Tour de France: Stage 10

Ah, Bastille Day.  After J-Red pointed out that we don’t have a great sports tradition for the Fourth of July, it makes the French tradition of the Tour on Bastille day even cooler.  As always, the French riders made a special effort to win the stage on their national holiday. The race was fun without team radios, creating an overblown controversy where a bunch of teams (not surprisingly, Astana was included, but shockingly the French teams were not) whined about the rule change.  It’s only being tried out for two stages this year, and according to a bunch of teams, it’s not that big a deal.  As for the race itself, we saw a late break that never put too much distance on the peloton.  It seemed like a really lazy day overall, no one exerted too much effort.  Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador are still sitting exactly where they want to be, just off the lead with a non-contender wearing yellow.  They couldn’t have drawn out a better plan for...