Tour de France: Sastre Holds Lead, Braces for Time Trial
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Tour de France Sastre Holds Lead; Braces for Time Trial
No “crazy” attacks, conserve energy, and hope for the best in the time trial: Tour de France leader Carlos Sastre is tipping his strategy as the race creeps toward its finish in Paris on Sunday.
The Spanish veteran didn’t see the chance he was looking for to expand his lead against his top rivals in yesterday’s 18th stage out of the Alps, which Germany’s Marcus Burghardt won by heading a two-man breakaway.
With a flat ride on tap for Friday, the final showdown in cycling’s premiere event comes in Saturday’s Stage 20 — a 32.9-mile race from Cerilly to Saint-Amand-Montrond. Sastre insists that he doesn’t want to think about that stage just yet, but time trial aces Cadel Evans of Australia and Russia’s Denis Menchov — who are among those nipping at his heels — are clearly on his mind.
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