Lessons learned after Stage 1 in Monaco

Daniel Friebe, features editor Saturday, Jul 4, 2009 9.50pm Procycling Magazine's features editor Daniel Friebe is covering the 2009 Tour de France. Now that the race has begun, the Londoner has gleaned many facts to provide this keen insider's blog. What we learned from the first stage of the 2009 Tour de France… 1. That the pundits were right about Alberto Contador being stronger than Lance Armstrong. Armstrong said yesterday that, on a similar course in 2005, he’d have destroyed the opposition. Today his tenth place prolonged a sequence of mediocre time trial results since his comeback at the start of the year. Those who argue that prologues or slightly longer opening-day time trials can’t be trusted as a gauge of form are kidding themselves. Armstrong’s form will have to improve significantly if he’s to outclimb Andreas... [read full story]                    

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