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

- Tour de Romandie:  Saturday's Stage 4 departs Estavayer-le-lac at 13:05 CET (7:05am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Romandie live video on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 16:00 CET (10am U.S. Eastern).  "Live" coverage on SportItalia is also scheduled to begin at that time but tends to run late.  (What SportItalia calls live coverage is actually tape-delayed.)

- Vuelta Asturias:  Saturday's Stage 5 departs Cangas del Narcea at 12:00 CET (6am U.S. Eastern).  Live coverage on rtpa.es is scheduled to begin at 15:00 CET (9:00am U.S. Eastern).

- Tour de Romandie "LIVE" now on SportItalia.  (links at right)  This coverage, despite being advertised as live, tends to actually be quite a few kilometers behind the race.  Keep that in mind if you also read the live ticker.

- Vuelta Asturias LIVE now on rtpa.es.  (links above)

- Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop:  Anyone wanting to watch this race online can go here.  (requires a plug-in)  The live stream should be playing now according to the schedule.  There is also a live ticker here.  (Thanks Michel (Netherlands) and Bernie S. (UK))  Also, for those with satellite coverage, MJ Ray has info in our cycling via satellite blog here.

Velo Magazine, May 2009 Centenary Giro issue

- Velo Magazine (France):  The May 2009 Centenary Giro issue just hit newsstands here in France.  Haven't had a chance to look at it yet but the cover looks good!  Everyone excited in anticipation?  -Pete

- Tour de Romandie:  Stage 3, a 14.8km Team Time Trial at Yverdon-les-bains, gets underway at 14:20 CET (8:20am U.S. Eastern) when the first team is scheduled to depart.  Tour de Romandie live video on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 16:00 CET (10am U.S. Eastern).  "Live" coverage on SportItalia is also scheduled to begin at that time but tends to run late.  (What SportItalia calls live coverage is actually tape-delayed.)

- Vuelta a Asturias:  Stage 4 departs Cafes Toscaf at 11:30 CET (5:30am U.S. Eastern).  Live coverage on rtpa.es is scheduled to begin at 15:15 CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

- More links and info to come, then updated each day during the race.

- 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 Romandie.

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

- Tour de Romandie:  Friday's Stage 3 14.8km Team Time Trial at Yverdon-les-bains gets underway at 14:20 CET (8:20am U.S. Eastern) when the first team is scheduled to depart.  Tour de Romandie live video on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 16:00 CET (10am U.S. Eastern).  "Live" coverage on SportItalia is also scheduled to begin at that time but tends to run late.  (What SportItalia calls live coverage is actually tape-delayed.)

- Vuelta a Asturias:  Friday's Stage 4 departs Cafes Toscaf at 11:30 CET (5:30am U.S. Eastern).  Live coverage on rtpa.es is scheduled to begin at 15:15 CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

- Tour de Romandie LIVE now.  (links at right)

- Vuelta a Asturias Time Trial LIVE now on rtpa.es.  (links above)

- Vuelta a Asturias:  They are showing highlights of this morning's stage while riders are warming up for this afternoon's Time Trial which will get underway in a few minutes.

- Vuelta a Asturias LIVE now on rtpa.es.  (pre-race)  (links above)

- Vuelta a Asturias:  Official site says this afternoon's time trial starts at 16:00 CET (10am U.S. Eastern).  TV guide says coverage starts at 15:15 CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).  Obviously someone is mistaken.  Stay tuned.

- Tour de Romandie:  Today's Stage 2 departs La Chaux-de-fonds at 13:10 CET (7:10am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Romandie live video on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 16:00 CET (10am U.S. Eastern).  "Live" coverage on SportItalia is also scheduled to begin at that time but tends to run late. 

- More links and info to come, then updated each day during the race.

- 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 Romandie.

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

- Tour de Romandie:  Thursday's Stage 2 departs La Chaux-de-fonds at 13:10 CET (7:10am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Romandie live video on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 16:00 CET (10am U.S. Eastern).  "Live" coverage on SportItalia is also scheduled to begin at that time but tends to run late.

- Vuelta a Asturias:  Thursday will see 2 stages, a morning Stage 3A and an afternoon Stage 3B (a 14.2km individual time trial).  Stage 3A departs Gijon at 10:00 CET (4am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish in Aviles at around 12:13 CET (6:13am U.S. Eastern).  Stage 3B at Castrillon gets underway when the first rider departs at 16:00 CET (10am U.S. Eastern).  It appears that rtpa.es will only be covering the afternoon stage, with live coverage scheduled to begin at 15:15 CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

- Tour of the Gila:  Organizers tell us they are working on possibly getting some form of live coverage.  Stay tuned.

- Tour de Romandie LIVE now on SportItalia.  Links at right.

- Want to see why today's Romandie stage didn't cross the Jaun Pass?  Check out the view from this webcam.  -Bernie S.

- Vuelta a Asturias LIVE now on rtpa.es.  (links above)

2009 Tour de Romandie prologue: A Rabobank rider departs.
photo courtesy tourderomandie.ch - More photos

- Tour de Romandie:  Due to bad weather conditions (snow in the mountains), today's Stage 1 has been cut in half.  It will skip the first part of the planned stage entirely, including the category 1 Col du Jaun climb, and will now depart from Bulle à Broc at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern).  The stage has been shortened to 87.6km from the original 176.2km.  (You can view an animation of the originally planned Stage 1 route here, quite a winding parcours in the mountains.)  The peloton is expected at the finish in Fribourg at around 17:00 CET (11am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Romandie live video streaming on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 16:00 CET (10am U.S. Eastern).  Live coverage on SportItalia is also scheduled to begin at that time.

- Vuelta a Asturias:  Today's Stage 2 departs Llanes at 12:00 CET (6am U.S. Eastern).  Vuelta Asturias live video streaming on rtpa.es is scheduled to begin at 15:15 CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

- More links and info to come, then updated each day during the race.

- 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 Romandie.

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

- Tour de Romandie:  Wednesday's Stage 1 departs Montreux at 12:35 CET (6:35am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Romandie live video streaming on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 16:00 CET (10am U.S. Eastern).  Live coverage on SportItalia is also scheduled to begin at that time.

- Vuelta a Asturias:  Wednesday's Stage 2 departs Llanes at 12:00 CET (6am U.S. Eastern).  Vuelta Asturias live video streaming on rtpa.es is scheduled to begin at 15:15 CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

- Tour de Romandie LIVE now on Sportitalia.  Links at right.

- Tour de Romandie LIVE now too on cycling.tv. (North America)

- Tour de Romandie LIVE now on Sportitalia.  (pre-race show)  Links at right.

- Tour de Romandie live video coverage starts from 19:00 CET (1pm U.S. Eastern).  We will list more feeds as coverage gets underway.

- The 2009 Tour de Romandie is now underway as the first riders in the prologue have departed.  We've listed a live ticker in our Live tickers section at right.  More tickers to come.  Stay tuned for live video.

- You can view an animation of today's Tour de Romandie prologue route here.

- Vuelta a Asturias LIVE now here.

- More links and info to come, then updated each day during the race.

- 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 Romandie.

2009 Tour de Romandie starts tomorrow

The 2009 Tour de Romandie starts tomorrow, Tuesday, and runs through May 3.  Once again there will be Tour de Romandie live video streaming, notably on cycling.tv for cycling fans in North America.  The action gets underway with an evening 3.1km prologue in the streets of Lausanne, Switzerland.  You can watch an aerial view animation of the prologue course here.  The prologue will be the only individual effort against the clock this year as organizers are introducing, for the first time in the event's history, a Team Time Trial for Stage 3.  This will be appreciated by teams hoping to gain an edge in a couple of other big TTT opportunities this season, at the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France which sees the event return after a four-year absence.  The Tour de Romandie TTT will be short, though - just 14.8km.  The winner of the 2009 Tour de Romandie will be a rider capable of making winning moves in the hills and/or mountains of Switzerland.  Beautiful race ahead of the Giro.  We'll post our full Tour of Romandy Live Coverage Guide in the morning.

Tour de Romandie Official Website
Teams/Start List
Prologue starts at:  17:05 CET
(11:05am U.S. Eastern)
Live webcast on CTV:  19:00 CET
(1pm U.S. Eastern)
(North America only)
Live video from other sources:  Please check back tomorrow

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

- Watch Liege-Bastogne-Liege climbs video highlights on Sporza:

La Redoute (09:23)
Roche aux Faucons (10:05)
Cote de Saint-Nicolas (06:08)
Final kilometer to Ans (04:09)

- Unless you are watching on CTV, best bet now seems to be the Rai Tre feeds.  Links at right.

- Another RTL LIVE video feed playing here.

- A video feed can be played simultaneously with a Eurosport live audio stream.  Video feeds are listed under Live video streaming at right and audio feeds are listed under Live audio streaming.

- L-B-L LIVE streaming flash:  Race live now on RTL Luxembourg.  Link at right.  -Bernie S.

- Eurosport UK LIVE audio now playing, with David Harmon and Sean Kelly commentating.  Try our Eurosport "Alternative" feed in our Live audio streaming section at right.

- Someone asked about Rai Tre L-B-L coverage.  They are not scheduled to go live until 15:05 CET (9:05am U.S. Eastern).  Links at right.

- L-B-L LIVE now on Ned 1. (link at right)  Can be hard to connect, feed sometimes drops, requiring you reload the page.  Looking for more feeds.

- Today's episode of "Planete Armstrong" just began here on Eurosport France, which means their L-B-L live coverage should begin in about 5 min.

- Liege-Bastogne-Liege LIVE now on cycling.tv.  More feeds to come.

- RTBF not available outside Belgium.  NOS is also geo-restricted for this race.  Sporza likely geo-restricted too.  Eurosport has L-B-L live coverage in some markets, scheduled to start in a few minutes.  Stay tuned.

- Alexandre Philippon's excellent LBL preview in the original French here.  Or see what Google-translation to English does to it here.

- Now listing Eurosport Liege-Bastogne-Liege live tickers in English, Deutsch, Español, Français, and Italiano.

- We're now listing the Eurosport France ticker. (link at right)  Or check out a Google-translated to English version here.  The coverage has begun.

- The peloton has finished riding through the neutral zone in the streets of Liege and the race is now officially underway.  The sportwereld ticker is now live.  (link in our Live tickers section)  We will add more live tickers as they become available.

- More links and info to come, then updated during the race.

- If you have satellite coverage, MJ Ray has Liège-Bastogne-Liège info 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 Liège-Bastogne-Liège.