Cadel came 2nd!

So, my favourite rider came 2nd overall in the Tour de France - don't have access at the moment to my husband's pics of the final podium, so instead I'll share this one at the top of the Col d'Aubisque (last mountain stage). Michael Rasmussen had attacked near the end of the stage to take a solo victory, only to be fired from his team later that night for lying about his whereabouts when he missed an out-of-competition drug test in June. So, while our podium pics from that day are somewhat meaningless (ie. Rasmussen the stage winner and Rasmussen in the yellow jersey), to me it was interesting to see the run-off area after the finish line - Cadel being whisked away to a media scrum in this photo, then afterwards trying to go back up the hill just a bit and needing to grab onto the team guy with him for assistance, obviously used up everything on the climb. As did teammate Chris Horner - he came in a few minutes later and immediately got off his bike to sit down.