The Great Rivalry In The 2010 Tour De France

In this years 2010 Tour De France (july 3-25) it was a constant battle between a certain Andy Schleck of Luxembourg and Alberto Contador of Spain. On every time trial or mountains stage it was a battle to show who had more power. Schleck would attack and Contador was one of the few riders (out of 195) would folllow. However only Contador could keep up with Schleck and or vice versa. All others may have hung on the back for up to 5 or 10 seconds. But they would just kill the peloton (french for main field). The whole peloton just get dropped. Andy Schleck or Alberto Contador  would cross the finish line first and the other 2nd. On stage 15 out of 21 Andy Schleck made an attack on the peloton. A team mate of Alberto Contador responded to the peloton attack with Contador shortly behind. A few moments later Schleck tries to peddle but his bike is not moving. It does not take him long to realize that his chain had popped lucky for  him a random fan helped him put it back on and then gave him a pushed of power to get him going again. Andy Schleck had the yellow leaders jersey on that day. But he lost a total of 1:45 seconds to Contador. Schleck lost the yellow jersey to Contador. And when Contador was presented the yellow jersey the crowd starting yelling and boooing him off the stage. On stage 19 it was a individual time trial. Schleck acme in strong at the  beginning  of the Andy Schleck was only a total of 8 seconds. At the first time check of the time trial Schleck was 4 seconds ahead of Contador. But when the 2nd checkpoint Contador was strong with a total of 39 seconds ahead of Schleck at the finish line