2 days to go
Just take the essence of yesterday's stage and splash it on all over again.
- An unexpected winner;
- A massive peloton containing both Ullrich and Armstrong;
- It all takes place in France;
- Oh, and David Millar just about last.
OK, so there were some differences. Today's winner was Pablo Lastras. And Ullrich actually did manage to gain 2 seconds on Armstrong because of the effect of bonus sprints during the race. Oh, and David Millar slipped back 12 places from 135th to 147th.
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| Green green grass of home |
The battle of the Outback is going to go all the way. There are only 2 points between Robbie McEwen and Baden Cooke at the top of the Green Jersey standings. It is going to be close, but McEwen has won the final stage before and is probably the favourite because of this.
As an interesting aside, Jan Ullrich is 9th on 104 points with Armstrong 13th on just 85 points. Not sure exactly what this tells us - either that Armstrong is a flukey fake who doesn't deserve his yellow glow, or that Armstrong is a tactical genius who expends the minimum energy possible to keep ahead of his rivals. Or maybe that Yellow and Green and very different colours.
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| Poetic justice |
After losing 2 seconds to Ullrich in today's stage, Armstrong was interviewed and said:
I don't think that two seconds is going to win the Tour.
So that leaves us with a dream scenario where Armstrong loses by just 1 second. Or just the width of a collar-bone.
8:51:46 PM 
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