Tour de France!

[::shinji::]

Gonna be an interesting battle between Astana and Radio Shack this year, personally I think Contador has the tour in the bag, it's up to him to f*ck it up.

Although, I'm picking Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) to be the dark horse favourite..

 

[Zlatan]

Andy Schleck is not that much of a dark horse to me, he was second last year. If there's anyone who's going to challenge Contador it's him, not that Texan guy.

Anyway, the tour starts in Rotterdam. Hell yeah! Look for me cheering on the riders somewhere along the route.

 

[::shinji::]

Yeah, that's a good point about Schleck.. I think I'm getting consumed by the Contador-Armstrong fued hype!

I'm interested to see how BMC does too now that they have Cadel Evans, with the right support he'll win a lot of stages. Love watching his sprints, insane power that guy has..

 

[::shinji::]

Wow.. Cancellara pwns the prologue time trial!

Is it me, or does he have the biggest, most muscular legs on the planet!? He's got the legs of an NFL running back with no exaggeration.

 

[Filipower]

So the prologue is in Holland, the first three stages in Belgium...



Vive la France!

 

[::shinji::]

not that unusual, the Tour often has stages in Spain and Switzerland too

 

[Zlatan]

I remember one of the first Tours I followed started in Ireland. That was weird.

Anyway, the Tour is on a bit of a break until we reach the first real mountains in the weekend. Booooring flat stages, guarenteed mass sprint.