The Dane's moove looked like Shleck's at Liege this year, with all the obvious course differences.
Pelizzotti's riding is not surprising in light of his fine Giro performances, still, at his first Tour, I was not expecting him to be so ferocious. The Alpes will determine how noteworthy his race is gonna be. Hope he gets the KOM points jersey.
It is clear that for JB, LA is a more advantageous Tour victor than AC, in pure economic terms, in regards to finding new team sponsorship next year. Since economic concerns in the corporate sponsorship world always prevail over the purely human relationship issues, AC, who is in this sense because of his age, pedigree and actual physical superiority, the one Astana should be supporting: may very well be sacrificed to the corporate cause. Which is a shame. Of course LA has to demonstrate he has the legs to do it.
In any case, what if the LA/AC due mutually cancel each other from the title, because of JB playing the double spy game, and have third party member (AS?) steal the show? In that case, we shouldn't expect to see JB's disgraced face till about 2015.
