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  • July 23, 2009
    When I first started following the Lanterne Rouge in this year’s TdF I had mixed feelings about it. I wasn’t sure if others would be interested and I didn’t know if there would be much of a story or character...
  • July 17, 2009
    Kenny van Hummel continues to lead the Lanterne Rouge. You gotta hand it to him though – he hasn’t quit! 14 others cannot say the same. And thousands of pro cyclists can’t even say that they got to start. I...
  • July 15, 2009
    Image from cyclingnews.com I’m really beginning to like our Lanterne Rouge.  Kenny pulled off a 7th place in today’s sprinters stage.  He certainly isn’t “slow” or deserving of his last place.  In fact, he’s a pretty damn good sprinter.  To...
  • July 11, 2009
    Kenny Robert Van Hummel of Skil Shimano still holds the Lanterne Rouge.  He probably has no concern whatsoever about his GC placing seeing as he has a few decent results in the Tour up until this point anyway.  Both Kenny...
  • July 10, 2009
    Alan Perez Lezaun was held up in one of the many crashes in the last 10km and came in 119th today.  However, some others were held up even further in the crash marred stage where Lezaun relinquishes the Lanterne Rouge...
  • July 9, 2009
    Man oh man….I was cheering my brains out for Yauheni Hutarovich to win today’s stage.  Hutarovich was in the Lanterne Rouge for the first two days and it would have been an amazing victory for him today. He was in...
  • July 8, 2009
    Not much exciting to report about the Lanterne Rouge.  Alan Perez Lezaun still firmly holds onto last place after the TTT.  No much of an opportuinity for him to gain enough time to get himself out of the caboose of...
  • July 7, 2009
    Hutarovich has reliquished the Lanterne Rouge and has given up the red jersey to Alan Perez Lezaun.  Hutarovich made the second split in those vicious crosswinds and came in a respectable 44th.   Those crosswinds smashed the peloton to three major...
  • July 6, 2009
    Yauheni Hutarovich continues to be the Lanterne Rouge at 11’04″ back on GC.   There was a sharp right-hand bend with 700m to go where a few riders went down at 65km/hr that he was not involved in. Since the crash...
  • July 5, 2009
    Out of all the Tour finishers, the one who has it the hardest is the man who finishes last.  He is the selfless domestique who goes and fetches waterbottles, chases down breaks, suffers like a dog up those mountain passes....