Originally Posted by Hipcycler
Parade into Paris, cause the yellow's going to be firmly on the back of Mr. Landis after the TT Sat.
Sitting here on Friday, my guess would be that if Landis is wearing yellow on Sunday morning, his lead over the second place rider is likely to be only around 30 seconds or 45 seconds.
There have been a number of Tours over the past fifteen years where the gap between first and second on the last day was not much more than a minute. Yet, there seemed to be an unspoken agreement that the second place rider would not challenge the first place rider, and they both rode into Paris sipping champagne.
It would seem very odd to me if Sastre is about 30 seconds behind Landis when they are about ten miles from Paris, and Sastre says "What the heck...I'm just gonna relax and settle for second place".