............. he said that Carlos Sastre wouldn't be in yellow after the time trial and I did. So Olympic Gold medallist or what he knows naff all about cycling in my book. I can't believe that in modern day sport you can give anyone a minute start and not find that the other guy just trails around after you keeping his advantage. If it was me I'd know that I'd just ride my legs off and forget about the ride to Paris and going off last I'd have a watch on all my rivals all along the route to protect my lead. You really mean to say that if I'd ridden for 20 days, with just two days off, around one of the biggest countries in the world, climbing mountains the size of the Col du Tourmalet, Col Agnel, Col de la Lombarde, Cime de la Bonette-Restefond and on the same day the Col du Galibier, Col de la Croix de Fer before going up Alpe-D'huez with it’s 7.9% gradient, that I’d let some Auzzie guy ride faster than me?So Sastre it was after all. I got the 1 – 2 right but as Menchov again didn’t find the form that most pundits predicted he slipped down to fourth with Kohl beat him to the podium.
I really enjoyed this year’s Tour as I think that the doping police are managing to make sure that the cheats are not able to get passed the tests a bit like in athletics and football (who remembers Diego Maradona’s eyes after scoring a goal in USA 94). The highlights for me obviously the ride of Sastre in Stage 17, Mark Cavendish sprinter supreme taking four stages in the last few hundred meters, all the so called pundits getting the time trial result wrong and of course Cadel Evans being the biggest over hyped cert since the first time the All Blacks were supposed to walk away with the RWC. So I can’t wait for next year. It’ll be ridden the other way round the Alps before the Pyrenees; I think I prefer the Alpine stages last as they climbs are spectacular. Can Sastre repeat? I’ll have to keep on looking at Eurosport and the Tours of Spain and Italy and other races in and around France.
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