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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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- 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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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 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.
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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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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)
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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.
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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)
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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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