For those of you who haven't been watching the Tour De France, here is a quick update. It has already been a very eventful race, with just 5 stages down there is still time to tune in and get into the action.
Currently Lance Armstrong is in the overall lead, just 55 seconds over his teammate George Hincapie in 2nd place. Lance has done well but probably received the yellow jersey a few stages earlier than he had anticipated. David Zabriskie, a Utah native, won the first stage and has done well hanging onto the yellow jersey. That is, of course, until his dramatic fall yesterday just about a mile from the finish of the team time trial. It was truly saddening to see, because he had been doing so well. In a gesture to show respect to the yellow jersey as well as Zabriskie's success so far, Lance Armstrong did not wear the jersey at the start of the race today, it was only after the race officials asked him to put it on that he did so. His comments regarding the incident were that he didn't want to win the yellow jersey by a crash, he wanted to earn it.
The sprinters have been putting on quite a show in these first flat stages of the tour. There is a lot of speed and action near the finish line of each race. At the end of Monday's race there was even a little "head butting" for room to pass. Tom Boonen is currently in the lead with the sprinters green jersey and has won 2 stages so far, keep an eye on him to continue for sprint points and keep the lead.
There is a lot more riding, crashes and action left to go in the tour and some exciting mountain stages ahead. Make sure to check it out, the tour is broadcast on OLN pretty much 24 hours a day so if you have the channel it won't be too hard to catch it.
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