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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake / Thousand-year-old petroglyphs doing a double take / Pointing a finger at eternity / I'm sitting in the middle of this ecstasy — Bruce Cockburn, Wondering Where the Lions Are |
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This years Tour de France was rocked by scandal the day before the start, with the top contentders — Basso and Ulrich — pulled from the race.
It’s been an interesting first week, with George Hincapie the top American in the race and placing very well in the general classifcation.
Until the first time trial.
Hincapie is out, too far behind at this point to make up the difference.
I’ve got a consistent line about the tour and it’s based on experience in recent years: you win in the time trials, and lose in the mountains.
Hincapie is a great climber, but not a good time trialist. Now we need only wait and see if Floyd Landis — scheduled to undergo hip surgery as soon as August — can hold his own going uphill as the American contender.
Posted by skooter at 2:24 PM
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