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From: B. Lafferty ([email protected])
Subject: Re: Ullrich Must Be Losing Sleep....
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Date: 2004-03-01 17:16:22 PST


Time will tell.
"trg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> And next year's tour as well ;)
>
> B. Lafferty wrote:
> > Speaking of numbers, I hope LeBlanc gives Ullrich #51 in this year's
> > Tour.
> >
> > "trg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >> I got it from a Spanish site that listed him as "retirado"
> >> (withdrawn). As I now realize, the 71 by his name wasn't the mile he
> >> dropped at, it was probably just his number. Oops.
> >>
> >> I guess he didn't drop, just finished out of the time limit.
> >>
> >> B. Lafferty wrote:
> >>> "trg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >>> news:[email protected]...
> >>>> B. Lafferty wrote:
> >>>>> from the anxiety of knowing that Krispy beat Floyd by one second
> >>>>> at Algarve. Krispy needs to bluff better before he ramps it up in
> >>>>> Georgia.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> From CyclingNews:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "I wonder what Jan [Ullrich] thought when he heard I won in
> >>>>> Portugal, that I'm winning in February, when I'm nowhere near my
> >>>>> peak," Armstrong said. "I was thinking what would I do if I heard
> >>>>> Ullrich had won a time-trial in February... I think I'd get
> >>>>> straight down and do 50 sit-ups just to say to myself I was doing
> >>>>> something. I didn't expect to win, but I did."
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, turns out Ullrich isn't losing sleep. He even dropped out of
> >>>> the CLASICA DE ALMERIA after just 71 kms to catch up on his zzz's.
> >>>> I guess Armstrong won't be doing situps either.
> >>>
> >>> Interesting, but not what the news services reported. What's your
> >>> source?
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> From CyclingNews:
> >>> Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) described himself as happy with his first
> >>> race of the season, the Clasica Almeria in Spain, won by La
> >>> Boulangère's Thomas Voeckler. Ullrich was part of the main field
> >>> that finished too far behind the 20 leaders to be classified.
> >>> "After my preparation with three training camps altogether, I feel
> >>> on the right road towards the Tour de France," Ullrich told the SID
> >>> newsagency. "It is not my aim yet to keep up with the best riders.
> >>> Above all, it was important for getting the first racing kilometres
> >>> in. That can now be built on."
> >>>
> >>> From PezCyclingNews:
> >>> Jan Ullrich has started to warm up his big diesel engine of a body
> >>> by turning out at the Clasica de Almeria, saying he couldn't have
> >>> had a better start to his season, and telling his website that he
> >>> was happy to finish in the main bunch (over 20 minutes back)
> >>> because Guerini and Konecny were in the front of the race.
> >>>