Can the Americans repeat their time-trial dominance from last month's Dauphiné Libéré - when they swept the top four places - in Saturday's 52km stage that will kick-start the battle for the overall victory in the 93rd Tour de France?
At the Dauphiné, Dave Zabriskie won by an impressive 53 seconds ahead of Floyd Landis on a mostly flat, but windy 43km course. Third at 1:16 was Levi Leipheimer and fourth was George Hincapie at 1:34. .....
Levi is obviously having trouble, he's been passed by Christian Vande Velde who started 2' behind him! Two Americans having a very bad ITT, w/ Julich out after his crash...