Yeah I can see your point about him carving out this reptutation in previous tour's, but he does make it thru the complete giro, obviously not this year, but certianly in previous years...And it's not like all the rest of the sprinters that enter the tour, complete it themselvs??....I also would think that this year Cipo would certianly give it his best effort at completeing the whole thing, because it get's more publicity for the world champion and all the sponsors he has on it, so I would think Leblanc would want to invite him over a team like Jean Delatour, I mean honestly, and I don't mean to de-mean them, but do we really think that they are going to make an impact in the tour??
Benjamin