The Bittersweet Comedown

The novelist Paul Fournel wrote, "With the end of the Tour de France, the summer reaches its moment of sadness: long, hot afternoons and no longer anything to get your teeth into."

From the green fields that engulfed the pelaton in the initial stages, to the moon surface of Mont Ventoux; the battle for the green jersey to the dominance of the yellow; and from the veteran Lance to the spring chick Schleck's - the rest of my summer will not be quite the same. And they say this tour wasn't even a very exciting one!

Word on the street is next year Armstrong will battle it out against Contador to show that cheeky little llama who's boss. They'll likely be the captains of different teams giving us viewers an awesome spectacle of one on one rivalry and team on team tactics.

For now, then we are left to revel in the excitement of the past three weeks, watch Les Triplettes de Belleville and bid on the Livestrong bikes (...yeah right!).

Les Triplettes de Belleville - Rendezvous