Not really a spoiler – Abandons

July 10, 2008



As I’m doing my daily blog posts about the Tour, I figure it might shed some light on how difficult a task it is to ride 21 stages of a cycling race if I give you a list of the guys who dropped out.

By the way, one of these guys was picked by Cycle Sport Magazine to win the Tour this year. Shows what can happen to ANY RIDER at ANY TIME.

Abandons…these four guys either withdrew or are non-starters as of stage 6 (stage they withdrew is listed first):

Stage 6
178 PASSERON AurĂ©lien (FRA) SAUNIER DUVAL – SCOTT non-starter

Stage 5
51 SOLER HERNANDEZ Juan Mauricio (COL) BARLOWORLD withdrawl

Stage 3
176 GOMEZ Angel (ESP) SAUNIER DUVAL – SCOTT withdrawl

Stage 1
184 DUCLOS-LASSALLE Hervé (FRA) COFIDIS CREDIT PAR TELEPHONE withdrawl

And Juan Mauricio Soler was one of the guys picked to win the whole thing. And he dropped out yesterday.