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Le Tour 2011.

Watching the mountain climbs last night...I could almost feel there pain, and those oh so fast descents..GULP.

Mr. Yellow jersey really busted a gut, don't know how he will go on further climbs...lion hearted effort.

Frank Schleck...great effort to, looked completely spent to me at the end of the stage, still lots of mountains to go yet.
 
The Schlecks look good and so does Cadel, but Contador lost more valuable seconds in the last kilometer today. And watch out for Cunago and Basso, both look more fit than I have ever seen them in this year's Tour. Voeckler will hold the Yellow through tomorrow, I don't think he will crack on the Col d'Aubisque and after that tomorrow, it is all downhill. But Saturday someone will wrest the Yellow jersey from his shoulders on the Plateau de Beille. Sunday will be an easy day for the sprinters, nothing will change until the Alps after Saturday's stage.

Caz
 
Check post 6 from 2 weeks ago...... ;) Cadel had the best cards all around. The Schleck brothers should have attacked much earlier like Alberto Contador already said after the first stage in the Pyrenees. Their biggest tactical error however was yesterday, when Andy Schleck went after Contador.

Definitely a deserved winner in a very interesting Tour de France!

For me this is the moment I will remember from this Tour. Although they will both finish in Paris tomorrow, this was the end of the Tour for Johnny Hoogerland and Juan Antonio Flecha.

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At all the tour forums I belong to, people have been belittling Cadel Evans for not taking charge in the Alps, especially not going after Andy Schleck Thursday when he made his attack on the second HC climb.

Well, I reckon those pundits have their answer now. Cadel just wanted to hold the Schlecks in check under a minute, he knew bloody well they would be fatigued after all those attacks in the mountains and he could beat them hand's down in the ITT. Kudos Cadel, this was your year and you rode it with excellent strategy, you let the Schlecks wear themselves out trying to beat you.

Oh to be in Oz right now, I bet the Skippies will party for a week or more. :icon29:

Caz
 
Skippy in Yellow! I reckon Cadel Evans is about the most welcomed winner of the grand tour in years. He has always ridden clean, never raced dirty, always modest, and about the best bloke in the peleton. God bless you Cadel, I am overjoyed in your victory.

And consider this, Cadel Evans wins Yellow on an American team and Mark Cavendish wins Green on an American team! An American team wins overall (Garmin-Cervelo)! Not since the Americans entered a team (7/11) in the tour has a Frenchman won. I wonder if the French ever dreamed that would happen to their race in 1986?

Caz
 
I think BMC also has some European money behind it...but yes, there is a big American influence on the various tours nowdays.

As far as Evans goes, personally I don't think he has that raw ability to just take off from the other hill climbers, but does have the ability to grind it out with them...I really think his team stategy just stuck with what he can do best.

:australia: :unitedstates:
 
demorier said:
I think BMC also has some European money behind it...but yes, there is a big American influence on the various tours nowdays.

As far as Evans goes, personally I don't think he has that raw ability to just take off from the other hill climbers, but does have the ability to grind it out with them...I really think his team stategy just stuck with what he can do best.

:australia: :unitedstates:
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Cadel is not a drag racer, he's a locomotive. He can't accelerate fast like the other climbers, he has to work up to the proper cadence. But once there, he's a bloody choo-choo and woe be those in his tracks. :ernae:

Yes, the Swiss are part of BMC also, as they make the clothing and other apparel. The management is American.
 
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