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- Tuesday's Tour de France Stage 4 Team Time Trial at Montpellier starts when the first team (Caisse d'Epargne) departs at 14:30 CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern).  You'll find a complete TTT Start Order and Times here.  Tour de France live coverage on Versus is scheduled to begin at 8:30am U.S. Eastern.  Live coverage on Eurosport should also get underway by that time (14:30 CET).

Tour de France Stage 4 Team Time Trial Profile

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- BBC LIVE audio stream here.

- Tour de France LIVE.

- For Tour de France LIVE audio options, see the "Live audio streaming" section at right.  Some Eurosport live audio feeds are now playing.  (Thanks to the cycling fan in Russia for sending us an updated Eurosport Russia stream link.)

- Tour de France LIVE video streaming on Versus.  Buffering.  Link in gray section at right.

- Another hot day.  Will winds be a factor?  If there are splits in the peloton, will any contenders get caught behind?

A house built into the rock at Les-Baux-de-Provence.  The peloton travels further into scenic Provence today, reaching this location at kilometer 101.5.
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View from the top of the Roman arena at Arles.  Vincent Van Gogh completed many of his best known paintings in Arles.  The peloton passes through Arles today at kilometer 118.5.
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- Tour de France Stage 3 departs Marseille at 12:40 CET (6:40am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in La Grande-Motte between 17:06 and 17:28 CET (11:06am and 11:28am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de France live coverage on Versus is scheduled to begin at 8:30am U.S. Eastern.  Live coverage on Eurosport is scheduled to begin at 14:00 CET (8am U.S. Eastern).

Tour de France Stage 3 Profile

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- Welcome to our live coverage guide for the 2009 Tour de France.

 Notes:  (latest notes always appear at the top, below sticky notes)

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- Monday's Tour de France Stage 3 departs Marseille at 12:40 CET (6:40am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in La Grande-Motte between 17:06 and 17:28 CET (11:06am and 11:28am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de France live coverage on Versus is scheduled to begin at 8:30am U.S. Eastern.  Live coverage on Eurosport is scheduled to begin at 14:00 CET (8am U.S. Eastern).

- BBC LIVE audio stream here.  (Thanks, Phil!)

- Tour de France LIVE on ITV4.  (English)

- Tour de France LIVE now on Versus.  Link at right.

- Tour de France Stage 2 starts in Monaco and travels along the Mediterranean coast through Nice.  Here again are three historical video clips of Tour stages involving Monaco: 1952: Stage 12: Sestriere-Monaco (01:03, Pathé Archives), 1953: Monaco-Marseille - via Promenade des Anglais, Nice (0:27, Gaumont), 1955: Monaco to Briançon (0:25, Gaumont).

- Tour de France Stage 2 departs Monaco at 12:15 CET (6:15am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Brignoles between 17:00 and 17:26 CET (11am and 11:26am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de France live coverage on Versus is scheduled to begin at 8:30am U.S. Eastern.  Live coverage on Eurosport is scheduled to begin at 13:15 CET (7:15am U.S. Eastern).

Tour de France Stage 2 Profile

 - NEW!  Tour de France Online game.  Free to play.  You get to play the directeur sportif.  Create your cycling team, train it and compete against players from all over the world on the official stages of the 2009 Tour de France.  From the makers of Pro Cycling Manager, Tour de France Online 2009 is much more than the typical cycling fantasy league game and they are offering prize money to the winners.  Click banner below or here for more info and to sign up.

- For Tour de France via satellite info, MJ Ray has you covered in our cycling via satellite blog here.

- We recommend you open our Twitter feed in a separate window now.  If ever we have a server outage, we will update on Twitter and direct you to a live coverage page on another server.

- Welcome to our live coverage guide for the 2009 Tour de France.

 Notes:  (latest notes always appear at the top, below sticky notes)

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Tour de France Stage 2 Profile

- Sunday's Tour de France Stage 2 departs Monaco at 12:15 CET (6:15am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Brignoles between 17:00 and 17:26 CET (11am and 11:26am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de France live coverage on Versus is scheduled to begin at 8:30am U.S. Eastern.  Live coverage on Eurosport is scheduled to begin at 13:15 CET (7:15am U.S. Eastern). 

- Tour de France LIVE on Versus.com here but buffering and you may need to re-fresh your browser.  Click the Continue button in the "Free Version" section.  Test run for tomorrow's announced Stage 2 live streaming?  They also seem to have some kind of On Demand package for purchase.

- Tour LIVE on SBS.

- Some Eurosport audio feeds (including in English) are also live.  (Links under "Live audio streaming" at right.)

- Yesterday we listed some notable start times for today's time trial.  (Scroll down to yesterday's post.)

- Flashback:  10 years ago, Lance Armstrong won the 1999 Tour de France prologue.  Watch Julich, Cipollini, Armstrong et al compete here.  (19:53, Sporza)

Tour de France Stage 1 ITT Profile

- Some Tour de France live video feeds are listed at right.  We have more leads and will post anything we find closer to the start of the race.  Our live coverage correspondents in the U.S. and Europe monitor potential sources throughout each stage of the race and we also get tips from around the world.  Lots more links to come, including video clips after each stage.  We will also have daily photos from Fotoreporter Sirotti.

- NEW!  Tour de France Online game.  Free to play.  You get to play the directeur sportif.  Create your cycling team, train it and compete against players from all over the world on the official stages of the 2009 Tour de France.  From the makers of Pro Cycling Manager, Tour de France Online 2009 is much more than the typical cycling fantasy league game and they are offering prize money to the winners.  Click banner below or here for more info and to sign up.

- For Tour de France via satellite info, MJ Ray has you covered in our cycling via satellite blog here.

- We recommend you open our Twitter feed in a separate window now.  If ever we have a server outage, we will update on Twitter and direct you to a live coverage page on another server.

- Welcome to our live coverage guide for the 2009 Tour de France.