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Points: 20559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2008 at 09:49
I agree that this appears to be one of thye more exciting tour in a long time (probably since 89 between LeMond and Fignon)
 
 
If the Schleck team does discard Evans today, there is still the excellent stage arriving in St Etienne on thursday (the last bumps is very clise to the finish), which is a remake of 89's third last stage, where Fignon had normally put Lemond far enough to win. Alas Lemond had this then-illegal triathlon handle bar (with which he gained over 250 seconds throughout the tour) and left Fignon lost for 8 seconds
 
 
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Points: 4312 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2008 at 20:27
Was a great stage today, even if i thought would be more attacks well before the Alpe D'Huez!!
Thanks god for Sastre to do something to animate the race , otherwise the Schleck brothers would have ''carried''  Cadel Evans to the summit.
 
Leading by 1'34'' might not be enough anyway for SaStre anyway to resist Evans in the time trial Saturday. But carrying the yellow jersey on your shoulders usually gives you extra mental power as we have seen in the past non -specialists realizing excellent chronos in those conditions.....so 50/50!
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Points: 20559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2008 at 06:23
Originally posted by febus febus wrote:

Was a great stage today, even if i thought would be more attacks well before the Alpe D'Huez!!
Thanks god for Sastre to do something to animate the race , otherwise the Schleck brothers would have ''carried''  Cadel Evans to the summit.
 
Leading by 1'34'' might not be enough anyway for SaStre anyway to resist Evans in the time trial Saturday. But carrying the yellow jersey on your shoulders usually gives you extra mental power as we have seen in the past non -specialists realizing excellent chronos in those conditions.....so 50/50!
 
Wrong way to read the race. Cycling is also a team sport with its tactics. And with three CSC in the top 10 and two immediately dangerous for Evans, they had to attack in turns.
 
So they told Sastre  (some 30 seconds behind Evans in overall standings) to attack first, to get Evans to tire..... but he didn't go after him, tus causing a dilemna for CSC
 
There was no telling Sastre would go to the top.
 
Had Schleck been chosen to attack first, probably Evans would've gone after him, bringing everyone back and leaving Sastre to counter-attack.
 
I'm sure Schleck was much stronger than Evans (and even Sastre), but he got stuck with team tactics... he had to resist attacking Evans  and not put Sastre in danger.
 
 
If I'm Schlek (now rid of the jersey, he's the joker Sastre was yesterday).... I'm giving it all today, tring to take as much  time to Evans, resting on the flat grounds tomorrow, and let the decision fall
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2008 at 19:59
Thought for sure Cadel would win, but I guess it goes to show, in sports you never really know.

Congrats to Carlos Sastre
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Points: 4312 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2008 at 22:15
One single decisive attack on L'Alpe-d'Huez was enough for Sastre to win the tour and he surprised everybody by following the rythm of Evans for the time trial Saturday.....so the plan of the team worked wonders throwing smokes with the Schleck brothers and keeping Sastre warm behind the first 2 weeks of the race.
Sad the race already ended and now we have 49 weeks to wait for the next tour.
 
Contador versus Andy schleck!!  the future of the tour! 
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Points: 13033 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2008 at 13:01
After all it was a very nice Tour de France 2008!
 
Agree, Sastre made himself the winner in that L'Alpe -d'Huez attack!
 
Now itīs impossible to think the next year will be a year without doping, as much as we wish that, sure there will be another case sadly.
But anyway after this exciting year i am looking forward to the next Tour de France.

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