The Olympics Opening Ceremony

The Olympics Opening Ceremony is Friday evening (North America time), and cycling gets into high gear the very next day with the men's road race. Please see the Racing Roundup section of this newsletter for late-breaking developments.

All road cycling events take place in the first week and will be televised on this schedule:

Aug. 9 -- Men's Road Race. NBC and NBC HD, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Aug. 10 -- Women's Road Race, NBC and NBC HD, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Aug. 13 -- Women's Individual Time Trial, NBC and NBC HD, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Aug. 13 -- Men's Individual Time Trial, MSNBC, 5 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Track cycling begins Aug. 15.

NBC, the parent network of the Olympics, doesn't specify exact times that events will be shown during the hundreds of hours of Olympic competition that it's televising in conjunction with CNBC, MSNBC, Telemundo (in Spanish), USA Network, Oxygen and Universal HD.

In last week's newsletter we published the most specific schedule that's available. We've preserved it for you on a special RBR web page at http://www.roadbikerider.com/olympicstv.htm

NBC's cycling page is at http://www.nbcolympics.com/cycling/index.html. You'll find video clips and perhaps be able to see highlights of races.

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A daily blog from Beijing is being written by veteran sports journalist James Raia at http://jamesraia.pnn.com for PersonalNewsNetwork.com. Some articles will be about cycling but Raia has free rein to sound off about anything going on in Beijing. It promises to be lively reading.

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Issue No. 355 - 08/07/08: Rev Up for Fall Rides
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