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Sunday, October 2, 2005
Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
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Notes: Fassa Bortolo's Juan Antonio
Flecha (Spain) is the defending champion. Paolo Bettini (Italy) of
Quick Step is in form and hungry (angry?) after his disappointment at last
week's World Championship road race where he ended up with nothing. Bettini
won this race in 2001, finished second in 2002 and 2004, and third in 2003.
Spain's Alejandro Valverde (Illes Balears) obviously is in form as
well after winning the silver medal in Madrid last Sunday.
Italy's Danilo Di Luca of Liquigas-Bianchi looks to wrap up his overall
title in the first ProTour season.
American riders today: Christian Vandevelde (CSC), Chris Horner
(Saunier Duval-Prodir), Saul Raisin (Credit Agricole). Horner had
some good form at the end of 2004. How is his form this October?
photo © 2005 Pete Geyer
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2005 Championship
of Zurich, Switzerland, 240.9km
October 2, ProTour
(Meisterschaft von Zürich)
(Züri Metzgete)
(Championnat de Zurich)
(Grand Prix de Zurich)
(GP de Zurich)
Live video coverage:
cnlab "Zurich Live"
(Not live motion video but does have live still video images, map
and profile race position. Last April/May, our Live Guide included their
similar coverage of the Tour de Romandie.)
Live audio coverage:
Eurosport
(English)
(24-hour audio feed streaming)
(17:10 CET (11:10am U.S. EST))
(times subject to change)
(requires Windows Media Player or equivalent)
(may not work with Firefox browser)
Check
schedule
Live tickers:
Cyclingnews
Official site
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Saturday, October 1, 2005
OLN TV's Paul Sherwen (middle) interviews race director Jean-Marie
Leblanc after the 2005 Tour de France route presentation in October, 2004.
A reporter from L'Equipe TV is in the shadows at right.
October is here and though there are some fall classics to be raced,
it also means that the 2006 Tour de France route will soon be presented
in Paris. Future race director, Christian Prudhomme, continues to
learn the ropes from Jean-Marie Leblanc. Prudhomme was given responsibility
for the 2006 Tour route for which work on nailing down all the stage towns
and other route information began last May and ended just last month.
Once all the July, 2006 hotel accomodations are taken care of and
the presentation is ready to go, Prudhomme will present the route to the
media, team representatives, sponsors and other invited guests, in just
a few weeks.
Will the Tour return to Mont Ventoux? Normandy? Is there
a surprise in the route that breaks with tradition? We'll soon find
out.
Friday, September 30, 2005
In Aix-les-Bains (France), Discovery Channel's George Hincapie
is greeted by then-UCI president Hein Verbruggen after Hincapie's win
in the prologue of the 2005 Dauphiné Libéré. Verbruggen's
hand-picked successor, Pat McQuaid, was elected president last week. Verbruggen
plans to continue working closely with McQuaid until 2009. Can
they succeed in selling the ProTour to the Grand Tour organizers and
if so, in what form?
Championship of Zurich, Sunday
The next race for which we'll have a "Live Guide" is Sunday's
Championship of Zurich (or Züri Metzgete). This is a ProTour
race, so all ProTeams will be there. Here's a
Start List
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Sunday, September 25, 2005
Below is a guide to live
internet/web
coverage of the 2005 UCI Road World Championships.
Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
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Notes: (links to start list, stage details
and past winners below)
Despite the usual absence of some of the biggest stage racers
in the sport, today's Elite Men's world championship road race is
no doubt the biggest single day in pro cycling this season. Winning
the road race rainbow jersey (and the right to wear that jersey for the
next 12 months, as well as the rainbow stripes on your sleeves throughout
your career) is one of the biggest events in a rider's career.
Italy's sprint great, Alessandro Petacchi, has made today the
focus of his 2005 season. (He skipped the Tour de France and fine-tuned
his race fitness in the Vuelta a Espana.) Spain's 3-time World
Champion, Oscar Freire, is absent this year. Petacchi's biggest
competition in the event of a sprint finish is likely to come from Australia's
Robbie McEwen, Belgium's Tom Boonen and Germany's Erik Zabel. But
anything can happen and there are plenty of other big names including Alejandro
Valverde, Juan Antonio Flecha, Paolo Bettini, Miguel Angel Martin Perdiguero,
Baden Cooke, Alexandre Vinokourov and Thor Hushovd just to name a few.
There are only two former World Champions in today's race: Igor
Astarloa (Spain) and Laurent Brochard (France).
Yesterday's U23/Espoirs road race was won by Dmytro Grabovskyy
(Ukraine) ahead of William Walker (Australia) and Evgeny Popov (Russian
Federation).
Eurosport TV will be broadcasting all the events live. If
you don't have Eurosport, you can follow along with the live audio
streaming and tickers (links at right).
Also, Cycling.TV (link at right) is offering live
video streaming for cycling fans in the U.S. and China for the elite
men's individual time trial and road race.
photos © 2004, 2005
Pete Geyer
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2005 UCI
Road World Championships, Madrid, Spain
September 21-25
September 25:
Road Race - Elite Men (273km)
(Campeonatos del Mondo)
(Championnats du Monde)
Live video coverage:
Cycling.TV
(September 22 and 25 events only)
(USA and China only)
(September 22: 15:30 CET (9:30am U.S. EST))
(September 25: 15:00 CET (9:00am U.S. EST))
Live audio coverage:
Eurosport
(English)
(24-hour audio feed streaming)
(10:15 CET (4:15am U.S. EST))
(times subject to change)
(requires Windows Media Player or
equivalent)
(may not work with Firefox browser)
Check
schedule
Live tickers:
Cyclingnews
Official site
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Saturday, September 24, 2005
Below is a guide to live
internet/web
coverage of the 2005 UCI Road World Championships
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Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
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Notes: Regina Schleicher of Germany
won this morning's Elite Women's World Championship ahead of Nicole
Cook of Great Britain and Oenone Wood of Australia.
Tyler Farrar and Steven Cozza lead the U.S. team in this afternoon's
U23/Espoirs road race.
Michael Rogers of Australia won a record third World Championship
time trial on Thursday ahead of José Ivan Gutierrez of Spain
and Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland.
Michael Rogers (Australia)
José Ivan Gutierrez (Spain)
Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)
Eurosport TV will be broadcasting all the events live. If
you don't have Eurosport, you can follow along with the live audio
streaming and tickers (links at right).
Also, Cycling.TV (link at right) is offering live
video streaming for cycling fans in the U.S. and China for the elite
men's individual time trial and road race.
photos © 2004, 2005
Pete Geyer
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2005
UCI Road World Championships, Madrid, Spain
September 21-25
September 24:
Road Race - Elite Women (126km)
Road Race - U23 Men (168km)
(Campeonatos del Mondo)
(Championnats du Monde)
Live video coverage:
Cycling.TV
(September 22 and 25 events only)
(USA and China only)
(September 22: 15:30 CET (9:30am U.S. EST))
(September 25: 15:00 CET (9:00am U.S. EST))
Live audio coverage:
Eurosport
(English)
(24-hour audio feed streaming)
(13:25 CET (7:25am U.S. EST))
(times subject to change)
(requires Windows Media Player or
equivalent)
(may not work with Firefox browser)
Check
schedule
Live tickers:
Cyclingnews
Official site
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
Below is a guide to
live internet/web
coverage of the 2005 UCI Road World Championships
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Note: Eurosport's live audio streams are
working after earlier down time.
Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
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Notes: Defending world champion Karin
Thürig of Switzerland won yesterday's Elite Women's Time Trial
ahead of Joane Somarriba Arrola (Spain) and Kristin Armstrong (U.S.A.).
In the U23 Men's Time Trial, Russian Mikhail Ignatiev took gold,
ahead of Ukranian Dmytro Grabovskyy (silver) and New Zealander Peter
Latham (bronze).
Michael Rogers (Quick Step)
Aussie Michael Rogers is the two-time defending champion in
this discipline in the Elite Men's category. He'll try and hold
off top challengers including American Bobby Julich, German Michael
Rich (second last year), Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov (third last year),
Spaniard Ruben Plaza, Russian Denis Menchov, Swiss Fabian Cancellara,
Italian Marzio Bruseghin, Dutch Thomas Dekker, and Ukranian Yaroslav Popovych.
Russian Viatcheslav Ekimov, back from injury, is also competing,
as is new Hour Record holder Czech Ondrej Sosenka.
Eurosport TV will be broadcasting all the events live. If
you don't have Eurosport, you can follow along with the live audio
streaming and tickers (links at right).
Also, Cycling.TV (link at right) is offering live
video streaming for cycling fans in the U.S. and China for the elite
men's individual time trial and road race.
photos © 2004, 2005
Pete Geyer
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2005
UCI Road World Championships, Madrid, Spain
September 21-25
September 22:
Time trial - Elite Men (44.1km)
(Campeonatos del Mondo)
(Championnats du Monde)
Live video coverage:
Cycling.TV
(September 22 and 25 events only)
(USA and China only)
(September 22: 15:30 CET (9:30am U.S. EST))
(September 25: 15:00 CET (9:00am U.S. EST))
Live audio coverage:
Eurosport
(English)
(24-hour audio feed streaming)
(12:55 CET (6:55am U.S. EST))
(times subject to change)
(requires Windows Media Player
or equivalent)
(may not work with Firefox browser)
Check
schedule
Live tickers:
Cyclingnews
Official site
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Below is a guide to
live internet/web
coverage of the 2005 UCI Road World Championships
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Tyler Farrar (left) and Steven Cozza are representing the
U.S. in today's under23 (Espoirs) men's time trial at the Madrid World
Championships
(photos © 2005 Pete Geyer)
Guide to live race coverage on the internet/web
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Notes:
The 2005 UCI Road World Championships are underway
today in Madrid, Spain with the elite women's and U23 ("Espoirs")
men's individual time trials.
The action will continue tomorrow with the
elite men's individual time trial.
The elite women's and U23 men's road races will be held Saturday,
September 24, with the elite men's road race closing out the 2005 Championships
on Sunday, September 25.
Eurosport TV will be broadcasting all the events live. If
you don't have Eurosport, you can follow along with the live audio
streaming and tickers (links at right).
Also, Cycling.TV (link at right) is offering live
video streaming for cycling fans in the U.S. and China for the elite
men's individual time trial and road race.
photos © 2004, 2005
Pete Geyer
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2005
UCI Road World Championships, Madrid, Spain
September 21-25
September 21:
Time trial - Elite Women (22km)
Time trial - U23 Men (37.9km)
(Campeonatos del Mondo)
(Championnats du Monde)
Live video coverage:
Cycling.TV
(September 22 and 25 events only)
(USA and China only)
Live audio coverage:
Eurosport
(English)
(24-hour audio feed streaming)
(12:55 CET (6:55am U.S. EST))
(times subject to change)
(requires Windows Media Player
or equivalent)
(may not work with Firefox browser)
Check
schedule
Live tickers:
Cyclingnews
Official site
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