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Montreal Gazette: Canadian completes first Tour

Ryder Hesjedal, Tour de France stage 21 The Montreal Gazette talks to Canadian Ryder Hesjedal shortly after he completed the final stage 21 of the 2008 Tour de France.

From the article: “After 3,558 grinding kilometres and an accumulated 89 hours, 26 minutes and 14 seconds, Victoria’s Ryder Hesjedal rode down the Ave. des Champs-Elysées yesterday toward the Arc de Triomphe to close out the Tour de France. He became the first Canadian cyclist in over a decade to do so and only the fourth ever to finish the Tour. ‘It was just spectacular coming down des Champs … it’s hard to describe the emotion and the energy … it’s what every cyclist dreams of doing,’ Hesjedal said in a telephone interview after the completion of his first Tour.

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  • Jay

    WOO RYDER!

    Good work.. 47th overall and 13th on the TT who would have thought! Brilliant! Canada and Victoria is very proud!!!

  • Dale

    Great stuff Ryder! Very impressive first TdF.

  • Bryan

    great ride for Ryder and showing for Canada since
    Bauer thank you for making all Canadians proud

  • Janet

    Ryder – you are just fabulous! We are certainly proud & wish you all the very best!

  • Patrick Henry

    Way to go Ryder!!! All that riding on Skirt Mountain has paid off. I just knew that you were too good for all of those cross country races we made you enter. It’s wonderful to see you getting the rewards we all knew you deserved. I expect to see nothing less than a podium finish for you in the tour next year.

  • Kevin Knox

    Monsieur Hesjedal:

    Bravo! As the father of the “other” Ryder (the one you met as a bump in my wife’s tummy at Sea Otter and as a 1 yr old at ReBar), I must heap praise upon you. Knowing all the work you would do for the team, I predicted you would finish 1h30′ on GC and you did not disappoint. What I did not predict was your marvelous performances on the Bonette and in the TT. Anyway, in 2004 I wished you luck at the Olympics, but I shall not make the same mistake again. Instead, I will wish you the best.

    PS: have you told Millar how British Victoria is?

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