Saturday, February 23, 2008
Notes:
- Stay tuned for lots more racing coming up, with live
video streaming expected for Volta a la Comunidad Valenciana,
and before you know it, Paris-Nice, one of our
favorite races.
- Attend any stages of the Tour of California? Take
any photos? Don't hesitate to
email us
some of your favorites and we'll post them.
- Cycling.tv's live coverage
today of the Tour of California is scheduled to begin
at 10:30am U.S. PST. (19:30 CET)
- Today's Stage 6 gets underway
at 11am U.S. Pacific Standard Time (PST) (20:00 CET)
The stage finish is expected between 2:53pm and 3:33pm U.S.
PST (between 23:53 and 00:33 CET).
- We will update our Live
Guide with more links as they become available.
Please don't hesitate to
let us know
if you are aware of other Tour of California links that
might be of interest to everyone.
- Welcome to today's live coverage
guide for Stage 6 of the 2008 Amgen Tour
of California. Today's stage starts in Santa
Barbara and finishes in Santa Clarita.
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2008 Amgen Tour of
California
February
17-24
(Tour de Californie)
Live video streaming:
(San Francisco CBS affiliate)
(Confirm
at race time)
CBS5 homepage
Live tickers:
News and photos:
(cycling news)
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Notes:
- The Tour of California ends Sunday but the season
in Europe is just getting started. Next up on our live
video streaming schedule: Volta a la Comunidad
Valenciana (Tour de Valence) which starts Tuesday, February
26 and runs through March 1. There will also be live video
streaming of this Sunday's Tour du Haut Var
in France. At this time we do not know if it will be available
worldwide but we will monitor the situation. -Bernie S.
Below are the start times for today's critical
individual time trial, in reverse order of the overall standings
with any necessary modifications so that riders on the same team
do not follow one another. Riders depart at one minute intervals
with the final 10 riders departing at two minute intervals. All
times are U.S. Pacific Standard Time (PST).
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MEAD Bryce
KILUN Roman
TIETZEL Scott
NYDAM Scott
CREED Michael
WAITE Nicholas
MANION Caleb
BAJADALI Andrew
WYSS Danilo*
ENGLAND Richard
TUCKERMAN Aaron Barry
MUMFORD Jonathan
VOGELS Hendricus
REISTAD Nicholas
IVANOV Sergey
TONTI Andrea
MURPHY John
VOECKLER Thomas
PIPP K Frank
TOLLESON Taylor*
BOWMAN Dan
CAPELLI Ermanno*
SANDERSON Nicholas
CRUZ Antonio
VAN ULDEN Bernard
ZWIZANSKI Scott
BELOHVOSCIKS Raivis
KING Edward
COZZA Steven*
PELTONEN Garrett
MARTENS Paul
PAGLIARINI MENDONCA Luciano André
CANDELARIO Alexander
SIMON Julien*
JOHNSON Timothy
TURGOT Sébastien
O'GRADY Stuart
CIPOLLINI Mario
CAVENDISH Mark*
HULSMANS Kevin
ZBERG Markus
QUEMENEUR Perrig
SPINELLI Justin
CHAMPION Dimitri
KEMPS Aaron
PATE Danny
WIGGINS Bradley
BOONEN Tom
PICHOT Alexandre
HAYMAN Mathew
MIZUROV Andrey
HORRILLO MUNOZ Pedro
RODRIGUEZ Freddie
HAEDO Juan Jose
CIOLEK Gerald*
GUSEV Vladimir
ROLLIN Dominique
MOLLEMA Bauke*
ZIRBEL Tom
BETTINI Paolo
GOMEZ GOMEZ Angel
JEROME Vincent
OLSON Aaron
BLACKGROVE Heath
SUTHERLAND Rory
LANGE Michael
RUBIERA VIGIL José Luis
ZAJICEK Philip
LE MEVEL Christophe
KROON Karsten
OLLERENSHAW Doug
MCCARTNEY Jason
DAY Benjamin
LÖVKVIST Thomas
TALABARDON Yannick
BERTOGLIATI Rubens
JULICH Robert W
BRAJKOVIC Janez
CANADA GRACIA David
LOUDER Jeff
VOIGT Jens
LILL Darren
KIRCHEN Kim
KONOVALOVAS Ignatas*
HINCAPIE George
ZAUGG Oliver
FREIRE GOMEZ Oscar
TOSATTO Matteo
JACQUES-MAYNES Benjamin
ARDILA CANO Mauricio Alberto
CAMANO ORTUZAR Iker
SEELDRAEYERS Kevin*
KOHL Bernhard
PETERSON Thomas*
VANDEWALLE Jurgen
PENA GRISALES Victor Hugo
MOOS Alexandre
VANDEVELDE Christian
HORNER Christopher
ZABRISKIE David
LARSSON Gustav
MILLAR David
GESINK Robert*
CANCELLARA Fabian
LEIPHEIMER Levi
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JBC
HNM
JBC
BMC
RRC
KBM
TUP
KBM
BMC
BPC
JBC
KBM
TUP
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BTL
HNM
BMC
KBM
SDV
JBC
BMC
JBC
BPC
SDV
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TSL
BPC
RAB
SDV
KBM
C.A
HNM
BTL
CSC
RRC
THR
QST
GST
BTL
KBM
BTL
AST
TSL
THR
QST
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RAB
AST
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RRC
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THR
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TUP
RAB
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QST
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BTL
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TUP
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JBC
AST
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RRC
CSC
TUP
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C.A
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CSC
AST
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BMC
CSC
BMC
THR
C.A
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GST
RAB
QST
BPC
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QST
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QST
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AST
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- Today's stage of the Tour of California is
a 15 mile (24.1 km) individual time trial around Solvang. The
distance is reminiscent of the final stage time trial from Versailles
into Paris (15.2 miles or 24.5 km) of the 1989 Tour de France,
won by Greg LeMond by just 8 seconds overall after 3 weeks of racing.
The TT course similarities end there, however, as the Solvang
course involves a short steep climb and some technical turns while the
1989 Tour final time trial was mostly a gradual downhill race against
the clock.
- Attending any stages of the Tour
of California and taking photos? Don't hesitate to
email us
some of your favorites and we'll post them.
- Cycling.tv's live coverage
today of the Tour of California is scheduled to begin
at 11:30am U.S. PST. (20:30 CET)
- Today's Stage 5 gets underway
at 12pm U.S. Pacific Standard Time (PST) (21:00 CET)
The stage finish is expected at around 2:50pm U.S. PST (23:50
CET).
- We will update our Live
Guide with more links as they become available.
Please don't hesitate to
let us know
if you are aware of other Tour of California links that
might be of interest to everyone.
- Welcome to today's live coverage
guide for Stage 5 of the 2008 Amgen Tour
of California. The race is in Solvang today.
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|
2008 Amgen Tour of
California
February
17-24
(Tour de Californie)
Live video streaming:
(San Francisco CBS affiliate)
(Confirm
at race time)
CBS5 homepage
Live tickers:
News and photos:
(cycling news)
|
|
|
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Notes:
- Attending any stages of the Tour
of California and taking photos? Don't hesitate to
email us
some of your favorites and we'll post them.
- Cycling.tv's live coverage
today of the Tour of California is scheduled to begin
at 9:30am U.S. PST. (18:30 CET)
- Today's Stage 4 gets underway
at 10am U.S. Pacific Standard Time (PST) (19:00 CET)
The stage finish is expected between 3:26pm and 4:25pm
U.S. PST (between 00:26 and 01:25 CET).
- We will update our Live
Guide with more links as they become available.
Please don't hesitate to
let us know
if you are aware of other Tour of California links that
might be of interest to everyone.
- Welcome to today's live coverage
guide for Stage 4 of the 2008 Amgen Tour
of California. Today's stage starts in Seaside
and finishes in San Luis Obispo.
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|
2008 Amgen Tour of
California
February
17-24
(Tour de Californie)
Live video streaming:
(San Francisco CBS affiliate)
(Confirm
at race time)
CBS5 homepage
Live tickers:
News and photos:
(cycling news)
|
|
|
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Notes:
- Attending any stages of the Tour of California and
taking photos? Don't hesitate to
email us
some of your favorites and we'll post them.
- Cycling.tv's live coverage
today of the Tour of California is scheduled to begin
at 9:30am U.S. PST. (18:30 CET)
- Today's Stage 3 gets underway
at 10am U.S. Pacific Standard Time (PST) (19:00 CET)
The stage finish is expected between 1:49pm and 2:52pm
U.S. PST (between 22:49 and 23:52 CET).
- We will update our Live
Guide with more links as they become available.
Please don't hesitate to
let us know
if you are aware of other Tour of California links that
might be of interest to everyone.
- Welcome to today's live coverage
guide for Stage 3 of the 2008 Amgen Tour
of California. Today's stage starts in Modesto
and finishes in San José.
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|
2008 Amgen Tour of
California
February
17-24
(Tour de Californie)
Live video streaming:
(San Francisco CBS affiliate)
(Confirm
at race time)
CBS5 homepage
Live tickers:
News and photos:
(cycling news)
|
|
|
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Below is our Guide
to Live Coverage of the 2008 Tour of California
Tour of California Stage 1 photos, Copyright
© 2008 Pete Geyer, www.cyclingfans.com. More
to come.
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World Champion Paolo Bettini (Quick Step)
in Sausalito before the stage 1 start
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George Hincapie (High Road) is interviewed
before the Stage 1 start
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Bouygues Telecom at the 2008 Tour of California
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Super Mario Cipollini is back, at least in
the U.S.
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The peloton in Sausalito, Stage 1, 2008 Tour
of California
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The peloton in picturesque Sausalito during
Stage 1 of the 2008 Tour of California
|
Notes:
- Attending any stages of the Tour
of California and taking photos? Don't hesitate to
email us
some of your favorites and we'll post them.
- Cycling.tv's live coverage
today of the Tour of California is scheduled to begin
at 9:30am U.S. PST. (18:30 CET)
- Today's Stage 2 gets underway
at 10am U.S. Pacific Standard Time (PST) (19:00 CET)
The stage finish is expected between 2:13pm and 2:54pm
U.S. PST (between 23:13 and 23:54 CET).
- We will update our Live
Guide with more links as they become available.
Please don't hesitate to
let us know
if you are aware of other Tour of California links that
might be of interest to everyone.
- Welcome to today's live coverage
guide for Stage 2 of the 2008 Amgen Tour
of California. Today's stage starts in Santa
Rosa and finishes in Sacramento.
|
|
2008 Amgen Tour of
California
February
17-24
(Tour de Californie)
Live video streaming:
(San Francisco CBS affiliate)
(Confirm
at race time)
CBS5 homepage
Live tickers:
News and photos:
(cycling news)
|
|
|
Monday, February 18, 2008
Below is our Guide
to Live Coverage of the 2008 Tour of California
2008 Tour of California photos from yesterday's prologue, by Pete
Geyer of cyclingfans.com in Palo Alto. (More
to come.) The sun was shining, everyone was smiling,
the cow bells were rattling, and a world champion time trialist
and Tour de France prologue winner won this prologue in the heart
of Silicon Valley. Though I've seen 18 consecutive Tours
de France as the French see them, on French television or roadside,
not to mention many other races from Paris-Nice to Paris-Tours
over the years, this is the first-ever race I've seen stateside. The
atmosphere reminded me a lot of the Tour de France because of
the excited fans, the Dauphiné Libéré because
it is not TOO big and is more relaxed, and of Paris-Nice because
of the scenery (in Cannes and Nice). I don't believe I've ever
heard cow bells at races in France though. This race has a
lot going for it and it already tops the Tour de France in some areas,
notably in technology used for live online coverage. It was a
pleasure to bump into the creator of the Adobe Tour Tracker, Allan Padgett,
as well as Anthony McCrossan, the voice of cycling.tv.
-Pete
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Spectators enjoy the prologue
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Adobe's Allan Padgett, creator of the Tour
Tracker
Allan rode the prologue course himself
yesterday morning. He said that the lack of GPS data
yesterday was due to a technology partner changing data formats
without letting Adobe know about it. Oops. But as
Allan told me, GPS data in a prologue isn't that interesting anyway.
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Prologue winner Fabian Cancellara's
winning time of 3:51:21 displayed at the finish line,
framed by palm trees.
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Anthony McCrossan, the voice of cycling.tv
Anthony McCrossan has started his
own company but continues to be the primary on air commentator
for cycling.tv.
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Tour of California prologue press room
Stanford University
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Notes:
- Attending any stages of the Tour
of California and taking photos? Don't hesitate to
email us
some of your favorites and we'll post them.
- Cycling.tv's live coverage
today of the Tour of California is scheduled to begin
at 10:30am U.S. PST. (19:30 CET)
- Today's Stage 1 gets underway
at 11am U.S. Pacific Standard Time (PST) (20:00 CET)
The stage finish is expected between 2:43pm and 3:20pm
U.S. PST (between 23:43 and 00:20 CET).
- We will update our Live
Guide with more links as they become available.
Please don't hesitate to
let us know
if you are aware of other Tour of California links that
might be of interest to everyone.
- Welcome to today's live coverage
guide for Stage 1 of the 2008 Amgen Tour
of California. Today's stage starts in Sausalito
and finishes in Santa Rosa.
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|
2008 Amgen Tour of
California
February
17-24
(Tour de Californie)
Live video streaming:
(San Francisco CBS affiliate)
(Confirm
at race time)
CBS5 homepage
Live tickers:
News and photos:
(cycling news)
|
|
|
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Notes:
- Updated direct links to Adobe
Tour Tracker and the new Velonews live coverage page.
- Cycling.tv's live coverage
today of the Tour of California is scheduled to begin
at around 30 minutes before the race start, or at 12:30pm U.S.
PST. (21:30 CET)
- Today's prologue gets underway
at 1pm U.S. Pacific Standard Time (PST) (22:00
CET)
- We will update our Live
Guide with more links as they become available.
Please don't hesitate to
let us know
if you are aware of other Tour of California links that
might be of interest to everyone.
- Welcome to today's live coverage
guide for the prologue of the 2008 Amgen
Tour of California. The race is in Palo Alto
today.
|
|
2008 Amgen Tour of
California
February
17-24
(Tour de Californie)
Live video streaming:
(Tour Tracker
includes live streaming video)
(San Francisco CBS affiliate)
(Confirm
at race time)
CBS5 homepage
Live tickers:
News and photos:
(cycling news)
|
|
|
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Cyclingfans.com is en route
to Palo Alto and the Tour of California. Next
update late Saturday or early Sunday with all the live coverage
for the prologue: live video/audio, tickers, graphics, etc.,
updated daily throughout the race.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Volta a Mallorca Challenge live video stream
Today's final stage
begins at 12:10 CET (6:10am U.S. Eastern). The
earliest expected finish time is 15:51 CET (9:51 U.S. Eastern).
2008 Le Tour de Langkawi (to February 17)
New: 2008 Tour
of California Tour Tracker
The 2008 Tour of California
is just three days away and Adobe ace developer
Allan Padgett is letting
cyclingfans.com readers get a sneak
peek at his latest version of the Tour Tracker
application which integrates live
cycling video streaming and multimedia data in real-time.
Allan has considered your suggestions and as
you will see a lot has changed with the Tour Tracker, starting
with a larger video window (at least in full screen mode),
two separate camera feeds, and
graphics and data moved to separate views.
The Tour Tracker will of course have to pass the test
with thousands of people connecting next week but so far it looks
like a winner.
The Tour Tracker
is constantly evolving; Allan continues to work on
it this week. This is your chance to test it out ahead
of the race to make sure it works on your computer (Allan says
it requires the latest version of
Adobe's Flash Player
) and to offer
up your comments and suggestions. Take the Tour
Tracker for a test spin
here
and
let us know what
you think
!
And if you missed
our "Inside the Tour Tracker" interview with Allan
last month, you'll find it
here
.
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Cycling.tv Tour of California schedule
Cycling.tv
just sent us their
live broadcast schedule for the
Tour of California which starts Sunday and
runs through February 24. We will of course post the
times in our Tour of California Live Guides
each day during the race but here is the cycling.tv schedule
for the week:
Sunday, February 17, 2008
20:30 - 24:00 GMT (12:30pm – 4:00pm Pacific 1530
– 1900 Eastern)
Monday, February 18, 2008
18:30 - 23:00 GMT (10:30am – 3:00pm Pacific 1330
– 1800 Eastern)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
17:30 - 23:00 GMT (9:30am – 3:00pm Pacific 1230
– 1800 Eastern)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
17:30 - 23:00 GMT (9:30am – 3:00pm Pacific 1230
– 1800 Eastern)
Thursday, February 21, 2008
17:30 - 23:00 GMT (9:30am – 3:00pm Pacific 1230
– 1800 Eastern)
Friday, February 22, 2008
19:30 - 23:00 GMT (11:30am – 4:00pm Pacific
1430 – 1800 Eastern)
Saturday, February 23, 2008
18:30 - 24:00 GMT (10:30am – 4:00pm Pacific 1330
– 1900 Eastern)
Sunday, February 24, 2008
18:30 - 24:00 GMT (10:30am – 4:00pm Pacific 1330
– 1900 Eastern)
Versus
Tour of California Schedule
Feb. 17 - Palo Alto - Stanford University 2PM PST/ 5PM
EST
Feb. 18 - Sausalito to Santa Rosa 8PM PST /11PM
EST
Feb. 19 - Santa Rosa to Sacramento 8PM PST /11PM
EST
Feb. 20 - Modesto to San Jose 8PM PST /11PM EST
Feb. 21 - Seaside to San Luis Obispo 8PM PST
/11PM EST
Feb. 22 - Solvang 8PM PST /11PM EST
Feb. 23 - Santa Barbara to Santa Clarita 2PM
PST/ 5PM EST
Feb. 24 - Santa Clarita to Pasadena 2PM PST/
5PM EST
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Note: The teams invited by A.S.O. to next month's
Paris-Nice are as follows: Gerolsteiner, High
Road, Team Milram, Quickstep, Silence-Lotto, Team CSC,
Caisse d'Epargne, Euskaltel-Euskadi, Saunier Duval-Scott,
Slipstream Chipotle, Bouygues Telecom, Credit Agricole,
Cofidis crédit par téléphone, Française
des Jeux, AG2R-La Mondiale, Agritubel, Lampre, Liquigas, Rabobank,
Skil-Shimano.
Note: As the news that his Astana team will be
denied entry to Paris-Nice, the Tour de France and other A.S.O.
races this year rapidly spreads around the globe, Alberto
Contador is currently in a solo breakaway at today's stage
of the Mallorca Challenge. See live ticker below.
Breaking news:
Astana pro cycling team
of 2007 Tour de France champion Alberto Contador barred
from Tour de France and other A.S.O. races this season. Details
to follow.
Note: A.S.O. today is expected
to name the teams that will receive invitations
to next month's Paris-Nice. How many ProTeams (teams
in the UCI ProTour) will A.S.O. snub? Will they look
to make a statement now or wait until they announce the teams
invited to the Tour de France?
Volta a Mallorca Challenge live video stream
Today's stage begins
at 11:40 CET (5:40am U.S. Eastern). The earliest
expected finish time is 15:48 CET (9:48 U.S. Eastern).
2008 Le Tour de Langkawi (to February 17)
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Media
Watch
Last week's Stade2 program
on French TV
"That's practically the team for the Tour!"
Last week's Stade 2 program on France
2 television featured a report on 2007
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador. In
the south of Spain in mid-December, Contador, his Astana
team directeur sportif Alain Gallopin and
team manager Johan Bruyneel discussed
a variety of subjects including the planned team roster
for the 2008 Paris-Nice , Contador's first real
objective of the season (he won the event in 2007), the old Astana
team's disgrace at the 2007 Tour (Bruyneel: "Only the team
name is the same, everything else is different today."), Contador's
alleged link to Operation Puerto (Contador
was cleared early on) and continued suspicion. Said Gallopin:
"There's going to be suspicion but you have to do everything you
can to prove that your success is trustworthy." To that end,
the Astana team has adopted the same internal anti-doping program
used by Team CSC under the direction of Dr. Rasmus Damsgaard.
The named Astana
roster for Paris-Nice? Colom, Contador,
Horner, Iglinsky, Leipheimer, Muravyev, Noval, Paulinho,
Vaitkus. "That's practically the team for
the Tour!" exclaimed Contador. Astana should know today
if they will even have an invitation to next month's "Race to
the sun".
You can watch the
entire Stade2 program (04:21, French) on Contador
and Astana
here
.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Media
Watch
In today's print
edition of L'EQUIPE :
Tuesday, February 12: (cyclingfans.com) Johan
Bruyneel grants an interview to French sports daily L'Equipe
for the first time since the newspaper's August, 2005 allegations
of doping by Lance Armstrong. Bruyneel says he is prepared
for anything, including seeing his Astana team denied an invitation
to Paris-Nice and ultimately the Tour de France. Bruyneel
also regrets that there was much secrecy surrounding Armstrong's
training and invites reporters to come and watch Alberto Contador
train.
Coming up later
today: We look ahead to tomorrow's
much-anticipated announcement by Amaury
Sport Organization (A.S.O.) of the teams
invited to this year's Paris-Nice
which is less than a month away. Will the
Astana team of 2007 Paris-Nice champion
Alberto Contador get an invitation?
Volta a Mallorca Challenge live video stream
Today's stage begins
at 11:30 CET (5:30am U.S. Eastern). The earliest
expected finish time is 15:52 CET (9:52 U.S. Eastern).
2008 Le Tour de Langkawi (to February 17)
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Note: It would appear that the Mallorca
Challenge live video stream server (ib3.es)
is being overwhelmed by requests. If you are
getting nothing but a blank window, the only thing to do
is to keep trying. But don't hold your breath.
Volta a Mallorca Challenge live video stream
The 2008
Mallorca Challenge , which began yesterday,
continues today and runs through February 14. Today
marks the season start for 2007 Tour de France
champion Alberto Contador who will also compete
in the Wednesday and Thursday stages.
You'll find a video
of yesterday's stage finish
here
. (Sporza)
Today's stage begins
at 12:05 CET (6:05am U.S. Eastern). The earliest
expected finish time is 15:45 CET (9:45 U.S. Eastern).
2008 Le Tour de Langkawi (to February 17)
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Etoile de Bessèges race
video
France3 race coverage (Evening news)
Because France 3 only keeps news programmes online for
one week, we cannot post direct links that remain
valid indefinitely. Also note that France Télévisions
tends to rotate the links of its news archives on a
daily basis. So except in cases where we do have
a direct link, once the video window opens you may want to
find and click on the date on that page for the correct edition
(the date corresponding to the link you click on below).
GP d'Ouverture Marseillaise
Dimanche 03 Février
edition
, race coverage from 15:10 to 17:14 within the news programme
with former French cyclist Raymond Poulidor.
Etoile de Bessèges Stage 1
Mercredi 6 Février
edition
, race coverage from 14:50 to 16:40.
Etoile de Bessèges Stage 2
Jeudi 7 Février
edition
, 16:34 to 19:03
Etoile de Bessèges Stage 3
Vendredi 8 Février
edition
, 14:51 to 17:28
Etoile de Bessèges Final Stage
Dimanche 10 Février
edition
, 14:11 to 19:16
- Research and
info. by Bernie S., cyclingfans.com
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
Note:
For viewers
in the U.S., Versus is showing
a 2008 Tour of California preview show
today at 6pm Eastern. Check the
Versus Schedule in our links
section at left. The 2008 Amgen Tour of California
runs from February 17-24 and we'll have all the live
race coverage right here: Tour
of California live video and
audio, tickers, data and graphics.
2008 Volta a Mallorca Challenge
The
2008 Mallorca
Challenge
starts tomorrow and runs through February 14. Click
here
to see the teams competing. We received a tip from
the amazing Rebecca "Alberto Contador
has a good chance of being a newsmaker in the 2007
Tour" Bell (
albertocontadornotebook.info
) regarding live television coverage of the Mallorca
Challenge and we're investigating the possibility
of live streaming
being available. We will update on that right here
tomorrow.
2008 Le Tour de Langkawi
The 2008
Tour de Langkawi
got underway today. The race runs through February
17. You can view photos of this event on
the
photos page
.
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Sunday, February 3, 2008
Hervé
Duclos-Lassalle (Cofidis) wins the 2008 Grand Prix
d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
photo Copyright
© 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
Paris (cyclingfans.com) - The
2008 European pro road cycling season got underway today
as Frenchman Hervé Duclos-Lassalle of the Cofidis
team won the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise ahead
of Frederik Veuchelen (Topsport Vlaanderen) and Ryder Hesjedal
(Slipstream-Chipotle presented by H30).
Duclos-Lassalle's
win was the first in this event by a Frenchman since
2002. French riders took six of the top ten spots.
Hesjedal's third
place gets Team Slipstream, now the top American
team in the European peloton with the disbanding of Discovery
Channel/Tailwind Sports, off to a good start as it seeks
to gain entry to cycling's top races, including the Tour
de France.
The teams will
remain on the Mediterranean as the Etoile de Bessèges
race begins on Wednesday, February 6 and runs through
Sunday.
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Note:
As a
rule, we do not announce the winner of a race here
on our homepage on race day because for many races throughout
the season, we know some of you come to cyclingfans.com
to watch delayed coverage or to view race video clips
and we do not want to spoil that for you. That is
not about to change but we've made an exception today because
the GP La Marseillaise coverage is so limited anyway but
also because this is a good way to announce
our collaboration this season with award-winning cycling
photographer Fotoreporter Sirotti (see above photo) who will
be providing cyclingfans.com with great race photos throughout
the 2008 pro cycling season in Europe. We
are excited about this collaboration as Sirotti will provide
us with photos from all the great races such as
Paris-Nice, Milan-San Remo, Tour of
Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta
a Espana and many more. The European season just
got underway today -- we'll start updating our photo galleries
later this week with more images from today's race as well as
this week's Etoile de Bessèges (February 6-10).
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Briefly: As expected, Dick Pound
has been nominated
for president of the
Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS-CAS).
Note: For links and information about today's European
opener, the
Grand Prix Cycliste La Marseillaise
, please scroll down to our February
1 entry. We hope to have some
video clips
and
photos later today.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
2008 Versus Cycling Schedule - Is this the last year for Versus
cycling coverage?
The 2008 Versus
Cycling Schedule is out. There are several
notable omissions, though this is a preliminary schedule.
Races missing this year that were on last year's
schedule include: the
Tour of Flanders,
Amstel Gold Race, Tour de Georgia, Tour de Suisse,
and
Tour of Missouri. After
years of reducing its cycling coverage, with ratings predictably
falling since the retirement of
Lance Armstrong,
is Versus now phasing it out entirely? Could
be as a whopping 9 of the 16 races currently on their
schedule are races owned and/or organized by Tour de France organizer
Amaury Sport Organization (ASO) and their contract with ASO
is due to expire this year. (Will the contract be renewed?)
The 2008 schedule includes just four days of delayed
Giro coverage and just one day of delayed Vuelta coverage. Versus
last week announced it had extended the contract with its primary
property, the National Hockey League, with president Gavin Harvey
saying, "If you're into hockey, you'll stay for World Extreme Cagefighting...and
maybe even for hunting and fishing." Yeah, whatever.
Here's the current
Versus schedule and we've added it below in the right
margin as well:
February 16
Tour of Qatar
February 17-24
Amgen Tour of California
March 9
Paris-Nice
March
16
Paris-Nice
March 23
Milan-San Remo
March 23
Tirreno-Adriatico
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March 30
Criterium International
April 20
Paris-Roubaix
April
27
Liege - Bastogne
- Liege
La Fleche Wallonne
May 11
Giro d'Italia
May 18
Giro d'Italia
May 25
Giro d'Italia
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June 1
Giro d'Italia
June 29
Tour of Pennsylvania
July 5-27
Tour de France
September 21
Vuelta a Espana
October
12
Paris-Tours
October 19
Giro di Lombardia
November 9
Tour du Faso
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Note: The latest
Tour of Wellington (New
Zealand) video clips are
here
(tvnz.co.nz) and
here
(www.tv3.co.nz)
Friday, February 1, 2008
Note: The 2008 European
pro cycling season gets underway on Sunday with
the
Grand Prix Cycliste
La Marseillaise
(French -- Google attempts to translate to English
here
), ahead of the
Etoile de Bessèges which runs from
February 6-10. You'll find the
GP de
Marseille and
Etoile
de Bessèges Start List
here
. The U.S.
Team Slipstream opens its European campaign
in what will be a significant year for the
team of
Jonathan Vaughters,
with an invitation to the
Giro d'Italia and
a probable invitation to the
Tour de France. Riding
for Slipstream are
Blake Caldwell, Tom Danielson,
Jason Donald, Mike Friedman, Will Frischkorn, Ryder Hesjedal,
Patrick McCarty and
Dan Martin.
Lionel Marie is the directeur sportif.
Note: Bernie S. is monitoring the
2008 Trust House
Cycle Classic
(Tour of Wellington -New Zealand, January 30 to February 3)
for us. There is some Stage 2 news program video
here
(featuring former
Discovery Channel rider and bar fighter
Hayden Roulston) and some video
from Stage 3 is
here
featuring 18-year old
Travis Meyer of Australia.
Race coverage flash: "Magnus
Backstedt (who crashed out of the race yesterday)
is co-commentating live on Tour of Qatar now (he
just turned up this morning arm in sling!). We are live
in Free2view at 100kbs and Premium at top streaming rates.
Highlights are FREE so if viewers missed the live they can watch
it later at their leisure." (Ben at cycling.tv)
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Note:
The Cycling.tv, Eurosport UK, and Eurosport
Sweden feeds are all now playing today's stage of
the Tour of Qatar live.
Tour of Qatar Live Video Streaming:
(Eurosport
UK)
(Eurosport
Sweden)
Note:
The
Tour of Qatar runs through Friday, February 1. Each
day's broadcast begins at around 12:40 CET (6:40am U.S.
Eastern). (Note that Friday's coverage is currently
scheduled to begin at 10:55 CET (4:55am U.S. Eastern)).
Tour of Qatar
Official Website
--
Start List
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Note:
Tour of Qatar Live Video Streaming:
(Eurosport
UK)
(Eurosport
Sweden)
Note:
The
Tour of Qatar runs through Friday, February 1. Each
day's broadcast begins at around 12:40 CET (6:40am U.S.
Eastern). (Note that Friday's coverage is currently
scheduled to begin at 10:55 CET (4:55am U.S. Eastern)). For
best picture quality, access to
race archives (for the 2007 season as well
as 2008 live and archives), consider subscribing to the Premium
Channel (more info at right).
Tour of Qatar
Official Website
--
Start List
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Note:
Eurosport
U.K. and Eurosport Sweden
have live streams of
the Tour of Qatar
this week. -Bernie
Tour of Qatar Live Video Streaming:
(Eurosport UK)
(Eurosport Sweden)
Note:
This
week,
Cycling.tv
is showing the Tour of Qatar live. The
Tour of Qatar runs through Friday, February
1. Each day's broadcast begins at around
12:50 CET (6:50am U.S. Eastern). (Note that Friday's
coverage is currently scheduled to begin at 10:55 CET (4:55am
U.S. Eastern)).
Tour of Qatar
Official Website
--
Start List
(Boonen, Napolitano, Nuyens, Millar, Backstedt, Hoste,
Geslin...)
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Days 1 and
2 of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
are now available for on-demand viewing
at
wcsn.com.
(U.S. viewers)
Note: Today's stage of
the Tour of Qatar has finished considerably earlier than
expected.
Note:
This
week,
Cycling.tv
is showing the Tour of Qatar live. The
Tour of Qatar runs through Friday, February
1. Each day's broadcast begins at around
12:50 CET (6:50am U.S. Eastern). (Note that Friday's
coverage is currently scheduled to begin at 10:55 CET (4:55am
U.S. Eastern)).
Tour of Qatar
Official Website
--
Start List
(Boonen, Napolitano, Nuyens, Millar, Backstedt, Hoste,
Geslin...)
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
2008 Tour Down Under video links below
Reminder:
wcsn.com
is showing today's
UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships
at 4pm U.S. Eastern (Elite Women) and 5:30pm U.S.
Eastern (Elite Men). Available to viewers
in the U.S., these events will then also be available for
viewing later.
Update: Today's
Stage 1 of the
Tour of Qatar, a 6km Team Time Trial,
gets underway at 14:50 local time (12:50 CET or 6:50am U.S.
Eastern).
Cycling.tv
will be showing the
Tour of Qatar live. Look
for their coverage to begin at the above
time. The Tour of Qatar runs through February
1.
Tour of Qatar
Official Website
--
Start List
(Boonen,
Napolitano, Nuyens, Millar, Backstedt, Hoste, Geslin...)
Live video streaming:
The events
will be shown LIVE on
cycling.tv
, available to viewers outside the U.S., according to the
following schedule:
Saturday 26th January 2008
09:50-11:00 GMT - JUNIOR UCI WORLD Cyclocross
13:20-14:40 GMT - U23 MEN UCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Cyclocross
Sunday 27th January 2008
09:50-11:00 GMT - LADIES UCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Cyclocross
13:20-15:00 GMT - MEN ELITE UCI WORLD Cyclocross
Same-day and archived streaming:
In the U.S.,
viewers can watch same-day coverage on
wcsn.com
according to the following schedule:
Saturday 26th January 2008
6pm Eastern
- Junior Men
7:30pm Eastern
- U23 Men
Sunday 27th January 2008
4pm Eastern
- Elite Women
5:30pm Eastern
- Elite Men
After the
scheduled broadcast times, the events can be viewed
from the WCSN.com archives.
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2008 UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships
* 25 television cameras on the course
* A fly-cam hanging on an 800m long cable above
the lake
* High definition images
Click course
map to enlarge
In addition
to the live and same-day video streaming of the events,
they can also be seen live on RaiTre and
RaiSportSat.
RTBF (Belgium),
VRT (Belgium), TVE (Spain),
Eurosport (France),
France2 (France),
and NOS TV (Netherlands).
Broadcast rights were also obtained by
ORF (Austria),
TSR (Switzerland),
ARD (Germany), ZDF (Germany),
TV2 (Denmark),
France3 (France), and Cyclo
Image (Japan).
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
2008 Tour Down Under live ticker and video
links below
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UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships
Treviso,
Italy, January 26-27
The
UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships will
be held this Saturday and Sunday. You can watch
the events streaming live
or delayed depending on your location:
In the U.S., you can watch same day and archived coverage
on
wcsn.com
.
Outside the U.S., the events will be available live
on the
cycling.tv
UCI Channel
.
More info.
to come in our Friday update.
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Tuesday,
January 22, 2008
Briefly: Coinciding with the start of next month's
Tour of California, 3-time
Tour de France champion
Greg Lemond
will speak to students at
Santa Clara University
on
"Ethics, Doping, and the Future of
Cycling." The event is free and open to
the public.
More
2008 Tour Down Under coverage video links
We've
added a couple more video links today: SBS
News Tour Down Under video reports and race reports
by Phil Liggett.
Keep
in mind that the location of the Tour Down Under, Adelaide
in South Australia, is 9:30 hours ahead of CET or 15:30
hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time.
(cycling.tv is showing 26 minute highlights on the
Premium Channel)
Bernie,
Mike and Pete contributed to this report.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Briefly: Team Slipstream-Chipotle has
been invited to the
2008 Giro d'Italia. - Tour
de France organizer
A.S.O. and
France Télévisions
have extended their contract for broadcasting
the Tour de France through 2013. - Today, French president
Nicolas Sarkozy presented Française
des Jeux team manager
Marc Madiot
with the
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
medal at the Elysée Palace in Paris, with
Tour director
Christian Prudhomme and former
Tour director
Xavier Louy in attendance.
Quote of the day: With most of the biggest events in
the sport (including the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a Espana,
Paris-Nice, Paris-Roubaix, Paris-Tours, Giro
di Lombardia, etc.) no longer on the ProTour calendar,
UCI
spokesperson
president Pat McQuaid said: "You can't say the Pro-Tour
is weakened, you can say this is a transition year."
(Good one, Pat. This may prove to be quote
of the year...)
2008 Tour Down Under coverage video links
The
2008 Tour Down Under gets underway tomorrow (today
U.S. time), Tuesday, January 22 and runs through January
27.
Cycling.tv
is showing 26 minutes of daily highlights, only on the
Premium
Channel.
The UCI, in need of events under the ill-fated "ProTour"
label, has given the Tour Down Under "ProTour"
status. Previously, Paris-Nice (March)
was the first ProTour event of the season. But
with Paris-Nice and other ASO (and RCS, Unipublic) events
now not on the ProTour calendar, the next ProTour event will
be the Tour of Flanders in April. Keep in mind that the
site of the Tour Down Under, Adelaide in South Australia,
is 9:30 hours ahead of CET or 15:30 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern
Time.
Bernie,
Mike and Pete contributed to this report.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
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2008 Pro Cycling Season Coverage
Paris
- It's hard to believe but we at cyclingfans.com are
beginning our fourth year of publishing our Guides
to Live Coverage of bike races around the
world. Last season we had more race days of live
video streaming than ever, and by far. No matter what
the source, be it cycling.tv, wcsn.com, race organizer
sites, local television stations around the world, whatever,
we will put you a click (or two) away from watching your favorite
sport online, as well as doing everything else we can to enhance
the experience.
The
2008 pro cycling season broadcast schedules are starting
to come in and will continue to do so over the next
several weeks.
Cycling.tv
tell us "We have an even fuller schedule this year,
and we are moving over to a JumpTV platform in time for
Tour of California." We look forward to their
move to JumpTV and we suspect many of you do too.
Coming up on cycling.tv:
-
Tour Down Under (January 22-27),
26 min. per day of highlights, only on the Premium
Channel.
-
Tour of Qatar (January 27-February
1) live at 100kbs, higher bitrates on the Premium
Channel. Highlights free.
-
Tour of California (February 17-24)
free at 100kbs, higher quality on the Premium Channel.
Highlights on the Premium Channel only.
If
you haven't already subscribed to cycling.tv for
the 2008 pro cycling season, you can do so by clicking
on our cycling.tv banner. A Premium Channel subscription
will also give you access to Premium Channel races
for the 2007 season if you missed these races or want to
watch them again.
Versus 2008 pro cycling broadcast schedule
We
are waiting for the full Versus broadcast schedule
which should become available within the next couple
of weeks. Same day coverage of the Amgen
Tour of California is currently on the Versus broadcast
schedule. As soon as we have more information,
we will post it here.
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Tour of California
Inside the Adobe Tour Tracker
An
interview with Allan Padgett, Adobe
Paris
- (cyclingfans.com) The 2008 Amgen
Tour of California gets underway
just one month from today and race sponsor Adobe, the
company behind the pioneering (read "bleeding edge") Tour
Tracker recently came to Paris to meet with Tour de France
officials who have expressed interest in the application.
Adobe has also been busy enhancing the complex process
of gathering live multimedia data in real time from multiple
sources so that cycling fans around the world can have the
best possible experience following races online. Toward
that end, Adobe has once again asked cyclingfans.com to
solicit your feedback on the Tour Tracker. What do you
like about the Tour Tracker? What don't you like about
it? What features would you like to see added?
Before
answering such questions, you'll want to check out
our
interview
with Allan Padgett,
the creator of the Tour Tracker, to find out what kind
of live coverage we all might expect from the application during next
month's Tour of California. What's new, what
did Levi Leipheimer keep throwing in the bushes at
the Tour of California last year, and are Tour de France
officials ready to give the Tour Tracker a shot? Click
here
for the interview.
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Adobe Tour Tracker Feedback
To
refresh your memory of the Adobe Tour Tracker, you
can see a demo
here.
Please
send any feedback you might have regarding the Adobe
Tour Tracker to the Editor
here.
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