The rivalry between overall contenders Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong brings back memories of the split between Jan Ullrich and Alexander Vinokourov of T-Mobile back in 2005. Discovery Channel, Armstrong's team at the time, exploited their lack of cohesion, forcing Vinokourov to attack his own teammates on many stages, as the rest of T-Mobile had to protect Ullrich's standings. Ullrich finished third that year, behind Armstrong in his seventh Tour victory and Ivan Basso. Vinokourov finished 5th. This year's intra-team tension has a common denominator with 2005's T-Mobile: Andreas Kloeden. I imagine him thinking to himself that he didn't sign on for this crap, again. We can only hope that he does not also repeat his bad luck on that team, when he had to withdraw with a broken wrist.
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