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Monday, May 1, 2006

On today: Rund um den Henninger Turm
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Rund um den Henninger Turm
May 1, Germany
(Grand Prix of Frankfurt)
(Grand Prix de Frankfort)
Start list (.pdf)


Sunday, April 30, 2006

Also on today:   Trophee des Grimpeurs  Tomorrow:   Henninger Turm


Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
2006 Tour de Romandie

Notes:
 

Alejandro Valverde Alejandro Valverde
2005 Paris-Nice prologue warmup

Liberty Seguros went on the attack yesterday in an attempt to defend its race lead. (Alberto Contador in yellow.)  Andrey Kashechkin in particular put the pressure on rivals such as Alejandro Valverde and Cadel Evans with a long breakaway.  He almost came away with the stage win.  But in the end, Kashechkin was reeled in with less than 2km to go and Valverde won the stage, taking the bonus seconds in the process, exactly what Liberty Seguros had wanted to avoid.

Contador's race lead has dropped to just 6 seconds over Valverde heading into today's final stage 20.4km time trial in Lausanne.  Evans is in third at 24 seconds with Jorg Jaksche in fourth at 28 seconds.

Today's time trial is on a very tough course, the same one that saw Santiago Botero win both the stage and the overall in 2005.  On that day, Contador lost 1:04 and Jorg Jaksche lost 1:10.  (Valverde and Evans weren't there.)  If last year is a good indicator, Contador and Jaksche will have trouble getting it done today.  But that was last year and Contador has yellow on his back this time around.  But we might also look at the results of the 24km time trial earlier this month at the Tour of the Basque Country.  That time trial and the overall were won by Jose Angel Gomez Marchante who is not racing today.  Who was in second just 6 seconds back?  Valverde.  Contador was 8th there, 29 seconds back with Cadel Evans a disappointing 27th at 1:18.  But Evans' form appears on the rise.  Valverde has practically owned the month of April.  Does he have one more super performance in him on this last day of the month?  He doesn't need to win this time trial but he must best Contador by 6 seconds and hold off Evans and Jaksche.

 
Tour de Romandie official site


photos Copyright © 2005, 2006 Pete Geyer

Tour de Romandie 2006
Switzerland, April 25-30
(Tour of Romandy)

Live video coverage:

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cnlab "Romandie Live"
(technical problems)
(Not live motion video but does have live still images, map and profile race position and data from Radio Tour including speed, altitude and % gradient.)

Live tickers:


Official site ticker

Selected start times for today's decisive time trial:

14:24 CET (8:24am U.S. EST):
    Robbie McEwen (first departure)
14:30 CET (8:30am U.S. EST):
    Jan Ullrich
14:32 CET (8:32am U.S. EST):
    Bradley McGee
15:13 CET (9:13am U.S. EST):
    Leif Hoste
15:24 CET (9:24am U.S. EST):
    Laszlo Bodrogi
15:29 CET (9:29am U.S. EST):
    Oscar Pereiro
15:34 CET (9:34am U.S. EST):
    Victor Hugo Pena
16:02 CET (10:02am U.S. EST):
    Bobby Julich
16:26 CET (10:26am U.S. EST):
    Francisco Mancebo
16:42 CET (10:42am U.S. EST):
    Chris Horner
16:44 CET (10:44am U.S. EST):
    Alexandre Moos
16:48 CET (10:48am U.S. EST):
    Andrey Kashechkin
16:54 CET (10:54am U.S. EST):
    Jorg Jaksche
16:56 CET (10:56am U.S. EST):
    Cadel Evans
16:58 CET (10:58am U.S. EST):
    Alejandro Valverde
17:00 CET (11:00am U.S. EST):
    Alberto Contador




Saturday, April 29, 2006



Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
2006 Tour de Romandie

Notes:
 

Alberto Contador (Liberty Seguros-Wurth) Alberto Contador (Liberty Seguros-Wurth)
2005 Paris-Nice prologue

Beautiful stage win yesterday for Alberto "The Accountant" Contador.  (contador = accountant in English)  Contador finished the stage 24 seconds ahead of Alejandro Valverde and Cadel Evans.  He also took the yellow jersey and leads Valverde in the overall by 16 seconds.  Contador's teammate Jorg Jaksche is currently in third at 28 seconds.

Previous race leader Chris Horner dropped to 9th overall at 57 seconds.  Paolo Savoldelli lost nearly 12 minutes yesterday and is out of contention.  Savoldelli is looking ahead to the start of the Giro d'Italia, which starts next weekend, where he will be defending champion.

With three riders in the top 6 (Andrey Kashechkin is 6th at 53 seconds), Liberty Seguros has a great shot at winning this race.  Today's tough mountain stage features three category 1 climbs.  Whoever remains in contention after today will battle it out in tomorrow's final stage time trial.


 
Tour de Romandie official site


photos Copyright © 2005, 2006 Pete Geyer

Tour de Romandie 2006
Switzerland, April 25-30
(Tour of Romandy)

Live video coverage:

(--)

cnlab "Romandie Live"
(Not live motion video but does have live still images, map and profile race position and data from Radio Tour including speed, altitude and % gradient.)

Live tickers:


Official site ticker






Friday, April 28, 2006



Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
2006 Tour de Romandie

Notes:
 

Chris Horner (Davitamon-Lotto) Chris Horner (Davitamon-Lotto)
2006 Paris-Nice prologue

Chris Horner (Saunier-Duval) Chris Horner (Saunier Duval)
2004 Paris-Tours
Happy to be back in Europe

When American Chris Horner signed a contract for the 2005 season with Saunier-Duval, for a second chance at big league racing in Europe (he dominated U.S. domestic racing after an earlier stint in Europe with La Francaise des Jeux), he was so eager to get going that he suited up in Saunier Duval colors at the Paris-Tours race in October, 2004.  He was back.  And very happy about it (photo).

After an injury early in 2005, Horner came back with some very strong performances, including a stage win in the Tour of Switzerland and a near stage win in his first-ever Tour de France.  He seemingly has been in the mix in every one of his races since.  Now with Davitamon-Lotto, Horner is once again riding with the best.  Yesterday he attacked an elite group of riders, including Alejandro Valverde and race leader Paolo Savoldelli, and held them off to win the stage, taking the race lead in the process.  Great racing.  Savoldelli and Valverde are now 7 seconds back.

Tough mountaintop finish today.  If Valverde wants to win the overall, he needs to do a number today ahead of Sunday's time trial where Savoldelli should have the edge.  Swiss Alexandre Moos of Phonak is 4th at 9 seconds back.  He won't give up without a fight in his home race.
 
Tour de Romandie official site


photos Copyright © 2004, 2006 Pete Geyer

Tour de Romandie 2006
Switzerland, April 25-30
(Tour of Romandy)

Live video coverage:

(--)

cnlab "Romandie Live"
(Not live motion video but does have live still images, map and profile race position and data from Radio Tour including speed, altitude and % gradient.)

Live tickers:


Official site ticker






Thursday, April 27, 2006

Below is a guide to live internet coverage of the 2006 Tour de Romandie

Note:  There are problems today with cnlab's live data website for the Tour de Romandie, perhaps due to weather and the terrain.  Hopefully they'll be back online soon, if not today then tomorrow...

Note:  The cnlab "Romandie Live" data is fun to check out.  You can see the % gradient ("montee") go up when the riders are on the climbs (see the dynamic profile).  It of course has a negative value when the riders are descending.  Now if they can just combine this info with the T-Mobile live SRM telemetry....



Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
2006 Tour de Romandie

Notes:
 

Robbie McEwen Robbie McEwen
2005 Paris-Tours

Robbie McEwen (Davitamon-Lotto) did yesterday what is expected of him just 10 days before the start of the Giro d'Italia -- show he's ready to take on Alessandro Petacchi.  McEwen won the stage, Paolo Savoldelli of Discovery Channel is still in yellow.
 
Tour de Romandie official site


photos Copyright © 2006 Pete Geyer

Tour de Romandie 2006
Switzerland, April 25-30
(Tour of Romandy)

Live video coverage:

(--)

cnlab "Romandie Live"
(Not live motion video but does have live still images, map and profile race position and data from Radio Tour including speed, altitude and % gradient.)

Live tickers:


Official site ticker






Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Below is a guide to live internet coverage of the 2006 Tour de Romandie

cnlab "Romandie Live"

During last year's Tour de Romandie, we introduced you to Swiss Cnlab's "Romandie Live" coverage.  They're doing it again this year, providing live still images, dynamic race map and profile updates, and live data from Radio Tour including speed, altitude and % gradient.  You'll find cnlab's "Romandie Live" link in our "Live Guide" below.



Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
2006 Tour de Romandie

Notes:
 

Paolo Savoldelli Paolo Savoldelli
2005 Paris-Nice prologue

Paolo Savoldelli of Discovery Channel is clearly in form just 10 days before the start of the Giro d'Italia, where he will be defending champion.  Savoldelli won yesterday's prologue, ahead of Alejandro Valverde and Bradley McGee.
 
Tour de Romandie official site


photos Copyright © 2005, 2006 Pete Geyer

Tour de Romandie 2006
Switzerland, April 25-30
(Tour of Romandy)

Live video coverage:

(--)

cnlab "Romandie Live"
(Not live motion video but does have live still images, map and profile race position and data from Radio Tour including speed, altitude and % gradient.)

Live tickers:


Official site ticker






Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Note:  If you have Germany's DSF channel, they are showing the Tour de Romandie live this week (Thanks for the tip, MJ Ray!).  Sport+ is showing this race live in France.  Eurosport is not broadcasting Romandie, thus no live audio streams.



Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
2006 Tour de Romandie

Notes:
  Santiago Botero of Colombia isn't back to defend his 2005 title but Alexandre Moos will try to make it three in a row for Phonak in their home race.  (Tyler Hamilton got Phonak the win in 2004.)

There are a lot of big names in this important race before the Giro d'Italia, including Bobby Julich, Paolo Savoldelli, Thomas Dekker, Erik Dekker, Jan Ullrich in his first race of the season, Cadel Evans, Robbie McEwen, Chris Horner, Wim Van Huffel, Fleche Wallonne and Liege winner Alejandro Valverde, Oscar Pereiro, Alberto Contador, Jorg Jaksche, Andrey Kashechkin, Bradley McGee, Haimar Zubeldia, Stefano Garzelli, Dario Cioni and Francisco Mancebo.
 
Tour de Romandie official site


photo Copyright © 2006 Pete Geyer

Tour de Romandie 2006
Switzerland, April 25-30
(Tour of Romandy)

Live video coverage:

(--)

Live tickers:


Official site ticker









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