On holiday hiatus

Going on the road, and blogging is likely to be slim to none into early August.

Nibali out:  too much of this stuff!

The Tour will have to fend for itself. With Sky asserting its dominance, most of the contending teams decimated by illnesses and accidents to their leading riders, and almost all the sprinters disqualified by their inability to meet rigorous time requirements in the mountain stages, it looks like they will just have to grind on to an inevitable coronation in Paris.

I'd still watch as they are hitting the Pyrenees, and in the Tour things do surprise.  But you will have to follow for yourselves this year.