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[email protected]>, paolo
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[email protected]') wrote:
> On Jul 16, 3:53 am, Simon Brooke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> in message <[email protected]>, g
>>
>> ('[email protected]') wrote:
>> > George Hincapie,
>> > back from the leader is this 20:19.000
>> > is this position advantageous for the team win or is George dropping
>> > too far of the lead.
>>
>> Discovery were never in with a chance of winning this; they don't have
>> good enough riders. And Hincapie is a long way from being their best
>> rider.
>
> Contador's chances of making the podium increase in direct proportion
> to Astana's mistakes and bad-luck.
Everyone's chances of making the podium increase in direct proportion
to Astana's mistakes and bad-luck.
> If Discovery had left Danielson in
> the TdF squad, then Contador would have had some reasonable support in
> the mountains (Levi, Danielson and possibly Gusev).
Discovery's chances of making the podium increase in direct proportion to
Caisse d'Epargne, CSC, Robabank, Saunier Duval, Euskaltel-Euskadi,
T-Mobile, Predictor – Lotto, and even AG2r's bad luck. And if all those
teams wiped out completely, Disco would probably still be beaten by
Leakygas or the Boogie boys.
Vino's chief rival in this tour is Andreas Kloden. Was from day one, is
now. Alejandro Valverde, Frank Schleck, Carlos Sastre and Andrey
Kashechkin are vaguely in contention, as is a very stringy chicken.
Gerdemann might still spring a surprise - the boy can climb, can he
timetrial?
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