I've been following the tour avidly for fifteen years. The size of his victory and the way Phil and Paul raved about Froome's performance reminded me of one particular Landis race. Strangely familiar. They are hanging out their reputation with such unrestrained adulation.

As for the food bags at 10km. Rules are rules. If the judges can bounce the young american from the Tour for a matter of seven seconds outside the time limit on the first stage time trial they should also deal strictly with this infraction. Who knows what was in those three bags? An appropriate alternative to banning all three would be a six minute time penalty for them and probation for ANY subsequent infraction. With this being the 100th Tour I suspect they want a clean 'appearing' race and will overlook the feed bag incident.

I was hoping for a competitive Tour this year.