The Daily Race: Tour de France Stage 20
by Jen See on Jul 24, 2010 6:26 PM EDT
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Stage 20: Longjumeau — Paris Champs-Élysées
What is it? Party in Paris!
Got Climbs? No.
Yellow Jersey Battle: So over. Time for champagne and podium kisses.
Ideal Rider: Mark Cavendish. The British sprinter won by several bike lengths last year. It will be difficult to stop him from winning again.
@Gavia: Hey! Quit hogging the champagne!
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At last, we come to the final stage of this year's Tour de France. The race finishes with the traditional circuit on the Champs Élysées. The Yellow Jersey, his work is done, and the winner of the overall classification will sip champagne and enjoy his day in the sun. For the sprinters, this stage is serious business. The sprint on the Champs Élysées is one of the biggest prizes in the sport for the fast men, and it's the only reason to drag their big legs over the high mountains. The finishing circuit is flat and fast and raced over the smooth cobble stone surface of the famous boulevard. As they enter the tunnel under the Seine, the sprinters' teams will jostle for position. Then, it's a curvy romp through the Place de la Concorde to the finishing straight. It's always fast and furious.
What?! It's over?!
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Once again Mark Cavendish crushes everyone on the Champs Elysées to win the final stage of the Tour de France. This time he did it almost on his own, blasting by the the competition on the final meters. Read more
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Gavia
Thanks for doing these posts throughout the Tour
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- to thank everything and everyone for a Tour that has had the epicality of a lifetime. Moments – this Tour has had those could-be-maybe-mythical moments in plentiful. When I’m a 90-year old cycling guru, people will crowd around me, asking me about the “chain-massacre” – what happened? How? Why? What could have been? What didn’t happen? 39 seconds. 39 seconds?
Big thank you to Podium Cafe too, you really have taken cycling community up a notch. Hope everyone will keep putting time and quality in this site, it is very enjoyable for us who knew everything about cycling until we entered this site.
Spot On!
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"Waar is die Idioot?" R. McEwen to F Dostoyevsky-Post Stage 6 2010
by frans verbiage on Jul 24, 2010 7:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Will the mid-stage sprints be contested by Cav?
He seems to only go for wins, but what the heck, a Green Jersey is nice.
There's an interview with Maxime Monfort & Cav over on Sporza, in which they ask him
that question. I’ll spare you my recap, you can see it HERE. You might have to scroll down a bit, to the Maxime Monfort video.
He says no.
Also, once again, he points out that he is nothing without his team. Mad props for Cavendish.
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