16:57 : Le peloton de tête comprend environ 35 coureurs. Tyler Hamilton est en difficulté : il est décroché d'une centaine de mètres environ et attendu par Santos Gonzalez.
(he's fallen back 100 metres and is attended to by Phonak teammate Santos Gonzalez)
16:57 : Le peloton de tête comprend environ 35 coureurs. Tyler Hamilton est en difficulté : il est décroché d'une centaine de mètres environ et attendu par Santos Gonzalez.
(he's fallen back 100 metres and is attended to by Phonak teammate Santos Gonzalez)
Doesn't sound like real form trouble, mechanical?
No. I think he's a little flat. He takes a break after Romandie and builds back up to the tour. Last year the effect was more pronounced because he was a little sick...but he looked like [censored] at Dauphine. I was suprised to see him do so well on the prologue.
16:57 : Le peloton de tête comprend environ 35 coureurs. Tyler Hamilton est en difficulté : il est décroché d'une centaine de mètres environ et attendu par Santos Gonzalez.
(he's fallen back 100 metres and is attended to by Phonak teammate Santos Gonzalez)
Santos Gonzalez was "waiting for" him, not "attending to" him. (Could have been worse, Santos could have "heard" Tyler...)
" Tyler Hamilton (Phonak) lost some time in the final phase of the Col de la Croix de Chaubouret, but he got back on the descent after dropping 20" back at one point. But the Man from Marblehead wasn't worried with his moment of weakness. Hamilton told Cyclingnews after Stage 2 that "It's been a month since I've raced (at the Tour de Romandie) and with 230km yesterday, 180km today and the heat, it was hard. I was definitely dehydrated and started cramping so there is nothing you can do then. It usually takes me a few days to get acclimated to the heat."
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On the first Cat 2 climb of the Dauphine:
16:57 : Le peloton de tête comprend environ 35 coureurs. Tyler Hamilton est en difficulté : il est décroché d'une centaine de mètres environ et attendu par Santos Gonzalez.
(he's fallen back 100 metres and is attended to by Phonak teammate Santos Gonzalez)
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Richard Adams said:
On the first Cat 2 climb of the Dauphine:
16:57 : Le peloton de tête comprend environ 35 coureurs. Tyler Hamilton est en difficulté : il est décroché d'une centaine de mètres environ et attendu par Santos Gonzalez.
(he's fallen back 100 metres and is attended to by Phonak teammate Santos Gonzalez)
Doesn't sound like real form trouble, mechanical?
No. I think he's a little flat. He takes a break after Romandie and builds back up to the tour. Last year the effect was more pronounced because he was a little sick...but he looked like [censored] at Dauphine. I was suprised to see him do so well on the prologue.
Read Cyclingnews... Tyler said he wasn't used to the heat today (had not yet acclimated) and was a little dehydrated. -Ken
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" Tyler Hamilton (Phonak) lost some time in the final phase of the Col de
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Croix de Chaubouret, but he got back on the descent after dropping 20"
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at one point. But the Man from Marblehead wasn't worried with his moment
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weakness. Hamilton told Cyclingnews after Stage 2 that "It's been a month since I've raced (at the Tour de Romandie) and with 230km yesterday, 180km today and the heat, it was hard. I was definitely dehydrated and started cramping so there is nothing you can do then. It usually takes me a few
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to get acclimated to the heat."
The good news is, Tyler was able to make up time on the descent, and keep the bike upright!
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On the first Cat 2 climb of the Dauphine:
16:57 : Le peloton de tête comprend environ 35 coureurs. Tyler Hamilton est en difficulté : il est décroché d'une centaine de mètres environ et attendu par Santos Gonzalez.
(he's fallen back 100 metres and is attended to by Phonak teammate Santos Gonzalez)
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Richard Adams said:
On the first Cat 2 climb of the Dauphine:
16:57 : Le peloton de tête comprend environ 35 coureurs. Tyler Hamilton est en difficulté : il est décroché d'une centaine de mètres environ et attendu par Santos Gonzalez.
(he's fallen back 100 metres and is attended to by Phonak teammate Santos Gonzalez)
Doesn't sound like real form trouble, mechanical?
No. I think he's a little flat. He takes a break after Romandie and builds back up to the tour. Last year the effect was more pronounced because he was a little sick...but he looked like [censored] at Dauphine. I was suprised to see him do so well on the prologue.
Read Cyclingnews... Tyler said he wasn't used to the heat today (had not yet acclimated) and was a little dehydrated. -Ken
You'd think by now he'd learn to acclimate himself before a race. Same silly thing Armstrong did last year in the TdF. They must be terribly distracted not to be thinking about such things.
16:57 : Le peloton de tête comprend environ 35 coureurs. Tyler Hamilton est en difficulté : il est décroché d'une centaine de mètres environ et attendu par Santos Gonzalez.
(he's fallen back 100 metres and is attended to by Phonak teammate Santos Gonzalez)
Santos Gonzalez was "waiting for" him, not "attending to" him. (Could have been worse, Santos could have "heard" Tyler...)
Worse still, he could have "extended" Tyler or even "extinguished" him.