The Tour de France started today (in rain, in the Netherlands…) and as with the last several years, you can get the whole route as an interactive Google Earth overlay. The Google Earth blog has a link to two different KML files you can download which give you a choice of everything or merely a simple route to the race. Since this race takes place in July, I guess it doesn’t fit into a school curriculum very well, but for me this is still one of the big events of the year (I’ve been a follower for nearly forty years!).
For the few who also find this sport to be more interesting than the doping allegations, I have a few links…
http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html the official site
http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html US magazine coverage…
http://www.cyclingfans.com/ this site has some live coverage
as you can see, this is a big deal to many, especially when le Tour reaches the Alps or the Pyrenees!
