On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:05:56 -0700 (PDT), Loogypicker
wrote:

On Jul 7, 11:49*am, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
Team Astana took it to Garmin/Slipstream - Armstrong made up his forty
seconds and only missed the maillot jaune by 100th of a second.

What a come back!

Same as he did the last four times he won the Tour - team time trial
in the fourth race.

He's going to win his eighth.

I agree! He's something else.

Astana is a loaded team. Armstrong, Popovych, Contador, Leipheimer,
Rubiera are the main five with Zubeldia a climber specialist and with
Muravyev, Paulinho and Rast in support as domestiques - that's the
very definition of LOADED. In particular with Popovych and Zubeldia
as leadouts for climbing and Armstrong, Leipheimer as strong climbers
(Contador is pretty good at it too) - whew - they are going to clean
some clocks.