The Tour de France

(Reuters) – The Tour de France began on Saturday in a near carbon copy of last year’s edition, with the victory of Fabian Cancellara in the prologue and the promise of a showdown between Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong.
Switzerland’s Cancellara is the time-trial world and Olympic champion — the best active prologue specialist in the peloton — and he made a point of clocking a perfect time of 10 minutes on the 8.9-km of slippery roads in Rotterdam. – Read more from Reuters….
Prologue Results
1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team Saxo Bank - 0:10:00
2 Tony Martin (Ger) Team HTC – Columbia - 0:00:10
3 David Millar (GBr) Garmin – Transitions - 0:00:20
4 Lance Armstrong (USA) Team Radioshack - 0:00:22
5 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Professional Cycling Team - 0:00:23
6 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Astana - 0:00:27
7 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin – Transitions - 0:00:28
8 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team Radioshack
9 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Professional Cycling Team - 0:00:32
10 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Team Milram - 0:00:35
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