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Category: 2005 Tour de France

  • Randall Butler Was Right About Stage 10 Blowing the Race Apart

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI read the article Randall Rides Courchevel last night on PezCyclingNews.com and really looked forward to what we were going to see this morning on OLN. Randall Butler rode the climb to the Courchevel helicopter station on Saturday and said, “This thing is gonna blow the tour apart!” Some people thought that…

  • T-Mobile Offering Live Tour de France Coverage

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLive Tour Coverage via T-Mobile in Europe: T-Mobile is offering free streaming video coverage of the Tour de France via UMTS. [ Photo: T-Mobile International AG ] Jonathan Maus pointed out that T-Mobile is offering live Tour de France TV reports to its customers via UMTS video streaming. This streaming video…

  • CS Monitor Writer Took on Two of Stage 9’s Cols

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePeter Ford of The Christian Science Monitor answered the proverbial question, How Hard is the Tour de France?, by renting a bike and tackling the Col de Grosse Pierre and Col des Feignes. These are the first two Category 3 climbs outside of Gerardmer at the beginning of today’s Stage 9.…

  • TiVo Cuts Price of 40-Hour Series 2 DVR in Time for Most of the 2005 Tour de France

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re cursing the fact that you had to get up this morning to watch the extended coverage of Stage 9 of the Tour de France on OLN because you’d miss it otherwise, maybe it’s time for you to invest in a TiVo. You’re in luck if you’ve waited until now.…

  • Velogal on What It’s Like to Have to Follow a Certain Vehicle in the Caravane

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDon’t miss the end of Sammarye Lewis’ Stage 8 Post on Velogal. It talks about what happens when the vehicle in the Caravane Publicitare that she is required to follow stops for a “nature break”. It’s quite funny.

  • Heart Rate Monitor Data Integrated into OLN Broadcasts

    Reading Time: 2 minutesPolar Electro has gotten a lot of airtime in the first week of the Tour de France by providing live data from their heart rate monitors in use by many riders. Data from their heart rate monitors appears in rider identification graphics, with the rider’s current heart rate, maximum heart rate, and…

  • Al Trautwig Using LiveStrong Special Edition Notebook During Tour de France Pre-race Show on OLN

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJosh Hallett of hyku.com asked: Did you notice that {Al Trautwig} had a LiveSTRONG laptop on the desk during the OLN pre-show? I missed that the first time I watched the Pre-race Show, but I was able to go back and look carefully at the lid of Trautwig’s laptop, at the…

  • Ullrich was Helmetless When He Crashed into His Team Car

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn reading about Jan Ullrich’s crash into the T-Mobile team car, I hadn’t heard that Jan wasn’t wearing a helmet when he crashed. Analysts on OLN reported that fact early in this morning’s Stage 1 Pre-race Show. How he went through the rear liftgate glass without being seriously injured is a…

  • Using Google Earth to Follow Stages of the Tour de France

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHarry Lowe of the University of Washington published an article called 2005 Tour de France with Google Earth where he has recorded the routes of the first five stages of the Tour de France for playback using Google Earth. For those of you who haven’t been following its evolution, Google Earth…