Call of the Tour

I'm not usually much of a sports prognosticator. However, I think I did pretty well in my predictions for the recently completed Tour of California.



How did I do?

• Lance in the top five -- actually, he finished seventh, not too bad
• Levi to win the tour, with Lance's help -- yup
• Floyd, Tyler, and Ivan to do less than top performances -- Landis was 23rd (over 10 minutes back), Hamilton was 83rd out of 84th (over an hour back), and Basso failed to start the time trial while in 13th place
• Cavendish would win two or three stages -- he picked up two
• Boonen would win one stage -- he got second on the line in two stages
• Cancellara would win the prologue -- yup
• Lance would win the time trial -- nope, he was 14th; I missed that one!
• Lots of successful breakaways -- there were four in seven road stages, pretty good odds

I'd say that was a correct prediction in seven out of ten, pretty close on two, and completely wrong on one.

I hate to toot my own horn, but you have to admit I did pretty good on this one.

How's Lance going to to in the Giro? Ask me again in about two months.