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Monday, September 12, 2005

Rest day today at the Vuelta.

Other races this week:
Race/Official web site
Live media streams
September 12-18, ProTour
(Tour of Poland)
Riders include Danilo Di Luca, Bobby Julich, Cadel Evans, Jörg Jaksche, Yaroslav Popovych, Jose Luis Rubiera,  Jens Voigt, Baden Cooke, Stuart O'Grady, Fabian Cancellara, Viatcheslav Ekimov, Fred Rodriguez, Peter Van Petegem, ...

(Polish TV feed)



Sunday, September 11, 2005

Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Vuelta a España .



Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
Vuelta a España 2005

Notes:

Eladio Jimenez of Comunidad Valencia won yesterday's stage 14.  Today would appear to be the last chance for Roberto Heras if he is going to catch race leader Denis Menchov of Rabobank.  Menchov still leads Heras by 47 seconds.



photo © 2005 Pete Geyer


Vuelta a España 2005, Spain
August 27-September 18
ProTour
Stage 15: September 11
Cangas de Onis to Valgrande Pajares, 191km
(Tour of Spain)
(Tour d'Espagne)

Live video coverage:

Official site live video
(last 15 minutes only)

Live audio coverage:

Eurosport (English)
(24-hour audio feed streaming)
(16:00 CET (10:00am U.S. EST))
(times subject to change)
(requires Windows Media Player or equivalent)
(may not work with Firefox browser)


Check schedule


Live tickers:


Official site ticker


Velonews

Cyclingnews

Daily Peloton


Official site









Saturday, September 10, 2005

Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Vuelta a España .

Note:  Cycling.TV is offering a LIVE broadcast of today's Paris-Bruxelles (Brussels) race, starting at 14:30 CET (8:30am U.S. EST).  (Not available in all countries.)  Link is at left.



Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
Vuelta a España 2005

Notes:

Samuel Sanchez of Euskaltel-Euskadi won yesterday's stage 13.  Rabobank's Denis Menchov is race leader, with 3-time and defending Vuelta champion Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) in second place overall, 47 seconds back.  Heras, who crashed two days ago, made it through the day okay but today is a bigger test and he needs to make up time if he's to win an unprecedented 4th Vuelta.



photo © 2005 Pete Geyer


Vuelta a España 2005, Spain
August 27-September 18
ProTour
Stage 14: September 10
Nestlé/La Penilla to Lagos de Covadonga, 172.3km
(Tour of Spain)
(Tour d'Espagne)

Live video coverage:

Official site live video
(last 15 minutes only)

Live audio coverage:

Eurosport (English)
(24-hour audio feed streaming)
(15:55 CET (9:55am U.S. EST))
(times subject to change)
(requires Windows Media Player or equivalent)
(may not work with Firefox browser)


Check schedule


Live tickers:


Official site ticker


Velonews

Cyclingnews

Daily Peloton


Official site









Friday, September 9, 2005

Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Vuelta a España .

Note:  We're back "live," later than we expected.  Sorry about that.  As you know a lot has been going on, in the media anyway, in the world of cycling the past few weeks.  We'll weigh in on some of that in the days ahead.

Note:  Eurosport recently changed their broadcast schedule link.  We have updated our links to reflect that.



Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
Vuelta a España 2005

Notes:

Denis Menchov

Rabobank's Denis Menchov is race leader, with 3-time and defending Vuelta champion Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) in second place overall, 47 seconds back.  Heras crashed in yesterday's stage.  How will this affect his riding this weekend?



photos © 2005 Pete Geyer


Vuelta a España 2005, Spain
August 27-September 18
ProTour
Stage 13: September 9
Burgos to Santuario de la Bien Aparecida, 196km
(Tour of Spain)
(Tour d'Espagne)

Live video coverage:

Official site live video
(last 15 minutes only)

Live audio coverage:

Eurosport (English)
(24-hour audio feed streaming)
(16:00 CET (10:00am U.S. EST))
(times subject to change)
(requires Windows Media Player or equivalent)
(may not work with Firefox browser)


Check schedule


Live tickers:


Official site ticker


Velonews

Cyclingnews

Daily Peloton


Official site









Note:  We will not be able to post daily link updates until roughly the end of the first week of the Vuelta (Tour of Spain).  Below you will find links to the official web sites of several upcoming races, including the Vuelta, as well as general links to sites likely to offer live coverage online.  We'll add more links and resume daily updates in early September.

Races this month:


Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
Race/Official site
Live tickers and media
streams

2005 Vuelta a España
(French, English or Spanish)
ProTour, August 27-September 18
Spain
(Tour of Spain)
(Tour d'Espagne)


Roberto Heras

Spaniard Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros-Wurth) goes for an unprecedented 4th victory in the Vuelta.



photo © 2005 Pete Geyer


Live video coverage:

(At this time, we are unaware of any reliable options for watching live video streams of the Vuelta.  (Little did we know back in May that the Giro's live streaming options would turn out to be the best of the season!)  You might try the official site (link at left) once the race begins.  You might also check the following site close to the start of the Vuelta:   www.mediazone.com
For U.S. viewers, MediaZone offered a subscription to live video streaming of the Giro last May, an arrangement with OLN-TV.  At this time, however, it does not look like MediaZone will be offering Vuelta video streaming.  If we hear of anything else, we'll mention it when we resume our daily updates after week 1 of the race.)

Live audio coverage:

Eurosport (English)
(24-hour audio feed streaming)
(requires Windows Media Player or equivalent)
(may not work with Firefox browser)

(Note that Eurosport occasionally changes their audio links.  If the above links don't work for you, click a Eurosport live ticker link below, go to the site's home page, and look for the 'Live NOW' or 'Live Audio' links.  Check the schedule for Vuelta broadcast times.  During times of heavy access, servers may stop delivering audio streams to new visitors.)

Check schedule


Live tickers:



Velonews

Cyclingnews

Daily Peloton


Live SRM data/telemetry:


View heart rates, power,
pedaling cadence, speed
in real-time for selected riders.

(Note:  It is not known at this time whether or not SRM will be making real-time SRM data available during the Vuelta.)




Deutschland Tour
(German or French)
ProTour, August 15-23
Germany
(Tour of Germany)
(Tour d'Allemagne)

Google-translated (English)

Live tickers:

Official site live ticker
(English, Google-translated)


ARD 1 (English, Google-translated)
(Same as official site ticker but also
includes useful stage profile, showing
race progress)

Live SRM data/telemetry:

View heart rates, power,
pedaling cadence, speed
in real-time for selected riders.


(French)
ProTour, August 28
France

Start List



Tour of Britain
(English)
August 30-September 4
Great Britain



Tour de l'Avenir
(English or French)
September 1-10
France








Friday, August 19, 2005

Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour of Germany.

SRM/T-Mobile live real-time SRM data

Note:  If you have trouble accessing the live, real-time SRM data for Tour of Germany riders (link in Live Guide below), you may need to download the latest version of the Java Runtime Environment software.  The page the link below takes you to has a link to the Sun website allowing you to download the required version.



Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
Race/Official site
Live tickers and media streams
Deutschland Tour
(German or French)
ProTour, August 15-23
Germany
(Tour of Germany)
(Tour d'Allemagne)

Google-translated (English)

Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner)

Great day yesterday for Gerolsteiner, American Levi Leipheimer in particular, on a very tough mountain stage.  Leipheimer and teammate Georg Totschnig of Austria rode away from tough riders such as Jan Ullrich, Cadel Evans and Jörg Jaksche to finish 1-2 in the stage and move up into the top two places in the overall as well.  Leipheimer is now in the yellow jersey and leads Totschnig by 18 seconds, with Ullrich in third at 56 seconds, Evans in fourth at 1:22 and Jaksche in fifth at 1:28.

This has turned into quite an interesting Tour of Germany as the top 3 riders ride for rival German teams.  It is an important race for Gerolsteiner and T-Mobile as teams/sponsors and it is also important for Leipheimer who lost his lead in the Dauphine Libere in June and Ullrich who failed in his bid to defeat Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France in July.

Since this is a ProTour event,
all ProTeams are participating.

photo © 2005 Pete Geyer
Live tickers:

Official site live ticker
(English, Google-translated)


ARD 1 (English, Google-translated)
(Same as official site ticker but also
includes useful stage profile, showing
race progress)

Live SRM data/telemetry:

View heart rates, power,
pedaling cadence, speed
in real-time for selected riders.

Live audio coverage:

Note:  Eurosport is not broadcasting the Tour of Germany, so no Eurosport live audio coverage is available for this race.



Thursday, August 18, 2005

Below is a guide to live internet/web coverage of the 2005 Tour of Germany.

Lance Armstrong sets his SRM computer
Lance Armstrong sets his SRM computer before stage 1 of Paris-Nice
(photo P. Geyer)

As a sports fan, you no doubt have noticed the various ways new technologies are being incorporated in athletes' training, competitions and television/online broadcasts of events.  Professional cycling of course is no different as cyclists look to aerodynamics and advances in other areas to help them go faster and to measure and make the most efficient use of their efforts.

Onboard bicycle computers are standard fare today, among amateurs as well.  These computers display information such as your speed, distance, pedaling cadence and heart rate.  After your ride, you can transfer the data to your computer for analysis.  More advanced bicycle computers such as the SRM System go further, recording the power (watts) exerted by the rider on the pedals.  This information is critical to pros such as Lance Armstrong as it allows them in training to have a more complete understanding of where their progress is, particularly in relation to where they were at the same time the previous season.  Some riders, including Armstrong and T-Mobile's Alexandre Vinokourov, have used the SRM System in races as well.

Alexandre Vinokourov used the SRM System on Mont Ventoux
Alexandre Vinokourov in the final kilometer of his stage win to
Mont Ventoux in the 2005 Dauphine Libere
(note the SRM computer on his handlebars)
(photo P. Geyer)

German company SRM has teamed with the T-Mobile company to use telemetry to make SRM data available to the public in REAL-TIME during a race.  Perhaps you noticed during the Tour de France that TV broadcasters occasionally communicated the heart rates of selected riders.  (This was the case, for example, on Eurosport, France Television and Germany's ARD.)  The SRM information on the bikes was transmitted to servers via mobile telephone network using special GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) modems mounted on the bikes.

SRM and T-Mobile continue their collaboration and are making SRM data for selected riders available online in real-time during the Tour of Germany.  We sampled T-Mobile rider Tobias Steinhauser's SRM data at various points during yesterday's stage.  With today's tough stage in the mountains, monitoring the data should be particularly interesting.  So we've added a link to the site that broadcasts this data in our Live Guide below, in case you want to check it out yourself.

SRM live telemetry
Tobias Steinhauser's SRM data sampled at 4 times during yesterday's stage:
Accelerating on a climb (heart rate at 169, power at 544, pedaling cadence at 70, speed at 20km/hour), on a descent (power and pedaling cadence at 0, speed at 56km/hour), after the sprint-finish (5km/hour) and with the bike at a complete stop.

It is quite interesting watching a race on TV and simultaneously viewing SRM data online.  You see riders or the peloton accelerate or slow down (for example at tight corners) and with a small delay the changes are reflected in the SRM data for given riders.

Click for more information about the SRM System




Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
Race/Official site
Live tickers and media streams
Deutschland Tour
(German or French)
ProTour, August 15-23
Germany
(Tour of Germany)
(Tour d'Allemagne)

Google-translated (English)

Lampre-Caffita Lampre-Caffita

Yesterday's stage 3 was won by Italian Daniele Bennati of Lampre-Caffita.  Bram Tankink remains race leader, by 7 seconds over teammate Filippo Pozzato.

A lot will change with today's difficult stage 4 which features two "HC" (beyond category) climbs, including one to the finish.

Since this is a ProTour event,
all ProTeams are participating.

photo © 2005 Pete Geyer
Live tickers:

Official site live ticker
(English, Google-translated)


ARD 1 (English, Google-translated)
(Same as official site ticker but also
includes useful stage profile, showing
race progress)

Live SRM data/telemetry:

View heart rates, power,
pedaling cadence, speed
in real-time for selected riders.

Live audio coverage:

Note:  Eurosport is not broadcasting the Tour of Germany, so no Eurosport live audio coverage is available for this race.











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