Nice day for a ride on the Champs Elysees. Fantastic lead out by Team Columbia gave Mark Cavendish his 6th stage victory, but Thor Hushovd stays close enough to win the green jersey.
A good day of celebration for Team Astana, winning the team competition and finishing 1st and 3rd in the overall classification. The white jersey for best young rider under age 25 was won by Andy Schleck who placed 2nd overall and the king of the mountains Polka Dot jersey, easily won by Franco Pellizotti. One can only wonder how the race would have ended had Levi Leipheimer not crashed sustaining a broken wrist that kept him from continuing in the Tour. Now we get ready for next year and Team Radio Shack. This will be a third USA based team in the tour, along with Team Columbia-Highroad and Garmin-Slipstream.
Tour de France 2010 is going to be very interesting. Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador will not be on the same team and Andy Schleck will be a much improved time trialist. There may also be the return of Ivan Basso, Floyd Landis and Vinnie Vinokourov.
Questions that will be answered include, how well will Contador do with a weaker team for support and how well will Armstrong do against Contador? How well will Bruyneel and Lance do putting together a new team? Will they have enough good domestiques to support Lance?
Can Contador deflate his ego enough to be a team player? He has shown his immaturity in this year's tour and that possibly, or should I say probably cost team Astana a 1, 2, 3, sweep.
Time will tell.
Final Standings, Tour de France 2009 (all catagories) ...click here
photograph: Eric Gaillard/reuters
2 comments:
Hola amigo, la verdad es que Contador es lo mejor que hay en este momento en el ciclismo mundial,veo que te gusta el ciclismo,te invito a visitar también mi blog de deportes.Saludos.
I received the above comment from Mauricio in Spanish and can not find a way to post it in English. So here is the translation.
BTW, Mauricio blog is very interesting and covers all sports.
"Hello friend, the truth is that Contador is the best there is at this point in the cycling world, I see you like cycling, I invite you to visit my blog deportes.Saludos."
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