Tour de France comments/predicitons - Stage 7

"You Beauty!" is all I can say to fellow South African Daryl Impey, making history yesterday as the first African rider to wear the yellow jersey. South Africa and Africa, in general, is making quite a noise in the international cycling world this year: Team MTN Qhubeka becoming the first African Pro continental team, MTN Qhubeka winning the Milan San Remo and other races this year and now a South African in the Yellow Jersey at the Tour de France. The Chinese calender should add 'the year of the African' to their calender.

Daryl is surely capable of holding onto the yellow jersey, and I'm sure the team will want to hold onto that jersey for as long as possible - until the 8th stage which will have the first mountain summit finish.

Today's stage once again has a bit of everything. If a breakaway has the right mix of riders, riders that are way behind on General Classification (GC), then it's possible that the peloton will let go. However, I'm pretty sure Cavendish wants to try and take this stage as well. So, I expect it to come to a bunch sprint for the fast guns.


My prediction for today is - Cavendish (It seems like I only tip him to win in a sprint, the reason for this is, he is FAST!!!)

Outside favorites - Andre Greipel, Matt Goss, Peter Sagan

Here's a profile of today's stage - http://www.cyclingnews.com/tour-de-france/stage-7

Henry Uys @met_uys