Tour de France stage 2 wrap up
July 9th, 2007 |
Quick•Step finally gets a sprint right, but they get the order wrong. Steegmans wins the stage that team superstar Boonen should have won. There was no reason for Steegmans to keep sprinting unless the team has lost some confidence in Boonen’s ability to close the deal. Both Steegmans and Boonen were going away in the sprint and were not under threat from anyone. Steegmans should have sat up and let Boonen win the stage. Now Steegmans is going to be a big star and team director Patrick Lefevere is going to have to pay him the big bucks to keep him for 2008.
Boonen is trying to play it off that he gifted Steegmans the win but after watching the sprint I don’t buy it.
In other news…
Who would have guessed that Hincapie would be involved in the pile up today?
Everyone.
