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Sunday, July 17, 2005
Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour de France. 
Profile for today's huge stage
a category 2 climb followed by four category 1 climbs followed by an HC ("hors category") climb to the finish image: ASO/letour.com From Official site ticker (link below), where the red bar on profile indicates current race position 
Race director Jean-Marie Leblanc
2005 Tour route presentation Paris, October 2004 When Tour de France race director Jean-Marie Leblanc showed the slide for today's stage profile during the 2005 Tour route presentation in Paris last October, the noise level from the audience rose like for no other stage in this Tour. On paper, this is the hardest day of the race.
Saturday, July 16, 2005 Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour de France.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005 Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour de France.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour de France. Discovery launches
Armstrong into orbit
Just 24 hours before NASA's scheduled launch of the Discovery space shuttle, the Discovery Channel pro cycling team launched Lance Armstrong into orbit and into the yellow jersey in the first big mountain stage of the 2005 Tour de France. Answering the doubts about the team after Saturday's stage found Armstrong isolated (with no teammates) on the final climb, Discovery Channel even seemed to be holding a launch countdown as one by one, Armstrong's rivals were jettisoned out the back. Iban Mayo was the first to go, spit out the back so fast that many tuning in to live coverage may have missed it. Alexandre Vinokourov, dropped. Andreas Kloden, Jan Ullrich, out the back. Ivan Basso, gone. The dropped riders spread along the mountainside together resembled the exhaust trail from a rocket. It was no doubt one of the most devastating days ever for Armstrong's rivals. NASA and cycling indeed have a few things in common: Armstrongs, climbs, lunar or lunar-like surfaces..... 
Galibier on the menu for today's stage 
Panoramic view from the Col du Galibier
© 2005 www.cyclingfans.com Cycling fans are in for a treat today, especially those fans waiting for the race to arrive at the Galibier Pass. One of the great mythical locations in cycling, the view from the Galibier is spectacular. Once the riders cross the Galibier, there is a 40km descent to the finish in Briançon. 
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour de France. Tour hits the mountains Today is the first big mountain stage of the 2005 Tour de France, with a mountaintop finish at Courchevel. The Tour won't be decided today but some of the contenders will surely lose time and start to see their Tour hopes slipping away. How strong really is Discovery Channel? How will Jan Ullrich ride after suffering from two crashes in just over one week? How fast and furious will the attacks come, and who will do the attacking, on this first day of a tough week in the mountains?
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