the tour is over
27th-jul-2009 - posted by dtra
and what an ordinary one it was for australia (apart from the stage win for the soon-to-be (who used-to-be) aussie heinrich haussler). out hopes all lay with cadel evans (and to some degree michael rogers as well), but after early issues, neither managed to fire in what was a really interesting tour. with lance armstrong back, and on the same team as alberto contador, plus some outstanding attacking from the schleck brothers, and the surprising brad wiggins, it was good to watch, especially in the alps. though it was kind of boring because you pretty much knew that contador was going to kill it the whole time (i thought that anyway), and he ended up doing so. next year should be better with a bit of the wealth spread around a bit more so to speak, with a lot of transfers to be expected, hopefully the teams won't be so lop-sided, and there will be more guys having to attack, and not just relying on team mates to defend.
i was pretty wasted last week, staying up reasonably late to see the alpine stages, as always, my lower back was the part to feel the brunt of the pain, but now i can rest up, and get back to normal. i guess the vuelta a espana though not as important, should still be interesting in september, but it must suck for them that all the really big riders concentrate so much just for the tour de france.
pic of the final podium taken from the cycling news web site.
#33 dtra (david tran)
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