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The Boss vs El Pisterolo

For me personally the Tour de France last year wasn’t very exciting. I mean after Mark Cavendish won his second stage after 3 days of racing it was clear he wasn’t going to be beaten. Alberto did the same thing, when the Alps came around he was only a few seconds off the pace of Brice Felliu who wasn’t a GC contender anyway. After his attack on Verbier he had a large buffer on everyone else in the race.

The Tour de France’s most interesting aspect was the war between Lance and Contandor. The build up was vicious. When Contador had the bonk in the Paris Nice Lance tweeted that Bertie still had a lot to learn. It was obvious the whole time that Johann Bryuneel was favouring Lance . When Lance was suffering in the mountains he took the time to announce his new team Radioshack as if to relieve pressure off his racing.

The worst spat of the whole tour was still to come though with Contador claiming the the hotel was harder than the race as well as claiming that he had to pay for his own wheels. I known Lance is supposed to be quite a nasty guy but surely that took it to the extremes.

Reccently Contador changed his race plans for the year saying that after Paris Nice which he won convincingly he can back of  the amount of races before the tour. He is changing his plan to ride in the Criterium International which Lance is riding as well. Judging from last year this should be like a nuclear war has erupted.