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[email protected], Per Elmsäter at
[email protected] wrote on 3/12/04 8:52 AM:
> Robert Chung wrote:
>> Very impressed with Jaksche and VDB. Eerie seeing the
>> Beloki curve.
>
> The riders must have felt the same. I've seldom seen them
> so careful around the bends. It still didn't keep two from
> crashing though which brings one to think, that thanks to
> Beloki maybe, nobody had a serious crash.
Pietro Caucchioli, the worst off, still managed to finish in
the main bunch 4 minutes off. On the other hand, Santiago
Botero was a DNF; Baden Cooke and Dario Frigo DNS. I'm
wondering why.
Jorg Jaksche has undergone a complete Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
transformation, and he is riding extremely well. He seems
to have Lance Armstrong's calm while under pressure, and so
far he has shown that he knows how to go hard without
cracking himself. He is extremely intelligent and I will be
surprised if he doesn't land on a GT podium at least once
in his career.
-Sonarrat.