What a start to Le Tour!

Great start for the Americans - unknown Dave Zabriske surprises on the opening time trial and gets the dream of every cyclists - wearing yellow for not 1 but 3 days! Poor guy crashes out of the TTT, but heads up Dave, you were awesome!

Tom Boonen, losing the sprint today to the ever cocky McEwen, will ultimately prevail as it seems to belong to him this year. Anybody see Baden Cooke?

How about some suspense for the yellow jersey? Guess we will have to wait for Lance to retire. The suspense will be in the other jerseys, again, but for Americans perhaps we can have some fun watching the other riders get themselves up for the future. I don't know how long Bobby Julich has, but he looks great. He may be the darkhorse for the 2nd highest finish this year for USA.

Whats up with T-Mobile directeur Sportif Walter G? He really has a way of motivating his riders! Not. Basically, I understood comments in the BBC cycling news to say he gave up after Stage 1. Nice. He is famous for criticizing Ulrich in public in year's past; now the question has to be for T-Mobile: Is our Directeur the problem, or do we have underpeformers? Lots of racing to go, but I gotta wonder about this guy. It seems clear that the new age of coaching comes from the mold created by Johann Bruyneel and someone has taken notice: Bjarne Riis. Who are the most impressive teams so far? Discovery and CSC.

Next days: more of the same. Poor weather forecasted may impact and make for crashes - hope not. Possible attacks coming in the first Alsace mountain stages. If somebody doesn't do something early in the race; I expect little to happen later. Last year it was exactly that - the attacks that never came.