Le Tour - Day 1

Well the Tour beginning lived up to the hype.

Of the pre-race favourites Armstrong started very well, as to did Contador and Evans. There was, however, no surprise with the winner of the stage. Swiss time trial maestro and reigning Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara blew away the field, racing around the challenging circuit in 19mins 32 secs - a massive 18 seconds faster than 2nd placed Contador.

The top ten were as follows:

1. Fabian Cancellara (Swi/Saxo Bank) 19mins 32sec
2. Alberto Contador (Spa/Astana) +18 secs
3. Bradley Wiggins (GB/Garmin) +19 secs
4. Andreas Kloeden (Ger/Astana) +22 secss
5. Cadel Evans (Aus/Silence-Lotto) +23 secs
6. Levi Leipheimer (US/Astana) +30 secs
7. Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Liquigas) +32 secs
8. Tony Martin (Ger/Columbia) +33 secs
9. Vincenzo Nibali (It/Liquigas) +37 secs
10. Lance Armstrong (US/Astana) +40 secs

Tonight we head to the Provence region. Can Cancellara hold on to the yellow jersey or will the his team surrender it after just one day.....