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Monday, May 1, 2006
On today: Rund um den Henninger Turm
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Also on today:
Trophee des Grimpeurs
Tomorrow:
Henninger Turm
Guide to live race coverage on the
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Notes:
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
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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
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Saturday, April 29, 2006
Guide to live race coverage on the
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Notes:
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
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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
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Friday, April 28, 2006
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Notes:
Chris Horner (Davitamon-Lotto)
2006 Paris-Nice prologue
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
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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
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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
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Notes:
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
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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
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Below is a guide
to live internet coverage of the 2006 Tour de Romandie
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
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Notes:
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
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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
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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
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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
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Tour de Romandie 2006
Switzerland, April 25-30
(Tour of Romandy)
Live video coverage:
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Live tickers:
Official site ticker
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