"Kevin Knorpp" <
[email protected]> wrote in message news:<hyJyc.18049$eu.12818@attbi_s02>...
> Lance wins 2004 easily, suprising many after last year,
> and 2005 is close. Tyler Hamilton just edges him out in
> 2006 while Jan is recovering from a cocaine addiction and
> eating disorder..
My Prediction:
In light of two new turn of events, Mayo and Tyler's
performence in Dauphine and Vino's crash, here are my
predicitons
I think heading into the Pyrenees Lance, Tyler and Heras
will be neck and neck > 30 sec seperating them. Ulrich
will be 45-60 sec back moslty do to the TTT. Mayo and
2:00min+ back.
The Pyrenees will be a dog fight with attacks going like
crazy. poor Ulrich will suffer the most here falling
2:00min+ behind. Mayo and Heras will leap frog Armstrong.
Tyler will be in the mix. I say top 5 seperated by around
two minutes bookended by Mayo and Ulrich. Good times!
Alpe D'heuz has looks like this:
Mayo Armstrong 15sec Ulrich 23sec Hamilton 27 sec Heras 44
sec (not his style)
Some of the other pure climbers may mix up the places a
little but at the end of the day the GC will look like this
Mayo Armstrong :37 Hamilton :39 Heras 1:21 Ulrich 2:34
I also suspect a dark horse to be in there someplace (not a
real revelation though). Maybe Simoni.
Everyone will be screaming about a Hamilton Armstrong TT
dual. It will be a let down as Armstrong will hand out a
lashing to Tyler and beat him by 1:35. Ulrich will
salvage his tour and beat Lance by 18 seconds in the
final TT, but Tyler will hang on for second. The climbers
will be relegated
Final GC:
Armstrong Hamilton 1:37 Ulrich 1:40
Of course this is all tatal BS, but there you go.
