The Tour de France is... Finally... Over

And it was a fitting ending.

As the riders rounded the Champs Elysées with seven miles to go, there was a power outage and TV viewers saw their screens go black, Sopranos-style.

Maybe the French pulled the cable cuz the video guy was doping.

By the time power was restored ten minutes later, there was less than a lap to go.

Beleagured sportscasters Phil Legget and Paul Sherwen (who have gone through their own private hell these last few weeks), put a brave face on it and called the last moments of the race as Spaniard Alberto Contador, from Lance Armstrong's Discovery Channel team, crossed the finish line to win.

The 24-year-old rider is the youngest champion since Jan "I'd Rather Quit Than Admit" Ullrich of Germany in 1997. After 2,200 miles of racing, Contador won by just 23 seconds ahead of Cadel Evans of Australia, one of the narrowest margins in the Tour's history. American Levi Leipheimer came in third.

Not sure how the other five riders left in the Tour fared.

A jubilant Alberto Contador sprays "clear" over the crowd.

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