Cadel Evans didn't win the Tour de France

Well, as a good Aussie, I suppose I should be sad that Cadel Evans didn't win le Tour.

But frankly he rode such a defensive race, I don't think he really deserved to win. Every day we got told that Cadel's strategy would be to ensure that none of the other GC contenders gained a time advantage over him. Never did anyone say "today's the kind of course in which Cadel should try to win the stage". That just didn't seem to be the strategy. I don't know if this strategy was Cadel's or the team management's, but it just didn't seem the strategy of a man wanting to win. It seemed the strategy of a man who would prefer to come second.

In constrast Carlos Sastre rode like a man who wanted to win. He took the yellow jersey after a great stage win and he hung onto it like glue, even to riding the "time trail of his life" after every commentator had pretty much said that he was a lousy time trialist and Cadel Evans would overtake him in the GC standings for sure in the time trial. Sastre deserved his overall win.

Correction, he deserves the win so long as he doesn't turn out to be yet-another-drug-cheat, which has tainted some past Tour results. Lets hope it was a clean win.