Tour de France 2010

Nice work by Hondo--at first I couldn't work out what he was doing and thought he'd only lost Petacchi, but Sean Kelly said that he'd deliberately disrupted the Columbia train. That sounds right to me--what do people think?

(Much as Cavendish may not have been fast enough to win even with an undisrupted train.)

In Eric Zabel's interview at the end of the ITV4 coverage he said that the lead-out train was fine and Cav just didn't have the legs. He looked a bit fed up, but his honesty was nice.

I think Sean Kelly read that right, though (not terribly surprisingly)--Hondo and Petacchi said after the race that Petacchi sent Hondo to the front to disrupt the Columbia train.