Petacchi's abandonment

[Hold My Beer An]

So instead of having the classy world championship sprinter livening up the tour, we get petatacci,
who also abandons on the 1st freakin' climb.

Mario's gotta be ready to puke.

[Bird]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:13:20 GMT, "hold my beer and watch this..." <trdina@dejazzd.com> wrote:

>
>So instead of having the classy world championship sprinter livening up the tour, we get petatacci,
>who also abandons on the 1st freakin' climb.
>
>Mario's gotta be ready to puke.

It's obvious...

both are great sprinters, but not great riders who can finish the Tour in Paris.

Groet, Arne Vogel

[Doug Taylor]

"hold my beer and watch this..." <trdina@dejazzd.com> wrote in message
news:AXSPa.212$lL.25511@nnrp1.ptd.net...
>
> So instead of having the classy world championship sprinter livening up
the
> tour, we get petatacci, who also abandons on the 1st freakin' climb.
>
> Mario's gotta be ready to puke.

Yeah, but you really can't say that Petacchi didn't himself liven up the tour. He obliterated and
schooled the field convincingly on those stage wins without the big train.

As world champ, Mario should have been there in the centennial TDF, but Petacchi still would have
taken more stages, as in the Giro.

Then the two prima donnas could have abandoned on the first col together.

[Just A Cyclist]

How do you spell Mario in Italian? Petacchi.........they must of both came from the same tree......?
"Doug Taylor" <dtaylor@dreamscape.com> wrote in message news:vh02btlmetpq2b@corp.supernews.com...
>
> "hold my beer and watch this..." <trdina@dejazzd.com> wrote in message
> news:AXSPa.212$lL.25511@nnrp1.ptd.net...
> >
> > So instead of having the classy world championship sprinter livening up
> the
> > tour, we get petatacci, who also abandons on the 1st freakin' climb.
> >
> > Mario's gotta be ready to puke.
>
> Yeah, but you really can't say that Petacchi didn't himself liven up the tour. He obliterated and
> schooled the field convincingly on those stage wins without the big train.
>
> As world champ, Mario should have been there in the centennial TDF, but Petacchi still would have
> taken more stages, as in the Giro.
>
> Then the two prima donnas could have abandoned on the first col together.

[Chris]

"Just a Cyclist" <popo@copwatch.com> wrote in news:vh0s5rqsfn6h57@corp.supernews.com:

> How do you spell Mario in Italian? Petacchi.........they must of both came from the same
> tree......? "Doug Taylor" <dtaylor@dreamscape.com> wrote in message
> news:vh02btlmetpq2b@corp.supernews.com...
>>
>> "hold my beer and watch this..." <trdina@dejazzd.com> wrote in message
>> news:AXSPa.212$lL.25511@nnrp1.ptd.net...
>> >
>> > So instead of having the classy world championship sprinter livening up
>> the
>> > tour, we get petatacci, who also abandons on the 1st freakin'
>> > climb.
>> >
>> > Mario's gotta be ready to puke.
>>
>> Yeah, but you really can't say that Petacchi didn't himself liven up the tour. He obliterated and
>> schooled the field convincingly on those stage wins without the big train.
>>
>> As world champ, Mario should have been there in the centennial TDF, but Petacchi still would have
>> taken more stages, as in the Giro.
>>
>> Then the two prima donnas could have abandoned on the first col together.
>>
>>
>
>

lets recap A Super Sprinter quits(albeit very early) and you guys are basically saying the he worst
thing in cycling since EPO but GC Contenders and climbers(like Armstrong, Beloki) dont go for
sprints. nothing

Petacchi is paid to ride quickly on flat stages. GET OVER IT. If the team was pissed with him he
would not be racing.

Bigger argument should be what will replace robbie's excuse of Petacchi was just quicker than me
today(or what he says).

[Fred Marx]

Shall we now address Aitors DNS at Stage 8? or perhaps Botero's pathetic form?

[Raptor]

Fred Marx wrote:
> Shall we now address Aitors DNS at Stage 8? or perhaps Botero's pathetic form?

I was hoping he'd be the dark horse challenger. If Fassa is to be believed, then it's just life/bike
racing that killed my fantasy team. (A virus has decimated the team.)

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[Lantern Rouge]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 01:08:21 -0600, Raptor wrote:

> Fred Marx wrote:
>> Shall we now address Aitors DNS at Stage 8? or perhaps Botero's pathetic form?
>
> I was hoping he'd be the dark horse challenger. If Fassa is to be believed, then it's just
> life/bike racing that killed my fantasy team. (A virus has decimated the team.)

Wassit called this virus?

Influenza-Alpinus