Talking about bad luck for a team, the situation of Movistar is particularly sad. Coming into the tour, they were dealing with the death of Xavi Tondo in a freak accident with a garage door, while Mauricio Soler has serious neurological deficits after a crash in the Tour de Suisse. During this tour, two of their young riders, Andrey Amador and Beñat Intxausti (fracture of the radius on stage 1, diagnosed yesterday -- he was in the same ambulance as Horner), were injured in a crash, and Vasil Kiryienka abandoned, sick. I've been rooting for their sprinter, José Joaquín Rojas, who is clearly putting an effort to get the green jersey. It has been neat to see him get some stages from teams with serious lead outs for their sprinters.

Things are definitely not going Contador's way. He seems tired after the Giro, and it does not look like he has a good enough team. The team has been invisible.