Cancellara Dominates
If Fabian Cancellara sticks with this cycling thing, he might one day make something of himself.
He has to trade in his world time-trialing champion jersey for yellow. Cancellara is a pretty bad man of ITT's, and even on today's short prologue, he found a way to impose his will. He flew through the course and notches his second career stage win, which was also a prologue. So he already knows he looks good in yellow.
He beat Kloden by 13 seconds and the rest of the field by 23. Hicnapie, who finished third, was 23 seconds ahead of Tom Boonen, who finished 41st. That gives you a good idea how far ahead Cancellara was. Kloden is the big gun who gets some time on the field, but those 20-30 seconds probably won't make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Every contender finished within one minute of the leader, so no one laid a horrendous egg or anything.
Really, I'm just pumped everyone is racing again. It's time for the Tour!
He has to trade in his world time-trialing champion jersey for yellow. Cancellara is a pretty bad man of ITT's, and even on today's short prologue, he found a way to impose his will. He flew through the course and notches his second career stage win, which was also a prologue. So he already knows he looks good in yellow.
He beat Kloden by 13 seconds and the rest of the field by 23. Hicnapie, who finished third, was 23 seconds ahead of Tom Boonen, who finished 41st. That gives you a good idea how far ahead Cancellara was. Kloden is the big gun who gets some time on the field, but those 20-30 seconds probably won't make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Every contender finished within one minute of the leader, so no one laid a horrendous egg or anything.
Really, I'm just pumped everyone is racing again. It's time for the Tour!
posted by Poseur at 1:56 PM
1 Comments:
Cancellara put a serious beat down on the field. In a race like this, 13 seconds is enormous.
Of the famous, a few lost more than 30 seconds to Kloden; Popovych (+0:35), Moreau (+0:36), Sastre (+0:43), Zubledia (+0:44), Mayo (+0:47), and Rasmussen (+1:03).
Discovery already has something to hang its hat on--Vlad Gusev will wear the white jersey for stage 1.
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