Review Tour de France 2011

Photo by By scarlatti2004 It was a great tour de France. The best I can ever remember. As I said recently in (Tour)- how quickly you can forget the past problems of pro-cycling when watching a new edition of the tour! Cadel Evans was a worthy winner. His final time trial was awesome. He was clearly strongest and most consistent rider of the Tour. And dare I say it that I’m even glad for my friends in Australia to have a good old Aussie win the Tour de France. Andy Schleck will be gutted to be second for third time in a row. But, it is no small compensation that he won perhaps the greatest stages in modern memory. It is so rare for a serious contender to be able to attack 60Km from finish and hold off the rest of the chasers on two climbs. Perhaps he deserved the King of the Mountains, but S.Sanchez was also a worthy winner. The Schlecks helped to make it a really great race, but I wonder if they fear whether they can ever win? In future tours there could easily be more than 42Km of time trials, and if there is – [...]

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