Tour de France
July 17th, 2009
- Lance Armstrong
It was a tough day. The change in weather was terrible: more than 30 degrees yesterday, and today it was wet and cold. We still managed to retain the yellow jersey, which is a good thing. The main players in the general classification did not attack each other today; the Astana team remained at the front of the peloton without really accelerating and this suited me perfectly.
“On paper, tomorrow is still a stage where we should not have too many problems to keep the yellow jersey. On Sunday however, I would be very surprised if there are no attacks especially on the final climb to Verbier. In this case, I have little chance of keeping it because my advantage is scarce on Contador and Armstrong.
