I'm in Tour de France heaven. I have been a fan of the tour since 1986 when Greg Lemond won his first tour. For years I had to settle for one hour of TV coverage every sunday and an occasional write up in the sports section of the paper. Then for a couple years ESPN was covering the race. So I got to see about one hour a day of coverage each day. Then OLN network took over the tv coverage of the race and my cable company didn't carry the OLN network. So I was back in 1986, depending on one hour of coverage on sundays. The last few years I have had to depend on the internet for my daily TdF fix.
Well last year we dropped our cable subscription and started using Directv. Directv offers OLN network. So I have been anxiously awaiting the start of the tour. Because now I get several hours a day of race coverage. I love it. I get the prerace coverage, the race and the post race coverage. Enough bicycle talk and pictures to satisfy any race buff.
Then to top this all off, I get to watch the opening prologue yesterday. A simple little 12 miles individual time trial. Lance Armstrong turned in what was probably the best single time trial demonstration since Greg Lemond out raced Frenchman Laurent Fignon to win his second tour.
Watching Armstrong cruise past Jan Ulrich who started this short race a full minute ahead of him was a thing of beauty.
More so watching the young American David Zabriskie not only win the prologue to become only the third American to ever wear the yellow jersey was great.
Even better was watching Zabriskie defend the yellow jersey in today's stage. Today was a day for the sprinters. 182 km from Challans to Les Essarts. There was a four man breakaway that got run down by the peloton about 4 km from the end of the race, then a full peloton sprint to the finish. OK so not a full peloton sprint, just the truely insane members of the peloton get involved on those sprints.
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