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Étape 10: Pau - Hautacam
Anonymous File :-(, x)
Ok, everybody. Tomorrow is the 14th of July. French national holiday. All french riders are hot and want the stage win. They will attack from km 0 on and hope that their group will make it to the finish before the the riders battling for the tour win catch up. I think Kirchen will lose the maillot jaune tomorrow. He made it over the top with his opponents today but only because they climbed with a very constant pace. Tomorrow there will be attacks and I fear he won't be able to counter them. Caisse looks like it is the strongest climbing team but is Valverde good enough to win the tour. Usually winning the Dauphine Liberé is a bad sign for winning the tour. But for him was quite a relaxed day today, as for Evans if he hadn't crashed, no real attacks they had to counter. Schumacher too weak, he is more the classics guy, Ricco too far behind, he sucks in time trial. So both could save strengh and lick their wounds. Tomorrow I believe will be different. How bad are the injuries of those two. How strong are Menchov and especially Sastre. The latter, always one of the favourites in the last years couldn't live up to the expectations put into him. This year, thanks to the Schleck brothers not even in the spot lite of CSC, he is doint better than the years before, I really wonder how strong he is. And what about Sanchez and the rest of the Euskatel team. Impressive train on today's stage but in finale nothing to be seen of them. Sure Sanchez and Astarloza made it over the top with the first group but usually their presence is much more obvious on the stages in the Pyrenees. And how long will Vandevelde stay there? Unspectacular and out of the focus of the cameras, the US boys somehow made himself comfortable in the top three.
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