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Dauphiné Libéré live video streaming - Stage 1
Submitted by admin on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 04:13
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Dauphine Libere Stage 1 Profile
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Notes: (latest notes always appear at the top, below sticky notes)
- Monday's Dauphine Libere Stage 2 departs Nancy at 10:15 CET (4:15am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Dijon between 15:46 and 16:25 CET (9:46am and 10:25am U.S. Eastern). Dauphiné Libéré live video streaming on Cycling TV is scheduled to begin at 14:50 CET (8:50am U.S. Eastern). Dauphine Libere live streaming on France 3 is also scheduled to begin at that time. We will list other sources of Dauphine live feeds as they become available. - Dauphine Libere LIVE video streaming now via Eurosport. - Dauphine Libere LIVE now on Cycling TV. Link at right. (Subscription) - Dauphine Libere live coverage on Eurosport is scheduled to get underway at 18:00 CET (12pm U.S. Eastern). We monitor possible sources of live streaming throughout the stage each day of the race. - Dauphine Libere Stage 1 TT: Full Start Order and Times here. (.pdf) - LIVE now: Tour of Luxembourg Official Website -Live ticker - Note: The Dauphine Libere organizers have made a slight change to the start time today. The first rider will depart at 16:09 instead of 16:20 CET. - Select Dauphine Libere Stage 1 TT Start Order and Times: First rider to depart: Frank (BMC): 16:09 CET (10:09am U.S. Eastern) Gesink: 16:37 CET (10:37am U.S. Eastern) - Dauphine Libere video clips: We will be maintaining a list of Dauphine video clips here. We've already listed some great historical footage of the race below, including one from 1983 where Greg LeMond gets a stage win and takes over the race lead:
10 Years Ago at Roland Garros
- Roland Garros (French Open): On the Friday before the Women's (Saturday) and Men's (Sunday) Finals of the 1999 Roland Garros tournament, I shot Andre Agassi's and Steffi Graf's practice sessions, on the same satellite court at different times of the day. Graf went on to win her finals match in a stunner over Martina Hingis; it was Graf's first Grand Slam victory in 3 years. The next day, Agassi came back from a 2 set to love deficit to stun Andrei Medvedev in five sets; it was Agassi's first Grand Slam victory in four years. The two champions danced at the winners' ball, then began dating before marrying in 2001. 1999 was a big summer for Americans in Paris as the month following Agassi's historic victory, Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France. The 2009 Roland Garros Men's Final is today: Roger Federer vs. Robin Soderling... -Pete - Dauphiné Libéré Stage 1 Individual Time Trial in Nancy starts at 16:09 CET (10:09am U.S. Eastern) when the first rider departs. Riders will depart at 1-minute intervals. Dauphiné Libéré live video streaming on Cycling TV is scheduled to begin at 17:30 CET (11:30am U.S. Eastern). Dauphiné live coverage on Eurosport is scheduled to begin at 18:00 CET (12pm U.S. Eastern). We will list other sources of Dauphine live feeds as they become available. - 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 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. |
2009 Dauphiné Libéré LIVE Stage 1 start: 16:09 CET
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Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré live coverage
Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/06/2009 - 21:01- The 2009 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré starts tomorrow, Sunday, and runs to June 14. The race will be broadcast live on Cycling TV worldwide except Europe. Eurosport and France 3 TV are also among the television channels showing the Dauphine Libere live. Stage 1 Sunday is a 12.1km individual time trial in the city of Nancy. We'll post our full Dauphine Libere Live Coverage Guide in the morning listing options for live video, live audio and tickers and graphics. Some links and start times posted below.
Criterium du Dauphine Libere Official Website
(Google-translated to English)
Start List (.pdf)
Stage 1 starts at: 16:20 CET (10:20am U.S. Eastern)
Live webcast on CTV: 17:30 CET (11:30am U.S. Eastern)
Live coverage on Eurosport: 18:00 CET (12pm U.S. Eastern)
Live feeds from other sources: Check back in the morning
Tour de Cycling - Saturday
Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/06/2009 - 02:50- Tour de Luxembourg: Watch Stage 3 video highlights here. (05:22) -Bernie S.
- Tour de Luxembourg Stage 3 info and links, including live ticker, below.
- LIVE now: Tour de Luxembourg Stage 3 live ticker. Link below.
- D-Day Remembrance ceremony has ended.
- LIVE now: D-Day remembrance ceremony live stream on CNN.
- LIVE now: D-Day ceremonies in Normandy, live stream from "Omaha Beach" on France 2 live stream.
-Bernie S.
- More Tour de Cycling - Saturday to come...
- Coming later today: A first look at Dauphine Libere live online coverage options.
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Today is the 65th anniversary of the Normandy Landings (D-Day)
I spent 15 summers on these beaches from 1990 and would like to observe the anniversary in this space. -Pete
Arromanches, Normandy, known as "Gold Beach" during the D-Day landings
and a site used by British troops in the Allied invasion. A temporary harbor
was built here after the landings to assist in the operation; sections of that harbor
remain in place today.
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The Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer. 9,387 American military dead
are buried here. The cemetery overlooks "Omaha Beach" where many of these
soldiers were killed. The graves face westward, towards the United States.
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Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Normandy. This town was part of "Sword Beach"
during the Allied invasion.
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2009 Tour de Luxembourg Stage 2 video
Highlights from Stage 2 here. (04:51) -Bernie S.
- Tour de Luxembourg Stage 3 departs Wiltz at 12:30 CET (6:30am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Diekirch between 16:52 and 17:32 CET (10:52am and 11:32am U.S. Eastern).
Tour de Cycling - Friday
Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 04:45- Breaking news: Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel says that the sponsor financial problems have not been solved and that the team will continue to protest with sponsor names faded on jerseys. More here.
- Tour de Luxembourg: As in years past, there is a daily highlights program scheduled on TV at 19:50 CET (1:50pm U.S. Eastern). So a video feed may be playing here. Note that this feed quickly becomes overwhelmed. More links below.
- More Tour de Cycling - Friday to come...
- Tour de Luxembourg Stage 2 is underway. Links below, including live ticker. No live video for this race.
- Lance Armstrong and Anna Hansen are the proud parents of a baby boy, Max. More here.
- Today's French sports daily L'Equipe is reporting that the Astana team has pre-selected Andreas Kloden for the Tour de France. An investigation into doping practices on the T-Mobile team in 2006 has not implicated Kloden according to Astana team spokeman Philippe Maertens.
New book: Graham Watson's Tour de France Travel Guide
- Graham Watson's Tour de France Travel Guide: The Complete Insider's Guide to the Tour! is now available for purchase. Watson has followed and photographed the Tour for 31 years. In this book, he shares his tips on where to eat and sleep and where to watch and photograph the race yourself. The book is richly illustrated with Watson's photographs, maps and more.
Graham Watson's Tour de France Travel Guide
- Tour de Luxembourg Stage 2 departs Schifflange at 12:30 CET (6:30am U.S. Eastern) and is expected in Differdange between 16:40 and 17:31 CET (10:40am and 11:31am U.S. Eastern).
Tour de Cycling - Thursday
Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 03:30- More to come...
 Le Sale Tour: Le systeme Armstrong by Pierre Ballester and David Walsh |
- You know the Tour de France is right around the corner when Pierre Ballester and David Walsh publish another book about Lance Armstrong. Obviously they didn't take the advice of esteemed International Herald Tribune reporter Sam Abt who suggested a couple of years ago it was perhaps time for them to "move on". Of course, Walsh and Ballester's favorite subject was in retirement then. He's back now and so are they. Fair enough, except that early indications are that the book, "Le Sale Tour" (or The Dirty Tour), published today, is filled with wild speculation about Armstrong's reasons for returning to the sport, including future political ambitions, to make money, etc. (Chicago Bulls basketball star Michael Jordan made more than $30 million in salary per year each of the last few years of his career, not including endorsements. Armstrong is not taking a salary for riding for Astana but naturally is able to command high appearance fees.) Ballester and Walsh also assert "(Tour de France organizer) ASO's new strategy is more turned towards business than the credibility of the sport". Huh? That has always been ASO's "strategy" and always will be for as long as they own the race. Three years ago I asked Ballester, who once covered cycling, including Greg LeMond's comeback 20 years ago, for French sports daily L'Equipe, if he was a cycling fan. He said no, his sport is rugby. Funny, a former French rugby player last year stated that dope testing is virtually non-existent in the sport. No wonder Ballester (and Walsh for that matter) likes rugby. It is "clean" because no one is out to bust it. Meanwhile, for over 10 years pro cycling, an easy target, is repeatedly targeted at every opportunity. Will it ever end? Not as long as there is money to be made tearing down the sport. -Pete |
- We mentioned yesterday that Astana was cleared to ride the Dauphine Libere (June 7-14). That information is confirmed in today's edition of the French sports daily L'Equipe.
- Tour of Luxembourg info and links below.
June, 2009 issue of Velo Magazine (French): Le Guide du Tour.
Velo Magazine appears to be the first 2009 Tour de France guide
out of the gate; many more to come.
Meet Ed Buchette, Tour de Luxembourg organiser and forester!
Flashback: 2003 Tour de Luxembourg: Ed Buchette interviews
Benoit Joachim (Luxembourg national team and USPS) before the start of Stage 1.
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When it comes to race organizers, the names Jean-Marie Leblanc (former director of the Tour de France), Christian Prudhomme (current TDF director), Angelo Zomegnan (Giro d'Italia), Victor Cordero (Vuelta a Espana) and Thierry Cazeneuve (Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré) come to mind. In Luxembourg, no one is more involved in the organization and other aspects of bike racing than Ed Buchette (photo above). Buchette's résumé is impressive: in addition to his involvement with the Tour of Luxembourg and related races (including the Grand Prix General Patton) as General Secretary of the Association des Organisateurs du Tour de Luxembourg, he is Vice-president, along with Zomegnan, of the Association des Organisateurs des Courses Cyclistes (AIOCC) (Prudhomme is president), member (since 2000) of the UCI Road Commission, General Secretary of the Luxembourg cycling federation, and an international commissaire for the UCI. Buchette is also a government forester since 1979 and since 1998 has been in charge of forests for the city of Luxembourg.
Buchette also appears to be the only organizer mentioned above who is on Twitter. -Pete
Today is the Tour de Luxembourg Stage 1 from Luxembourg to Mondorf. The stage is scheduled to begin at 13:00 CET (7am U.S. Eastern) and finish between 16:35 and 17:18 CET (10:35am and 11:18am U.S. Eastern).
