Written by: Chris Wallis
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Yet another day to be wrtten off for this tour.
With a complete non apparence of riders with enough time before the start, i was one of the last few press to leave before the start i went away with ome tech shots of bikes only
Driving the course the were more tree lined road, not going to make that mistake again, the only fields of lavendar were so far back from the road it would be hard to come up with shot for them and the climb i was heading for vanished into insignificance so it was just a case of getting to the finish.
This turned ot not to be such an easy task as the caravan was moving so slowly it took almost an hour and a half to the the last 50kms of the course, probably slower than the race would do it.
with the prospect of another sprint finish i set myself up with what would hopefully be a shot of Cav's fith win.
With the colombia train on the front coming into the last 1 1/2km it looked likely but what can't see when you are wait for the finish line photo is whats going on exaclty.
Sadly it was not Cav sitting on the back of the colombia riders and Friere came out to cross the line. Then while waiting for the podium shots Cav rolled across the line a few mins down, having been dropped on the last climb and unable to get back on.

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