Today is an historic day in the Luna Cycles Fantasy Tour de France. For today is the day that the gender barrier has been broken and a female directeur sportif has ascended the top step in the GC. Nicole Thomas has become the first female GC leader by ousting Peter Purcell from what appeared to be a pretty commanding lead. Chapeau, Nicole!
Latest standings:
1. Espresso Train (N. Thomas) - 4219 pts.
2. Team Heal with Steel (P. Purcell) - 4082 pts.
3. Team Buuuuuuuuurn! (C. Hicks) - 3981 pts.
Complete standings here.
Complete list of teams and their riders here.
Tomorrow is the day that could reveal all. With a final 10.6 km that looks like a graphic from a math SAT question requiring knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem, a first kilometer with an average gradient of 8.7%, and an overall nasty disposition that travels skyward, the finish will definitely seperate the contenders from the pretenders. The big question on everybody's mind is what will Armstrong reveal on this climb? Is it all just smoke and mirrors? Will Contador send a message? or will Lance lay down some horrific smackdown after a brutal softening up of the bunch courtesy of his faithful domestiques? Will Levi take advantage and for once lay down an attack? Will Kloden ride for himself and be the big spoiler? This is going to be an interesting day...
4 comments:
I smell doping here.
The Feds, headed by Bernanke, are officially staging a query as to why their henchman, I mean rider, Hushovd did not receive his full bonus for his stage 6 win. Although, clearly, Bernanke supports the trimming of bonuses on Wall St., he has NOT authorized the trimming of bonuses to his riders.
Bumblers
The rider doesn't get a stage win bonus, only the 5 man team. Your five guys have to add up to be in the top 3 to get a bonus. Otherwise Nicole would be crushing us by more with all of Cavs wins.
There's a reason we're the Bumblers...oops.
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