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- Saturday's Dauphine Libere Stage 7 departs Briançon at 12:30 CET (6:30am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Saint-François Longchamp between 16:53 and 17:30 CET (10:53am and 11:30am U.S. Eastern).  Dauphiné Libéré live video streaming on Cycling TV is scheduled to begin at 15:15 CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).  Dauphine Libere live coverage on Eurosport is unsure/doubtful at this time with time slots currently filled with Le Mans racing and ATP tennis.  We will list other sources of Dauphine live feeds as they become available.

- Dauphine also LIVE via Eurosport.

- Dauphine LIVE on ETB 1.

- Dauphine Libere LIVE now on Cycling TV.  Link at right.

- French sports daily L'Equipe, the newspaper, often makes for good fish wrap but the publishing group turns out excellent large format book volumes on cycling and the latest is about Le Mont Ventoux: "Tour de France: Le Ventoux, sommet de la folie" ("summit madness").  111 pages, the book draws from L'Equipe's archives of articles about Mont Ventoux and is illustrated with the work of L'Equipe's superb photographers. Time permitting, I'll take a closer look at this book here before the Tour de France stage to Ventoux.  -Pete

New book: Tour de France: Le Ventoux, sommet de la folie

- Congrats to Steve Putnam for winning the Dauphine Libere poster by correctly picking Bert Grabsch to win Wednesday's TT.  Steve credits Phil Liggett for the pick; Liggett said that after a poor Stage 1 TT, Grabsch would ride strong.  I have more posters and other race items to give away soon.  -Pete

- Note: According to a usually reliable source, Dauphine Libere live coverage on Eurosport may start at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern) instead of at 16:10 CET as indicated on Eurosport's site.  That would seem to make sense given the earlier expected finish time.  We will monitor the situation at 15:00 CET.

Dauphine Libere Stage 6 Profile

- Dauphine Libere Stage 6 departs Gap at 13:40 CET (7:40am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Briançon between 16:12 and 16:32 CET (10:12am and 10:32am U.S. Eastern).  Dauphiné Libéré live video streaming on Cycling TV is scheduled to begin at 14:50 CET (8:50am U.S. Eastern).  Dauphine Libere live coverage on Eurosport is scheduled to begin at 16:10 CET (10:10am U.S. Eastern).  We will list other sources of Dauphine live feeds as they become available.

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- Welcome to our live coverage guide for the 2009 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré.