Another major blow to cycling

More and more blows are happening to this years Tour de France. Following Astana's withdrawal comes today's ejection of the yellow jersey holder Michael Rasmussen. Except today's ejection came from within the Rabobank management. Michael had made a mistake by violating his team rules. Supposedly he stated that he was on a vacation in Mexico and would miss two mandatory drug tests. But today a former rider has come forward and stated that he saw Michael in Italy during that time period. This violated Rabobank's rules and thus forced them to eject their leader. Now the yellow will be awarded to the 24 year old Alberto Contador from Team Discovery Channel. This also will advance Cadel Evans to second place and Levi Leipheimer is in third. This now places two riders from the Discovery Channel Team in the top three positions. It's looking good for Alberto he deserves this victory if he team allows him to become the leader.

Once again I'm quite impressed!

I have two words to say. Alberto Contador. This kid is gonna become a record setter in the future. He once again showed his incredible abilities on today's I mean yesterday's stage. He continuously attack Rasmussen on the second and last climbs of the day. Not only could you start to see that he wasn't tiring even after stage 14's win. Not only does this young kid deserve to win the white jersey he should also convince Johan Bruyneel's strategy and make him their GC man. Even though Levi is not out yet Alberto deserves it after his incredible recent stages. Now all the riders can get their rest day and recover after such a tough past two days. Also I have an update on my new addition to the cyclist blog, iRide will be receiving a lot of pictures from the writers of the blog from their trip to Louisville. Feel free to check it out in the near future.

Rest Day

Well after yesterday this was a much needed rest day. Not only did the riders need it, I needed it. Just to much excitement in such a short period of time. All right I feel very sorry for Michael Rogers. He has such a tough day. Rogers had been riding with Rasmussen until he over shot that left handed turn and crashed into the guard rail which also sent another rider straight over it. This left Rogers injured and his pace suffered greatly. Final trying to ride through the pain he stopped. He was unable to move his right arm. The injury appeared to be in the shoulder area thus leading me to think he has suffered a broken collarbone. Even though some riders struggled other just dominated that stage... mainly Michael Rasmussen. He turned on the juice and just absolutely dominated. He didn't show any weakness until he reached the 10 kilometer mark when his pace started to slow a little. But he still beat, the late run, of Iban Mayo by a full two minutes and some change. Then Levi was struck with the penalty due to his method of returning to the peloton when his chain came loose and messed his rear derailleur up. Tomorrows stage 9 looks like is gonna be just as exciting as the previous' day was.