"David Ferguson" <
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> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:06:29 -0700, sonarrat <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>>> They did do one thing right: they put Guerini on the road, and he was
>>> able to briefly help Ullrich on the Pailheres. A drop in an otherwise
>>> empty bucket.
>>
>>Sorry - Nardello.
>
>
> Yes, as I mention in another thread, it was a thing of beauty.
>
> They have the best "Top 5 guys" on a team and they really put the
> screws to DSC and made them a non factor instead of letting them run
> the 6+ year old plan.
>
> Sadly I don't think they will recongnize how effective it was and will
> all just hang on tomorrow hoping not to get dropped by a big yellow
> bee that they stirred up today.
>
> D
********. The difference between Telecom and Discovery is that once a
Discovery rider is off the back, they go into "save it for another day"
mode. There are still 3 Telecom riders who thingk they are leaders and keep
fighter for GC time. 2 of them won't be worth **** tomorrow. Vino did good
to help blow things up, but his day was done and his manager should have
told him so.
Any one of Discovery, Telecom, CSC, Phonak could blow things up on the first
climb, I don't think it proved Telecom had any more or less strength today.
It was the start of a great strategy, but once Kloden and Vino where
dropped, they should have started to save things for tomorrow.
Tell me Telecom's top 5 are better than discovery's after tomorrow's stage.
2 cents