Pointy Helmet’s Tour de France commentary: Stage 2.

Evidently yesterday’s stage was called “Stage 1″ and not the “Prologue.” Oops.

Today, Mark Cavendish won the stage virtually uncontested with a perfect leadout from his teammates. And no one was surprised. This guy is ridiculous. He’s got a great support crew to get him to the last 300 meters, and at that point he simply can’t lose. I’m calling 11 stages for Cavendish in this year’s Tour, and over 9000 green jersey points as well.

It was interesting to watch the pre-race interview of Lance Armstrong conducted by Frankie Andreu. For those of you who don’t know the history, in 1996 he and his wife testified that Lance told cancer doctors, in the Andreus’ presence, that he (Armstrong) had use EPO that year. Evidently, this testimony was sealed but got leaked, and at that time Andreu stood by the testimony. They settled in 2006, but things are understandably still awkward between them.

The tension in the interviews was palpable, but they both did their job. Normally Andreu’s commentary is slightly awkward, but I could understand any difficulties he had doing that interview.

Anyway, it was a very Cavendish-y day. And those are always good days. (I saw him in person at last years Tour of Missouri, and he is quite the good-looking fellow.)

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