The route of several cycling races precisely drawn in Google Maps with a possibility to download and view it in Google Earth (including the possibility to do a virtual fly-over of the route)!
This weekend the Tour of Switzerland will start in Lugano with a 7.6 kilometer long time trial.
For this 9 days stage race, chosen by riders like Lance Armstrong (Team Radioshack), the Schleck brothers, Fabian Cancellara (Team Saxo Bank), Robbie McEwen (Katusha Team), Luis Léon Sanchez (Caisse d'Epargne), Oscar Pereiro Sio (Astana), Robert Gesink (Rabobank) or Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) and George Hincapie (BMC Racing Team) as their preparation race for the Tour de France 2010, I propose you, as usual now for the different cycling races, the official route on ...
Mid-April I already announced you the 2010 Critérium du Dauphiné route (at that time I also informed you of the name change, the French race losing the word Libéré in its name, we thus no longer talk about the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré), today I'm pleased to allow you to discover - as usual now for the different cycling races - the 2010 Critérium du Dauphiné routes on Google Maps/Google Earth.
Le Dauphiné will take place from Sunday 6 until Sunday 13 June from Evian-les-Bains to Sallanches. The queen stage is the one on Saturday 12 June from Crolles to Alpe d'Huez. The famous climb with its 21 hairpins is in the center of the Dauphiné region but still, this will be the very first time this climb is part of the ...
Originally published on Saturday 8 May 2010 at 0.10AM, regularly updated with new stages and finished including the possibility to download the route in Google Earth on 20 May 2010
Today, Saturday 8 May 2010, the Giro d'Italia 2010 will start from Amsterdam in The Netherlands. La Corsa Rosa will stay in The Netherlands for three days with each of the stages starting in Amsterdam.
The Tour of Italy 2010 will finish in Verona on Sunday 30 May.
Today the 4 Jours de Dunkerque start in Dunkirk for 5 stages (during 5 days despite what the name might make you think) to bring back the pink jersey on the shoulders of the leader of the general classification to Dunkirk on Sunday.
As usual now for the different cycling races I now propose you to discover the 4 Jours de Dunkerque route on Google Maps kaart and in Google Earth together with the time and route schedules of this stage race in the north of France.
This 56st edition of the 4 Jours de Dunkerque which takes place from 5 till 9 May 2010 has 3 particularities:
Liège-Bastogne-Liège was won last year by Andy Schleck and is again on the programme for tomorrow, with a slightly modified route!
Will Alejandro Valverde be able to offer himself a nice birthday present by winning this Belgian classic, nicknamed La Doyenne (because it's the oldest classic), for the 3rd time (after 2006 and 2008)? We'll only know that by the end of the afternoon tomorrow, but you can right now discover the Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2010 route, on Google Maps, with the profile of the race and its time and route schedule!
The Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2010 route
The Liège-Bastogne-Liège route will be a little bit different for this 96th edition because the Côte de Haute-Levée could no longer be part of the race because of the condition the road is in.
This climb and the Côte de Vecquée have thus been replaced by the Col du Maquisard ...> Read the whole story | 7 comments | shown 7546x
On May 1st, 2010, the Grand Prix du Muguet will take place around the Lac de Vassivière. This 3rd race (out of 7) of the Coupe de France Look des Clubs will be an individual time trial and will allow the riders of the best amateur teams in France to gain points to win this Coupe at the end of the season.
In this article you'll find all information about this race, the route on Google Maps / Google Earth and a scoop on the web coverage of this race!
The Coupe de France Look des Clubs
The Coupe de France Look des Clubs, created in 2006, is a competition composed of 7 races which creates a classification of the best amateur clubs in France (DN1, DN Espoirs and DN2).
Each club sends 6 riders to these races, of whom 4 must be French and under 26. The 2 other riders can both be French or from a foreign country and there's no age restriction for these 2 riders.
This year the 7 following races compose the Coupe de France Look des Clubs: ...> Read the whole story | 1 comment | shown 684x
Tomorrow the 74th edition of the Flèche Wallonne will take place between Charleroi and Huy. The route of the race has been slightly changed compared to the past and this classic promises to be even more difficult than before!
Indeed, the order of the 2 loops around the Mur de Huy has been inversed and the second climb of the Mur de Huy is thus situated at no less than 30 kilometers from the final climb. In addition to this, the Côte d'Ereffe has been added in the route for 2010.
In this article you can find the Flèche Wallonne 2010 route on Google Maps / Google Earth, the profil of the race and the time and route schedule.
Below you can find the route on Google Maps, the profile and the time and route schedule (which gives you the times the race passes through the different villages and cities) of the Flèche Wallonne 2010. Click on each of the images to open them: ...
In this article you'll find, as usual, all details of the route including the route and time schedules (itinéraires horaires), the stage profiles of all stages and of course the route of this 68th edition of the Race to the sun on Google Maps/Google Earth!
In another article you'll soon be able to discover the 22 participating teams for Paris-Nice 2010 with their leaders and the sponsors of the race. In contrast to what was announced before, Luis Léon Sanchez (Caisse d'Epargne), who ...
From 17 till 24 January 2010 the 12th Tour Down Under will take place in South Australia under the name Santos Tour Down Under.
In this article you can find the details of the 6 stages and of the Down Under Classic (Cancer Council Helpline Classic). You also find the route of the 794,5 kilometers of this Tour Down Under 2010 on Google Maps -exclusively on paris.thover.com- with the possibility to download all stages in a KML file to open it in Google Earth, so you can discover the area where this first race of the UCI ProTour 2010 will take place. It even allows you to do a virtual fly-over of the stages in Google Earth. For the very first time you can also find the profiles of all stages based on the routes I've drawn in Google Maps.
Tomorrow Paris-Tours 2009, also known as the Classique des feuilles mortes: the classic of the falling leaves, will take place. The start of this 103rd edition is for the very first time in Chartres.
In this article you'll find all you wanted to know about this end of the season classic: the full route, the route in Google Maps and a downloadable version of the route in Google Earth, the full itinerary and times, the 25 participating teams and the list of participants with their numbers.
The start from Chartres
Since 1994 Paris-Tours always started in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines. On 9 September however, A.S.O. signed a contract with the Eure-et-Loir department for the organisation of the start of Paris-Tours from 2009 till 2013.
At the official presentation of this contract Christian Prudhomme announced that the Tour de France will also visit the Eure-et-Loir somewhere in the next four years without however saying when that will be. The city D ...> Read the whole story | 1 comment | shown 4129x