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totientStuart O'Grady has just put in a strong effort in the prologue. As a sprinter, this is not really in his interest personally, so that means that CSC (his team) are chasing after the team classification. With their leader out, it wasn't clear what their strategy would be -- and it still isn't. They may be going for the team placement for itself since they've won it recently, or they may be doing it to get a better start time in the team time trial, in hopes that one of their riders can end up in yellow after that.
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Date: 2006-07-01 02:56 pm (UTC)Floyd Landis missed his start by 8 seconds; had it not been for that he'd have finished second or third in the prologue, and his team would have been in third place, just ahead of T-Mobile.
Valverde rode flat out in a bid to establish dominance. Most of the other contenders rode a little more conservatively so as not to risk a crash. A few had rides that went beyond "conservative" into "disappointing", notably Damiano Cunego, who was a favorite for the white jersey of best young rider.