Tour de France 2009 (Page 5 of 5)

the guy who was at the tete-de-la-derriere-de-la-course all the time!
KOPGROEP van hummel!

was kool to see the schlecks have their win yesterday!
who will best the fastest today?!?!? no time here to watch today unfortunately ...

very exciting stage. cavendish was on fire again

anyone know a good website to watch todays etappe on-line? (12 hour shift at the office today..)

thanks

oh yeah, alberto's gonna increase his lead a bit today I think

cheers for the tip, but fromsport doesn't seem to support Apple/Mac. Only works for Windows apparently...

who won?

Wiggins held on by 3 seconds, wasn't sure if he could over those last couple of km, what a race for him this year.
It looked to me as though Andy Schleck was strong, enough to unhinge wiggins at times, but Contador was stuck to him like glue, a phenomenal rider.
Armstrong has proved to be a great catalyst in this years tour too, with astana captain politics causing drama, and constantly proving he was a forced to be reckoned with. Though I'm glad he didn't win and we have a new great rider, I'm also glad he didn't decide to stay at home

i'd love to be as enthousiastic as you Byron, but this tour was pretty dissapointing imo...

HC pass ? there were 4 (Andorra-Arcalis, Tourmalet, Grand st Bernard, Mt Ventoux).
Bigger problem was that a lot of stage were not realy well designed, regarding now the "modern" cycling, with too much strategy and very few panache. And when the stage was well designed, like Ventoux one, well, strategy took over (Contador should have attacked, despite Bruyneel orders)
Maybe i'm a little too harsh, but cycling is getting less and less interesting with time passing (for exemple, look at Classics such as Milan San Remo or La Fleche Wallone, exact same scenario every year).
But I won't wait for the next tour to watch cycling ! Next big events are Grand Prix de Plouay, Vuelta, World Championship, and the october Classics season !
Vive le v