Tour Prologue. Hushovd was something of a surprise winner. It's not completely unusual for a sprinter to have a pretty good prologue, though. Hincapie was strong as expected and just missed the win. Valverde has improved his time trialing some but 4th is bit of a surprise. The real test will be the first long TT. Landis' was unlucky to miss his start due to a flat tire. Sherwen was saying it cost him 8 seconds. My watch had it at about 7 seconds. Either way he would have been just off the winning pace. Leipheimer was a little disappointing. Now we been the typically boring 5 or 6 days of flat riding and waiting for maybe 10 minutes of buildup and 20 seconds of exciting sprint.