Tour de France

I didn't hear this before, but the BIG news is that Astana were not invited to join the tour this year. For those who don't know, the old Discovery Channel team disbanded, and so Contador (the winner) and Leipheimer (who came third) both joined Astana. Basically, this means from last years tour, the main contenders NOT participating this year are Rasmussen, Contador, Leipheimer, Vinokourov and Kloden, leaving Evans miles ahead based on last year's results. With Michael Rogers looking good last year until he crashed the chances of getting an Aussie winner are enormous.