On Mar 2, 6:14 pm, Keith <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2 Mar 2007 13:43:27 -0800, "Gorgeous George"
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >One of professional cycling's finest ambassadors pedalled off into the
> >sunset this week - but it was a quiet send-off.
>
> >http://tinyurl.com/2uk4zu
>
> Well put, even here nobody seems to care, odd, I'm devastated, 10
> years of supporting Ulle gone down the drain.
As Benjamin Franklin said somewhere, it's better
to burn out than it is to rust.
Ullrich has been an afterthought for a while now.
Many of us thought otherwise, but we were fooling
ourselves. In retrospect, his last significant
tactical blunder was returning to T-Mobile for 2004.
Since then it now looks (with the benefit of
hindsight) like a slow but inevitable denouement,
like watching a solo inexorably reeled in by
the bunch. Bob Schwartz started saying a few years
ago that Jan had made himself irrelevant, and I
thought he wasn't necessarily right, but he was.
The farce of last year was the final indignity, but
even there Jan was Rosencrantz to Basso's Hamlet.
Ben