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Did the Tour de France leave you numb and lack-luster? Do you feel like there is no trust in pro sports? Is the apocolypse right around the corner? Are you still trying to pull the knives out of your back from Vino, Rasmussen and Mayo?
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-Adam
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Photo ©: Fotoreporter Sirotti

Photo ©: Fotoreporter Sirotti
Final Pool Order:
Kid Contador conquers this years Tour! Gerald wins the pool! More to come...
1. Gerald-121
2. John-70
3. Tony-57
4. Adam-53
5. Rooster-42
6. Karen-25

Levi Wins Battle, Contador Wins the War

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Levi put together one of the best TT's in Tour history, but just fell short of winning the whole enchilada. Contador survived the hard driving Evans as well. The Kid will carry the white and yellow jersey to Paris. Levi said that he will not pull a "Vinokourov" tomorrow, so it should be a celebration in Paris for the Disco 1-3. I haven't worked up the Pool results, it's been a long day of installing my bamboo floors! John and I got some show points for Leipheimer, the rest didn't score. More tomorrow...
-Adam

Casar Hits Dog, then Wins Stage

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Photo ©: AFP Photo
Sandy Casar wins after a hard crash with a dog. The French get their win, and the Tour rolls into tomorrows decisive TT. John scored on Sandy to show, and I picked Axel Merckx for second place!
Pool Order:
1. Gerald-83
2. Adam-36
3. John-34
4. Tony-20
5. Karen-10
6. Rooster-9
The race will be between John and Gerald. If Evans wins and Leipheimer is 3rd, John stands to gain 80 points. There are show points for GC, and Gerald should get 30 points there which would put them in a virtual dead heat, but John has Evans winning the TT, and for him to win that would probably have to happen. So, if Evans wins John wins, if he doesn't then it's Gerald!

Contador Rides 17 in White, then Dons Yellow

photo: AFP
Bennati wins the stage today, but we are consumed with rAss, Vino and the like. Some of the rider reaction has been great, check this out...
The following is taken from cyclingnews.com

Pineau and Hinault critical of fellow riders

After years of silence riders who dope are being frowned upon by their colleagues, with Jérôme Pineau (Bouygues Telecom)and Sebastian Hinault (Crédit Agricole) joining the growing list of riders to speak out. Pineau aimed his comments at Cristian Moreni. "There are a lot of riders in his team whose contracts will expire at the end of the season," he stated to HLN.be. "Thanks to him they may also be living on the street. If a rider like him was in my team, I wouldn't hesitate to punch him in the face."

Hinault is also furious with the state of affairs, which is reminiscent of '98 when the Festina team were thrown off the Tour after doping products were found in a team car. "We are not scared to talk about Rasmussen, only your grandmother would believe that you missed four doping controls by accident," he said to HLN.be of the Dane's excuse for not filing his whereabouts to anti-doping authorities. "He is lucky that he has the law on his side and we can't kick him out of the sport. It's a real shame."

Here is our GC as of now:

1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 76.18.25
2 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 1.53
3 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2.49
4 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 6.02
5 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6.29
6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 10.18
7 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 11.36
8 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 12.50
9 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 13.31
10 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 13.42
11 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 14.07
12 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17.58
13 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 22.14
14 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor - Lotto 23.12
15 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 24.27

Poolers were blanked today, so no changes there.
-Adam

Rabo Pulls Foul Chicken

AP Photo/Christophe Ena
Don't ask for whom the bell tolls, Michael, it tolls for thee...
-Adam

Great Dane Breaks Disco Challenge

photo: AFP
Rasmussen outlasted an early break by Sastre and Mayo, and left Evans reeling midway through the final climb of the day. Then the Disco boys made their valiant efforts to no avail as the Dane simply walked away in the last kilometer. Barring a doping DQ, Rasmussen has just launched himself into cycling history and transformed himself from Polka-King to the Great Dane. He has been denying the accusations against him and I hope he is clean. Today he had this response to the drug questions, "Now I understand what Lance Armstrong went through in seven years. My respect for him is growing day by day. The only good thing about the Vino' situation is that it proves that the system is working. To that I can only add that I have 14 negative tests at this Tour." Let's hope he has 14 more negative tests!
On Pool news, Gerald picked the Great Dane for the win, John and Tony had show points. Gerald is on a long breakaway at the moment, but his final GC is full of Astana...
-Adam
Pool Order:
1. Gerald-83
2. John-32
3. Adam-31
4. Tony-20
5. Karen-10
6. Rooster-9