By the end of the afternoon we'll know who has won the Tour de France 2008. Even though the race doesn't finish until tomorrow (with the traditional laps around the Champs-Élysées) the ride into Paris seldom sees anybody making the breakaway and stealing enough time to have any effect on the General classification. The only exception to this was when American Greg LeMond in the 1989 Tour de France, was 50 seconds behind Laurent Fignon, who had won the Tour in 1983 and 1984. LeMond rode the time trial using novel aero bars, which gave him an aerodynamic advantage, to beat Fignon by 58 seconds to claim his second yellow jersey with a final margin of eight seconds – the closest in the Tour's history.I doubt whether we will have any such heroics this year, but this is my prediction.
Time trial winner will be Cadel Evans, the Australian rider from Silence Lotto, but I predict that Carols Sastre will probably have enough time on Evans to secure the Maillot Jaune.
Time trial result
Evans
Sastre
Menchov.
Overall Winners
Sastre
Evans +10 seconds
Menchov + 30 seconds
Let’s see how much I know about cycling.
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