LBL: Ullrich finishes....



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Hey, that's the point. He didn't abandon. He finished, and not that far back, either. Maybe a
minute-and-a-half? In the same group as VDB.

Axel Merckx looked good for a long, long time. (He makes those little climbers look like pygmies).
It must be tough to know that you're one of the elite racers in the world, one of the best of the
best, and still only second-best in your family.

CSC's Sorensen pulled everyone up Sart-Tilman to put Hamilton in striking distance. That guy
deserves a bonus. He's the one who made the race.

When Boogerd went clear with 3km to go, he was probably thinking how sweet his dinner was going to
be tonight. Now every bite, and Armstrong's too, will taste like wormwood.
 
"Robert Chung" <.fr...
> Hey, that's the point. He didn't abandon. He finished, and not that far back, either. Maybe a
> minute-and-a-half? In the same group as VDB.
>
> Axel Merckx looked good for a long, long time. (He makes those little climbers look like pygmies).
> It must be tough to know that you're one of
the
> elite racers in the world, one of the best of the best, and still only second-best in your family.
>
> CSC's Sorensen pulled everyone up Sart-Tilman to put Hamilton in striking distance. That guy
> deserves a bonus. He's the one who made the race.

Anyone else totally amazing Tyler took this race? Wow.

> When Boogerd went clear with 3km to go, he was probably thinking how sweet his dinner was going to
> be tonight. Now every bite, and Armstrong's too, will taste like wormwood.
 
"Robert Chung" <[email protected]> skrev i meddelandet
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> Hey, that's the point. He didn't abandon. He finished, and not that far back, either. Maybe a
> minute-and-a-half? In the same group as VDB.

Armstrong has said that Ullrich is the biggest talent out there. I guess his right.
 
"Ken Papai" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Anyone else totally amazing Tyler took this race?

No doubt you are in emotional turmoil at the moment, torn between unleashing streams of tears over
LANCE!'s loss, and spurting streams of jizz over Hamilton's win, but, please, try to use complete
sentences when posting.
 
In article <[email protected]>, "Ken Papai"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> "Robert Chung" <.fr...
> > Hey, that's the point. He didn't abandon. He finished, and not that far back, either. Maybe a
> > minute-and-a-half? In the same group as VDB.
> >
> > Axel Merckx looked good for a long, long time. (He makes those little climbers look like
> > pygmies). It must be tough to know that you're one of
> the
> > elite racers in the world, one of the best of the best, and still only second-best in your
> > family.
> >
> > CSC's Sorensen pulled everyone up Sart-Tilman to put Hamilton in striking distance. That guy
> > deserves a bonus. He's the one who made the race.
>
> Anyone else totally amazing Tyler took this race? Wow.
>
> > When Boogerd went clear with 3km to go, he was probably thinking how sweet his dinner was going
> > to be tonight. Now every bite, and Armstrong's too, will taste like wormwood.

I was not predicting it! I actually had casagrande, boogerd or rebellin in the top 3 (didn't predict
the order). Boy, was I off, except for boogerd. Casagrande finished 5th, so that's not too far off.
I never would have predicted Hamilton. But I knew Armstrong would not win. I picked him for the top
ten, however.
 
" Tim Mullin" <[email protected]> wrote ...
>
> "Ken Papai" <ken@@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net...
>
> > Anyone else totally [amazed] Tyler took this race?
>
> No doubt you are in emotional turmoil at the moment, torn between
unleashing
> streams of tears over LANCE!'s loss, and [gloating] over Hamilton's win, but, please, try to use
> complete sentences when posting.

You are right. I thought LANCE was gonna finally win this one. Tyler took over, I can hardly wait to
see the video on this on OLN (soon?).

-kjp
 
"Oscar Mannheim" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Robert Chung" <[email protected]> skrev i meddelandet
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> > Hey, that's the point. He didn't abandon. He finished, and not that far back, either. Maybe a
> > minute-and-a-half? In the same group as VDB.
>
> Armstrong has said that Ullrich is the biggest talent out there. I guess
his
> right.

That has been known ever since Fattie Jan got 2nd in his first TdF at the age of 21.
 
On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:02:09 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:
>CSC's Sorensen pulled everyone up Sart-Tilman to put Hamilton in striking distance. That guy
>deserves a bonus. He's the one who made the race.

Freire did a LOT of work too, he was the one bringing the group back to 5 sec at the foot
of the hill.
 
"Robert Chung" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> Axel Merckx looked good for a long, long time. (He makes those
little
> climbers look like pygmies). It must be tough to know that you're
one of the
> elite racers in the world, one of the best of the best, and still
only
> second-best in your family.

It must be even worse to be Miguel Indurain and know that you could never measure up to the
great Eddy.
 
"Ken Papai" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<%hUqa.372007

>
> You are right. I thought LANCE was gonna finally win this one. Tyler took over, I can hardly wait
> to see the video on this on OLN (soon?).
>

I don't see LBL listed in OLN's cycling schedule ? Will it be shown ?

-Amit
 
"Ewoud Dronkert" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:02:09 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:
> >CSC's Sorensen pulled everyone up Sart-Tilman to put Hamilton in striking distance. That guy
> >deserves a bonus. He's the one who made the race.
>
> Freire did a LOT of work too, he was the one bringing the group back to 5 sec at the foot of
> the hill.

Yeah, it's nice to have teammates when you need 'em. The USPS start list (see:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2003/worldcup03/lbl03/?id=startlist) looked like it could be the TdF
startlist if you add Hincapie. How many Posties finished?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2003/worldcup03/lbl03/?id=results By the time they got to La Redoute
it looked like Armstrong was already isolated.
 
Amit <[email protected]> wrote
> I don't see LBL listed in OLN's cycling schedule ? Will it be shown ?

Thursday at 7:00pm EDT. It's little difficult to find. Click on "TV Schedule" and select May 1 from
the calendar.

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Ken Lyons (remove the year to reply)
 
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