I recently wrote a Tour de France 2008 review for VO2max, a Kiwi endurance sports publication. The magazine should be out shortly, but here's a sneak preview:Carlos Sastre (Team CSC – Saxo Bank) put in one of the rides of his life on the Tour de France’s penultimate day to preserve his hold on the Maillot Jaune and become the third consecutive Spanish winner of the world’s greatest bicycle race.
A well-designed route helped the 2008 event be one of the closest and riveting in decades with Sastre providing the fireworks on the key L’Alpe d’Huez stage to take the leader’s Yellow Jersey. Sastre was expected to lose his top position to Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) in the final 53km time trial, but instead rode brilliantly to limit his losses and defy all predictions.
Evans had to be content with being runner-up for the second year running, while mountains prize winner, Austrian Bernhard Kohl (Gerlosteiner), was a magnificent third, Denis Menchov (Rabobank) was fourth and Christian Vande Velde fifth.
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