The Tour Down Under is the first stop in World Cycling after being granted UCI ProTour status – the first race outside of Europe to be given this ranking.
Disappointingly there is no dedicated TV coverage
Sun 20-Jan-2008 Down Under Classic Glenelg
Mon 21-Jan-2008 Rest Day
Tue 22-Jan-2008 Stage 1 Mawson Lakes to Angaston
Wed 23-Jan-2008 Stage 2 Stirling to Hahndorf
Thu 24-Jan-2008 Stage 3 Unley to Victor Harbor
Fri 25-Jan-2008 Stage 4 Mannum to Strathalbyn
Sat 26-Jan-2008 Stage 5 Willunga to Willunga
Sun 27-Jan-2008 Stage 6 Adelaide City Council Street Circuit
Yellow Jersey (maillot jaune) “General Classifiaction”:
GC Team Country Time
01 LANDIS Floyd PHO USA
02 PEREIRO SIO Oscar CEI ESP 00' 57"
03 KLÖDEN Andréas TMO GER 01' 29"
04 SASTRE Carlos CSC ESP 03' 13"
05 EVANS Cadel DVL AUS 05' 08"
06 MENCHOV Denis RAB RUS 07' 06"
07 DESSEL Cyril A2R FRA 08' 41"
08 MOREAU Christophe A2R FRA 09' 37"
09 ZUBELDIA Haimar EUS ESP 12' 05"
10 ROGERS Michael TMO AUS 15' 07"
Green Jersey (maillot vert) “Sprint Points”:
Team Country Points
01 MC EWEN Robbie DVL AUS 288
02 ZABEL Erik MRM GER 199
03 HUSHOVD Thor C.A NOR 195
04 EISEL Bernhard FDJ AUT 176
05 PAOLINI Luca LIQ ITA 174
06 ISASI Inaki EUS ESP 130
07 VENTOSO Francisco SDV ESP 128
08 MORENI Cristian COF ITA 116
09 CASPER Jimmy COF FRA 98
10 LANDIS Floyd PHO USA 93
Polka Dot Jersey (maillot pois) “King of the Mountain”:
Team Country Points
01 RASMUSSEN Mickael RAB DEN 166
02 LANDIS Floyd PHO USA 131
03 DE LA FUENTE David SDV ESP 113
04 SASTRE Carlos CSC ESP 99
05 SCHLECK Frank CSC LUX 96
06 BOOGERD Michael RAB NED 93
07 CUNEGO Damiano LAM ITA 80
08 DESSEL Cyril A2R FRA 72
09 LEIPHEIMER Levi GST USA 66
10 KLÖDEN Andréas TMO GER 64
White “Young Rider”: no more than 25 years old
Team Country Time
01 CUNEGO Damiano LAM ITA
02 FOTHEN Marcus GST GER 00' 38"
03 SPRICK Matthieu BTL FRA 1h 29' 12"
04 DE LA FUENTE David SDV ESP 1h 36' 00"
05 DUENAS NEVADO Moises AGR ESP 1h 48' 40"
06 LÖVKVIST Thomas FDJ SWE 1h 52' 54"
07 VENTOSO Francisco SDV ESP 2h 22' 03"
08 POSTHUMA Joost RAB NED 2h 32' 41"
09 VAUGRENARD Benoît FDJ FRA 2h 33' 12"
10 WEENING Pieter RAB NED 2h 36' 44"
Teams:
Team Time
01 T-MOBILE TEAM
02 TEAM CSC 17' 04"
03 RABOBANK 23' 26"
04 AG2R PREVOYANCE 33' 19"
05 CAISSE D’EPARGNE-ILLES BALEARS 56' 53"
06 LAMPRE-FONDITAL 57' 37"
07 GEROLSTEINER 1h 45' 25"
08 DISCOVERY CHANNEL TEAM 2h 19' 17"
09 EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 2h 26' 38"
10 PHONAK HEARING SYSTEMS 2h 49' 06"
Stage 15: Gap – L’Alpe d’Huez
Stage 16: Bourg d’Oisans – La Toussuire
Stage 17: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne – Morzine
Stage 18: Morzine – Mâcon
Stage 19: Individual Time Trial : Le Creusot – Montceau-les-Mines
Sastre bombs, and drops to 4th allowing Kloden podium.
Pereiro rides the trial of his life to keep a podium with 2nd.
Landis takes the maillot jaune!
Stage 20: Sceaux – Antony – Paris Champs-Élysées
Hushovd bookends the tour winning the Prologue time trial and the final stage into Paris.
A bit late with the post, as Monday night was the second rest day of the Tour. Now we are in the Alps, and I wasn’t going to write things up instead of watching the Alpe d’Huez live stage coverage .
This is the way things were on Monday;
Yellow Jersey (maillot jaune) “General Classifiaction”:
GC Country Team Time
1 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 64.05.04
2 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 1.29
3 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 1.37
4 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 2.30
5 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 2.46
6 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 3.21
7 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile 3.58
8 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 4.51
9 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Agritubel 5.02
10 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 5.13
Green Jersey (maillot vert) “Sprint Points”:
Country Team Points
1 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 252
2 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick-Step-Innergetic 222
3 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 207
4 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 192
5 Erik Zabel (Ger) Milram 172
6 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 159
7 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 148
8 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Francaise Des Jeux 146
9 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 120
10 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 111
Polka Dot Jersey (maillot pois) “King of the Mountain”:
Country Team Points
1 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval 80
2 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 73
3 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 62
4 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 61
5 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 61
6 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Agritubel 45
7 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 38
8 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 36
9 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 35
10 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval 35
White “Young Rider”: no more than 25 years old
Country Team Time
1 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 64.10.50
2 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 12.15
3 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 29.07
4 Moises Duenas (Spa) Agritubel 31.22
5 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 36.50
6 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Milram 42.04
7 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 42.27
8 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 49.18
9 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Milram 50.18
10 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval 53.26
Teams:
Team Time
1 Team CSC 192.07.16
2 Caisse D’Epargne-Illes Balears 15.57
3 T-Mobile Team 22.09
4 Gerolsteiner 22.55
5 AG2R Prevoyance 27.43
6 Rabobank 31.12
7 Saunier Duval - Prodir 40.43
8 Lampre-Fondital 43.01
9 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 44.31
10 Discovery Channel Team 44.49
Stage 9: Bordeaux – Dax
Oscar Freire just beats Robbie McEwen in a bunch sprint for the line. Tom Boonen misses again.
He’s like Harry Potter, he has the cloak of invisibility on and just as he hitsthe line he takes it off. Cause in a bunch sprint at the end … you never see him until he crosses the line. — Phil Liggett (regarding Robbie McEwan)
Stage 10: Cambo-les-Bains – Pau
Juan Mercado take sthe line honours. Cyril Dessel works a small breakaway and comes away with yellow and polka-dot. A Frenchman leads the Touron the day in the mountains.
Stage 11: Tarbes – Val d’Aran – Pla-de-Beret
Pyrenean peaks: Mayo quits the race. The cards were laid on the table as a group of 17 were all that was left together for the final climb. Denis Menchov takes the victory after a ‘tow’ from Rasmussen. Floyd Landis takes the yellow.
Stage 12: Luchon – Carcassonne
Yaroslav Popovich brough a few smils for Discovery as he gets clear of his small breakaway group for the win.
Stage 13: Béziers – Montélimar
A breakaway of almost 30 minutes escapes the peleton! Jens Voigt takes the line honours for today. Oscar Pereiro Soi is second to the line and takes the yellow from Floyd Landis (from 46th to 1st!). Oscar is the seventh change in the yellow for this tour.
Stage 14: Montélimar – Gap, 180.5 km
Pierrick Fedrigo takes the win.
Where are they now?
Use the GoogleEarth KMZ file to track the Peleton.
Live TDF in GoogleEarth
What are they doing?
Use the SRM Telemetry to follow the effort.
Live telemetry from SRM
How about a combo?
UbiLabs & SRM Tour de France – LIVE Tracker. The recent track is plotted on a Google map and live data (such as eart beat, speed, stress points, distance, power and current position) is displayed next to each rider.
Google Earth Blog: Tour de France 2006 in Google Earth
May 25, 2006
Tour de France 2006 in Google Earth
Tour de France 2006 in Google EarthLast year, shortly after Google Earth was released, a bunch of Tour de France (TdF) fans in the Google Earth Community (GEC) put up the complete route of the 2005 TdF. The race was still going on while they were completing it. This year, the complete TdF 2006 course [Google Earth File. You must have GE installed.] has already been mapped in Google Earth well ahead of the July 1st start (see the official TdF 2006 web site). It’s a network link, so any refinements will get updated automatically, so save it in your “My Places” if you plan to follow the race. Once it loads, you will just see the tracks for each stage. For more details open up the folder and turn on each stage’s detailed placemarks showing the checkpoints. You can check out the satellite photos, but more importantly make sure you use the pan/tilt features in GE so you can see the mountains they go through. Thanks to ‘lucifer666′ at the GEC, who also did the Volvo Ocean Race network link.
In the 2005 TdF there were some attempts to actually track some of the biker’s in real-time using network links in GE. I hope we’ll see more of that. Also, I was hoping someone will link to web cams at strategic points showing the racers. Harry Love, who started up some of this last year, has posted a blog entry with a bunch of suggestions for using GE. via OgleEarth. … [4]
2006 Tour de France with Google Earth
May 25, 2006
Tour de France 2006 in Google Earth
Here are some ways you can get involved in the Google Earth coverage of the 2006 event and help create a richer experience for everyone:
1. Upload and geotag your event photos to Flickr (you can view geotagged photos in Google Earth by grabbing the kmz file from the GeoTagging Flickr group)
2. Also, be sure to tag your photos with “tdf2006“
3. Extend the Flickr photo proximity scripts by focusing on Tour de France photos (i.e., photos tagged “tdf2006″)
4. What about pulling down geotagged videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and Google Video?
5. Create a networked link that gets the current position of the pack, the teams, and the major riders
6. Find a way to recreate the race using the above data so that historical replays can be preserved
7. Are you involved with the Tour de France or one of the teams? Provide Google Earth data feeds from the race (race positions, times, current location, speed, etc.)
8. And finally, spread the word! Do you want to see the technology get better (or cheaper)? Talk about it. Money follows the news.
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Yellow Jersey (maillot jaune) “General Classifiaction”:
Green Jersey (maillot vert) “Sprint Points”:
Polka Dot Jersey (maillot pois) “King of the Mountain”:
White “Young Rider”: no more than 25 years old
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