the first mountain stage is always a hard one to call. nobody going for the c.g. ever holds back in an individual time trial, but that’s not the case when the roads start to point upwards. the fact that the whole peloton is on the road means that group-think can take hold. how many times […]

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well, you can’t do better than being right. velorant picked gonchar (phil and paul did not), gonchar won, and did the coup double. a great day for ukraine. but gonchar is not a threat for the overall, so let’s review how the actual contenders did.
velorant said the real contenders would be within a minute of […]

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i’ll make this entry short and sweet, because this race is wide open and there are many contenders for tomorrow’s itt. first prediction: i don’t think much more than a minute is going to separate the top contenders for the overall who can time trial. my pick to win is serguei gonchar. also in the […]

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i didn’t get a chance to say it before the tour started, but i’m excited about this tour. i love lance armstrong, but enough is enough. when lance won stages 15-17 in 2004, i started losing interest in “le tour de lance.” who am i to say, but how can anyone really claim that lance […]

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i’ve only been watching oln for two days and already i’m ready to bare my neck and concede what the oln “boys” (as phil calls them) want me to: an american will win this tour! nothing else is even remotely possible! an american will not win this tour, but let me at least entertain the […]

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Thor Hushovd of Credit-Agricole wins the first yellow jersey of the Tour. Full results.

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