Well, it's finally over. The sprinters got their final day in the sun, with Hushovd taking the honours and making up for missing out on the green jersey. Landis won his tour, keeping the Yankees (and those smug OLN commentators) happy. Rasmussen repeated his climbing exloits. Cunego showed he can race well outside Italy. T-Mobile showed they are strong even without a true leader, and Discovery showed they can't win the Tour without Lance.
Florent Brard kept us guessing by dropping out overnight after messing himself up in the time trial.
So, how did it shake out in the Tour Pool? Well, Holzauer hung on for the win over our multiple stage winner Jule Deschenes-Furry. Vicki Thomas finished a strong third. Long-time leader Peter Metuzals dropped to eigth overall, and long-time pretender Helena DeVeer slid down to 12th.
At the back of the pool, Phil Brun del Re finally managed to get into the positive numbers but held on to Lanterne Rouge.
Sharp-eyed readers will notice SUPERFAN suddenly jumped up to 16th place in the standings. This is due to an error on my part: I forgot to include Evans in our mystery entry's team. My apologies for that.
Stay tuned for the announcement of the final prizes for the Pool this week! Thanks to everyone for participating.
-- Kris Westwood
Date: 23-Jul Stage: 20 Start/Finish: Sceaux - Antony > Paris Champs-Élysées Distance 154,5 1st HUSHOVD Thor NOR C.A 2nd MC EWEN Robbie AUS DVL 3rd O’GRADY Stuart AUS CSC 4th ZABEL Erik GER MRM 5th PAOLINI Luca ITA LIQ 6th DUMOULIN Samuel FRA A2R 7th EISEL Bernhard AUT FDJ 8th GESLIN Anthony FRA BTL 9th BALLAN Alessandro ITA LAM 10th WROLICH Peter AUT GST Mountains RASMUSSEN Mickael DEN RAB Mountains PENA Victor Hugo COL PHO Young rider EISEL Bernhard AUT FDJ Aggressive HERNANDEZ Aitor ESP EUS Teams TEAM MILRAM Abandon BRARD Florent FRA CEI
Team GC 1st T-MOBILE TEAM Team GC 2nd TEAM CSC Team GC 3rd RABOBANK Team GC 4th AG2R PREVOYANCE Team GC 5th CAISSE D’EPARGNE-ILLES BALEARS Team GC 6th LAMPRE-FONDITAL Team with all finishers DAVITAMON - LOTTO Green 1st MC EWEN Robbie AUS DVL Green 2nd ZABEL Erik GER MRM Green 3rd HUSHOVD Thor NOR C.A Green 4th EISEL Bernhard AUT FDJ Polka dots 1st RASMUSSEN Mickael DEN RAB Polka dots 2nd LANDIS Floyd USA PHO Polka dots 3rd DE LA FUENTE David ESP SDV Polka dots 4th SASTRE Carlos ESP CSC Young rider 1st CUNEGO Damiano ITA LAM Young rider 2nd FOTHEN Marcus GER GST Young rider 3rd SPRICK Matthieu FRA BTL Total number of finishers 139 Lanterne rouge VANSEVANT Wim BEL DVL Rider winning 3 stages or more MC EWEN Robbie AUS DVL Biggest time gap to second LANDIS Floyd USA PHO
RANK TOT Stage rank Stage points GC points 1 790 11 29 181 Chris Holzauer 2 778 21 27 182 Julie Deschenes-Furry 3 761 48 14 196 Vicki Thomas 4 754 7 32 176 Tyler Lawlor 5 748 4 37 150 Meylina Kandoy 6 747 11 29 166 Grimpeur George 7 738 21 27 143 Paul Crowley "Team Blood Wash" 8 734 1 45 118 Peter Metuzals 9 727 7 32 169 "Mr. Stevens Picks" 10 722 48 14 160 Nat Faulkner 11 713 3 39 138 Glenn "My Team is Clean" Robinson 12 706 1 45 112 Helena DeVeer 12 706 11 29 134 Markus Chiang 14 705 21 27 128 Linda Gilligan 15 702 6 35 143 Orange Scheisse 16 701 11 29 130 Stefan Sander 16 701 11 29 180 SUPERFAN 18 691 57 12 150 Ian Dalling 19 689 48 14 183 Marc Boudreau 19 689 48 14 186 Gordon Dalling 21 688 48 14 166 Rob Grondin 22 684 11 29 122 Jamie Bryan 23 674 57 12 146 Alex Lai 24 672 48 14 150 Derrick St. John 25 663 57 12 151 "Barnet CC" 26 662 48 14 138 Team D.O.P.E.- Downplaying Operation Puerto Evidence 27 657 11 29 156 Matt Toulouse 28 651 21 27 138 Craig Hawkes "Sith Riders" 29 650 48 14 152 Jeffrey Furry 30 644 9 31 141 Sean O'Donnell "The Ruse is Up" 31 629 28 24 117 Blaine Penny 32 620 11 29 130 Chris & Storm 33 619 57 12 147 Courtnay Romkey 34 613 11 29 121 Eva Ortega "VillaEva" 35 600 11 29 100 Steve Proulx 36 599 57 12 141 Paul Scafel "Team Venga Venga Venga" 37 591 57 12 130 Ross Knight 38 589 82 0 162 Richard and Catherine 39 572 33 20 113 Kevin Field "Fev" 40 571 57 12 113 Mhairi Gilmore 41 567 10 30 69 Spencer Campbell "Texless" 42 560 30 22 111 Doug Hinan 42 560 35 17 136 Josh Hall 44 550 35 17 136 Team Damdom 45 542 30 22 132 Julie Jay 46 535 35 17 131 J to the U 46 535 57 12 101 Sandy Fulton 48 527 35 17 143 Team Oro Rocks 49 523 4 37 76 Natasha Elliott 50 512 57 12 83 John Fee / Cynthia Phelan 51 494 82 0 145 Shawn Clarke 52 492 43 15 81 The Cyclery 53 486 29 23 87 Lori Meyers 54 483 43 15 85 Kris "Can't win" Westwood 55 480 35 17 115 Ed Makarchuk 56 479 43 15 124 Yellow Dopes "Grubby Rabbit" 57 478 48 14 98 Neil la Plante 58 471 77 2 158 Chris White 59 468 35 17 100 Deb Hine's Most Excellent Picks 60 467 74 8 102 Musky Ninja 61 464 77 2 119 Jay "Son of Rudy" Heins 62 463 43 15 117 Jennifer Garrett 63 440 77 2 134 Rob Kerr 64 429 25 25 98 Wilby McKnight 65 426 57 12 95 Mike Larochelle 66 425 35 17 134 Dave Shirley 67 419 57 12 115 Reed Archer 68 410 25 25 77 "Dick und Doof" 69 397 74 8 102 Adrian Das 70 374 57 12 83 Kiwi Mike 70 374 35 17 105 Team 18 Wheeler 72 369 71 10 111 Les Boyz 73 357 77 2 110 Kate Scallion 74 314 30 22 53 Donelli 75 294 57 12 51 Sheri Jay 76 288 33 20 31 Team Boyz on Bikes 77 270 43 15 58 "Team Wheelywotten" 78 265 25 25 11 Dave Thomas 79 257 74 8 45 Larginski 80 256 71 10 92 Team OK 81 249 82 0 74 Operation Spain 82 246 77 2 106 Il Gatto 83 213 82 0 54 Los Spics 84 201 82 0 60 Mr. Glen 85 197 87 -3 83 Remi "Team MTB + Frenchies" Berube 86 170 57 12 54 Luise Sander "No Euros Here" 87 11 71 10 4 Phil Brun del Re "The Lucky Lucky Nine"Posted by kriswestwood at July 23, 2006 05:23 PM
Damn fine job Westie. Damn fine.
Posted by: Steve at July 23, 2006 07:52 PMYah, thanks for another great Pool Kris. The Tour is great to watch but the Pool makes it even more fun.
Posted by: Chris at July 23, 2006 08:11 PMThank you Kris, for running the pool. i've got my picks ready for next year, can i enter now?
Posted by: Markus at July 23, 2006 09:32 PMGrimpeur George says "Woof!" Thanks Westie & Kevin. A great tour and a great pool, yet again.
Chris, Storm & George...
Posted by: Grimpeur George at July 23, 2006 10:11 PM