Originally posted by birdman23
Is this a beautiful thing or what!
Check out this picture...
Poetry in motion
Originally posted by birdman23
Is this a beautiful thing or what!
Check out this picture...
Originally posted by gntlmn
Poetry in motion
Originally posted by davidbod
A thing of beauty and certainly sent a message to the rest of the peleton. The best though was the finish and seeing them smiling and congratulating each other. They realy are a close group and you can see how dedicated they all are to Lance and the team.
Noval was in tears when came in thinking he had let them down and big George was there as well as Lance to let him know it was all OK.
that is by far the most prepared team. Look at the picture that line is perfect you couldn't beat that line by ant meens. Some of the other teams were in clumps but this...no...it's perfectOriginally posted by birdman23
Is this a beautiful thing or what!
Check out this picture...
Originally posted by Lisbon
that is by far the most prepared team. Look at the picture that line is perfect you couldn't beat that line by ant meens. Some of the other teams were in clumps but this...no...it's perfect
No i'm not from Portugal. I got the name while following the UEFA EURO 2004 tourniment. As you know it was the city that they played the final in.Originally posted by birdman23
Agreed! Hey Lisbon are you from Portugal? If not, why do you use Lisbon as your handle? I am curious because I used to live in Portugal.
Originally posted by musette
This is even more awesome. Floyd Landis writes in his cyclingnews diary:
"The conditions were dangerous with all the wind and rain but because of the new rules our team knew we could only gain or lose so much time. We were really careful in all the turns and then went hard in middle part. It was the first time I actually enjoyed the last 5km of a time trial; we knew we couldn't get more time so we backed off."
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/tour04/features/diaries/floyd.php?id=floyd047
In other words, USPS was being careful initially (and faced hard rain/wind conditions, like certain other teams). However, USPS eased off at the end and potentially could have come in at a faster time (had there not been the 2:30 rule and related rules).
Originally posted by Lisbon
No i'm not from Portugal. I got the name while following the UEFA EURO 2004 tourniment. As you know it was the city that they played the final in.
Originally posted by musette
The TTT sequence of finishers within a team shows how deliberate USPS is as well. LA crossed before the fifth person (maybe second??), making sure that he would not be considered the laggard.
CSC shouldn't complain that Sastre didn't get the benefit of the team time. The team was just not careful enough.
Similarly for Saeco. Under the new 2:30 limit rule, it's clear that the leader should cross as one of the first four. That was always the case, to avoid a time lag that would delay the leader. However, under the 2:30 rule, it's more imperative.
An article notes:
"Had [Simoni's] team mates waited for him [they didn't know he had crashed], he would have lost one minute and 30 seconds on Armstrong, but because he crossed the line six seconds behind, his actual time was taken into account and the twice Giro champion found himself 2:42 adrift. 'I personally intervened to ask race officers to apply the spirit of the rule and not the letter in the Simoni's case. But they said the rule was the rule,' Leblanc said."
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