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Reminder: TdG on Cyclysm Sunday today at 4

OLN's coverage of the 2006 Tour de Georgia airs on a 2-hour edition of the network's Cyclysm Sundays show this afternoon at 4 Eastern.

If the coverage is as good as the race, it should be a barnburner.

2006 Tour de Georgia draws TV coverage

It's not stage-by-stage, but the 2006 Ford Tour de Georgia will have a preview broadcast available on Atlanta's WSB Channel 2 and Comcast's Sports Southeast On Demand channel.

WSB will broadcast their preview tomorrow afternoon, April 16, from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. Comcast Sports Southeast will broadcast a preview (not sure if it's the same preview) Monday at 3:30. That preview and “daily race updates,” will be available to Comcast Digital subscribers through the end of April. No sign of the race updates on the Comcast Sports Southeast page.

After the tour, on April 30, the Outdoor Life Network will broadcast an expanded two-hour edition of Cyclysm Sundays exclusively covering the Tour de Georgia.

Update 4/16: No sign of Channel 2's preview. ABC is doing back-to-back NBA games right up until tonight's newscast.

OLN will carry Armstrong press conference live

OLNTV.com | LANCE ARMSTRONG PRESS CONFERENCE - LIVE

Outdoor Life Network will be carrying live coverage of Lance Armstrong's press conference on Monday. They expect it will immediately follow their coverage of the Boston Marathon.

Also:

AJC.com | Some say Lance set to retire (free reg. required)

The local fishwrap quotes Phil "the man himself" Liggett on the press conference:

"Knowing Lance, I think [the news conference] will be very brief, 10 or 15 minutes," Liggett said. "Like everyone else, I'm thinking he's saying, 'At the end of the tour and the end season' [he will retire].

"I have no inkling at all. I think he's had a change of attitude. The sport is very hard. He said it himself since he turned pro in '92 that the pressures are different now."

The article also notes, erroneously I think, that Armstrong is under contract through the Tour. I believe his contract runs through 2006, but requires him to race the Tour in either 2005 or 2006.

IHT.com | The big tease: Armstrong fuels intrigue on his future

Samuel Abt weighs in with a few quotes from people around the pro peloton, including Paul Sherwen, Bjarne Riis, Lars Michaelson, Rolf Sorensen, and George Hincapie.

Hincapie's line:

"If I were to guess, he'll say he's running for governor of Texas."

I suppose Texas has had worse governors.

Update: I switched the link to the International Herald-Tribune version of the story, because, a) it has more sources, b) I don't think IHT expires its links, and c) it doesn't suggest the press conference is in Macon.