in "Road" magazine for October. Not available online without subscription, it seems, but worth the purchase. In addition to some race analysis there are interesting observations from Bobby J on:
Gerdemann and CSC; sprinter etiquette towards non-sprinters; the importance of having your full team in the race (the loss of Zabriskie and Cancellara affecting the race of other CSC riders); the careers of French riders David Moncoutie and Sandy Casar (would have achieved more on non-French teams); and Mauricio Soler (why it's good to have wild card teams in the race).
His real-time commentary on Vino over the course of the race is poignant. Of the stage where Vino lost 28 minutes Julich says, "I've known Vino for a long time and consider him a friend. It's the first time I've ever seen him give up mentally. When he gave the 'I'm done' sign to the camera, I couldn't believe my eyes. He never gives up. He always fights."
Then a few days later: "We were asleep when the telephone and text messages started coming... I thought they got the name wrong. With the cloud hanging over Rasmussen's head, when they said Vino was kicked out of the Tour for a positive for blood doping, I immediately thought [they meant] Rasmussen. When they said Vino, my heart sank. He is a friend of mine who I look up to. He was an inspiration to many cyclists out there. And for him to make such a poor decision...it really hurt."
After Rasmussen was kicked out Bobby notes that at the CSC training camp in Luxembourg "one of my teammates recounted the same story about a week earlier. He said, 'I saw Rasmussen out training in Fassa Bortolo clothing in Italy up in the Dolomites, and I thought that was really weird.' Then it came out that he was in Mexico, but my teammate said, 'Maybe he wasn't in Mexico the whole time because I saw him training.' So it was a week before the story busted."
I hadn't heard the detail about the Fassa Bortolo kit. The unnamed teammate is right, it was weird.