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WADA have now written to NADA Germany to clarify that only cases from 2011 onwards should be prosecuted (when there was a change in the wording of the Code).

Kittel (2008) and others seems may have the worst behind them

Couple of other reports

about 1 month ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 0 comments

Podium Cafe FSA DS - The Wacky Racers

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Climbers, sprinters, cobbles, monuments, grand tours, SSRs, value youngsters, and the like are all admittedly important. Find yourself constantly swapping riders and strategies? Is it all just giving you a headache? Becoming more like this?

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Then maybe time to theme that team.

Challenge - to let (imho) one of Hanna Barbera's greatest cartoons be the guide to FSA DS selection. Selections matched to each car follow.

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As per a Cav tweet today - this evening on Sky Sports News there is a half hour documentary titled "Special Report - King of Sprint" about Cav. (Streaming usually available - currently on stream 3)

The blurb on the Sky TV planner describes it as follows:
"Unprecedented access to Olympic cyclist Mark Cavendish. He talks about London 2012, Team Sky's hopes for the new year and why he thinks cycling is the cleanest sport around".

Starts 7.30 UK, 8.30 CET, 2.30 US Eastern, 6.30 am Melbourne

6 months ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 4 comments

Known as "The Race That Stops a Nation" - Australia's premier horse race of the year took place a few hours ago.
2m - Grade 1 (Handicap) - 23 runners - £2,467,320 to the winner
Title gives link to race video. Race card Full result Race report (all from racing post uk)

Also up on you tube is a review of the day's racing from racing victoria showing after race reaction of jockey and trainer of the winner and the clips of the finishes of the other feature races of the day

7 months ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 4 comments

(Due to the wonders of the internet am now pretty convinced the title link should now be to a non geo-restricted site)

The link is to a documentary recently shown in the UK - one of the Inside Nature's Giants series (which last year won a BAFTA - our version of an Emmy).

The full majesty and fragility of the thoroughbred racehorse is frankly addressed.
Ever wondered why and how horses can run so fast? This programme that will go a long way towards explaining that.

Highly Recommended viewing.

(NB The programme was shown in the UK with a parental advisory notice as not really suitable for young children. Includes scenes in the mating shed (Coolmore's no less) and of a post mortem)

8 months ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 1 comment

Sunday saw the 121st running of the biggest race of the year in the Czech republic (title link to race description at wiki cs). A cross country steeplechase over 4m 2.5f and 31 fences (including the formidable Taxis fence - the fourth fence jumped) with £150K+ of prize money up for grabs - it is the feature race of a cracking days racing at the track.

Czech coverage (in HD) up at youtube
Racing UK channel also covers the race - coverage gives a quick run through of the runners and riders and has english commentary
(if you sync the two can get high quality video and english commentary).

Full Result via Racing Post

8 months ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 2 comments

UK ES are showing a short 15 minute film (as part of their build up to the Olympics apparently) with David Harmon and Rob Hayles riding and previewing the Olympic road race course.

First showing is scheduled at quarter past the hour (just before the Beijing coverage starts)

Title gives a link to streaming

8 months ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 0 comments

this year coming from the same university that has the Cologne lab.

How to improve the fight against doping
by Wilhelm Schänzer Professor, Head of Institute, Institute for Sport Biochemistry, University of Cologne Germany (the lab boss) - (@ 42.30 min in)

Much much more discussed, most of which available on demand (sometimes with slide shows - in presentations if available)

8 months ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 0 comments

Every cyclist started somewhere. Chapeau Dot, and the many hundreds/thousands like her.

10 months ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 1 comment

Podium Cafe Tour de France: Five Trivia Questions

The start list now confirmed - some trivia questions on the stats on the riders that currently make up the start list of the TdF 2011.

(I thank in advance the good people at live-radsport.ch for their usual treasure trove of incidental information they always publish along with their start list for each GT - and which is the basis for the questions and answers in this fanpost)

All answers to the questions are available by clicking the link, or checking the comment section (will put answers in first comment).  So click and scroll carefully if you decided to play along

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Podium Cafe Green and Polka Dots

Having received the Tour editions of Cycle Sport and ProCycling recently was noticeable that the points systems were listed as unpublished at time of going to press etc.

The TdF reglement, though not immediately obvious on the official site, are now up in the cloud somewhere - and the points sytems are on pages 38 & 39 of

http://www.letour.fr/2011/TDF/COURSE/docs/reglement.pdf

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Every Christmas Day UK ES has a cycling special. The last three years it has been Cavendish centred. First shown last Xmas Day UK ES are repeating the last one (with the above named title) several times between now and the start of the Giro.

The show is a review of last year with a Cav interview in between the race clips (and with Renshaw, Stapleton, Eisel, Aldag and Pieper joining in). Covers early year loss of form, that crash at Suisse, the Tour (losing, crying, headbutts and all) the Vuelta and the Worlds.
The section on the Vuelta and Worlds (half way through to end) is particularly good.

Cav typically himself most of the way through. He makes you disagree with him, agree with him, and several times makes you laugh out loud. Any fan will love it, for non fans still worth a watch - his perspective is always interesting.

Being repeated
Thursday
UK ES1 18.30 BST/19.30CEST/13.30Eastern
Friday
UK ES2 17.00 BST/18.00 CEST/12.00 Eastern
UK ES1 20.30 BST/21.30 CEST/15.30 Eastern
EDIT
Saturday
UK ES1 12.25 BST/13.25CEST/07.25 Eastern

Cancelled for tennis
Coverage of Giro Stage 1 put back to 14.45 accordingly)
Streams available quite readily - see fanshot title and elsewhere

about 1 year ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 4 comments

And Down The Stretch They Come Grand National

The most unique horse race in the world is now less than 15 hours away.  40 runners, 4.5 miles, 30 fences.  The one race in the UK where workplaces have sweepstakes to pick the winner, people who back one horse a year have a bet. Horseracing will be front page, back page and centre page pullouts in every national newspaper.  Live for 4 hours on BBC1. It can only be the Grand National.

Racing post grand national minisite

Racecard

Youtube of last years race to whet the appetite.  (Many other years available on the side bar - 1967, 2001 recommended for their extraordinariness, many others just great races)

Has a reputation as a bit of a lottery and it is to a point - at least for the first eight fences.  Once past the Canal Turn.  then it becomes what it is these days - a high class handicap (lowest rated runner rated in the 140s) racing for a prize fund of £950,000.

Race off 4.15pm UK - coverage available 

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And Down The Stretch They Come Cheltenham Festival

(Matt: Bumped to the front.  A great look at one of the premier fixtures in European racing - the Cheltenham Festival)

The winter racing code of UK, Ireland and France has its big meeting starting tomorrow (Tues) for 4 days.  With flat racing taking a back seat since November (and the new flat turf season not starting until the week after the festival) jump racing takes centre stage for, imho, the best 4 days of racing of the year. 

On a unique course, in front of a  50,000 crowd that creates a unique atmosphere, the cream of the crop of the jump horses in training from UK, Ireland and France converge in the Cotswold countryside for 4 days racing during which champions will be crowned. 

The Festival is best thought of as jump racing's Breeders Cup - by the end of the week there will be champions crowned at each distance.   If you have been anywhere near any UK or Irish racing website in the last few weeks you will have noticed little else is being discussed.  There have been other graded races throughout the season but all these (whilst of merit) are little but stepping stones to the big goal - to become a Festival winner.

Televised free to air on mainstream channels in both UK and Ireland, it is one of racings big shop windows. Thousands will make the pilgrimage from all over the UK and Ireland for the week or for the day, on foot, by car, train and by coach party, to stake, win and lose money like it doesn't matter.  Many many more watch along at home, in pubs and clubs.  As a friend at the races once commented it is the one race meeting of the year where you can have so much fun, whilst losing so much money.  It's a sport which, after it bites you, rarely lets you go.  Above all the nature of the game is such that backing a loser doesn't stop you admiring the horse that beats you.

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Many many congratulations to Jack Bobridge - new world record holder.
He has bettered Chris Boardman's 4000m Pursuit world record by over half a second in the qualifying rounds of his national track championships today.

(Boardman's record had been 15 years on the record books and was set using the now banned "superman" position)

The final between JB and Rohan Dennis promises to be fast.
Edit - it was fast, just not as fast...
Bobridge is the new National Champion.

Hopefully some video will come along later in the day
Edit - sadly have found no video so far. SBS do have a brief report of the final and an interview with the new WR holder.
If anyone finds anything please post it - hopefully this was recorded by someone somewhere.

over 1 year ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 42 comments

Podium Cafe In Remembrance [Reposted]

[Chris here] From a year ago. Still a great post.

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In a small village called Meriden in the centre of England there is a war memorial decicated as follows:

In lasting memory of those Cyclists who died in the Great War 1914 - 1919

In Remembrance of those Cyclists who gave their lives in World War II 1939 -1945.

Whilst reading the Nov Procycling I was moved by their tribute to cyclists who had been lost to the First World War. It transpires the 1914 Tour started the same day Archbishop Franz Ferdinand was shot, and within two weeks of it's end Europe was at war.  By it's end over 50 road racers had died, including three Tour winners, a Giro winner and Classic winners. The toll amongst track cyclists was much greater, with many Olympic and six day champions lost.

The more well known names are Tour winners Francois Faber, Octave Lapize, Lucien Petit-Breton.  Others include the youngest ever TdF entrant (17yrs old when riding in 1904) Camille Fily, Emile Engel - winner of stage 3 of the 1914 Tour and teammate of winner Thys - who died two months later at Marne, and Giro/Lombardy winner Carlo Oriana.

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For one night only - Thursday 21st October - the film will be screened in 40+ cinemas nationwide in the UK and in three locations in Ireland
At the O2 London venue Cav, Jason Berry and Phil Liggett are doing a Q & A that will be linked to the other venues.

List of venues taking part

Velocity interview with Jason Berry

over 1 year ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 5 comments

Is the name of the report that the New Cycling Pathways conference in Geelong was organised around. (The very same conference that shot to prominence when it invited Landis to speak.)

The title links to the home page of the conference. The news blog tab has the best links.

The above named report from Deakin's business and law faculty.

Well worth a skim/read, full of food for thought and if nothing else pgs 89/90 gives a definitive description of the Passport adjudication process.

over 1 year ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 0 comments

45 minute highlight show just starting on rai sport. Title takes you to the streaming.

Just been interviewing riders before the start, and race coverage just started.

Start List. Results and race reports widely available.

almost 2 years ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 8 comments

Tour de France - montage - part one. And part two
Another side of the Tour de France.

almost 2 years ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 4 comments

The Best of the Sunday Papers

One of the better things about the Sunday before the Tour starts is the weekend papers usually have a feature length article or two about the Tour. From the British press come the following: The Independent - "It was like being on Elm Street. It was a non-stop nightmare" a look back on the 1987 race of the ANC Halford team. The Observer - "Alberto Contador is employing stealth to join the Tour de France elite" a look at Contador and Spanish racing. The Sunday Times - Kimmage interviews Wiggins - includes (like most Kimmage pieces) some good questions and in reply stuff I've not seen in print before. (Note need to register to read due to Mr Murdoch's King Canute act - although is free to register in the first instance) Please feel free to highlight any other pieces from your neck of the woods others may enjoy.

almost 2 years ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 15 comments

O/T - Stevie Wonder and many more LIVE at Glastonbury

Last night at Glastonbury - Live coverage from bbc Mr Wonder playing now, highlights of others incl Orbital, MGMT, Jack Johnson, Faithless later VLC link (now removed as show over)

almost 2 years ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 5 comments

Podium Cafe Brescia - A day at the races

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(This was written early afternoon - during the downpour)


The race reaches Brescia today - see above.  If it is a sprint finish then it is one of the best sprint finish courses that The Greipel and any other sprinter could wish for in a giro.  Wouldnt class this one as technical.

Went out at 10ish this morning and walked the course - whilst it was still being set up for the most part.  Between 3 and 4km to go the course goes through a tunnel under a Castle, turns left, goes under the 3km to go.  All roads from 3km to end nice and wide, one difficult corner at 2.2km to go, dead straight,  a nice sweeping bend, nice and straight again.  There is a roundabout to negotiate about 900m to the finish, then a long straight drag to the line.

If the teams with sprinters let this one go to a breakaway then they should all kick themselves - very hard indeed.

Some photos from earlier today

Straight wide road from 3km

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A dodgy 90 degree left just before 2km to go

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More wide sweeping roads

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Much work still to be done on the 1km to go sign

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At the roundabout just under 1km to go - there is topiary Coppi and Bartali

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Looking back to the roundabout from 300m to go -  road straight as an arrow

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You can get to within 10m of the finish line and carry on past.  Nearer than they ever let you at the Tour

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Weather report - was lovely, rained cats and dogs from 1.30pm until 3pm.  Now lovely again.  Hopefully the roads will dry up for the arrival of the peloton.  Having sheltered form the weather - off the watch a bike race.

-- Interlude -- 

Back from the race.  The race arrived into town on a road parallel to the finishing straight and then turned right at 5km to go, up the gentle hill towards the tunnel etc as above.  Watched the race at that corner, and then (with several hundred or more Italians) ran 120 yards down the side street to the finishing straight and settled for being in front of the big screen by the 125m to go mark to watch the finale.

When they came past us the breakaway was still clear, with the pack not far behind

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No pictures from the sprint - too busy watching.  Lot of excitement in the crowd when Pozzato was playing amongst the sprinters.  Commentator on loud speakers manic but bang on with the call throughout.

After the race is was back up the side street (with the rest of the crowd) as 50 metres past the bend the riders took all the team cars were parked.  The scene there is best described as friendly chaos.  Again you get much nearer the teams than at the tour where the riders all disappear off to a gated area after the race. Here the riders had to dodge through the crowd to try and find their bus - as Kiserlovski is doing here

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I ended up stood next to the sky bus (I am a brit after all) looking for Wiggo (wsho it transpired was already on the bus when I got there) watching DB welcome home.  It was bike to mechanic and onto bus for the riders.

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Moncoutie goes past

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Chris Froome nearly lands on me unclipping, Cummings looks on

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What 50000 euros look like if you spend it on bikes

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The leaky bus was mobbed, there was no way to go past on the pavement (sidewalk).  Nice touch by Nibali, who is sat in the drivers seat signing hats and other stuff being passed up to him for ages.4644988399_5fd4d364f2_m_medium

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No pictures of it but the other bus much the same was Lampre - saw it leaving with the riders at the front of the bus smiling and waving to the crowd (unlike other teams).  Went off to wait for Richie P to come back - saw his flowers arrive but not him - sorry Seahorse no photo :(

You got the impre4ssion from the team staff not all stages end with such chaos - but I may be wrong.  There loss, the fans gain.  Speaking of which I palos got one of these

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Finally - Well done The Greipel, nice win.

 



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As Vlaanderen90 pointed out the other day, which got me to looking, 2M not far away.

There was a prize for the 1,000,00th. Just saying.....
Slow day at work tomorrow - could do with a comp to liven it up a little

about 2 years ago Tv_at_tour_2_tiny andrewp 12 comments

Podium Cafe World Track Champs - Final Day Live

Copenhagen.  After the morning session which saw the early events of the Omnium (Omnium I Sprint 200m t.t.  -  10.50 M - Omnium II Scratch 7.5 km - Omnium III Individual Pursuit) and the W Keirin qualifying today's main event starts at 15.00 CET.

Streaming - here (Is before and after CI on ES)

Start lists and results here

Schedule:

15.00 M - Sprint 1/2 Final 1st heat 10
15.10 M - Omnium IV Points race 15 km 25
15.35 M - Sprint 1/2 Final 2nd heat 10
15.45 W - Keirin 2nd round 15
16.00 M - Sprint 1/2 Final (3rd i.r.) 5
16.05 W - Points race 25 km Final 30
16.35 M - Omnium Final Kilometre t.t. 25
17.00 W - Points race 25 km Award ceremony 10
17.10 M - Sprint Finals 3-4 & 1-2 (1st ) 10
17.20 W - Keirin Final places 7 to 12 10
17.30 W - Keirin Final 1 - 6 10
17.40 M - Sprint Final 3-4 & 1-2 (2nd) 10
17.50 M - Omnium Award ceremony 10
17.55 M - Sprint Finals 3-4 & 1-2 (3rd) 5
18.05 W - Keirin Award ceremony 10
18.15 M - Sprint Award ceremony 10

The Omnium is being led by Davis Muntanter (Spa) 16, with Taylor Phinney second on 17, Ed Clancy third on 18 and Leigh Howard in 4th on 20.  Full details in the comments. 

Mens Sprints Semis as follows:

BAUGE Gregory FRA v SIREAU Kévin FRA    and PERKINS Shane AUS v FÖRSTEMANN Robert GER


Womens Keirin Semis as below - with the second one looking the most difficult to qualify out of

Semi 1

47 ROSEMOND Emily AUS

62 PANARINA Olga BLR

72 SULLIVAN Monique CAN

164 SANCHEZ Clara FRA

203 MUCHE Christin GER

263 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU

Semi 2

2 45 MCCULLOCH Kaarle AUS

46 MEARES Anna AUS

90 GUO Shuang CHN

181 PENDLETON Victoria GBR

206 WELTE Miriam GER

287 KANIS Willy NED

Also a women's 25km Points race to round out the day with many of yesterdays Omnium riders back out for another try at a medal.

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Podium Cafe World Track Champs - Day 4 Live

Day 4 in Copenhagn and as it's the weekend the action moves to the afternoon.

Shame really as I and many others will be watching CI and E3 before thinking of switching to this - but with CI due to finish about 16.00 and E3 between 16.30 - 17.00 that still leaves the Women's Sprint finals and the Madison to enjoy live

Todays schedule (following the minutes indicated)

15:00 - 18:45
15.00 W - Sprint 1/2 Final 1st heat 10
15.10 M - Sprint 1/4 Final (1st) 15
15.25 W - Sprint 1/2 Final 2nd heat 10
15.35 M - Sprint 1/4 Final (2nd) 15
15.50 W - Sprint 1/2 Final (3rd i.r.) 5
15.55 W - Omnium IV Points race 10 km 25
16.20 M - Sprint 1/4 Final (3rd i.r.) 5
16.25 W - Sprint Finals 3-4 & 1-2 (1st) 10
16.35 M - Madison 50 km Final 55
17.25 M - Sprint 5th to 8th places 5
17.30 M - Madison 50 km Award ceremony 10
17.40 W - Sprint Finals 3-4 & 1-2 (2nd) 10
17.50 W - Omnium Final 500m t.t. 25
18.15 W - Sprint Finals 3-4 & 1-2 (3rd) 5
18.20 W - Omnium Award ceremony 10
18.30 W - Sprint Award ceremony 10

International ES stream available from 17.00 here

The Women's sprint races have been onesided so far as the big 4 have been kept separate in the draw - but game on today.  All too difficult to call with confidence

Line up

Semi 1 - Shuang Guo (Chn) v Simona Krupeckaite (Ltu)

Semi 2 - Anna Meares (Aus) v Vicky Pendleton (Gbr)

The Mens Sprints qualifying this morning produced one or two seemingly unexpected results - in full here.  Bauge qualified fastest, then Hoy.  But then Hoy is beaten by Forstemann (with Hoy then having to qualify through the repercharge along with Crampton - mainly at the expense of Awang (Mal) who misses out).  This means the 1/4 finals look like this:

Race 1 - Gregory Bauge (Fra) v Chris Hoy (Gbr)    OMG!

Race 2 - Matt Crampton (Gbr) v Robert Forstemann (Ger)

Race 3 - Shane Perkins (Aus) v Francois Pervis (Fra)

Race 4 - Kevin Sireau (Fra) v Jason Kenny (Gbr)

The Madison line up - headed by the home crowd favourites, Meyer seeking his third gold and several old friends from the 6 days - is as follows.  Expect the atmosphere in the velodrome to be boisterous throughout. 

1  BLACK DEN     MORKOV Michael

    RED                 RASMUSSEN Alex

2   BLACK AUS    HOWARD Leigh

     RED                MEYER Cameron

3   BLACK CZE    BLAHA Martin

     RED                HOCHMANN Jiri

4   BLACK ARG   DONADIO Sebastian

     RED                PEREZ Walter Fernando

5   BLACK AUT   GRAF Andreas

     RED               TAZREITER Georg

6   BLACK BEL   DE POORTERE Ingmar

     RED               SCHETS Steve

7   BLACK ESP   ELORRIAGA ZUBIAUR Unai

     RED               TAULER LLULL Antonio

8   BLACK FRA   KNEISKY Morgan

     RED               RIBLON Christophe

9   BLACK GER  BARTKO Robert

     RED               KLUGE Roger

10 BLACK HKG  CHOI Ki Ho

     RED              WONG KamPo

11 BLACK ITA   CICCONE Angelo

     RED              VIVIANI Elia

12 BLACK NED SCHEP Peter

     RED             STAM Danny

13 BLACK NZL RYAN Marc

     RED             SCULLY Thomas

14 BLACK POL BUJKO Lukasz

     RED             GLOWACKI Dawid

15 BLACK RUS KOLESNIKOV Sergey

     RED             SHMIDT Alexey

16 BLACK SUI  AESCHBACH Alexander

     RED             MARVULLI Franco

17 BLACK UKR LAGKUTI Sergiy

     RED             RADIONOV Mykhaylo

18 BLACK USA HOLLOWAY Daniel

     RED             PEARCE Colby

 

 

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Podium Cafe Track Worlds Day 3 - Live


Day 3 from Copenhagen.  Todays timetable is as follows:

18:30 - 21:30
W - Sprint 1/4 Final (1st) 15
M - Kilometre t.t. Final 75
W - Sprint 1/4 Final (2nd) 15
M - Kilometre t.t. Award ceremony 10
W - Sprint Final (3rd i.r.) 5
W - Scratch 10 km Final 20
M - Team pursuit Final 3-4 & 1-2 15
W - Sprint 5th to 8th places 5
W - Scratch 10 km Award ceremony 10
M - Team pursuit Award ceremony 10

Kick off 18.30 - then add the minutes (last number of each line) to find start time

Mens Km TT, Womens Sprints 1/4 finals, Mens Team Pursuit and Womens Scratch Race tonights highlights. 

Start Lists and results available here

Steaming available here if not available elsewhere


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Podium Cafe Track World Champs - Day 2 Live


Todays program has started - today's timetable looks like this

W - Team sprint Qualifying 15
M - Scratch 15 km 15 km Final 30
M - Keirin 2nd round 15
M - Scratch 15 km Award ceremony 10
W - Team sprint Finals 3-4 & 1-2 10
M - Individual pursuit Finals 3-4 & 1-2 15
W - Team sprint Award ceremony 10
W - Team pursuit Final 3-4 & 1-2 15
M - Individual pursuit Award ceremony 10
M - Keirin Final places 7 to 12 10
M - Keirin Final 1 - 6 10
W - Team pursuit Award ceremony 10
M - Keirin Award ceremony 10

Start lists available here

Scratch race just started - the field is

Angel Dario Colla (Argentina)
Travis Meyer (Australia)
Werner Riebenbauer (Austria)
Tim Mertens (Belgium)
Zachary Bell (Canada)
Pablo Seisdedos (Chile)
Juan Esteban Arango Carvajal (Cuba)
Martin Blaha (Czech Republic)
Alex Rasmussen (Denmark)
Morgan Kneisky (France)
Chris Newton (Great Britain)
Erik Mohs (Germany)
Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece)
Ho Ting Kwok (Hong Kong, China)
Matthew Brammeier (Ireland)
Elia Viviani (Italy)
Kazuhiro Mori (Japan)
Alexey Kolessov (Kazakhstan)
Thomas Scully (New Zealand)
Lukasz Bujko (Poland)
Viktor Shmalko (Russian Federation)
Franco Marvulli (Switzerland)
Mykhaylo Radionov (Ukraine)
Daniel Holloway (United States Of America)

Stream available here if you need one

And there has already been a world record for Australia when qualifying first for the Women's team sprint medal races

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Podium Cafe Vuelta a Andalucia - Video

According to this bulletin from the official website there is a "Resumen Diario de la Etapa de 21,00 a 21,30 horas aproximadamente" or "daily summary of stage from 21.00 to 21.30 hours" on Andalucian TV (all times CET)

On further investigation it appears that there will be a report shown during a half hour news program that is broadcast during those times (but hopefully I am wrong and it is all cycling)

There are links at myp2p and here (courtesy Jens & Gustav Larsson).  Have tried the p2p ones out and they seem to work judging by the spanish football I ended up watching (as per tv schedule)

There is also the promise of a 10 minute report show (In the tv guide as "00:35 . Vuelta Ciclista a Andalucia - Resumen informativo de la etapa".  (6.35 EST or 10.35 in NSW, Oz Land)

Hopefully one of these will work as would rather good to see some/all of the last 5km, which went like this

 Stage1final5km-vi_medium

Reasonable summary of the week' parcours with graphics available at Daily Peleton from where the above graphic was obtained. 

Full results are available at the official site - unsurprisingly the peleton was blown apart by the above. 

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Superprestige series race from Zonhoven due to start 3pm CET - preview show airing at the moment.

Start List (Deelenemers)

Overall standings going into the race

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