Tour de France 2011
Jul. 24th, 2011 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99I don't even know where to start. It's probably been the best tour I remember in at least 5 years. Everyone was giving it a go and no one was so much better at either climbing or time-trialling that the result was definite until the last day.
I'll post more about Cadel Evans tomorrow (mostly because I want it to go with his podium photo), because he is amazing, but it's mostly been a tour of revelations, like that Mark Cavendish can be charming (and more than slightly adorable), that Bernie Eisel has somehow matured into a thinking back-up sprinter (yeah, I don't know how either [some background, back in the day when he was a young sprinter, there'd be a crash and the commentators wouldn't even have to look to know he was at the bottom of it]), that a can do attitude can get it done and courage, determination and chancing your arm are the way forward.
I love you all, all 167 of you that managed to finish and the 31 of you that didn't.
I'll post more about Cadel Evans tomorrow (mostly because I want it to go with his podium photo), because he is amazing, but it's mostly been a tour of revelations, like that Mark Cavendish can be charming (and more than slightly adorable), that Bernie Eisel has somehow matured into a thinking back-up sprinter (yeah, I don't know how either [some background, back in the day when he was a young sprinter, there'd be a crash and the commentators wouldn't even have to look to know he was at the bottom of it]), that a can do attitude can get it done and courage, determination and chancing your arm are the way forward.
I love you all, all 167 of you that managed to finish and the 31 of you that didn't.
