Are you ready to roll? The Versus cable network returns to its Cyclysm Sunday pro cycling coverage this weekend with Tour of Qatar on Saturday and the prologue of the Amgen Tour of California on Sunday.
Versus will continue its coverage of the California bicycle race all week with nightly rebroadcasts of the daily race action, culminating in coverage of Stage 6 in Santa Clarita and Stage 7 in Pasadena on Feb. 23 and 24. (See “TV schedule for 2008 Tour of California”)
Pro cycling coverage continues throughout the spring and summer with the European spring classics, Sunday coverage of the three-week Giro d'Italia and daily coverage of the Tour de France. The TV schedule concludes with one-time coverage of the Vuelta a Espana, as well as three other fall Euro races.
Hole in schedule
The big hole in the schedule appears to be stateside cycling. After daily coverage of the Amgen Tour of California, the only other US race is Sunday coverage of the inaugural Tour of Pennsylvania. There's nothing for the Tour de Georgia nor the Tour of Missouri.
Granted, some of the coverage is not the freshest. Belgium's Tom Boonen won the Tour of Qatar about three weeks ago, and stage races like Paris-Nice, Giro and Vuelta will probably be shown as the previous week's highlights.
Still, it's coverage of pro cycling, and it's always exciting to see how some of those races develop.
Schedule
Here's the schedule (all times are ET). You can check for updates (hopefully the addition of some more US cycling) at the Versus Cyclysm website:
Saturday — 6 p.m.: Tour of Qatar
Sunday through Feb. 24 — Tour of California (see schedule)
March 9 — 4 p.m.: Paris-Nice
March 16 — 3 p.m.: Paris-Nice
March 23 — 5 p.m.: Milan-San Remo
March 23 — 6 p.m. Tirreno Adriatico
March 30 — 5 p.m.: Criterium International
April 20 — 5 p.m.: Paris Roubaix
April 27 — 5 p.m.: Liege-Bastogne-Liege
April 27 — 5:30 p.m.: La Fleche Wallonne
May 11 — 4 p.m.: Giro d'Italia
May 18 — 4 p.m.: Giro d'Italia
May 25 — 4 p.m.: Giro d'Italia
June 1 — 3 p.m.: Giro d'Italia
June 29 — 3:30 p.m.: Tour of Pennsylvania
July 5 – 27: Tour de France
Sept. 21 — 5 p.m.: Vuelta a Espana
Oct. 12 — 4 p.m.: Paris Tours
Oct. 19 — 4 p.m. Giro di Lombardia
Nov. 9 — 4 p.m.: Tour du Faso
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