saturday 20/12 at 8.15pm LIVE

What Alpine Skiing: World Cup, Alta Badia (Men) When Sunday 21/12 at 10.15pm LIVE

What Alpine Skiing: World Cup, Madonna di Camp (Men) When Tuesday 23/12 at 3.30am LIVE Tuesday 23/12 at 6.30am LIVE

What Alpine Skiing: Exhibition Slalom, Italy When Tuesday 23/12 at 11pm LIVE

What Alpine Skiing: World Cup: Semmering (Women) When Sunday 28/12 at 7.45pm LIVE Sunday 28/12 at 11pm LIVE Tuesday 30/12 at 12.45am LIVE Tuesday 30/12 at 3.45am LIVE

What Alpine Skiing: World Cup, Santa Caterina (Men) When Sunday 28/12 at 9.15pm LIVE

What Alpine Skiing: World Cup, Munich (Men) When Friday 2/1 at 3am LIVE

What Alpine Skiing: World Cup, Zagreb (Women) When Sunday 4/1 at 7.45pm LIVE Sunday 4/1 at 11pm LIVE

Winter Sports: Biathlon It’s a mix of cross country skiing and rifle shooting that tests the endurance and precision of the winter sports athletes. The cross-country skiing element is broken up by a number of shooting rounds, mixed between prone and standing positions. Who can produce the most consistency across the season to take the world cup victory?

What Biathlon: World Cup, Pokljuka When Friday 19/12 at 12.30am LIVE Saturday 20/12 at 11.30pm LIVE Monday 22/12 at 11.30pm LIVE

Winter Sports: Nordic Combined Skiing Nordic Combined sees athletes compete in both ski jumping and cross-country racing and is often referred to as the ‘decathlon of skiing’ as it requires a skier to use two opposing muscle types: explosiveness and strength for ski jumping and then swiftness and endurance for cross-country skiing.

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What Nordic Combined Skiing: World Cup, Ramsau am Dachstein When Monday 21/12 at 2.45am LIVE

What Nordic Combined Skiing: World Cup: Schonach When Saturday 3/1 at 9.45pm LIVE

Winter Sports: Luge Luge is one of the fastest, exciting and daring sports on the planet, seeing competitors compete in four categories: Men’s singles, women’s singles, doubles and team competition. While doubles can consist of two athletes of either gender, it is mostly two men. With the contest coming down to the difference measured in thousandths of seconds, it is also one of the most precisely timed sports in the world.

What Luge: World Cup, Koenigsee When Monday 5/1 at 2.15am DELAYED Monday 5/1 at 3.15am DELAYED

* Times are subject to change. Times and Dates are AEDT. See http://tv.au.eurosport.com/ for details.

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This year Eurosport celebrates 25 years of leadership in live sports broadcasting and digital innovation.

The Eurosport Group is Europe's leading sports entertainment group.

In 2014, Discovery Communications, the world’s #1 pay-TV programmer, took controlling ownership of Eurosport, expanding its portfolio to reach 2.7 billion cumulative subscribers across more than 220 countries and territories.

Eurosport, the n°1 pan-European TV channel, broadcasts in 20 languages and reaches 136 million homes across 54 countries. Eurosport HD is the high definition simulcast of Eurosport. Eurosport 2 broadcasts to 73 million households in 18 languages across 51 countries. Eurosport 2 HD was launched in August 2009. Eurosport Asia-Pacific reaches 16 countries in the region and launched an HD channel in September 2011. Eurosportnews is the sports news channel transmitted worldwide. Eurosport.com, Europe's n°1 online sports destination, has up to 23 million unique users per month (comScore) across an international network of sports websites in 11 languages, including Yahoo! co-branded sites in Germany, Spain, Italy and the UK. The Eurosport.com free mobile applications are available in 10 languages. Eurosport Player, Eurosport's online TV service, provides LIVE and on-demand sports to fans' PCs in 53 countries and the Player application is available for mobile, tablet and connected TV in up to 34 countries. Eurosport Events is the group's expert division in the management and promotion of international sporting events.

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