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Friday, August 01, 2008
 July 
The summer is passing quickly. Probably one reason for so few entries here is the time spent watching the Tour de France during the month of July. I spent way too much time watching some of the live coverage in the morning on Versus, then the recap show in the evening.

Despite the absence of many of the pre-race favorites such as last year's winner Alberto Contador, Levi Leipheimer, and sprinter Tom Boonen, it was an exciting race. The winner was not known until the next to last stage, the individual time trail, when Carlos Sastre, put in the best performance of his career, holding off Cadel Evans, a time trial specialist.

American Christian Vande Velde finished fifth and rode an excellent race. Christian will be heading to Beijing soon to compete in the Olympics. See the Christian Vande Velde blog on USA Today.


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