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What’s Nice
Cycling team websites are usually all over the map in terms of sophistication. They are more or less promotional materials to keep fans close to the team. Slipstream brought the new site up a few notches with a very slick design and lots of nice features. Twitter updates are available along with lots of pictures and links to various videos. If you want to see Tyler Farrar’s TT crash in Paris-Nice or Magnus Backstedt’s crash in the Tour of Qatar you can easily find the info. I’m a big fan of using Wordpress for more than blogging and this is a great example of what can be done to extend Wordpress.

What’s Nice
The Tour of California Tour Tracker is in it’s second year of providing a media rich view into the Tour of California. The site provides a live look at the daily stages with live feed video and live commentary. Live GPS rider positions are shown on a map so it is easy to keep track of the top contenders.

There is lots of live data available to show you what the racers current speed and what percent gradient of the current climb. This is a very slick use of Flex.