Rasmussen article

Just in case you haven't seen this before, an interesting article on Raz's history:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/tour_de_france/article2116022.ece

 

This is interesting factual evidence as to why Ras performed reasonably well in the TT.

 

I never understood why people were so sure he'd do badly in the TT. He had only ridden *one* TT that mattered, which was the dreadfull quadrouple crash one, which everybody remembers. All other times he rode to stay within timelimit, and some he admittedly rode badly on purpose so that he'd be allowed a longer leash on the mountain stages.

Coming in 11'th is not all that unbelievable considering everything in that TT was going his way, as well as him wearing the yellow jersey.