Tour de France Tour: Stage 4: Huy to Saint Quentin.
July 5th 2006 08:43
Bonjour tout le monde!!!
(Hello everyone)
Can you believe we're already up to Stage 4 in the 2006 Tour de France?? Time flies when you're having fun. This Tour has been quite successful for Australian competitors so far. Robbie McEwen won Stage 2, was placed 3rd overall after this stage and wore the Green Sprinters' Jersey.
Meanwhile, another Aussie is competing for the overall lead. Michael Rogers (from the T-Mobile Team) is currently placed second, after finishing second in Stage 3. It's very exciting!!!! As well as this, in the current standings for the Green Jersey, Robbie McEwen is 3rd (Davitamon-Lotto team), Stuart O'Grady is 8th (Team CSC) and Michael Rogers is placed 9th. Unfortuantely, I thought I heard on the news that Stuart O'Grady was involved in a crash during Stage 3 and may have fractured a vertabrae in the fall…
Lance Armstrong wearing the maillot jaune in the 2005 Tour de France. (Picture is licensed under GNU agreement and can be found at wikipedia.org)
But now, onto Stage 4. Stage 4 is another sprinter's stage (perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Aussies are doing so well at the moment. We're good sprinters.) The stage only has two climbs (I don't know if I've written this before, but climbs are sorted into different categories according to their gradient and length). It starts at Huy in Belgium and finishes back in French territory at Saint Quentin.
Huy is a small town with a population of about 20 000 (at January 1 2005). It lies on the River Meuse in Belgium in the Liège province. At the other end of today's race lies the town of Saint Quentin. It is located in the Aisne region in the northern corner of France.
So, even though Italy are through to the World Cup final (thanks to some great acting), we can still support some great Aussie athletes in another sport, which doesn't require constant chanting or taking dives.
À demain
Melinda
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