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The Virtual Directeur Sportif Calendar

You've seen the list of races, but if you're going to start planning your year around watching the races which count in our competition (a/k/a all the best races), here's a handy calendar to post on your wall... on the flip.

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For a detailed review of the points available, go here. Also, if anyone wants to turn this into some sort of downloadable, interactive calendar device, please do!

March
1 Het Volk (4th Cat/Top Classics)
2 Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne (5th/Best of rest)
9-16 Paris-Nice (3rd/Top SR)
12-18 Tirreno-Adriatico (3rd/Top SR)
22 Milan-San Remo (2nd/Monument)
26 Dwars door Vlaanderen (5th/Best of rest)
29 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen (4th/Top Classics)
29-30 Critérium International (5th/Best of rest)
30 Brabantse Pijl (5th/Best of rest)
Total race days: 23

April
1-3 Dreidaagse de Panne (5th/Best of rest)
6 Tour of Flanders (2nd/Monument)
7-12 Vuelta Ciclista a Pais Vasco (3rd/Top SR)
9 Gent-Wevelegem (4th/Top Classics)
13 Paris-Roubaix (2nd/Monument)
16 Scheldeprijs (5th/Best of rest)
20 Amstel Gold Race (4th/Top Classics)
23 La Flèche Wallonne (4th/Top Classics)
27 Liège-Bastogne-Liège (2nd/Monument)
29-4May Tour de Romandie (3rd/Top SR)
Total race days: 18

May
10-1Jun Giro d'Italia (1st/Grand Tour)
19-25 Volta a Catalunya (3rd/Top SR)
Total race days: 30

June
8-15 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (3rd/Top SR)
14-22 Tour de Suisse (3rd/Top SR)
Total race days: 18

July
5-27 Tour de France (1st/Grand Tour)
Total race days: 21

August
2 Clasica San Sebastian (4th/Top Classics)
10 Olympic Road Race (4th/Top Classics)
13 Olympic Time Trial (4th/Top Classics)
25 GP Ouest France-Plouay (4th/Top Classics)
29-6Sep DeutschlandTour (3rd/Top SR)
Total race days: 9

September
Aug30-21 Vuelta a Espana (1st/Grand Tour)
7 Vattenfalls Classic (4th/Top Classics)
25 World Champs Time Trial (4th/Top Classics)
28 World Champs Road Race (4th/Top Classics)
Total race days: 21

October
5 Pro Tour Finale?? (TBD)*
11 Giro dell'Emilia (4th/Top Classics)
12 Paris-Tours (4th/Top Classics)
18 Giro di Lombardia (2nd/Monument)
Total race days: 4

* We had a placeholder for Zuri-Metzgete, which is off again this year (sniff). If McQuaid and co. come up with a worthy event, I'll score it like a cat 4 classic.

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Chris
Can you post the VDS Calendar link on the right side of the homepage for easy reference?
"Only those who are in top condition can say that the Ronde is not hard. For everyone else, it's the Way of the Cross." -Andrea Tafi

by Drew on Mar 4, 2008 2:09 PM EST   0 recs

I would do it
but I updated the team links and I'm pretty wiped out. You understand.
"Only those who are in top condition can say that the Ronde is not hard. For everyone else, it's the Way of the Cross." -Andrea Tafi

by Drew on Mar 4, 2008 2:51 PM EST   0 recs

Google Calendar
I was just going to ask if anyone was aware of a Google Calendar project that listed this year's racing schedule . . .

~

Also,k Chris, I think we should have a permanent thread dedicated to the ads here.  I understood where the "cycling ringtones" ad came from, even if I don't understand what they could possibly be.  Now, however, this page returned an ad for "Annual British Horse Race Ringtones."  Can't you or Drew break out some of that petty cash you're hearding away and find out what it is?  Surely it is amazing.

by Sui Juris on Mar 4, 2008 3:29 PM EST   0 recs

Sadly
the banner ads are run thru the SportsBlogs Nation network, not just the PodCaf. I have never had the joy of getting a phone call from the representative of British Horse Race Ring Tones, LLC.

by Chris... on Mar 4, 2008 3:36 PM EST to parent up   0 recs

I had a wild weekend in
Vegas once with Secretariat, where he spoke in a British accent all weekend. It was pretty amazing that he was doing it long before Brittany Spears made headlines for doing the same thing.
"Only those who are in top condition can say that the Ronde is not hard. For everyone else, it's the Way of the Cross." -Andrea Tafi

by Drew on Mar 4, 2008 3:38 PM EST   0 recs

Whoops!
Flashback, sorry
"Only those who are in top condition can say that the Ronde is not hard. For everyone else, it's the Way of the Cross." -Andrea Tafi

by Drew on Mar 4, 2008 3:39 PM EST   0 recs

you sure it wasn't a
donkey, and in Tijuana?

by Sui Juris on Mar 4, 2008 4:18 PM EST to parent up   0 recs

Yeah
I would've remembered being in Tijuana.

I do have a true story about Thailand, mushrooms, and two water buffalo, but this is neither the time nor the place. Suffice it to say those things are bigger than cars and brook no nonsense.

"Only those who are in top condition can say that the Ronde is not hard. For everyone else, it's the Way of the Cross." -Andrea Tafi

by Drew on Mar 4, 2008 4:37 PM EST   0 recs

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