SO it has come down to a prize fight. A toe-to-toe slugfest between heavyweights Cadel Evans and super Spaniard Carlos Sastre for cycling's greatest prize. After 17 stages, more than 3000km, crashes, battles, challenges and sacrifices, the 180-strong Tour de France field has boiled down to this pair who will battle to be crowned the 2008 champion on the Champs Elysees on Sunday night. The next two stages are not easy - to the contrary there will be many attacks - but generally speaking Team CSC-Saxo Bank is so strong it will be able to control the peloton until we arrive at the showdown. The 53km individual time trial on stage 20 will ultimately decide who will win this year's Tour de France - it's now a two-man race, Sastre v Evans. Cadel gives Carlos a headstart of 1min 34secs in a 53km race against the clock which will...
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