(left-click to enlarge pic)Tour de France in July. The most popular road bike racing of the year.
It began July 4th and finishes July 26th ... 3,500 KMs.
Stage 7 (Fri July 10th) has been completed and Lance Armstrong is now third but very close. His Astana team-mate Alberto Contador, is two seconds ahead of Lance. The difficulty will be to find a way to beat his team-mate ... doesn't often happen ... without alienating or discouraging their American team. It is an unusual situation, a team with two leaders. But Astana is a highly respected team with, arguably, the best riders of any team.
Lance may have to out-muscle his team-mate on a hill climb (Monday or Tuesday) or do it in the last time trial (stage 18, July 23rd) ... or wait for the last (and toughest) hill climb in last competitive stage, July 25th.
It may be a very exciting finish!
It is available on OLN (Bell's 211) but you can watch it live (early in the AM) on various Internet live video feeds. Here is the one I have been using.
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