Tour de France 2005

July 3, 2005 1:46 PM

Tour de France. I do not have access to OLN through my cable provider. I want to be able to hear, (in english), live commentary of the Tour. I figured I would be able to find this on the web but have not been able to so far. I would like also find out what resources others are using to follow the grande boucle, any good blogs I should know about?
posted by flummox to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (9 answers total)

Best answer: You can listen to a live stream at EuroSport.
posted by asterisk at 1:53 PM on July 3, 2005

Response by poster: Oops just found this. Still interested in other resources, it would be fun to find something kinda offbeat too,
posted by flummox at 2:11 PM on July 3, 2005

Lance is also doing a podcast this year, you can find it here.
posted by pfuller at 3:29 PM on July 3, 2005

I would recommend cyclingnews.com for your daily text Tour fix... they're based in Australia I believe, and are wildly fanatical about exhaustive Tour coverage. They post live updates as the race progresses each day.
posted by killdevil at 3:40 PM on July 3, 2005

VeloNews offers similar "play-by-play" text coverage of each stage.
posted by fixedgear at 3:52 PM on July 3, 2005

Response by poster: Still no audio....Eurosport has a audio link but it is not working, seems this may be specific to the usa...
posted by flummox at 6:16 AM on July 4, 2005

Oh, I've found the Eurosport streaming page doesn't like Firefox... I had to open it in IE to get it to play.
posted by asterisk at 7:22 AM on July 4, 2005

Torrents of the OLN broadcasts have just started showing up thank god. Also, this discussion has some suggestions for live feeds.
posted by scazza at 8:39 AM on July 5, 2005

Best answer: As said on the other, newer thread, here is the Direct WMA link from Euro Sport - worked this morning.
posted by plemeljr at 12:33 PM on July 5, 2005