STAGE ELEVEN
What a boring stage. Why even bother with this one? Aside from David Moncoutie, did this stage impact anybody? There was a sprint finish within the peleton which got Hushovd a few points, but nothing significant. Virenque picked up some ore cheap points on the early climbs. Voeckler saw absolutely no change in his lead and will wear yellow for another day.
OK, Magnus Backstedt dropped out the race and Matthias Kessler didn't even start the stage. But Kessler's out due to a high speed introduction to a fence post in Stage Ten. It was a pretty spectacular crash, but he just couldn't continue today, and I can't blame him. If it hurt half as bad as it looked, I'm stunned he even got back on his bike and finished the stage.
A three-man, 60 km breakaway dominated the storyline today. But since non of the riders were close to the lead, no one really bothered to chase them down. And the finish between the breakaway wasn't even exciting, as Moncoutie dropped his fellow attackers almost 10 km from the finish line. Everyone sort of just rode out the day. Aside from a small hanful, nobody lost any time.
Oh, am I drooling over those twin climbs of Stage Twelve. Finally, the Tour gets going! No offense, but Erik Zabel is in 7th overall, and that's just wrong. A sprinter shouldn't be in 7th midway through the Tour.
What a boring stage. Why even bother with this one? Aside from David Moncoutie, did this stage impact anybody? There was a sprint finish within the peleton which got Hushovd a few points, but nothing significant. Virenque picked up some ore cheap points on the early climbs. Voeckler saw absolutely no change in his lead and will wear yellow for another day.
OK, Magnus Backstedt dropped out the race and Matthias Kessler didn't even start the stage. But Kessler's out due to a high speed introduction to a fence post in Stage Ten. It was a pretty spectacular crash, but he just couldn't continue today, and I can't blame him. If it hurt half as bad as it looked, I'm stunned he even got back on his bike and finished the stage.
A three-man, 60 km breakaway dominated the storyline today. But since non of the riders were close to the lead, no one really bothered to chase them down. And the finish between the breakaway wasn't even exciting, as Moncoutie dropped his fellow attackers almost 10 km from the finish line. Everyone sort of just rode out the day. Aside from a small hanful, nobody lost any time.
Oh, am I drooling over those twin climbs of Stage Twelve. Finally, the Tour gets going! No offense, but Erik Zabel is in 7th overall, and that's just wrong. A sprinter shouldn't be in 7th midway through the Tour.
posted by Poseur at 3:32 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home