i hope you enjoyed the break - i'm just back from our family holiday in the french alps. we haven't done a mountain holiday before but had a fantastic time. of course i took a bundle of photos but haven't had time to do anything with them yet. no doubt they will follow...
one of the things we did was to watch the alpe d'huez stage of the tour de france which was an amazing experience. it's one of the huge mountain top finishes in the tour and often where the tour can be won or lost. that proved the case this year with carlos sastre gaining enough of a lead on the cimb to hold on to to win the tour yesterday. i have dug one photo out of him as he came round the corner where we were - about 5k from the finish line (below the barriers where it always looks insane as the crowd are so close to the riders). congrats to him!
right - in to the office and time to read a few hundred e-mails...
Great picture, Jonny, of a worthy winner of what is still - despite all the adverse hype - the most incredible sporting show on earth. Glad you were right there to see it at its climax this year.
Posted by: John Davies | July 28, 2008 at 08:23 AM
Colour me green... with envy!
Fantastic.
Posted by: Mike | July 29, 2008 at 02:24 AM
Ah, yes - that day proved to be the burial for our Aussie hope Cadel Evans. Got to admire Carlos, though - it seems Tour winners need to have one 'special' day in them, and Cadel whilst being Mr Consistent, seems to lack that one great day. Maybe next year....
Welcome back Jonny.
Posted by: Marty | July 29, 2008 at 02:54 AM