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| Friday, May 30, 2008
Below is our Guide
to Live Coverage of Stage 19 of the 2008 Giro d'Italia
2008 Giro d'Italia: Jens Voigt (Team CSC) escaped from his breakaway companions
to win yesterday's Stage 18.
photo
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Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com 
2008 Giro d'Italia: The Astana team of race leader Alberto Contador controls
the race during yesterday's Stage 18. Things will get more complicated during the Friday
and Saturday stages in the mountains.
photo
Copyright © 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com Notes:
- Tomorrow's Giro d'Italia Stage 20 departs Rovetta at 10:40 CET (4:40am
U.S. Eastern) and is scheduled to arrive in Tirano between 16:53 and 17:40
CET (10:53 and 11:40am U.S. Eastern). Giro live internet coverage on cycling.tv
is scheduled to begin at 14:40 CET (8:40am U.S. Eastern). The NRK Giro live broadcast should start at around 14:35 CET (8:35am U.S. Eastern).
- Wow, epic stage today. Tomorrow should be huge.
- With 15km to go, we finally got in to cycling.tv
.
- To those of you having trouble accessing cycling.tv:
We have tried ourselves for over an hour to get in, without any luck.
This is one reason why we hunt down all the alternatives, like NRK.
(Note to cycling.tv: Just fix the technical issues so everyone can get in, will you? Jeez.)
- We've got live video from the race again. Rain absolutely pouring down.
- Very difficult weather conditions at the Giro today impeding broadcasting
of images from the race. NRK currently showing highlights from Jens
Voigt's win yesterday.
- Eurosport UK is now live with today's big mountain stage of the Giro d'Italia. That means live race audio in English is now an option for those of you watching the NRK or RAI video feeds.
- Giro live video now on NRK and Rai Sport. Eurosport is playing French Open tennis live at the moment. Today's Giro d'Italia Stage 19 Profile
- Today's Giro d'Italia Stage 19 departs Legnano at 10:45 CET (4:45am
U.S. Eastern) and is expected at Presolana-Monte Pora between 16:54 and 17:39
CET (10:54 and 11:39am U.S. Eastern). Giro live coverage on cycling.tv
is scheduled to begin at 14:40 CET (8:40am U.S. Eastern) and on NRK at 14:35 CET (8:35am U.S. Eastern). The Rai Sport live video stream should start no later than around 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern).
- Tour of Belgium Stage 3 live ticker here
. (More Tour of Belgium links and information in our May 28 entry below.)
- For information on viewing the Giro via satellite
, see our cycling via satellite blog here
.
- 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. |
Live video streaming:Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
(Eurosport English ticker)
News and photos:
(cycling news)
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©
2008 www.cyclingfans.com |
Thursday, May 29, 2008
2008 Giro d'Italia: With just over 100 meters to go in
yesterday's Stage 17, Tony Martin (far left, Team High Road) has pulled off
the front as teammate Andre Greipel leads out High Road's ace sprinter Mark
Cavendish, with Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) on his wheel. Erik Zabel
(Milram), Assan Bazayev (Astana) and Alexandre Usov (AG2R La Mondiale) are
also in the mix but surely the win will go to Cavendish or Bennati.....
photo
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Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com 
But no, it is Greipel who wins the stage ahead of Cavendish. High Road's teamwork was perfect
with Cavendish showing great class by being content to control the peloton while his key leadout man
got the day's glory. Respect.
photo
Copyright © 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com 
2008 Giro d'Italia: The peloton during yesterday's Stage 17
photo
Copyright © 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com Notes:
- Tomorrow's Giro d'Italia Stage 19 departs Legnano at 10:45 CET (4:45am
U.S. Eastern) and is expected at Presolana-Monte Pora between 16:54 and 17:39
CET (10:54 and 11:39am U.S. Eastern). Giro live coverage on cycling.tv
is scheduled to begin at 14:40 CET (8:40am U.S. Eastern) and on NRK at 14:35 CET (8:35am U.S. Eastern). The Rai Sport live video stream should start no later than around 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern).
- Speaking of June, the Dauphiné Libéré is fast approaching (and yes, there will be DL live video streaming
.) As is the inevitable publication of a number of pre-Tour books,
in both English and French, that deal with the subject of doping.
- Eurosport's David Harmon asked Kelly yesterday what he thought of Tour organizer A.S.O.'s talk last year of some form of return to national teams in the Tour de France.
Kelly doesn't believe it will happen and indeed invoked the usual
reasons people give ($$) for why there will never be a return to national
teams. However, we met in Paris earlier this year with a former director
of the Tour de France who says given the way things have been going between
ASO and the UCI, some form of re-introduction of national teams at the TDF is "inevitable....within 2 or 3 years." This matches our own analysis of the past couple of years and in June we'll post a transcript of our thought-provoking (and sometimes explosive) interview of the man who correctly predicted the global success of the Tour.
- Sean Kelly on Eurosport was just commenting on reports in
the Italian press that the Italian riders (Ricco, Simoni, Pellizotti, etc.)
may unite against Spaniard and current race leader Alberto Contador tomorrow
and Saturday. Kelly doesn't see it happening and indeed it seems the
Italian press has talked up this scenario in the past, with individual interests
ultimately and naturally being defended first and foremost. But the attacks on Contador will come...
- Tour of Belgium Stage 2 inside the final 10km with the sprinters' teams setting up for a big sprint finish. Live tickerhere
.
- Tiny Eurosport live video stream playing the Giro.
- Eurosport France audio feed now playing the Giro d'Italia live. - Eurosport UK live audio feed now playing the Giro d'Italia.
- Eurosport apparently about to switch over to the Giro d'Italia...
- Giro d'Italia live coverage of today's stage getting underway on cycling.tv
.
- Giro live now on Rai Sport. Live coverage on NRK is also getting underway. Eurosport UK live audio feed is currently playing Roland Garros live.
- Tour of Belgium Stage 2 live ticker here
. (More Tour of Belgium links and information in our May 28 entry below.)
- Today's Giro d'Italia Stage 18 departs Mendrisio at 13:35 CET
(7:35am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Varese between 17:05 and 17:27 CET
(11:05 and 11:27am U.S. Eastern). Giro live coverage is scheduled to start on cycling.tv
at around 15:05 CET (9:05am U.S. Eastern), and on NRK and Rai Sport at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern).
- For information on viewing the Giro via satellite
, see our cycling via satellite blog here
.
- 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. |
Live video streaming:Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
(Eurosport English ticker)
News and photos:
(cycling news)
|
|
Copyright
©
2008 www.cyclingfans.com |
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Starting today: Tour of Belgium (Devolder, Boonen, Hoste, Horner...), details below Notes:
- Tomorrow's Giro d'Italia Stage 18 departs Mendrisio at 13:35 CET
(7:35am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Varese between 17:05 and 17:27 CET
(11:05 and 11:27am U.S. Eastern). Giro live coverage is scheduled to start on cycling.tv
at around 15:05 CET (9:05am U.S. Eastern), and on NRK and Rai Sport at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern).
- Current Giro d'Italia leader Alberto Contador will not be riding next month's Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré as originally planned. No real surprise there. 2006 DL winner Levi Leipheimer will lead Astana at that race while Andreas Kloden will lead the team at the Tour of Switzerland. (source: AFP)
- Eurosport UK live audio stream now playing today's stage of the Giro d'Italia.
- Giro live coverage on cycling.tv
has begun.
- Eurosport live with the French Open at the moment.
- Giro d'Italia live now on NRK and Rai Sport.
Is Lance Armstrong on his way to Italy?
Looks that way. Lance and his latest celebrity girlfriend, actress Kate Hudson, were reportedly
seen in Cannes Friday night at a Cannes Film Festival party, then in Monaco for Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix. Perhaps Kate will get an introduction to the world of pro cycling in the last week of the Giro d'Italia... 
Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France
Site of the Cannes Film Festival
Copyright © 2008 Pete Geyer/cyclingfans.com Tour of Belgium, May 28-June 1The 2008 Tour of Belgium (aka
Tour de Belgique or Ronde van Belgie) starts today and runs through June
1. Riders expected on the start line include Chris Horner, Stijn Devolder, Tom Boonen, Gert Steegmans, Leif Hoste, Robert Gesink, Tom Steels, and Allan Davis.Tour of Belgium live via satellite info in our cycling via satellite blog here
.  2003 Tour of Belgium: Stijn Devolder (Vlaanderen-T Interim)
Copyright © 2008 Pete Geyer/cyclingfans.com
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Today's Giro d'Italia Stage 17 departs Sondrio at 13:45 CET (7:45am
U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Locarno between 17:08 and 17:29 CET (11:08
and 11:29am U.S. Eastern). Giro live broadcast on cycling.tv
is scheduled to begin at 15:05 CET (9:05am U.S. Eastern), on NRK and Rai Sport at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern).
- For information on viewing the Giro via satellite
, see our cycling via satellite blog here
.
- 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. |
Live video streaming:Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
(Eurosport English ticker)
News and photos:
(cycling news)
|
|
Copyright
©
2008 www.cyclingfans.com |
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Today is the second and final rest day of the 2008 Giro d'Italia. 
2008 Giro d'Italia, Stage 16: Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas) on his way to winning yesterday's
Plan de Corones Mountain Time Trial.
photo
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Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com  2008 Giro d'Italia, Stage 16: Alberto Contador (Astana) near the finish of yesterday's Plan de Corones
Mountain Time Trial. Contador finished 4th, 22 seconds behind stage winner Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas),
good enough to retain the maglia rosa as race leader.
photo
Copyright © 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com
Tomorrow's Giro d'Italia Stage 17 departs Sondrio at 13:45 CET (7:45am
U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Locarno between 17:08 and 17:29 CET (11:08
and 11:29am U.S. Eastern). Giro live broadcast on cycling.tv
is scheduled to begin at 15:05 CET (9:05am U.S. Eastern), on NRK and Rai Sport at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern).
Monday, May 26, 2008 - Giro live broadcasts start today at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern). Details below.
- Giro d'Italia Mountain Time Trial Start Order and Start Times posted below. Below is our Guide
to Live Coverage of Stage 16 of the 2008 Giro d'Italia
2008 Giro d'Italia, Stage 16: American Levi Leipheimer (Astana) during today's spectacular
Plan de Corones Mountain Time Trial. Leipheimer took it "easy" as Astana will have to work
hard trying to control the race in the final week.
photo
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Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com 
2008 Giro d'Italia: Alberto Contador (Astana) with podium girls after yesterday's Stage 15.
Contador took over the race lead, with Riccardo Ricco (Saunier Duval - Scott)
in second at 33 seconds and defending Giro champion Danilo Di Luca (LPR Brakes)
now in third at 55 seconds.
photo
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Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com 
2008 Giro d'Italia: Emanuele Sella (CSF Group Navigare) won yesterday's Stage 15.
It was the Italian's second victory in as many days.
photo
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Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com  2008 Giro d'Italia: The peloton rides by a waterfall during yesterday's Stage 15
photo
Copyright © 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
for cyclingfans.com Notes:- Eurosport audio feed is now playing today's stage of the Giro d'Italia live. - Regarding cycling.tv access: If you are logged in to cycling.tv
and are only getting a page WITHOUT the usual links to the 100kbps, 400kbps,
800kbps, and 1200kbps feeds, then try clicking on the Live races tab.
That's what worked for us. (Yes, the cycling.tv interface is
horrible, shockingly so, but once you do get in, the feed is pretty good....and
with English-language commentary.)
- We have posted the complete start order and start times for today's mountain time trial below. - Regarding Giro live coverage on cycling.tv
: Many people are trying to get in to their live feeds all
at once. If you are having trouble getting in (we have not yet gotten
in ourselves), keep trying. What we do is this: Launch the cycling.tv
page to get it started loading. Then we launch our Giro player 1
or NRK feed separately. Check on the progress on the cycling.tv page.
(If we get a server error, then we try reloading the page.) Meanwhile,
we follow the race action on NRK. When cycling.tv kicks in, then we
stop the NRK feed. - Reminder: Eurosport yesterday switched to covering the French Open tennis tournament live. So the Eurosport live audio streams will be favoring that event. They may on occasion switch back to Giro d'Italia live coverage
, as they did for the latter part of yesterday's stage, so we will monitor
the situation and post any updates here. They are getting a little
rain in Paris at the moment. If it becomes enough to stop tennis play,
then perhaps Eurosport will go to the Giro.
- Giro live broadcasts are getting underway on NRK and Rai Sport.
- There may be modifications to the start order
so that no two teammates start back to back.
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| EICHLER Markus
SUTTON Christopher
BELOHVOSCIKS Raivis
APERRIBAY Lander
PATE Danny
IGNATIEV Mikhail
AGIRRE Josu
GATES Nick
GUDSELL Timothy
GREIPEL André
WIGGINS Bradley
HAYMAN Mathew
HUGUET Yann
CAVENDISH Mark
DEAN Julian
KRAUSS Sven
ONGARATO Alberto
MARTIN Tony
JURCO Matej
HARTMANN Nicolas
FOTHEN Thomas
SCOGNAMIGLIO Carlo
SEROV Alexander
CHIARINI Riccardo
CARLSTROM Kjell
ILLIANO Raffaele
CUMMINGS Steven
DE GROOT Bram
BUFFAZ Mickael
FACCI Mauro
TRUSSOV Nikolai
ROUSSEAU Nicolas
USOV Alexandre
THOMAS Geraint
LEVARLET Guillaume
BOSSONI Paolo
DEVENYNS Dries
MONIER Damien
GALPARSORO Dionisio
KRIVTSOV Yuriy
LOWIK Gerben
HANSEN Adam
HONDO Danilo
KLIMOV Serguei
SCHWAB Hubert
BENITEZ ROMAN Jose A.
MANGEL Laurent
CAPECCHI Eros
LUND Anders
ENGELS Addy
BALDATO Fabio
PERGET Mathieu
PEREZ CUAPIO Julio Alberto
RABON Frantisek
ROY Jérémy
DALL'ANTONIA Tiziano
JEGOU Lilian
ERMETI Giairo
MCCARTNEY Jason
BAZAYEV Assan
MILLAR David
SEELDRAYERS Kevin
EFIMKIN Alexander
WEGELIUS Charles
MARTENS Paul
ELTINK Theo
BAILETTI Paolo
PEREZ ARANGO Marlon A.
SONNERY Blaise
GAVAZZI Francesco
GASPAROTTO Enrico
VELO Marco
VANOTTI Alessandro
HORRACH RIPPOLL Joan
CAMANO ORTUZAR Iker
MISSAGLIA Gabriele
ZABEL Erik
BERTOLINI Alessandro
DEIGNAN Philip
PEREZ LEZAUN Alan
IRIZAR Markel
CANADA GRACIA David
BENNATI Daniele
HESJEDAL Ryder
LOOSLI David
PEREZ SANCHEZ Francisco
IVANOV Ruslan
LASTRAS GARCIA Pablo
CHEREL Mikael
KOZONTCHUK Dmitry
OCHOA Carlos José
VELASCO MURILLO Ivan
MIZOUROV Andrey
BLAUDZUN Michael
PINOTTI Marco
NOCENTINI Rinaldo
SPILAK Simon
PIETROPOLLI Daniele
VAN HUFFEL Wim
GUSEV Vladimir
MAZZANTI Luca
IGLINSKIY Maxim
RUJANO GUILLEN José
VOIGT Jens
FROHLINGER Johannes
NARDELLO Daniele
POSSONI Morris
DE GREEF Francis
KIRYIENKA Vasil
COLOM MAS Antonio
GOLCER Jure
VANDEVELDE Christian
GARATE Juan Manuel
PASAMONTES Luis
SPEZIALETTI Alessandro
SERPA PEREZ Jose Rodolfo
SIUTSOU Kanstantsin
LLOYD Matthew
NOE' Andrea
SORENSEN Nicki
KARPETS Vladimir
VISCONTI Giovanni
VEIKKANEN Jussi
MIHOLJEVIC Vladimir
TONTI Andrea
LAVERDE JIMENEZ Luis F.
PETROV Evgeni
SORENSEN Chris
RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin
ARDILA CANO Mauricio A.
LE BOULANGER Yoann
BETTINI Paolo
SZMYD Sylvester
LEIPHEIMER Levi
BOSISIO Gabriele
SAVOLDELLI Paolo
CARDENAS Felix Rafael
LARSSON Gustav Erik
BALIANI Fortunato
KLODEN Andreas
VALJAVEC Tadej
NIBALI Vincenzo
SELLA Emanuele
POZZOVIVO Domenico
VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen
PELLIZOTTI Franco
SIMONI Gilberto
MENCHOV Denis
BRUSEGHIN Marzio
DI LUCA Danilo
RICCO' Riccardo
CONTADOR Alberto
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- Today's Giro d'Italia 12,9km Mountain Time Trial starts at 10:00 CET (4am U.S. Eastern) when the first rider is scheduled to depart. Giro live coverage on cycling.tv
is scheduled to begin at 15:05 CET (9:05am U.S. Eastern). The NRK Giro d'Italia live broadcast should begin at around 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern). Coverage on Rai Sport should also begin at around that time. Profile for today's Giro Mountain Time Trial
- 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. |
Live video streaming:Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
(Eurosport English ticker)
News and photos:
(cycling news)
|
|
Copyright
©
2008 www.cyclingfans.com |
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