Friday, July 17, 2009

Le Tour

Keeping up with the Tour in real time off this site. If you like the tour or bike racing it's pretty good. They have a little elevation map that shows the progress and the riders by name, plus blog entries as the race goes down.
13th stage today. Rain, wind and a mountainous course. Five rated climbs, two of over 1000 meters elevation gain. An Austrian who was 55 minutes behind the leaders won the race by four minutes and change over second place. Since it's a cumulative time race, the overall leader kept the yellow jersey.
Congrats to Heinrich Haussler on his first stage win. Gutsy riding on wet pavement. Some of his descents hit 79 mph. In a pouring rain. On a bike.

2 comments:

catfish said...

Vs. has some pretty good TV time for the tour as well.

One of my favorite sporting events each year. I can remember watching every Tour since 1985....

Damn, I'm getting old.

Old NFO said...

I haven't found much TV coverage, it seemed to have dropped significantly after Armstrong quit. Looks like it might get interesting this year though!