Relations between journalists and the top cyclists on the Tour can get a little testy, especially when the pressures of winning begin to collide with dashed expectations. Take the case of poor Carlos Sastre. Who was that? Oh, only last year's Tour de France winner, who got snubbed by the race organizers at the opening stage, and has had a pretty anonymous showing, at least by the number of inches of newspaper print. At the rest day press conferences, his frustration got the better of him, as he complained to the Spanish journalists about their overblown coverage of the perceived rivalry between Lance Armstrong and Sastre's compatriot Albert Contador, and how they haven't been covering his so-far lackluster time gap of 3'52". One Spanish journalist thought that was too rich, and shoved it back in Sastre's face:
“Contador and Armstrong are first and second, so we can’t be too wrong. All we’re not reporting is that you're 11th and you have almost no chance of winning.”
Ouch. Or en Español, se duele.
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