Tour de France

I meant to do this for the Giro but never got around to it so I will do it for the Tour and Vuelta. What is that? Make a fearless prediction about who will win. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, we are now a week into the Tour and have had a time trial and a few climbs so the field has been sorted about a bit already but I would have made this pick at the beginning of the Tour. My pick is Cadel Evans. I know, it is the safe pick but he can time trial, can hang in there in the mountains and there is no one like Alberto Contador who can climb and time trial in the field this year. It isn't going to be Valverde (he proved that in the first time trial). It won't be Sastre. Kirchen is interesting and I wouldn't be surprised to see him in the mix, same goes for Vande Velde. Menchov could be an interesting pick but I don't think he can hang with Evans in the final time trial. For my money it is Evans.