The TOUR of CARLOS SASTRE - The triumph of the eternal gregarious. 2008 Tour de France.

He was sacrificed to punish opponents, and ended up winning the race. Carlos Sastre, the tireless gregarious. In a single ascent, he sentenced the Tour de France, the best cycling race in the world.
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The absence of Contador clearly opened the range of favorites to the final victory. Cadel Evans was the main contender on the starting line. His performance the previous year, second, and the absence of the Spaniard, made the Australian the rival to beat. The Italian Cunego would try to put him in trouble in the mountains, as would the Spaniards Alejandro Valverde and Samuel Sanchez. Denis Menchov was another contender who arrived at the Tour in good shape, while the Shleck brothers were an unknown. Frank and Andy, Andy and Frank... Runners of great class, but very irregular.
The Shleck team, the CSC, was captained by former rider Bjarner Rijs, and had among its ranks a rider who is commonly called the tapado.
Carlos Sastres, born in Leganes in 1975, was a superb runner, but a team rider, a gregarious. A rider with incredible conditions for climbing, but always to the spare of a leader, first Basso, the Shleck brothers ... His Achilles heel was the time trial, where he used to squander his options, making no director place confidence in him for the Tour de France. He always had to work for a leader.
I had led the team in the Vuelta España, reaping very good results, but the Tour was another story. The best cyclists in the world in the best race in the world.
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[@twright1983]

Sastre finished in the top 5 in the previous 2 tours and was given the leaders number on the team (11) so he was the designated leader of the team But Csc had a much stronger team than cadel evans’ awful lotto side that disappeared as soon as the road went uphill

[@nielskjr5432]

I think this started the mutiny on the Riis team The Schleck brothers in secret built up another team, and took most of the riders and employees with them.

[@epiccyclists]

Absolutely True