Saturday July 26, 2008
Saturday July 26, 2008
Today is a huge day in the Tour de France, the second last day of the Tour, the time-trial also known as the race of truth. I am a huge fan of the Tour watching the race untl very late into the night here in Sydney Australia and have been watching and following the race for many years.
Australian Cadel Evans is going for Yellow in the today's time trial in the Tour dr France
There is huge interest in the Tour this year in Australia with Cadel Evans sitting in fouth place only 1 min 34 secs behind the race leader Carlos Sastre, however Evens is by far the superior rider at the time trial. The key quesion in will Evans be able to make up the 1 min 34 sec gap on Sastre. There is no doubt that Evans will beat Satre in the race of truth against the clock but is he close enough to race into the Yellow jersey. It will be nail bitting stuff. Evans will ride at after midnight tonught and I will be watching.
The route for the 2008 Tour de France
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Odd to read about the Tour when we were just discussing it here (and watching it on TV). My husband went to watch the tour whizz past in his lunch break yesterday. And it is amazing how many people appear and disappear to capture those few seconds where the cyclists whizz past.
My husband said that he arrived and chose his spot. Quickly he was surrounded by lots of others, some police, a couple of ambulances.
The cyclists began to appear. One cyclist threw an empty bottle to the side and it bounced off something and back onto the road. All the spectators where trying to watch the cyclists but couldn't help eying that bottle with a worried air - fearing that it would cause an accident. And a few seconds later the cyclists had passed. Everyone turned and headed back to their lives and the road was again just another road in the the center of Grenoble.
Where do all these spectators come from at every point of the tour?
Posted by Antoinette O'Sullivan on July 26, 2008 at 11:58 PM EST #