25/07/2010 by admin.

What an interesting climax to the Tour de France.  Andy Schlek was expected to lose 2+ minutes in the final time trial but in fact put in the performance of his life to only lose 31 secs to Contador.  

In fact at the first time check Schlek was up by 5 secs.More importantly, Contador won the Tour by 39 secs.  A significant figure because that is the exact same amount of time that Schlek lost through dropping his chain on stage 15.  Contador unsportingly took full advantage of Schlek’s misfortune to ride away from him and turn around a 31 sec deficit to an 8 sec lead.

Perhaps more incredible is how tight Tour finishes often are after 89 hrs of racing.

British riders, Geraint Thomas of Team Sky impressed in the time trials and of course, Mark Cavendish has been outstanding, so far winning 4 stages.  

The Green (Sprinters) Jersey is up for grabs today if Cav can turn around a 16 point deficit.  Petacchi who currently holds the Green Jersey only needs to finish top 6 to hold onto his Jersey though.

It will be worth watching just to see how the Green Jersey pans out and to see Cav take victory 5 of this Tour and 15 overall in his short Tour de France career.

With the Tour over later today, our summer feast of sport seems to be over.  

Perhaps it’s time to get down the beach.

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25/07/2010 by admin.

Let’s meet at Le Guet for Tuesday’s boot camp - starting at 6.45 pm.

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