posted Jul 8, 2008

It's far too open a tour for odds like that. Evans has the physical ability but I'm not convinced he can take the initiative enough to win overall.

I don't think that the 30 seconds lost by Menchov and Ricco yesterday will prove that significant in the grand scheme of things (although obviously they won't want to be caught behind another split like that in the next few days). Had they been with Moreau and lost a couple of minutes then it may have been a different story.

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posted Jul 8, 2008

Ricco drifted out to 500/1 again briefly today before coming back into 100/1, these layers dont arf take risks on the basis of a time trial stage, anything can happen in the mountains and now Cadel's odds is even shorter
after his good time trial.

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posted Jul 9, 2008

Well Valverde is the first fancied runner to run into problems and his odds have doubled, if Cadel comes a cropper you could end up 8/1 the field by the time they hit the moutains !

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posted Jul 9, 2008

I don't understand why Cadel's odds are so low. For anyone to win a Tour de France - especially their first one, 7-4 is terrible odds.

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