You mean, it hasn't been a snooze for the past few years?

You need to go borrow out some vids from the 80's if you want to know what the tour was really like before it became the snooze-fest that it is.

*edit* Actually Wikipedia has all the results and synopsis by chronology, which is really interesting. Didn't realise in recent history Phil Anderson has been our best finisher, finishing 5th in 1985, and Cadel finishing 8th last year, which isn't too shabby for a mountainbiker from Melbourne.