Tour de France Turns Into Amgen Tour of California
It's more than a possibility that you'll see an American 1, 2, 3 (and possibly 4 and 5, as Levi Leipheimer and Bobby Julich will "show themselves" for the first time in this Tour) finish into Rennes (a town that saw the full spectrum of American Tour great Greg Lemond, winning an ITT in 1989 while abandoning in 1994 to end his career)
Who are the favorites? You need only look to the Bevis and Butthead of Girona (Spain, roommates while overseas), David Zabriskie and Floyd Landis.
thanks Oude G - so obvious I hadn't really thought that specifically about it ... but you're right with probable top 10 (and most of the top 5) to include: Zabriskie, Hincapie, Landis, Julich & Leipheimer (in that order I think) - and the overall top 10 too after that
ReplyDeleteand it'll be really interesting to see how David Millar rolls in his first true test
finally if you cranks haven't seen this yet - very cool site while your watching morning coverage to track the location, heartrate, speed, etc of several riders (should be especially cool in the mts with the satellite overlays in the next couple weeks ... seems to be incredibly accurate too)
http://www.ubilabs.net/tdf/
(fyi - not sure all browsers see it, but Firefox does)