Airdate: Tour de France 2010
Updated: In its 20th broadcast on SBS, every stage of the Tour de France will be broadcast live.
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Riding high on the FIFA World Cup, SBS will slip straight into the Tour de France, airing for the 20th year.
SBS Television’s cycling expert Mike Tomalaris hosts the Tour for his 15th year, and will be joined by reporter Jim Trail, race commentators Phil Liggett, and Paul Sherwen and cycling experts Dave McKenzie and Rupert Guinness.
The entire race will cover approximately 3,590 kilometres with six full mountain stages, three summit finishes, one individual time trial but no team time trial. SBS will broadcast the action from each stage culminating in the climax of the race in Paris on July 26.
Every stage will be broadcast live on SBS ONE. There will be daily morning updates at 7:30am and half hour evening highlights at 6:00pm on SBS ONE.
Update: SBS has since advised of an error in information supplied and it is not broadcasting in HD.
First week of coverage is as follows:
Sunday, 4 July
Tour de France Prologue airs at 1.00am
Stage 1 10.00pm – Live – Rotterdam to Bruxelles. Flat and 223.5 km.
Monday, 5 July at 10:00 pm
Stage 2 – Live – Bruxelles to Spa. Hilly and 201km.
Tuesday, 6 July at 10:00 pm
Stage 3 – Live – Wanze to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut. Flat and 213km.
Wednesday 7 July at 10:00 pm
Stage 4 – Live – Cambrai to Reims. Flat and 153.5 km.
Thursday 8 July at 10:00 pm
Stage 5 – Live – Epernay to Montargis. Flat and 187.5 km.
Friday 9 July at 10:00 pm
Stage 6 – Montargis to Gueugnon. Flat and 227.5 km.
Saturday 10 July at 10:00 pm
Stage 7 – Live – Tournus to Station des Rousses. Medium mountains, 165.5 km.
All times are AEST.
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This year’s event has all of the elements of a breakthrough Reality TV show: medianewsandviews.com/2010/07/tdf2010_realitytv/
Live into WA David?
Looks either live in WA or a half hr delay depending on the day….
This is the highlight of the sports broadcasting year for me. For those with Foxtel, the Eurosport channel is also advertising live coverage throughout. Their coverage of the Giro d’Italia was first rate.
@Jason, all worldcup games are after tdf at 4am, so no clash
I wait patiently every year for this. Love the TDF!
Hmm, no Matt Keenan? That’s a shame. 🙁
So will the World Cup be relegated to SBS TWO while the TdF is on?
HD? Am I reading this correctly?
There may be a problem with artifacts caused by the speed, but 720p should lessen this.
But it’s good news just the same.
Ah … Phil Liggett. His tweets are devoid of all humour, unlike his commentary which really funny!