In a tour that has been defined by the hundredth of a second, Alberto Contador took the overall lead by 1:37 over his teammate Lance Armstrong in Stage 15 of the 2009 Tour de France. In the first stage to finish on a mountaintop since Stage 7, Contador showed why he is called the best climber on the professional tour. [...]
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On a team with more than one strong rider, the team must work together to fend off the other teams, but if the strong riders start competing, the whole team loses. In the case of Astana, it is pretty clear that the team director had told the team to work together to get the yellow jersey from Cancellara, and have it naturally fall to the highest place Astana rider, Lance Armstrong. However, the best laid plans go awry when a team member goes out for himself. [...] Expect to see team Astana set a blistering pace to destroy the other teams and climbers. The Schleck brothers will try to repeat their feats from 2008, but team Astana will prove too much. If Lance at age 37 can keep up with Contador, the yellow jersey will be his, but that will be no easy task. [...] With Stage 1 in the books, who would have thought that Lance’s 10th place finish would be only 4th place for Team Astana. Alberta Contador is on great form, and his climbing abilities in the past tours should make him a formidable foe. [...] One of the sporting world’s great annual endurance events begins anew. Running from Saturday July 4th to Sunday July 26th, the 96th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages with 180 riders hoping to complete a total distance of 3,500 kilometers (over 2,170 miles). [...] As part of ESPN’s 30 for 30 film series, filmmaker Frank Marshall (“Bourne Ultimatum”, “Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, “Seabiscuit”) will direct a documentary that looks at the Right To Play organization which helps bring sports to children in poverty-stricken and war-torn parts of the world. [...] According to the Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog the amazing sports comeback story of the seven-time Tour de France winner from Texas has entered a new stage as Gary Ross, writer/director of that well-received equine comeback story of “Seabiscuit”, has signed on to write the film. [...] What a climactic close to the 100th anniversary of this prestigious bike race as Russia’s Denis Menchov survived a fall on a rain-soaked final stage to win the Giro d’Italia in dramatic fashion in Rome on Sunday. Searching for his third Grand Prix victory and first here, the Rabobank rider seemed to have the world’s second-biggest stage race in his grasp with a 20-second lead before Sunday’s 14.4-kilometer time-trial, but the conditions quickly turned hazardous making Rome’s slippery cobblestones even slicker. [...] Michele Scarponi of the Diquigiovanni team won the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday as the race crossed into Austria. Scarponi, who won March’s Tirreno-Adriatico stage race, finished the 248-kilometer (154 mile) stage in five hours, 49 minutes, 55 seconds. Scarponi was part of a five-rider breakaway that led the race for most of the day before the Italian dropped his companions and rode alone across the finish line. Danilo Di Luca of Italy held on to the overall leader’s pink jersey after finishing 36 seconds back. [...] |
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