"Fabian Cancellara roared into the yellow jersey to open the 2009 Tour de France in dramatic fashion Saturday in Monaco. The reigning Olympic time trial champion took a page from his winning strategy from last year’s gold medal performance in Beijing, staying close to the climbers in the first hard part of the course and then turning on the afterburners in the closing kilometers to claim victory." I am Specialized
"Team Saxo Bank's Swiss tempo specialist, Fabian Cancellara, put all competitors behind him on today's first stage of the Tour de France where Alberto Contador was dropped by 18 seconds on the 15.5 kilometer long course in the streets of Monaco. In the intermediate, on top of today's category 4 climb the Swiss road race champion was several seconds behind Alberto Contador, but on descent and on the flat road to the finish line the time machine from Berne clearly demonstrated who is the king of the race against the clock." Read more at the Team Saxo Bank Website
"Team Saxo Bank's Fabian Cancellara is the first to don the yellow jersey after a dominating performance in the Stage 1 time trial. Levi Leipheimer was 30 seconds back in sixth and Lance Armstrong finished 10th." Read more at Active.com TDF Website
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Savvy Will Be Lance's Greatest Strength
By Chris Carmichael
It's hard to believe this is really happening. I've been Lance Armstrong's coach for 20 years and I've been writing about the Tour de France for 10 years, but I thought my days of referring to Lance as a Tour de France rider were long gone. The past three years, the Tour de France has been interesting, intense, and – for better and worse – rife with both triumph and scandal. The Tour went on without Lance, as we all knew it would, but now he's back and his influence on the race is inescapable. He's not the odds-on favorite for the yellow jersey like he used to be – and based on the results of today's Stage 1 time trial he's the fourth-ranked rider on his own team, but there's no doubt he has the power and savvy to significantly impact the final results. " Sign up to Chris Carmichael's superb commentary on the Tour De France.
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