A little bit late for this as there's only 3 days left, but this has been one of the most intriguing and nailbiting, if ugly (due to crashes) tours in a long time. A frenchman wearing yellow through the pyrenees and well into the alpine stages (shot at paris?), a former green jersey winner and current world champion winning not one, but two 'medium mountain' stages and wearing yellow for a week, the cavendish v. greipel rivalry renewal, the cracking of contador, and on, and on, and on. Great stuff. Did anyone else see the epic solo by Andy Schleck and chase by Cadel Evans up the col du galibier today?
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Le Tour ("Now EPO Free!")
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I'm always at work when the stages are to be finished so I never get to see how it ends. But so far this TdF has been awesome, at least for us Norwegians with 4 stage wins (even a double win) and 7 days in yellow with only 2 riders in the peloton. Schleck's "suicide" attack today was great to see, and Voekler has impressed me a lot with his fighting spirit even though he probably will lose the yellow shirt tomorrow. I wouldn't mind if A. Schleck wins overall, at least not considering what happened last year, even though I think he has been a little whiny this year. Wouldn't mind if Evans or F. Schleck if won either, as long as Contador doesn't (which he won't).
Yeah, Hushovd has been my favorite rider for a couple years. Blame the cervelo video podcast for making everyone on the testteam seem so damn likable for two years. At this point, I find it funny that the cycling press still classifies him as a sprinter. I feel like his performances at the spring classics and the tours last year and this year should have clued people in at this point that he's waaay more adept at putting the hurt down on everyone over a long distance. I'd be interested to see how he'd do if he trained and got support to actually shoot for a GC classification.
I'm trying to envision how tomorrow (well, today now) is going to go. Conventional wisdom would say that the brothers schleck will need to use their vaunted 1-2 punch attacks to break voekler and evans, who in turn only need mark them and each other before settling the score in the TT. However, somehow I don't see anyone going blow for blow with a fresh frank and surviving (hell, even andy will probably be more spritely; younger legs tend to recover better), so I almost feel like the smartest course of action would be to catch the schlecks off guard with a preemptive attack. Get them on their heels, get them to panic. Either way, there will be fireworks and someone is going to end up cracking in a BIG way. I just don't know who yet.
I'm trying to envision how tomorrow (well, today now) is going to go. Conventional wisdom would say that the brothers schleck will need to use their vaunted 1-2 punch attacks to break voekler and evans, who in turn only need mark them and each other before settling the score in the TT. However, somehow I don't see anyone going blow for blow with a fresh frank and surviving (hell, even andy will probably be more spritely; younger legs tend to recover better), so I almost feel like the smartest course of action would be to catch the schlecks off guard with a preemptive attack. Get them on their heels, get them to panic. Either way, there will be fireworks and someone is going to end up cracking in a BIG way. I just don't know who yet.