Its's that time again!!!!

The most wonderful time of the year!!!

Yes, the Tour de France started today!!!

It's on, pretty much throughout the day on versus (channel 65 on cox south).

I can't believe I was actually excited to watch the prologue today. It was the first time the TDF has ever started in London. The started just north of Big Ben/Westminster Abbey, zoomed by Buckingham Palace, did a loop through Hyde park, zoomed back by Buckingham Palace and ended in St James Park.

There was a lot of hype around starting in London, because a lot of the specialist in the prologue type events (short time trials), were British, so they were supposed to give the real pros a run for their money, because of the adrenaline of being in front of home town fans.

But alas Fabian Cancellara put them all in their place (he is the world time trial champion don't cha know).

Thor did not look very good, he doesn't seem to be on form yet, unless he is sandbagging it to try and trick some people later on.

My pick for the race is Andreas Kloden of Astana. I think their uniforms are butt ugly, and his team mate Alexandre Vinokourov (Vino for short, gotta love that) is the actual race favorite, but I think Andreas will come up with the goods. Astana is sponsored by a few of the major industrial giants of Khazacstan (Astana is the Capital of the Country, ahh you learned something today...).

Tomorrow's stage goes from London to Canterbury. The route would seem to favor a bit of a breakaway if he can build up enough of a lead, or it could be a sprint since the last 20k is pretty flat. My choice for the day is Robbie McEwen, of Predictor-Lotto. But of course it would be cool if Thor won...