Now I can get some sleep at last.
I liked the punning newspaper headline: "Cadel Evans Has Second Thoughts About The Tour"
Second two years running to a Spaniard. But he will be back next year for another try. Hopefully with a better team. As someone I know remarked, Silence Lotto was a good name. They were very silent. With a better team, he would have won. He was very gracious, not mentioning his team mates' weaknesses, and blaming only the crash on one of the early stages, which sapped his energy as his body healed itself. But even so, if he'd had even one team mate able to chase Sastre down in the final Alps stage, it would have been very different. The way Evans came second single handedly, almost as though he had no team at all, to the main rider of what was far and above the best team of the Tour, speaks volumes of his courage and ability.
The failure of Silence Lotto is ironic for another reason. Lotto itself works on the principle of almost everybody who participates winning nothing.
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3 comments:
Howdy, Pookster! I like your blog!
My husband and daughter both ride including a couple of long charity races each year. In the past we've watched the Tour with a great deal of interest. But the drugging scandals - again - this year have just made it less enjoyable.
Melody
Hello Melody. Thanks for leaving a comment. Nice to know someone reads these things!
Yes the doping is not good. Wonder whether Contador really won it last year drug free? Since they keep samples now, maybe one day we'll know, as they're discovering better tests all the time.
Hard to say. As the tests get more sensitive, there are more issues with false positives.
I spent my fifth year at the sidelines cheering every rider who crossed the finish line for the MS150 this year. (Alan and the Cub were among the riders. I'm better suited as an encourager and picker-upper of trash, server of carb laden foods, and generally gopher for the team.) The middle aged, overweight men and women who finish the course, albiet among the last, are much greater heros in my mind than the Tour de France narcissists who who are in it only for their own glory and are willing to accept glory that they haven't merited because of their cheating.
There's a preach in there somewhere.
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