Tour de France 2008 – Stage V

Tonight is Stage 5 (Cholet to Châteauroux) 232 km
The Tour’s longest day, no classified climbs.

Stage Details:

• stage 5 – Cholet > Châteauroux 232 km [www.letour.fr]
• Stage 5 – Cholet > Châteauroux [SBS]
• Cholet – Châteauroux, 232km [CyclingNews]
• Stage 5 • CHOLET > CHÂTEAUROUX • 232 km [EuroSport]
• Stage 5 preview: Cholet > Châteauroux [SteepHill]

Live:
Live Race Data [Polar]
Live Telemetry [SRM]
Current local time in Paris (World Clock)

Live Audio|AudioPlayer [EuroSport]
Tour de France – Live Tracker [UBI Labs]
Cholet > Châteauroux 232 km live [www.letour.fr]
Cholet – Châteauroux, 232km Complete live report [CyclingNews]
Cholet – Châteauroux “live match” [Eurosport Yahoo!]
TdFblog (Frank Steele’s) [Twitter]
SBS: Tour de France 2008 Forum [SBS]

Results:

17:11 – Cavendish Claims His First Tour Stage Victory
He promised that he could and now he has: Mark Cavendish has beaten Zabel and Freire to the finish of stage five.
17:09 – Vogondy Attacks
With 1km to go, Vogondy is trying his luck. He has attacked his escape companions but the peloton is breathing down his neck.
– [www.letour.fr]

Le parcours 2008 : découvrez l’étape 5
(Tour de France YouTube Channel)

Stage five results:
1. Mark Cavendish (Columbia) 5:27:52
2. Oscar Freire (Rabobank) same time
3. Erik Zabel (Team Milram) same time
4. Thor Hushovd (Credit Agricole) same time
5. Baden Cooke (Barloworld) same time
6. Robbie Hunter (Barloworld) same time
7. Leonardo Duque (Cofidis) same time.
8. Robbie McEwen (Silence-Lotto) same time
9. Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas) same time
10. Julian Dean (Garmin Chipotle) same time

17:06 – Crash In Peloton
Haussler has crashed on the right turn just after the 4km to go banner. He is still lying down and doesn’t appear to be in a good way.
– [www.letour.fr]

Virtual Aussie Heinrich Haussler (Gerolsteiner) finished last today because of his crash at the 4knm to go banner, just missing out on the 3km rule.

Juan Mauricio Soler (Barloworld) who was King of the Mountains last year went down again today and he abandoned by about the 12km mark;

“In agreement with Mauricio, we decided to wait two days after the crash to see if things improved, but we’ve had to accept that it is impossible for Soler to carry on in the Tour de France,” Barloworld team manager Claudio Corti said. “Mauricio’s had a lot of bad luck this year. Unfortunately, his crashes in both the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France have seriously affected a year of hard work and that’s sad for Mauricio and everyone in the Barloworld team.”
– VeloNews

Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) also picked up a bit of road rash today after a crash at the 80km mark;

“He was a bit shaken, but he is fine now. He will recover tonight and go again,” said Eusebio Unzue, Valverde’s sporting director at Caisse d’Epargne. “Nothing serious. He will see the team doctor to have some checks.”
– International Herald Tribune

Tour de Web:
(What others have to say about this stage)
[1] Stage 5 – Cholet – Châteauroux, 232km [Cycling News]
[2] Results: Stage 4 – Cholet – Châteauroux, 232km [Cycling News]
[3] SBS Tour de France 2008: Stage & Map [SBS]
[4] Stage 5 Photos [Graham Watson]
[5] Cavendish makes good on Stage 5 [TDF Blog]
[6] Stage 5 results: Mark Cavendish wins the sprint finish in Châteauroux for this first Tour win [Steephill.tv]
[7] STAGE 5: ONE FOR THE BRITS! [The Tour de France for the Rest of Us]
[8] Stage five as it happened [BBC]
[9] Cavendish claims maiden stage win [BBC]
[10] Stage 5: Cavendish Gets his First Tour Win [Spare Cycles]
[11] Tour de France ‘08 Stage 5 Link Roundup [Spare Cycles]
[12] Stage Five: Cholet to Châteauroux [Tour de France Lanterne Rouge]
[13] Cavendish outkicks bunch to win his first Tour stage [VeloNews]
[14] Stage 5 • CHOLET > CHÂTEAUROUX • 232 km [EuroSport]
[15] Daily Video – Stage 5 [Versus]

Tour De France 2003-2007 (11 Disc Box Set)

Just in case you are not getting enough Tour action, or if you need to clear some space on your PVR, you can get yourself a copy of Le Tour De France – The Ultimate Collection: 2003-2007!

Le Tour De France – The Ultimate Collection: 2003-2007
(11 Disc Box Set)

The Ultimate Tour De France collection!
The Tour de France – the world’s most prestigious and most difficult bicycle race. Of the three foremost races (the others being the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España), the Tour de France attracts the world’s best riders. Staged for three weeks each July the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of 9 riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles), mainly in France, with occasional and brief visits to such countries as Belgium, Italy, Germany, and Spain. In 2007 England hosted the opening stage for the first time. The Tour is France’s premier annual sporting event and has deep cultural roots. It is watched by huge crowds from the roadside and is televised around the world as one of the supreme tests of athletic endurance. Divided among time-trial racing and racing stages covering both flat land and great stretches of mountainous inclines, it is a rare cyclist who can perform well at both time trials and climbing, and those who can usually wear the yellow jersey (maillot jaune) of victory at the end of the race in Paris. Established in 1903 by Henri Desgrange (1865-1940), a French cyclist and journalist, the race has been run every year except during the World Wars. In 2005 Lance Armstrong of the United States became the first rider to win the Tour seven times (1999-2005). Four riders have won five times each: Jacques Anquetil of France (1957 and 1961-64), Eddy Merckx of Belgium (1969-72 and 1974), Bernard Hinault of France (1978-79, 1981-82, and 1985), and Miguel Indurain of Spain (199-195).

Special Features:
Aussie Onslaught
Cadel Evans on Tour

Rated: E
Duration: 1520 mins.
Released: 2008

UPDATE: 12-JUL-2008
Having purchased the box set on Wednesday from Borders where it was discounted to AUS$79.99 (RRP$87.90), I have now found that K-Mart has it for $69.99 – sometimes you just go to early

Patch Tuesday Wednesday (JUL-2008)

Welcome to another Patch Tuesday. This month we have 4xImportant patches for our patching pleasure, all of which are detected via Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MS BSA 2.1). A restart will be required.

Bulletin	KB number	Description	Severity	Impact	Software
MS08-037	953230	Vulnerabilities in DNS Could Allow Spoofing	Spoofing	Important	Microsoft Windows
MS08-038	950582	Vulnerability in Windows Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution	Remote Code Execution	Important	Microsoft Windows
MS08-039	953747	Vulnerabilities in Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server Could Allow Elevation of Privilege	Elevation of Privilege	Important	Microsoft Windows, Exchange server (OWA)
MS08-040	941203	Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL Server Could Allow Elevation of Privilege	Elevation of Privilege	Important	Microsoft Windows, Microsoft SQL Server

For this month:

Out of the four patches this month, one of the vulnerabilities is related to file-format vulnerabilities; all others are directly related to some network-based interaction with a client or server. The most serious aspect of these vulnerabilities is that administrators will have to patch SQL, Exchange, and DNS servers, all of which are typically very mission-critical for networks. … — eEye [5]

PATCH NOW:
MS08-038

LINKS:
[1.] July 2008 Monthly Release (2008-Jul-08.) [MS]
[2.] July 2008 black tuesday overview (2008-Jul-08.) [SANS]
[3.] Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for July 2008 (2008-Jul-08.) [MS]
[4.] Microsoft security updates for July 2008 (2008-Jul-08.) [MS]
[5.] Microsoft Patch Disclosure – July 2008 (2008-Jul-08.) [eEye]