Love him or hate him, you can’t deny that his future participation in triathlon will be BIG news for the sport. If you thought it was hard to get into Ironman races at present, just wait a few years until Lance is [...]
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Toward the end of the second week, after Alberto Contador had pretty much sealed up his victory (even though he may not have even been in yellow at that time), I got bored posting daily updates. For that, I apologize. Without further ado, here’s what I missed: Alberto Contador won the Tour de France by over [...] Stage 15 saw the defeat of He Who Must Not Be Named, as Harry Potter‘s Alberto Contador’s charge up the climb to Verbier proved too much for him to handle. Watching Lance in the post-race interview was sad–you could tell he was disappointed that he simply couldn’t keep up with Contador’s amazing acceleration. The tour [...] Today was a very unusual stage. Not because of the stage profile, but because of the theatrics during and after the stage. What was not surprising is that Lance was involved. What was surprising was that George Hincapie was involved. Today was the first real test for the GC contenders. The stage finished with a long climb of much more than the advertised 10k to a summit finish. As expected, Cancellara relinquished the yellow jersey, though not without two unfortunate strokes of luck (in the form of flat tires) on the approach to [...] Stage 4 was the much-anticipated team time trial of 39 kilometers around the city of Montpelier. Realistically, only four teams (Garmin, Saxo Bank, Columbia, Astana) had a chance of winning the TTT, but super-realistically, only one team had a chance. I’ll give you one guess. Hint: it’s the only team with Lance [...] What an exciting day at the Tour, for a flat stage! Everything was going the way it usually does (a small group gets away early, is allowed to get a big gap, then is reeled back in just before the finish) until, with about 20k to go, the ENTIRE COLUMBIA TEAM decides to go [...] Evidently yesterday’s stage was called “Stage 1″ and not the “Prologue.” Oops. This morning was the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The Tour de Lance France began. The prologue this year was a 15.5k time trial around Monaco, which is a tiny country that evidently is near France. For triathletes, the time trial stages hold a special place in the cockles of our [...] |
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