Armstrong should get a penalty for this...

steve robertson <[email hidden]> wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

from www.cyclingnews.com:

[Armstrong]:

"I was lucky that the field was there like that...normally it could be full of crops, and I was
lucky that there was even a little road there. I ended up in the field and said '[censored] I'm
committed halfway, I've got to keep going." ^^^^^

Is he allowed to swear like that? I don't have the rule book in front of me, but I think that the
penalty is something to do with soap in his bidons for the next stage. Or instead of GU, they give
him those hotel shampoo packets. Yeah, that'll fix him...

What a sad thing, but an amazing recovery by Armstrong. What are the chances that he has an open
field with a road, and a switchback to get back on the course? Forget EPO, they should test the
bugger for horseshoes.

You go off road at 60 mph and see if you don't feel like swearing m'k?

- Boyd S.

If you look at the reply, he would have went over the bars if he went into the field 10 feet up the
road - that was skill and a whole lot of luck

Armstrong came across as a self centered son of a [censored] in his initial interviews.

There was nothing said about his concern for Beloki but he quickly put the focus back on himself
with his heroic tale of going cross country in his initial interviews and how everybody should been
relieved that he's still in the race. Listen Armstrong mate when somebody hits the ground that hard
it's no longer about a race mate.

Unsympathetic son a [censored].

steve robertson <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

from www.cyclingnews.com:

[Armstrong]:

"I was lucky that the field was there like that...normally it could be full of crops, and I was
lucky that there was even a little road there. I ended up in the field and said '[censored] I'm
committed halfway, I've got to keep going." ^^^^^

Is he allowed to swear like that? I don't have the rule book in front of me, but I think that the
penalty is something to do with soap in his bidons for the next stage. Or instead of GU, they give
him those hotel shampoo packets. Yeah, that'll fix him...

What a sad thing, but an amazing recovery by Armstrong. What are the chances that he has an open
field with a road, and a switchback to get back on the course? Forget EPO, they should test the
bugger for horseshoes.

"Robert Nicholson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Armstrong came across as a self centered son of a [censored] in his initial interviews.

There was nothing said about his concern for Beloki but he quickly put the focus back on himself
with his heroic tale of going cross country in his initial interviews and how everybody should
been relieved that he's still in the race.

cyclingnews.comnewsOpen ↗ Afterwards, Armstrong said that it was "the
scare of my life...In a moment like that, it's only a reflex of survival. When you see something
happening like that the first thing you do is ask yourself 'Ok, where do I go?' I couldn't go right
and I couldn't go over him, so I could only go left and into the field. Then I just kept going and
got back on the road as quickly as I could. When I was riding through the field I felt like a farmer
ploughing."

"I'm really sorry for Beloki," added Armstrong. "He was riding aggressively and was in the race.
When he crashed we were trying to bring Vinokourov back and the time gap was going down. It was only
10 seconds and he was going flat out on the descent. You hate to see a guy go down like that while
he's doing his best."

In article <[email hidden]>, Robert Nicholson

Quoted message said:

Armstrong came across as a self centered son of a [censored] in his initial interviews.

There was nothing said about his concern for Beloki but he quickly put the focus back on himself
with his heroic tale of going cross country in his initial interviews and how everybody should
been relieved that he's still in the race. Listen Armstrong mate when somebody hits the ground
that hard it's no longer about a race mate.

Unsympathetic son a [censored].

You're not worth the effort, but here's some insight from cyclingnews...

"I'm really sorry for Beloki," added Armstrong. "He was riding aggressively and was in the race.
When he crashed we were trying to bring Vinokourov back and the time gap was going down. It was only
10 seconds and he was going flat out on the descent. You hate to see a guy go down like that while
he's doing his best."

-WG

Fact is Lance is a "self-centered son of a [censored]," I know him personally, and can attest to
that as can many others. However, in this case he did show a little class by acknowledging
Beloki's accident.

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Quoted message said:

Nicholson <[email hidden]> wrote: Armstrong came across as a self centered son of a [censored] in
his initial interviews.

Quoted message said:

You're not worth the effort, but here's some insight from cyclingnews... "I'm really sorry for
Beloki," added Armstrong. "He was riding aggressively and was in the race. When he crashed we were
trying to bring Vinokourov back and the time gap was going down. It was only 10 seconds and he was
going flat out on the descent. You hate to see a guy go down like that while he's doing his best."