Tour de France 2011 talk

[ny biker]

For peeps watching on Versus, did you see the bit they showed today where the Radio Shack car pulled up next to the Garmin Cervelo car? Johan Bruyneel congratulated Jonathan Vaughters on yesterday's win and then said he was getting tired of saying that to him. Pretty funny.

But what was really interesting was that Vaughters told Johan to tell the TRS rider in the break that Garmin would chase them if Nicholas Roche got away from them, but would not chase otherwise. I knew that riders on different teams will sometimes strike up alliances on the road, and of course team directors communicate strategy to their own riders, but I didn't realize that the directors will share strategies with each other like that. I imagine JV thought it was better for his team to not have to chase, so he wanted someone in the break to get his message. Still, I found it unexpected. And I wonder if Vaughters remembered that he was on TV at the time.


Also, this is not actually TdF news, but it is great news nonetheless about Juan Mauricio Soler:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/sole...sive-care-unit