Will is going to be doing his Fresh Korn entries brought to you from his unit (his blackberry) and in between he’ll be updating his blog on missing saddle which has great stuff already. Here’s the main page and today he wrote about the pre-ride of the TT course. Enjoy!

All personal takes are worth some interest, of course, but some are real standouts. Evening ignoring the usual fanboy/girl praising of him, I don’t think anyone who listened to DZ’s podcasts from the 06 TdF could have come away without feeling like they’d had a frontrow seat to the heartbreak of the Tour. Not an easy thing to convey, I think.

According to George Hincapie’s newly redesigned website:

Exclusive video interviews will be conducted daily by VeloNews prior to each stage of the Tour, and we’ll be posting them right here at GeorgeHincapie.com. George will give you a candid account of what is happening in the race, granting you unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the Tour. Tune in every day to see what he has to say.

There is already an 8 minute pre-tour video up. Direct link

George’s new PR firm (H30- also sponsors Slipstream) has done a great job of marketing George via his website. Its much better than it used to be and is updated frequently by George.

It sounds like Magnus Backsedt will do the same type of video diary. They are also available on VeloNews.tv.

Julz updates during the tour and when he’s busy his wife is good about dropping a note.
Here’s his diary page. Recent one says he’s ready. Not thrilled with the last race he had to do though.

Here is Ryder’s main page. He’s started his Tour notes as well. I think he’s usually pretty good at dropping updates every few days so hopefully he will continue with Le Tour.

Bram Tankink, http://www.bramtankink.nl/columns/column/52/Tour_2008*.html

Don’t know if ist updated regular. Just a few other riders how mhave this kind of thing but I post them if their are regular posts on it

Now that I’m officially unproductive this afternoon, I went looking for stuff.
Found Stuey’s first one here. Yeah.

Romain Feillu
Caisse d’Epargne

And more on Velo magazine (not sure how often these will be updated) including
Jerome Pineau

Tour Day Schmalz has his preview up on the NYVelocity site. Look for daily entries as well.

How can you not like this commentary on Menchov:

He sat back and watched Razzy jump into the lead of the team. Not exactly the sign of a Tour winner. A real winner would’ve added extra sponsor stickers to the frame of the gram obsessed Razzy and watched as he shrieked to the mechanics about the added weight, and of course he would’ve also punched him in the mouth as he reached for his salad at the team dinner and said, "Listen, Nosferatu, I’m leading this team, and if you think you’re going to ride away from me, you’ve got another thing coming!" And if this were the movie "Top Gun", they would then kiss passionately, but I’m not sure, as I haven’t seen Top Gun in a while, but I think that’s the way it happened.

keep ‘em coming :-)

doing a Tour blog for the Sydney Morning Herald, first entry is here (and the headline is actually “First Stage Finish Suits Evans’s Rivals” so cutting the headline short for the URL gives the entire opposite meaning ;-) ).

If you liked her last few, you will like this one. If you didn’t you probably won’t.
Here’s the linky. I think it’s a good write up.

Looks to be writing for ESPN through out the tour. I think this is his first entry.

during Dauphine he wrote almost daily and it looks like he is going to do the same for the Tour. Enjoy, he is a superdomestique!

http://davidlopezcaisse.blogspot.com/

his website wasn’t working earlier today, but seems to be up and running now with new diary entries from both him and his wife, plus a race report entry after the stage today (he’s usually pretty good about doing those, even if it’s only a few sentences).

His wife is also apparently writing daily columns for Het Laatste Nieuws, but I can’t find anything at their website as of yet (which could mean that it’s only in the print edition, or that she hasn’t started yet).

Bjarne has a column in the online version of danish newspaper B.T. In danish of course…... Jörgen Leth, filmmaker, ex TdF-commentator and maker of the best cyclingdocumentary ever ( A sunday in hell) also has a blog on the same page ,

Danish blogs

(I will post some translations of interesting stuff )

has a special TDF page on their site with photo gallery and video interviews.

You all know of my addiciton to all things Jens!, so forgive me for posting this, at the end of his diary:

I do have one funny little anecdote though from yesterday:
I found myself next to Robbie McEwen for a minute in the bunch. We exchanged pleasantries and that obviously led to the weather, which was incredibly windy and storm like.
RM: ‘I bet there isn’t one guy racing today who woke up and looked out the window and thought, "YES, YOU BEAUTY!"’
ME: ‘Yep, this is shit…’
We both pause.
RM: laughing ‘Well actually, Jens probably did.’
Then we both start laughing and say at exactly the same time,
RM + ME: ‘YEAH, HE DOES THAT EVERY DAY!’
RM: laughing ‘Animal.’
ME: laughing ‘Freak.’
That had us chuckling for a few more minutes and says so much about the man, the machine that is Jens Voigt.

I was hoping he would write and he has! Yeah. :-)

Cioni has a somewhat sporadic diary at Pez, there’s a new entry up mostly about stuff leading up to the Tour. Not any new insights about the 2 stages already completed, but some bits and pics about the *Lotto training camp at the Stelvio that I’d read elsewhere seemed to be good team-building.

C is writing with the Chicago Tribune. Here is the first of hopefully several. :-)