Sunday, June 18, 2006

"I needed a lead of at least five minutes in order to believe in my chances for overall victory.  No, seriously, maybe 1:30 in order to have a little chance of winning." - Koldo Gil (Saunier Duval), Tour of Switzerland race leader (30 seconds ahead of Jorg Jaksche and 50 seconds ahead of Jan Ullrich) heading into today's final stage time trial. (L'Equipe)

In the 2006 Tour of Switzerland, it all comes down to today's final stage 30.7km individual time trial from Kerzers to Bern.  Race leader Koldo Gil, by his own admission, surely doesn't have anywhere near the buffer he needs to hold off Jorg Jaksche (Wurth) and Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile Team) who are just 30 seconds and 50 seconds back, respectively.

Though Jaksche is a solid time trialist in his own right, it is doubtful that his 20 seconds lead on Ullrich is enough to hold off his compatriot over nearly 31 kilometers and the final podium will probably be 1. Ullrich, 2. Jaksche, 3. Gil.  (unless Gil allows another rider to steal his podium spot)

Note:  This morning's Eindhoven Team Time Trial, originally billed by Cycling.tv as live, will be broadcast today at 18:00 CET (12pm U.S. EST).  It was announced for both the free and premium channels.

Note:  We've updated our list of recent Archive video clips to include the Philadelphia International, Tour de Beauce (Canada), a couple of races in France and OLN's coverage of the Dauphiné Libéré.

Race	Live coverage
2006 Tour de Suisse June 10-18, Switzerland Start list	Live video: (--) (Coverage begins each day at 16:30 CET (10:30am U.S. EST).  Requires you to install a "p2p" plugin that shares your unused bandwidth with other users.) Live tickers: Official site ticker (French) Deutsch - Español Français  - Italiano

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Saturday, June 17, 2006

Race	Live coverage
2006 Tour de Suisse June 10-18, Switzerland Start list	Live video: (--) (Coverage begins each day at 16:30 CET (10:30am U.S. EST).  Requires you to install a "p2p" plugin that shares your unused bandwidth with other users.) Live tickers: Official site ticker (French) Deutsch - Español Français  - Italiano

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Friday, June 16, 2006

Race	Live coverage
2006 Tour de Suisse June 10-18, Switzerland Start list	Live video: (--) (Coverage begins each day at 16:30 CET (10:30am U.S. EST).  Requires you to install a "p2p" plugin that shares your unused bandwidth with other users.) Live tickers: Official site ticker (French) Deutsch - Español Français  - Italiano

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Thursday, June 15, 2006

"Everything should happen on the final climb, the (beyond category) Albula Pass.  In any event, Jan is in good form, very good form." - Rudy Pevenage, T-Mobile directeur sportif and Ullrich mentor. (L'Equipe )

Race	Live coverage
2006 Tour de Suisse June 10-18, Switzerland Start list	Live video: (--) (Coverage begins each day at 16:30 CET (10:30am U.S. EST).  Requires you to install a "p2p" plugin that shares your unused bandwidth with other users.) Live tickers: Official site ticker (French) Deutsch - Español Français  - Italiano

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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Note:  The UCI ProTour Team Time Trial event is on Sunday in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.  Cycling.tv will be showing the race live on both the free and premium channels.

Race	Live coverage
2006 Tour de Suisse June 10-18, Switzerland Start list	Live video: (--) (Coverage begins each day at 16:30 CET (10:30am U.S. EST).  Requires you to install a "p2p" plugin that shares your unused bandwidth with other users.) Live tickers: Official site ticker (French) Deutsch - Español Français  - Italiano

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Note:  Today we pick up coverage of the Tour de Suisse after a couple of days of unplanned downtime.  Thanks to our U.K. correspondent Bernie S., we've got new links and more to come.