Tour De France 2K7

Sunday, July 08, 2007

I've decided that I want to care about the Tour De France this year. I guess some part of it is nostalgia from when I lived in Switzerland--I remember everyone watching it religiously, but of course at that time I wasn't really very into it. I'm not that intent on watching it actively, but I really want to be able to have it on in the background. The problem is, ESPN doesn't seem to be carrying it (at least not on any of the basic cable channels we get). So I've turned to the WEB. Here's what I've found:

• Ubilabs has an online map (mapping courtesy of Google Maps) that displays the actual real-time positions of all the cyclists. This is sort of hard to deal with (at least for me), because by the time I'm ready to watch some real-time action, each stage is already over. I'm beginning to see that even if ESPN televise this I wouldn't be watching it. http://www.ubilabs.net/tourdefrance/
  
• Yahoo UK! has a nice page with a bunch of different panels including a tracker, live audio, and a breakdown of each stages winners, times, etc. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/tour-de-france/
  

Labels: bicycling, cycling, sports, tour de france

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 at 8:20 PM. There are . If you want, you can leave your own response by clicking here. You may also send this post to a friend of yours via email, or bookmark it for yourself by using icons below;