Tour Previews and Discussion (Page 5)

Schleck (sp?) brothers did some unbelievable riding today too.

I agree.  That was pretty cool to see two brothers finishing together like that on the toughest day of the tour so far. 

I think Armstrong impressed me more today and yesterday than he has in all of his TdF victories.  He was the consumate team player today.  First he stayed back and marshalled Frank Schleck and then he stayed back and marshalled Bradley Wiggens when he could have clearly stayed with the first group if he wanted to and then did a heck of a chase to catch Kloden after Wiggins finally broke.

I was a bit disappointed the Contador did not give LA a few kudos for his teamwork.   

I wholeheartedly agree about Contador.  I liked him until watching him in this tour.  Talk about a completely selfish s.o.b...  I thought the move on Leipheimer and Armstrong was a bit below the belt, but I really thought he was selfish today even though he kept looking back for Kloden after he dropped him.  There was not need for that move, particularly when Johan told him he did not need to do it.  Johan was obviously pissed about it.  Johan, Lance, Leipheimer and just about everone except probably the French organzier that hate Armstrong thought it was a selfish move too. 

I wish Contador had had a flat after he dropped Kloden and when Kloden came by he would have said " if you were not such a jerk, I would give you my bike to finish the race with."  BTW, I have also been impressed with Kloden's unselfish work on this tour.

I have to admit Hushovd went up a notch in my books today.  That was a gutsy ride.

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I think Lance finally showed his age today and said as much in his Twitter feed after the ITT. He wrote that he paid for the hard efforts of the last two days and ran out of gas at the end of the TT.

I think tomorrow is going to be a crazy day out on the course, with the Cat 2 climb right before the end of the stage expect attacks to come from all over....heck the team managers might attack with their cars just for good measure. The only way that Lance moves into second overall is if Andy Schleck cracks on Ventoux, I honestly don't think that Lance can out climb him anymore. Hopefully Astana will set it up to where Alberto works for Lance to get the stage win on Ventoux since he has the overall all but sewn up.

I agree with this 100%.  I think Contador was more concerned with Armstrong and Leipheimer than the rest of the GC on that first attack.  He certainly did not care about Kloden when the Shlecks gained so much time.   As I said before, I have been really impressed with Armstrong's unselfishness on this tour. 

Although the chances are from slim to none, I would love to see Contador bonk big time and not even be on the podium in Paris  even though he, Leipheimer, and Vandevelde were my favorites going into this thing.