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2009 Tour de France

Tour 2009: Contador climb

Ross · 20 Jul 2009 ·

Well, the response to the post yesterday describing Contador’s climb has been overwhelming – being in SA, I slept through most of your emails and woke this morning to a deluge of comments and analysis of the climb. Thank you to everyone for your input. It would be wonderful to do a more detailed breakdown […]

Tour 2009: Contador takes yellow

Ross · 19 Jul 2009 ·

Alberto Contador rode himself into the yellow jersey by dominating the mountain-top finish in Verbier today. An attack by the Spaniard with 5.5 km to go saw him open up a gap on the Tour’s elite, and then continue to build it. The damages by the finish line were 43 seconds to Andy Schleck (the only […]

Tour 2009: Waiting for the Alps

Ross · 16 Jul 2009 ·

The Tour has ticked over (as much as ‘ticking over’ happens when you ride 200 km a day in a bike race), and we’re now on the verge of the big showdown in the Alps. After the relative disappointment of the Pyrenees, the Alps provide the next potential stage for the big showdown for the […]

Tour de France 2009: Power estimates

Ross · 14 Jul 2009 ·

The Tour is currently winding its way through France, in what is another pretty sedate and routine stage so far. It’s looking like a sprinter’s stage, and maybe the battle for green between Cavendish and Hushovd. To pass the time, I thought I’d do a post on the power outputs of elite cyclists in the mountains, which […]

Tour de France 2009: Pyrenees are over

Ross · 12 Jul 2009 ·

The Pyrenees, mercifully, are over. I suspect one would have to go a long way back to find a Tour where the Pyrenees have been so inconsequential to the overall race. The days where the main contenders attacked one another to gain time in the Pyrenees are a distant memory, because the 2009 Tour trundled over some […]

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