4 Days of Dunkerque, stage 4

Robert Chung

Nice win for Devolder in the wet, who soloed in after attacking the
peloton about 30 km from the end. Chavanel new leader on GC, moving up
from 3rd.

Robert Chung

I wrote:
> Nice win for Devolder in the wet, who soloed in after attacking the
> peloton about 30 km from the end. Chavanel new leader on GC, moving up
> from 3rd.

Eurosport had switched away from coverage while Marc Streel, the previous
holder of the pink GC leader's jersey was still out on the course. There
was a little graphic when Devolder was perhaps 10 km from the end of the
stage showing time gaps: Chavanel at about +30 seconds, Rous and the
peloton at +1:05, and Streel at +18:00. Streel finished 24 minutes down.
Ouch.

Do they hold the podium ceremony while the current jersey wearer is still
out on the course?

Ewoud Dronkert

On Sun, 9 May 2004 08:02:57 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:
>Do they hold the podium ceremony while the current jersey wearer is
>still out on the course?

Sure, if it's already certain he lost it.

Robert Chung

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
> On Sun, 9 May 2004 08:02:57 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:
>> Do they hold the podium ceremony while the current jersey wearer is
>> still out on the course?
>
> Sure, if it's already certain he lost it.

That's understandable, though a tad unseemly.

Kenny

"Robert Chung" <me2@privacy.net> wrote in message news:<2g4ggjF42ofsU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> Nice win for Devolder in the wet, who soloed in after attacking the
> peloton about 30 km from the end. Chavanel new leader on GC, moving up
> from 3rd.

What an incredible race in almost "Dantesque" circumstances: wind,
rain, cold and what an incredibly selective track. Didn't know there
were climbs that hard in the region of Boulogne-Sur-Mer. The "sprint"
for the second place was an ideal illustration of how the riders had
suffered.

Howard Kveck

In article <2g6bt9F522hoU1@uni-berlin.de>,
"Robert Chung" <me2@privacy.net> wrote:

> Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 May 2004 08:02:57 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:
> >> Do they hold the podium ceremony while the current jersey wearer is
> >> still out on the course?
> >
> > Sure, if it's already certain he lost it.
>
> That's understandable, though a tad unseemly.

Maybe they should have a ceremony where they strip the old leader of his
jersey when he loses that much time.

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tanx,
Howard

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Robert Chung

Howard Kveck wrote:
>
> Maybe they should have a ceremony where they strip the old leader of
> his jersey when he loses that much time.

Branded:
Marked with a coward's shame.
What do you do when you're branded?
Will you fight for your name.

Curtis L. Russell

On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:07:55 +0200, "Robert Chung" <me2@privacy.net>
wrote:

>Branded:
>Marked with a coward's shame.
>What do you do when you're branded?
>Will you fight for your name.

The part where they break the bike over the guy's knee will hurt like
hell.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

Benjamin Weiner

Curtis L. Russell <curtis@md-bicycling.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:07:55 +0200, "Robert Chung" <me2@privacy.net>
> wrote:

> >Branded:
> >Marked with a coward's shame.
> >What do you do when you're branded?
> >Will you fight for your name.

> The part where they break the bike over the guy's knee will hurt like
> hell.

That was Henri Desgrange's tradition. Since he passed on, the
Tour has gotten soft - now they just taco a wheel on the rider's
knee. With today's lightweight equipment, it barely hurts.

OLN failed to show the ceremony today with the ritual stripping
of the pink jersey from Olaf Pollack after the climb - shades of
Cadel Evans. What ever happened to Cadel "Collarbone" Evans, anyway?

luke1972

OLN failed to show the ceremony today with the ritual stripping of the
pink jersey from Olaf Pollack after the climb - shades of Cadel Evans.
What ever happened to Cadel "Collarbone" Evans, anyway?

He placed 3rd in some Tour recently, other than that he has not really
be heard from this year.



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