Greig Leach

Jens Voigt (Trek Factory Racing) had announced that he was retiring after the Tour de France. The 42 year old German has ridden in, and completed, 17 Tours de France, a most astonishing accomplishment. When he was interviewed, he was asked if there would be any move by the peloton to honor him, giving him a lap on the front of the race, his response, "Honor in cycling is not given, it is earned," may well have been him telling us that he was planning to attack. After Sylvain Chavanel (IAM Cycling) had been pulled back into the fold, Voigt went off of the front as he swung around the L'Arc de Triomphe. The strong man may have been the one to make the audacious move stick, but again, the sprinters wanted there day in Paris.