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[edit] Welcome to TdFwiki
TdFwiki covers the world's greatest bike race, and you can help! Please add links to news stories, videos, rider diaries, shared photos and other media so that TdFwiki can become the best reference page on the web to the best bike race on earth.
[edit] Live Coverage
LeTour, BBC, Eurosport, Bicycling, Live Radsport, Twitter 2 3.
[edit] News
July 9: Mark Cavendish of Team Columbia takes Stage 5 in a field sprint. The sprinters swept up French champion Nicolas Vogondy with only 50 meters to ride, and Cavendish outdueled Oscar Freire, Erik Zabel, and Thor Hushovd to take his first career stage win. Hushovd takes the lead in the green jersey competition.
July 8: Stefan Schumacher dominated a 29.5-kilometer time trial, taking the stage and the race lead, ahead of Kim Kirchen, David Millar, and Cadel Evans. Denis Menchov turned in a creditable 6th on the day, while Mauricio Soler, Carlos Sastre, Damiano Cunego, and Alejandro Valverde all hurt their overall chances. See Stage 4.
July 7: Samuel Dumoulin wins Stage 3 after a day-long breakaway, along with Will Frischkorn of Garmin-Chipotle, Romain Feillu of Agritubel, and Paolo Longo Borghini of Barloworld. Dumoulin, the smallest man in the race, outkicked Frischkorn and Feillu at the finish, but Feillu takes over the race lead on a big day for France.
July 6: Thor Hushovd wins a strongman sprint to take Stage 2. Valverde maintains the overall lead.
July 5: Alejandro Valverde of Caisse d'Epargne takes Stage 1, with a powerful closing kick around Kim Kirchen of Team Columbia. Valverde takes the overall lead and points classification, as well.
Click the 'submissions' link to go to a page where you can easily add links to interesting stories, photo galleries, video, or other Tour content.
[edit] 2008 Tour de France
The 2008 Tour kicks off July 5th in Brest. It finishes July 27th in Paris, with the traditional circuits of the Champs-Élysées. There is no initial Prologue and no Team Time Trial in 2008.
- About the Tour
- Teams
- Previews
- Start list with rider numbers
- Who's out
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
- Stage 4
[edit] 2007 Tour de France
The 2007 Tour started July 7th in London. It finished July 28th in Paris, with the traditional circuits of the Champs-Élysées.
[edit] Other media
[edit] Web
The official Tour de France website, with a Historical database of Tour riders and teams.
News is updated at NewsNow, Google News and Topix.
Bloggers on Le Tour are Frank Steele, Ken Conley , Marcello Prattico, Nancy Toby, Dave Aiello- more on Google Blogs.
Journalists on the Tour at IHT, PezCycling, DailyPeloton, CyclingNews, CyclingPost, BBC News, Guardian, VeloNews and more...
More webstuff on the Tour startpagina and Technorati.
[edit] Photos
GrahamWatson.com: Cycling's best-known photographer.
More: Yahoo! Sport | Cycling photo wire, Eurosport Gallery
[edit] TV
US: Versus | 2008 Tour de France broadcast schedule
Canada: OLN lives on north of the border, entering their 7th year of coverage. Here's their full schedule.
UK: itv, the official British broadcast partner, has a Tour minisite running, with a video link that can't be seen outside the UK. Also see Europsport.uk.
Australia: SBS broadcasts the Tour for the 17th consecutive year. They've got live coverage of every stage: SBS: Tour de France
Netherlands: the NOS broadcasts at Studio Sport and Radio Tour de France plus a Live special on the website. Also: Europsort.nl, BNR, RTL and Rabo TV.
Belgium: the VRT broadcasts at Sporza TV and with a Live special on the website.
Germany: you can see Die Tour at Sat 1 or Eurosport.de
France: broadcasts on France 2-3-4 (video) and Eurosport.fr.
[edit] Live Broadcast Audio
Eurosport generally makes the live feed of audio from British Eurosport available during stages of the tour. This is useful to people who are at work and sitting in front of the computer during the stage.
Eurosport audioplayer should work for this purpose. However, it hasn't worked consistently during the first 1/3 of the 2007 Tour under Firefox 2.0.0.4 or Internet Explorer 7.0.5730 on Windows XP.
What has worked is to visit the Eurosport Tour de France Page and look for the "Related Video" widget on the right hand side. The link that works is in that widget is generally called "TDF - Stage" followed by the stage number and a "Live" badge.
[edit] Podcasts
Reviews of these podcasts can be found at OperationGadget.com.
[edit] Twitter
Feeds you can follow:
- TdFblog
- tdf_updates
- DailyTour
- Team Slipstream - Garmin-Chipotle DS Jonathan Vaughters directly from the Tour
If you've never used Twitter and want to try it, check out a detailed explanation of how to use Twitter to follow the Tour de France on OperationGadget.com.
