US Postal's preliminary Tour team

From cyclingnews.com:

"The US Postal-Berry Floor team has selected 14 riders for the upcoming Tour de France, of which
nine will be chosen come race time. According to Het Nieuwsblad, team director Johan Bruyneel named
Lance Armstrong, Roberto Heras, Jose Luis Rubiera, Manuel Beltran, George Hincapie, Viatcheslav
Ekimov, Pavel Padrnos, Guennadi Mikhailov, Victor Peña, Benoît Joachim, Floyd Landis, Max van
Heeswijk, Christian Vandevelde and Steffen Kjaergaard. "

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/?id=2003/jun03/jun03news2

-T

 

They seem to be beefing up the climber contingent more than ever even though this is not an
especially challenging course. Although most of the USPS climbers are fairly well balanced. Maybe
Lance should have been working on his Spanish rather than his French. At least half of the team will
be Spanish speaking.

"Tom Schulenburg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> From cyclingnews.com:
>
> "The US Postal-Berry Floor team has selected 14 riders for the upcoming
Tour
> de France, of which nine will be chosen come race time. According to Het Nieuwsblad, team director
> Johan Bruyneel named Lance Armstrong, Roberto Heras, Jose Luis Rubiera, Manuel Beltran, George
> Hincapie, Viatcheslav Ekimov, Pavel Padrnos, Guennadi Mikhailov, Victor Peña, Benoît Joachim,
> Floyd Landis, Max van Heeswijk, Christian Vandevelde and Steffen
Kjaergaard.
> "
>
> http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/?id=2003/jun03/jun03news2
>
> -T
>
>
>

 

"Nick Burns" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> They seem to be beefing up the climber contingent more than ever
even though
> this is not an especially challenging course. Although most of the
USPS
> climbers are fairly well balanced. Maybe Lance should have been
working on
> his Spanish rather than his French. At least half of the team will
be
> Spanish speaking.

If there is one place where his competition can attack him it's on the early climbs. In order to
make a new record, Lance has to have a lot more support. Beltran, Heras, Rubiera and Landis are
going to be there when the going gets rough.