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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

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- Tomorrow's Giro d'Italia Stage 11 departs Urbania at 11:55 CET (5:55am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Cesena between 17:01 and 17:36 CET (11:01 and 11:36am U.S. Eastern). Giro live coverage on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 14:55 CET (8:55am U.S. Eastern). The NRK Giro live streams should start at around 14:50 CET (8:50am U.S. Eastern). The RAI Sport broadcast schedule says 15:10 CET (9:10am U.S. Eastern). Live coverage on Eurosport is scheduled to begin at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern).

- Eurosport UK live audio flash: English audio feed is working once again. (Thanks, Robert in Sydney, Australia.)

- It took 15 minutes but we finally got in to the Giro live video stream at cycling.tv (English commentary by Anthony McCrossan and Brian Smith).

- Some of you have noted that the Eurosport UK audio feed is no longer working. We're monitoring the situation and looking again for an alternative.

- Giro live coverage has begun on NRK.

Giro d'Italia: 39.4km Individual Time Trial today
2008 Tour of Italy Stage 10 profile

Start order and times for today's Time Trial:

- Riders start at one-minute intervals. The final 20 riders start at two-minute intervals.

- There may be modifications to the start order so that no two teammates start back to back.

The first rider in today's 39.4km individual time trial departs at 13:00 CET (7:00am U.S. Eastern). Live coverage on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern). NRK and Eurosport live coverage are also scheduled to begin at that time. Rai Sport live broadcast scheduled to begin at 15:15 CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

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- For information on viewing the Giro via satellite , see our May 8 update below.

- Be sure to reload this page occasionally during the race for the latest live race coverage links and information. The most recent notices always appear at the top of this Live Guide.

- Welcome to today's live coverage guide for the 2008 Giro d'Italia.

2008 Giro d'Italia
Italy, May 10-June 1
Official Website
Start List

Live video streaming:

(Subscription Sign up )
(North America)

cyclingfans.com Giro player 1
(combines NRK video and
Eurosport UK audio in one browser window)

cyclingfans.com Giro player 2
(combines RAI Sport video
and Eurosport UK audio)

alternative RAI stream

NRK
(Norway)
alternative NRK stream 1
alternative NRK stream 2

Tiny Eurosport live video

(More links to come)

Live audio streaming:

(English)
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Deutsch - Español
Français - Italiano
Russian
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Check schedule

Radio Tour graphics:

Live tickers:

Official Site Live Ticker

(Eurosport English ticker)

Deutsch - Español
Français - Italiano

News and photos:

(cycling news)

Yahoo photo gallery (AP/AFP)

Graham Watson
Photo Gallery

Monday, May 19, 2008

The first rider in tomorrow's 39.4km individual time trial departs at 13:00 CET (7:00am U.S. Eastern). Live coverage on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern). NRK and Eurosport live coverage are also scheduled to begin at that time. Rai Sport live broadcast scheduled to begin at 15:15 CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

Today is the first rest day of the 2008 Giro d'Italia. We will post information regarding tomorrow's important individual time trial later today and resume our Giro live coverage tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the 88th Volta a Catalunya starts today and runs through May 25. We are monitoring a possible live video stream for this race and will post links if it indeed checks out. ( Update: looks like no live stream available, not today anyway.)

Volta a Catalunya Official Website here
Start List (.pdf)

Riders on the Volta a Catalunya start list include Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Carlos Sastre, Fabian Cancellara, George Hincapie, Michael Rogers, Haimar Zubeldia, Janez Brajkovic, Chris Horner, Cyril Dessel, Pierrick Fedrigo, Anthony Geslin, Thomas Voeckler, Sylvain Chavanel, David Moncoutie, Alexandre Botcharov, Patrice Halgand, Thor Hushovd, Sandy Casar, Benoit Vaugrenard, Alessandro Ballan, Juan Antonio Flecha, Christophe Brandt, Yaroslav Popovych, Christophe Moreau.

Slipstream Chipotle are racing Catalunya and have brought Blake Caldwell, Tom Danielson, Jason Donald, Lucas Euser, Christophe Laurent, Trent Lowe, Daniel Martin and Thomas Peterson.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Below is our Guide to Live Coverage of Stage 9 of the 2008 Giro d'Italia

2008 Tour of Italy: Emanuele Sella, Paolo Bettini and Riccardo Ricco try to get away within the last 20km of Stage 9

2008 Giro d'Italia: Emanuele Sella, Paolo Bettini and Riccardo Ricco try to get away
within the last 20km of today's Stage 9.
photo Copyright © 2008 Fotoreporter Sirotti for cyclingfans.com

2008 Tour of Italy: Riccardo Ricco (Saunier Duval) wins Stage 8

2008 Giro d'Italia: Riccardo Ricco (Saunier Duval) wins yesterday's Stage 8 ahead of Paolo Bettini (Quick Step) and Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner). It was the second stage win in the race thus far for the bold Italian, just 24.
photo Copyright © 2008 Fotoreporter Sirotti for cyclingfans.com

2008 Tour of Italy: Alberto Contador (Astana) is attended to by a race doctor after a crash in Stage 8

Alberto Contador (Astana) is attended to by a race doctor after a crash in yesterday's Stage 8.
Contador's appearance at the Giro was likely required in order for the team to receive its last-minute invitation
and he is not expected to finish the race.
photo Copyright © 2008 Fotoreporter Sirotti for cyclingfans.com

Notes:

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- Monday is the first rest day of the 2008 Giro d'Italia .

In yesterday's L'EQUIPE:
Riccardo Ricco has accused Alberto Contador
of hiding his game, coming to Italy to steal the Giro,
and taking advantage of the work of his rivals on climbs.
Ricco's teammate, Leonardo Piepoli, added: "A Tour de France
winner should not behave in this manner."

Riccardo Ricco has accused Alberto Contador of hiding his game, coming to Italy to steal the Giro, and letting his rivals do the work on the climbs. ( polls)

- Eurosport UK live audio feed now playing today's stage of the Giro d'Italia.

Tour de Picardie video clips

- France 3 evening news coverage of Tour de Picardie (France) available here .

Stage 1 coverage on "Vendredi 16 Mai" news program begins at about 10:20 into the broadcast and runs to 15:06. Includes interview of Jimmy Casper.

Stage 2 coverage on "Samedi 17 Mai" news program begins at 13:27 into the broadcast and runs to 16:12.

-Bernie S.

-More Tour de Picardie links and info. in yesterday's entry below.

- Reminder: Giro live audio stream on Eurosport UK is not scheduled to begin until 16:30 CET (10:30am U.S. Eastern). So it's Norwegian and Italian race commentary for most of the stage today. So.... hallo and ciao to everyone this morning.

- Giro d'Italia live now on NRK.

- Rai Sport is live with today's stage of the Giro d'Italia .

- As of 14:50 CET (8:50am U.S. Eastern), NRK is showing highlights of yesterday's stage. Should be followed by today's live broadcast .

- Today's Giro d'Italia Stage 9 departs Civitavecchia at 11:55 CET (5:55am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in San Vincenzo between 16:59 and 17:30 CET (10:59 and 11:30am U.S. Eastern). Giro live coverage on NRK is scheduled to begin at 14:45 CET (8:45am U.S. Eastern), on RAI at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern). scheduled start time, however, is 16:30 CET (10:30am U.S. Eastern). ~~Cycling.tv will go live with the race in there somewhere...~~ (cycling.tv not showing Sunday stages)