- LIVE now here.  Feed not always working.

- Sunday's events are scheduled to begin at the same times.

- Next update as live coverage gets underway.

- This weekend sees round two, the Derby City Cup, of the Greenware U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross at Louisville, Kentucky.  Papa John's Pizza, headquartered in Louisville, returns as presenting sponsor for this event.  There will be live streaming video of the elite women's and elite men's events.

- Cyclocross fans can watch both Saturday's and Sunday's events live online.  The elite women's event begins first each day, at 1:45pm U.S. Eastern, with the elite men's event starting at 3:00pm U.S. Eastern each day.

Event: US Gran Prix of Cyclocross
Derby City Cup
October 23-24, 2010
Official website
Live video
Women: 1:45pm U.S. Eastern
(Louisville time)
(19:45 CET)
Men: 3:00pm U.S. Eastern)
(21:00 CET)

 Notes:  (latest notes always appear at the top)

- Video:  2011 Tour de France route flyover

- 2011 Tour de France, all stages here.

- LIVE in "HD" here.

- LIVE via Versus here.

- LIVE via France 3 here.

- LIVE here.

- TDF competitions director Jean-Francois Pescheux is quoted in L'Equipe Tuesday as saying that in selecting stage towns, ASO tried to give priority to towns that also host stages of Paris-Nice, the Dauphine Libere or the Tour de l'Avenir.  "Towns that only want a stage of the Tour de France are not a priority for us," Pescheux said.

- As noted last week on Twitter, the Schleck brothers will be present in Paris today as will Ivan Basso, Vincenzo Nibali, Cadel Evans, new World Champion Thor Hushovd, Samuel Sanchez, Thomas Voeckler and George Hincapie.  L'Equipe Tuesday notes that the world number one ranked rider Joaquim Rodriguez will also be present, as will John Gadret, Pierre Rolland, Yoann Offredo and Nicolas Roche.  2008 Tour winner Carlos Sastre will be the only former winner present among active riders.  UCI president Pat McQuaid will also attend (and he will speak to the media regarding the Alberto Contador doping investigation), as will new WADA head Bruno Genevois.

- Before the actual route is revealed, Tour organizer ASO will show an 8-10 minutes highlights video from the 2010 Tour.  It reminds everyone how great an event the Tour is and attendees at the Palais des Congres will be mesmerized in front of the big screen.  (The video will also be part of the live online broadcast.)  But it is also an opportunity for ASO, which edits this video in-house and has waited until the last minute this year given the events surrounding the Alberto Contador positive, to express its displeasure with anything that harms its image.  See the brief Floyd Landis clip below.  Given the uncertainty of the Contador case, however, it is not believed that Tuesday's video will treat Contador similarly, though it is likely that Contador will be somewhat less prominent in the video than he would have been had he not tested positive.  -Pete

Video clip (click image to play brief clip):
The beauty of the Tour de France, a breakaway on the
Col d'Izoard set to music.  This is what it is all about and no one does this better than France Televisions. Clip extracted from DVD given to attendees at
the 2007 TDF Route Presentation.

Video clip (click image to play brief clip):
Tour organizer ASO's reaction to Floyd Landis testing positive.
Clip extracted from DVD given to attendees at
the 2007 TDF Route Presentation.

- The event isn't even broadcast on French TV but for the third consecutive year we have live internet feeds.  Versus will once again be offering a live feed.  (A Versus press release today incorrectly stated that this is the first year they are streaming this event live.)  Link at right.

Each October, team bosses such as Patrick Lefevere (Quick Step),
left, and broadcasters such as Phil Liggett, join riders, sponsors,
media and special guests in Paris at the invitation-only presentation
of the next year's Tour route.
Copyright © Pete Geyer/www.cyclingfans.com
 

- Information and graphics officially released to date here.  I will post the latest news, rumors and links here and on Twitter through the route presentation itself and afterwards.  -Pete

- We will update here with the best and latest live video feeds at broadcast time.

- Welcome to our live coverage guide for the 2011 Tour de France Route Presentation.

 Notes:  (latest notes always appear at the top)

- Result Elite Men: 1. David Millar, 2. Edvald Boasson Hagen, 3. Lieuwe Westra.

- Elite Men race finishing soon.

- Result Espoirs Men: 1. Alex Dowsett, 2. Romain Bacon, 3. Nicolas Bonnet.

- Result Elite Women: 1. Jeannie Longo Ciprelli, 2. Amber Neben, 3. Edwige Pitel.

- Result Junior Men: 1. Alliaume Leblond, 2. Jauffrey Betouigt-Suire, 3. Pierre Almeida.

- Result Junior Women: 1. Ganna Solovey (Ukraine), 2. Alexia Muffat (France), 3. Mathilde Favre (France).

- Elite Men race now underway.

- LIVE radio here.  (French)

- LIVE video now here.  Feed took awhile to load.

- There are Time Trial events Sunday for Junior Women, Junior Men, Elite Women (Jeannie Longo, Amber Neben, Edwige Pitel), Espoirs Men (Alex Dowsett) and Elite Men (David Millar, Philippe Gilbert, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Nicolas Vogondy, Marco Pinotti, Markel Irizar, Dimitri Champion).  Yes, Tour of Lombardy winner Gilbert is on the start list.

- Organizers have announced live video for ALL events according to the following schedule:

Junior Women: 11:30am (5:30am U.S. Eastern)
Junior Men: 11:46am (5:46am U.S. Eastern)
Elite Women: 12:58pm (6:58am U.S. Eastern)
U23 Men: 1:50pm (7:50am U.S. Eastern)
Elite Men: 2:50pm (8:50am U.S. Eastern)

- Full Start Order and Times here.

Also on today: Cyclocross World Cup LIVE

- Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana) won the Elite Men's event in 2009.  He is not back to defend.

- The Grand Prix des Nations Time Trial was first run in 1932.  I photographed the last two editions (2003, 2004) of the event which was organized by TDF organizer A.S.O.  The Chrono des Herbiers was renamed the Chrono des Nations a couple of years ago, effectively merging the two events, though this is no longer an A.S.O. event.  Five-time TDF winner Jacques Anquetil holds the record of victories (in the GP des Nations): 9 victories in 9 participations!  -Pete

On Tuesday: 2011 Tour de France Route Presentation LIVE from Paris

Turn down the lights.  Let the show begin.  Details Monday.
Copyright © Pete Geyer/www.cyclingfans.com

- Welcome to our live coverage guide for the 2010 Chrono des Nations.

 Notes:  (latest notes always appear at the top)

- Video:  Final kilometer (Sporza, 02:06)

- French sports daily L'Equipe LIVE ticker here.  More tickers in Live tickers section at right.

- LIVE now via Eurosport with English commentary.  (May switch to Sporza)

- LIVE video here with Radio Tour data animation.  (Italian)

- LIVE video now via Sporza.

- Cyclingnews ticker is LIVE now here.

- There are live text updates here and here.

On Sunday: Chrono des Nations LIVE

Copyright © Pete Geyer/www.cyclingfans.com

On Tuesday: 2011 Tour de France Route Presentation LIVE from Paris

Turn down the lights.  Let the show begin.  Details Monday.
Copyright © Pete Geyer/www.cyclingfans.com

- Today's L'Equipe rates 2009 Lombardia winner Philippe Gilbert the lone 4-star favorite to win the race.  They give 3 stars to Vincenzo Nibali, 2 stars to Cadel Evans and Michele Scarponi, and 1 star to S. Sanchez, Martin, Kolobnev, Visconti, Fuglsang, A. Schleck, Brajkovic.

- More live feeds will be listed as live television coverage gets underway.  Note that though some live TV coverage begins as early as 2:30pm local time, there is no guarantee that there will be live feeds available worldwide that early.

- Text tickers go LIVE before live video.  See the Live tickers section at right.

- The 2010 Giro di Lombardia departs Milan at 10:45 CET (4:45am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish in Como between 16:47 and 17:25 CET (10:47am and 11:25am U.S. Eastern).  Giro di Lombardia live video should get underway from around 14:30 CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern) in some markets.  Other start times are listed at right in the Live video streaming section.

- We will update here with the best and latest live video feeds at broadcast time.

- Welcome to our live coverage guide for the 2010 Giro di Lombardia.