Tour de Georgia weblog

Chris Horner, pre-stage 7 from Road magazine

I hope, after he calls it quits, somebody makes Chris Horner a race announcer. His pre- and post-race interviews are always entertaining and on-the-mark.

There are also interviews from today with yesterday's Most Aggressive Rider Neil Shirley, Levi Leipheimer, and Toyota-United's sprint specialist Dominique Rollin.

Following the 2008 Tour de Georgia from your desktop

Haedo after 2006 TdG stage win
Originally uploaded by Frank Steele.

I'll update this post as the TdG progresses, and I find new sources.

The primary online resource I'll be tracking is the Tour de Georgia Live Tracker, created by Adobe, which looks like it will incorporate the VeloNews live text feed, and adds a chat room feature beyond its basic leader, breakaway and course-tracking.

There should be some live video on the Live Tracker, and more over at WCSN.com, which is promising live video of every stage.

It's still worth checking in at the VeloNews live ticker, as they're likely to splice in photos from the course as things develop. CyclingNews should also have their Live Ticker running.

I'll be posting commentary as stages develop on Twitter, at twitter.com/TdFblog/. Ken Conley will also be Twittering and photographing from the course.

I'll be aggregating anything I find interesting. If you're photographing the race and using Flickr, please tag your photos “tourdegeorgia” (and please e-mail me or post a comment if you're posting race coverage or photos elsewhere). I expect Medalist Sports will also be posting pics to its “tourtracker” Flickr account once things get underway.

The TdG itself is going all Web 2.0 this year, offering a MySpace page and an Official YouTube channel, currently featuring video of Jittery Joe's pre-flighting the TTT course at Road Atlanta. If you've been to races at Road Atlanta, it's a little strange trying to pick out where they're riding, because the TTT will run the course counter-clockwise, where auto and motorcycle races travel clockwise on the course. This means teams will immediately be climbing a tight uphill left-hander which is usually Turn 12, a downhill right into the finishing stretch.