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Monday, July 11, 2005
Rest Day Today is the first rest day at the Tour de France, in the Alps. The race resumes tomorrow with the first serious mountain stage, to Courcheval. We'll find out who are the real contenders and who are the pretenders. Wednesday: the Galibier. Sunday, July 10, 2005 Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour de France. 
Stage 9 profile from ASO/letour.com
In case you haven't noticed, the official site ticker (link below) includes a stage profile with a red bar indicating the current position of the race. Other information included is the current distance from the stage start, the distance to the end and of course the usual stage profile information: profile graph showing where the climbs are (if any), the category ratings of climbs (HC ("hors category") is hardest, next category 1, then category 2 and so on), where the intermediate sprint locations are and the feed zone.
Saturday, July 9, 2005
Friday, July 8, 2005 Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour de France. Tour de France to Germany
With race director Jean-Marie Leblanc (second from
left), the German delegation points out the Tour's Germany stages on
the route map
(2005 Tour de France presentation, Paris, October 2004) Today's Tour stage will finish in Karlsruhe, Germany. Tomorrow's stage will be run mostly in Germany before working its way back into France for the stage finish. The broad outlines for the following year's Tour route is developed each May. Tour organizer ASO then wraps up the route details (stages, stage departure/arrival towns, etc.) by September. With that done, organizers rush to secure hotel reservations for all the riders, teams personnel and members of the caravan. The route is then presented to the media in late October, whereupon the media immediately rushes to make their own hotel reservations for the following July!
Thursday, July 7, 2005 Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour de France.
If you haven't already noticed, one nice thing about the Official site ticker (link below) at www.letour.com is that they post a photo finish image after sprint finishes. In the shot above from yesterday's finish, Robbie McEwen is seen beating Tom Boonen by half a wheel. Two super high speed cameras are being used at the finish lines during the Tour de France, one recording 2,000 images per second and the other 5,000 images per second. According to Tour organizer A.S.O., though the top 10 finishers are determined almost immediately, it can take about 10 minutes to determine the placings for the rest of the peloton. NOTE: If you are having problems playing Eurosport audio streams, consider the following: - During periods of peak demand, Eurosport servers may become overwhelmed with requests for audio streams. This appeared to be the case at times during Tuesday's Team Time Trial for the English and French audio streams. Your options are to keep trying or to try following along in another language. (You'd be amazed at how you can tell who won a sprint in just about any language: "Boonen! Boonen! Non! McEwen!") - Eurosport's "24-hour audio feed" really isn't playing 24 hours a day. - You must have Windows Media Player or equivalent installed. (If you are using an Apple Macintosh computer, they do have a version for the Mac.) Unfortunately, sites delivering media streams often do nothing to inform you if you do not have the proper software installed. - If you are using a Firefox browser, compatibility issues may prevent you from being able to correctly play Eurosport (or other) media streams. Try another browser to see if you have any better luck. NOTE: Not sure what's up with OLN but they picked the wrong time to be messing with their website, making existing links from other websites invalid in the process. We've updated our OLN/Schedule links in our Links section at above/left.
Wednesday, July 6, 2005
Tuesday, July 5, 2005 Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour de France.
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