With just over two weeks to go here’s a downloadable calendar of the Tour de France for your electronic diary or smartphone.
This format has proved surprisingly popular, perhaps there’s a big demand to ensure you don’t schedule pesky work meetings with the crucial stages? With this in mind each stage has a star rating, a subjective take on the stage’s importance to the race whether for the drama or likely importance for the overall classification. But as we saw last year on the road to Saint Amand Montrond, the most anodyne stage on a paper can come alive and even the rest days attract more media attention than most other races on the calendar.
If you really want to clear the diary note Stages 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 21 will be broadcast live from start to finish.
Save the ics / iCal / iCalendar file and you can import it into your electronic diary. One or two clicks and it’s on your iPhone / Outlook etc. Alternatively you can use the Google calendar below.
Just use +Google Calendar option via the link on the bottom-right of the calendar. Note this method works with Android phones when the iCal file might not.
Remember a similar calendar exists for all the main pro races for men and women and can be found at inrng.com/calendar.
Thanks for the .ics! This imported nicely into both Outlook and Google Calendar.
Brilliant… thanks so much!
Arranging work meetings so’s they don’t coincide with equally as important events much easier now!
The road book doesn’t show how much coverage the stages will have (at least I haven’t found it), so it’s in the regulations?
I found this: http://www.wielerrevue.nl/2014/06/19/veel-touretappes-volledig-live/
the rest probably between 2 and 3 pm (CET)
They got it from me after I tweeted it earlier today 😉
For the original source see p231 of the French roadbook.
Ah thanks I see it now: http://i.snag.gy/CF0AM.jpg
And the rest of the stages are live from 13:50 I suppose? http://i.snag.gy/pY4Mp.jpg
I see stage 9 starts 13:20 so we’ll miss the first half hour. Such a shame 🙁
Thank you, very useful to have!
Marvellous!
If you want a TdeF calendar with each stage duration indicated in the calendar see http://openstripe.blogspot.com/2011/02/tour-de-france-ical-calendar-feed.html