Jodie Batchelor
Jodie is the current Victorian Vets Criterium and Road champion in her age group. She has been racing for several years now and likes any event that involves sprinting and not too many hills. She initially used cycling as an important part of her rehabilitation from a mountaineering accident in New Zealand. She then got into racing as a replacement for martial arts in which she represented Australia and won Gold, Silver & Bronze medals in the Martial Arts World Games in 2000.
Tour de France - Stage 11 (in review)
- By Jodie Batchelor
- Published 17-Jul-08
There have been a lot of comments about Cadel in yellow and the Silence-Lotto team being able top defend the jersey. Personally I think that he might as well wear the jersey, he is being watched by the other teams anyway, the peloton as demonstrated last night will aways try to control the time gap of the break, besides the tour is about finishing in the shorted amount of time - why give time away? Besides, you feel great when you are winning and with the crash that Cadel had on stage 9, the yellow jersey I am sure will be making him feel better.
No one in the break last night were going to change the standings, it was about a stage win and getting some advertising in for the sponsors.
Team Barloworld is really out of the tour now, before today 1 rider had already abandoned and then yesterday 1 rider didn't start as he had returned a non-negative drug test, then 2 other riders from the team did not finish the stage. They only have 5 riders left - it will be interesting to see if they continue. Australian Badan Cooke is riding in this team and normally would be contesting the green jersey which he has won before - but currently is sitting 55th.
Yellow jersey
1 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 46.42.13
2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.01
3 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 0.38
Green jersey
1 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 138 pts
2 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 128
3 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 117
Mountains classification
1 Riccardo Riccò (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 77 pts
2 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 65
3 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 57
Young rider classification
1 Riccardo Riccò (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 46.44.42
2 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 1.49
3 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 4.18
Eliminated riders – 4 from Barloworld are out of the race and ½ the teams have lost at least 1 rider.
Iouri Trofimov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom
Moises Dueñas Nevado (Spa) Barloworld
Félix Rafael Cárdenas (Col) Barloworld
Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld
Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez (COL) Barloworld
Manuel Beltran (ESP) Liqugas
Magnus Backstedt (SWE) Garmin Chipotle
Lilian Jegou (FRA) Francaise Des Jeux
Christophe Moreau (FRA) Agritubel
John Gadret (FRA) AG2R-La Mondiale
Mauro Facci (ITA) Quick Step
Angel Gomez (ESP) Saunier Duval - Scott
Aurélien Passeron (FRA) Saunier Duval - Scott
Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (FRA) Cofidis
