Stage 19 - Cancellara Crushes Competitoin

It all went much as expected in the time trial yesterday. Cancellara won, some beefy Germans from HTC-Columbia were shortly after, and Brad Wiggins was underwhelming. Contador did enough work to keep Schleck in check and make sure he had enough time over him that the chain thing made no difference in the long run. In the fight for third place, Sammy Sanchez lost out to the superior TT abilities of Denis Menchov, which is a bit of a pity if you ask me as I like Sammy.

Those Velogames scores are too confusing for me to work out. The minileague currently looks like this.

Rank Team Directeur Score


1 The Gherkins Ged K 4329
2 Team BBC David Ward 3744
3 Bile Beans Vestan Pance 3704
4 down & out Neil Boonham 3399
5 Dickies Dirty Devils Richard Ginn 3378
6 Team O.Y.F.B denspeck 3310
7 Maillot Jenn Jennifer Harmer 3302
8 The waca racers Warwick Anderson 3292
9 Romanian Riders Matei Victor 3265
10 Evil ChanBots ChanBot 3101
11 The Achilles Squad dave 3073
12 Barmbyworld Clive Jeffery 2804
13 Smugblokes Mark Philo 2795
14 Charlton and the Wheelies Andrew 2723
15 Miffy`s Random Riders Helen 2562
16 Harrisons Pharmaceuticals Richard Harrison 2559
17 KN Kadence Kings Kevin Norman 2423

I'm not quite sure how this relates to the spreadsheet, which is now running a few days behind. It doesn't look like I'll have a chance to update it soon, so I've allowed some trusted Directeurs to edit it if they see fit.

Stage 20 is the last ever stage of the 2010 Tour De France and I'm crying so hard that I can hardly type this. It's pretty much the same every year. The bunch will have a relaxed ride to Paris, drinking champagne and engaging in some light-hearted high-jinx. Then the racing will start when they hit the Champs-Élysées and they'll go round and round a few times before there's a bunch sprint that Cav will win.