Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Crash Course: TdF

Excellent collection of gasps and ohs on the Star's sports page today. See the carnage here. The first four stages have all featured race-changing pile-ups with most notable disappointment being Saxo-Bank's Frank Schleck's tour-ending broken collar bone (in three places, requiring immediate surgery ... owww). Schleck was considered a GC contender, but looks like he'll be on an extended rest.

If you want to follow the tour, but don't have OLN, follow the live blogs on http://www.letour.fr/ or http://www.velonews.com/. Not the same as seeing it on screen, but better than nothing! Racing begins at 8:30am and goes until approximately 11:30. OLN usually does an evening show of race highlights, but this year it is notably absent.
Finally, check out this photo ... what's the caption? (Left: Alberto Contador. Right: Lance Armstrong. They get along like oil and vinegar.)


Posted by at
Labels: , , ,

1 comment:

  1. KrisJuly 8, 2010 at 9:58 AM

    http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/07/news/alberto-contador-stops-by-radioshack-bus-to-deliver-gifts-to-armstrong-and-bruyneel_127230?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

    According to this, although it looks like Armstrong is chirping away at Contador, they were just having a friendly conversation inquiring over each other's health following the crashes the day before.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)