Tour De France

Rain rain rain today,

Another successful breakaway,

Won by Haussler,

Cavendish lost the green jersey again,

He will get it back when the tour goes back on the flat,

Might even be tomorrow as it's a flatish day in the mountain area,

I would think he will get it back  depends weather any of the columbia team wanna exert themselves before a serious mountain stage and if there are any serious brake aways.

Cavendish deducted the 14pts he got today,

I think for swearving across the path of a fellow racer,

Stage won yet again by a breakaway,

High mountains tomorrow,

That will sort a few contenders out.

felt sorry for Hincapie yellow jersey taken off him by his own team and Cav was unlucky I've seen worst sprints

Contador wins stage and takes yellow,

Wiggins has a very good go at it and he his now 3rd overall.

Rest day tomorrow.

Bradley Wiggins will give up the track and the chance of another medal in the 2012 olympics to concentrate on winning the Tour De France.

The way he his going it might even be this year,

He's in 3rd place at the moment and doing well in the mountains,

The time trail will give him a good chance of a stage win,

BUT I can not see him getting in front of Contador this year,

Good luck for next year Bradley,

BUT a place on the podium this year will be a great achievement.

Perhaps this sort of thing should be introduced in BTTB II with the leader getting to wear the Black and White jersey.  The last one has to wear a sCUNTs top  

I can't see anyone challenging Contador for the next few years - unless they take away the mountain top finishes altogether. The only part of his race that's even remotely suspect is his time trialling but that has improved massively. The guy has won the last 3 grand tours he has started (and would certainly have won the Tour last year had he been allowed to enter). He attacks for fun in the mountains and as we saw yesterday nobody can live with his acceleration. In other words, I am standing by my pre-race prediction!

Wiggins has amazed me in the mountains but he doesn't have the turn of speed to attack and take time out of anyone on those stages. The question is how much he can claw back with his time trialling prowess. The challenge for him this year is to take time out of Armstrong, but with a couple more days in the Alps and Mt Ventoux still to come he could yet have a bad day and lose time himself.

As for Cav, no green jersey this year but barring injury/crashes you should put your house on him to win on the Champs Elysees on Sunday.

Quoted from Imperial Corner

I can't see anyone challenging Contador for the next few years - unless they take away the mountain top finishes altogether. The only part of his race that's even remotely suspect is his time trialling but that has improved massively. The guy has won the last 3 grand tours he has started (and would certainly have won the Tour last year had he been allowed to enter). He attacks for fun in the mountains and as we saw yesterday nobody can live with his acceleration. In other words, I am standing by my pre-race prediction!

Wiggins has amazed me in the mountains but he doesn't have the turn of speed to attack and take time out of anyone on those stages. The question is how much he can claw back with his time trialling prowess. The challenge for him this year is to take time out of Armstrong, but with a couple more days in the Alps and Mt Ventoux still to come he could yet have a bad day and lose time himself.

As for Cav, no green jersey this year but barring injury/crashes you should put your house on him to win on the Champs Elysees on Sunday.

Spot on. Must admit to only following cycling a little bit if it is not the Tour de France and Wiggins has astounded me the change from a successful track cyclist to a road cyclist in such a small time is unbelievable, hell if he can do that in 7 months could he get closer in a years time!  

Astarloza wins the stage today( Tues)

Wiggins stays with Contador and Armstrong,

He made it look easy,

I am sure Wiggins will win this race within 3years.