yeah, i wonder if bruyneel was watching?
his "one size fits all" method of attacking the last half of the last mountain on a stage works fine
for armstrong, but not heras. i dont know if this strategy cost heras spain last year, but it
certainly did not help. and, who is to say he could have taken more time out of gonzalez by
attacking earlier in stages? but, why not at least try???
regardless, simoni understands he needs all the time he can get with the long time trials coming up,
and acted accordingly. bruyneel would have had heras sit in the group eating banannas all day.
chris
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>> He showed good aggressiveness. The chase behind was just a tiny bit too disorganized. I can see
>> the maglia rosa swapping shoulders a couple more times before Milano.
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>Yeah, it was wonderful to see a major tour contendor actually attack somewhere besides a mountain
>stage. As much as I have to admire the calculating style of riders nowadays, I really admire
>someone pugnacious enough to try and put their competitors in a world of hurt, Hinault-style. This
>whole stage reminds of a flattened version of Hinault's attack on the Stelvio (1980?) when he sent
>Bernadeu up the road, then attacked and joined him to put minutes and minutes into everyone else.
>It's too bad Simoni's teammate didn't have better legs -- with a little more help on the flats,
>Simoni could have easily taken a minute out of Garzelli.
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>This is going to be a stormin' Giro...
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