While the tv commentators do their best to convince us this Tour is an exciting race, Lee Rodgers offers a more sizeable does of reality as we’re left to pretend the battle things not colored yellow actually mean something. The battle for the GC rages on! enthused the commentator as the Froome group galloped over the line at the end of Stage 18 which sounded all exciting except for the fact that its blatantly not true. There may have been a bit of raging but theres certainly nothing resembling a real battle going on. This feels like as already-over a Tour de France as weve had since, well, last year.In 2014 it was Vincenzo Nibali who took the GC win and with it held the Maillot Jaune for a whopping 19 stages. Froome has now held Yellow for ten stages and, if hes to hang on til Paris, it will be 14 days with the jersey on his back. The days of the lead changing hands on decisive stages seems long gone and with Sky and in particular Froome looking so strong I cant see anything changing all too soon.Also of course we have to look at how those behind Froome are racing. Quintana is having a go when he can, Contador and Nibali are doing their best to get in attacks too but there is an overriding sense of everyone behind Froome racing either to hold position or to chip away at the man just ahead of them on...
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