If Vino had won the TDF this year, he may not have had the energy to win the Vuelta as well. But I think his performance at this year's Vuelta shows that had he been allowed to compete in France this year, he would have kicked butt.
The peloton has two speeds. The speed of Vino and the slow speed of all who are not from Kazakhstan!
Yeah, not to take away from what he did, Baba, but almost everybody on his level that he was competing against in Spain was either 1) not riding or 2)still totally wiped from having ridden TdF. I thought Danielson did pretty well in the Vuelta (as did Valverde & Sastre on their hometurf), but the guy who really stole the show IMO was his Disco teammate Janez Brajkovic.I think we're going to be seeing great things from him someday.