Le. Tour. De. France.
Today could be the end, or the beginning of the end, if either Contador or Schleck break down.
The 4 Pyrenees stages are the last places on this year’s Tour that large chunks of time are likely to be available. Contador is counting on his time trial superiority for some fractions of a minute in the next to last stage, but it shouldn’t come to that and we may know everything by the time the Peloton mounts Port de Pailheres, one of those Kute Kuddly Kitty Kat Klimbs.
I don’t expect Leipheimer or Sanchez to put on much of a move but they are positioned, you can make arguments for others and many will. Climbs like this can produce 15 minute deltas (for the quants).
There is that recovery day Wednesday and then one more of climbing and then it’s sprinters to the Champs Elysees.
It’s still more exciting than golf even at The Royal & Ancient because of the flaming hunks of twisted metal. When was the last time you saw someone break a bone in a pot bunker?
Today is 115 miles from Revel to Ax 3 Domaines. Only 2 climbs, the last one is just a category 1.
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Vs. coverage starts @ 7:30.
woke me up at 0530 AM. Because they are cats. So then the dogs decided they wanted to get up. Then one of the cats killed a mouse and brought it into the house and then another cat stole and ate the mouse all before coverage began.
I am now bored by the Contador/Schleck duel and interested in who can claim third. Won’t be Leipheimer. He basically said post ride interview nobody could keep up with the other big boys. He seems to have more or less given up on a podium place. Radioshack as a team seems to have no fire in the belly.
I will say nice to see the French boys having a good tour, the French dude who won today rode nicely despite having an ugly team uniform color.
Three more days of mountains my question is how much Andy misses his brother. Contador has both Vino and that Navarro dude who seem quite happy to kill themselves for him so unless Contador makes some massive mental error or Schleck really goes beyond the red to be decisive rather than being content to just mark him Contador prevails.
is where it gets really interesting, test of real stamina, I’ll get to watch Tuesday morning, perhaps the replay of tomorrow after I’ve had a nap, ER coverage tonight after a day just hanging out in the pool