Vive le Tour!

It’s July, so that means it’s time for my Tour de France predictions.

After the debacle that was the ’06 Tour I vowed to never again follow the race. All I’ve proven by doing that is that I am weak; I still love le Tour. In 2006 I predicted that Floyd Landis would take the final yellow jersey - which he did, until he was officially stripped of the title for the final time last week.

The ’08 Tour would’ve been a lot more fun to pick had Astana been given the opportunity to race. Plus, with some of my favorite riders like Boonen and Mayo out for ’08, this year’s Tour de France is a tough one to call. Add to that the fact that I am horrible at picking winners and you have the recipe for failure... until this year!

It is without hesitation that I make the following predicitons for the 2008 Tour de France.

Overall: Cadel Evans / Lotto 2nd: Carlos Sastre / CSC 3rd: Alejandro Valverde / Caise d'Epargne 11th: George Hincapie / High Road

KOM: Yaroslav Popovych / Lotto

Sprint: Thor Hushovd 2nd: Fabian Cancellara 3rd: Mark Cavendish

Team: CSC

During the next few weeks, I’ll be following the tour from a few sites: http://www.letour.fr/us/homepage_courseTDF.html http://www.versus.com/tdf/ http://twitter.com/DailyTour

If you have an opinion, I’d love to hear it. Feel free to make a comment on this post or send me an e-mail. Come back on July 21, 2008 and see how I did. I’m sure Cadel Evans will be wearing the maillot jaune in the end.