Franco-American conspiracy theory

"Benjamin Weiner" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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No, not as in Franco-American meatballs. LANCE gives up
the maillot jaune to the French champion and a breakaway
with riders on three French teams gains time. Sandy Casar
might yet take yellow and hang on for a while. Where's
the conspiracy? Guess whose team just bought cheap
insurance against getting woken up at 3 am by a French
police raid. Bruyneel has outsmarted Jan, Tyler and
Lafferty once again.

Nice try, I like the way you pay attention except that I
don't think the investigators in France give a hoot who has
the jersey. Allowing the host to have a few (very few)
crumbs is just courtesy. Nothing really to be gained
IMO. ASO *might* appreciate it but they don't have any
influence over the investigation unless they won't to
hurt someone. I really doubt they can make anyone's
life any easier though.

Exactly right, Postal wasn't about to let just anyone get
away in a break yesterday and take the yellow jersey.
Another calculated move by Bruyneel and probably Lance
himself. Who better than the up-and-coming, personable,
young star of French cycling? Looks like a winning move for
organizers, sponsers, French TV and Postal who score brownie
points for their "gesture" towards the home-team.

"Benjamin Weiner" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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No, not as in Franco-American meatballs. LANCE gives up
the maillot jaune to the French champion and a breakaway
with riders on three French teams gains time. Sandy Casar
might yet take yellow and hang on for a while. Where's
the conspiracy? Guess whose team just bought cheap
insurance against getting woken up at 3 am by a French
police raid. Bruyneel has outsmarted Jan, Tyler and
Lafferty once again.

"matabala" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Exactly right, Postal wasn't about to let just anyone get
away in a break yesterday and take the yellow jersey.
Another calculated move by Bruyneel and probably Lance
himself. Who better than the up-and-coming,

personable,

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young star of French cycling? Looks like a winning move
for organizers, sponsers, French TV and Postal who score
brownie points for their

"gesture"

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towards the home-team.

Bruyneel cunningly worked to get the weather to cooperate in
order to ensure success but, alas, some other manager with
better connections (devious [censored]) tried to prevent
Postal's masterful plan. Yet, in the end, even inclement
conditions could not derail such wily design. Later, Lance
innocently suggested: "We'll do better next time. We'll get
it completely right and deliver, even if only for the sake
of better TV".

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

Exactly right, Postal wasn't about to let just anyone get
away in a break yesterday and take the yellow jersey.
Another calculated move by Bruyneel and probably Lance
himself. Who better than the up-and-coming,

personable,

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young star of French cycling? Looks like a winning move
for organizers, sponsers, French TV and Postal who score
brownie points for their

"gesture"

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towards the home-team.

It's all Bruyneel; Lance doesn't make the tactical
decisions, he just rides his bike and does what
Bruyneel says.