lance flats, spectators cheer

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(David N. Welton) said:

Interesting sidenote. When Lance flatted, the guys from RAI said that
the spectators watching the giant screen at the finish cheered. Lame!

Almost certainly because they thought it was the only way Voeckler would
stay in yellow. As it was, Thomas barely managed the trick.

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There's not many reasons for them to cheer for their countrymen this year...
OTOH I noticed many Basque coloured people cheering for every rider
including Lance on his way up to the finish.

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Interesting sidenote. When Lance flatted, the guys from RAI said that
the spectators watching the giant screen at the finish cheered. Lame!

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check out http://www.tdfblog.com - they mention this newsgroup specifically
on this

William Jones

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Interesting sidenote. When Lance flatted, the guys from RAI said that
the spectators watching the giant screen at the finish cheered. Lame!

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Of course they cheered. he is set to win and this race is in France.

Ken

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Interesting sidenote. When Lance flatted, the guys from RAI said that
the spectators watching the giant screen at the finish cheered. Lame!

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I think the fans are awesome to Lance. They cheer him like crazy. Not sure
the riders would get as good of a welcome in the US. Judging by the way
some of the foreign golfers are treated when they play here.

Curt

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Interesting sidenote. When Lance flatted, the guys from RAI said that
the spectators watching the giant screen at the finish cheered. Lame!

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There's not many reasons for them to cheer for their countrymen this year...

Voeckler in yellow for 10 days, 3 stages ( Nazon, Virenque, Moncoutie)
Polka dots jersey ( Virenque)
White jersey ( Voeckler )

Not too bad.

name 1 dutch we can cheer for this year? how many stages win?
The first one in GC is Boogerd, 65th, at 57'00.

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There's not many reasons for them to cheer for their countrymen this

year...

Basso's done ok

Jeff

David N. Welton said:

Interesting sidenote. When Lance flatted, the guys from RAI said that
the spectators watching the giant screen at the finish cheered. Lame!

Just as American cheered when Armstrong and USP hit the hammer on the
pavé's after Mayo's crash...

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curt said:

Judging by the way
some of the foreign golfers are treated when they play here.

The only foreign golfer who gets the razzz here is Montgomery and he
deserves it for the way he acted during the Ryder Cup. Now they call
him Mrs. Doubtfire.

Shussbar said:

name 1 dutch we can cheer for this year? how many stages win?
The first one in GC is Boogerd, 65th, at 57'00.

Well Dekker was leading the lantern rouge competition but he's thrown it
away in the mountain stages.

Donald Munro said:

Quoted message said:

name 1 dutch we can cheer for this year? how many stages win?
The first one in GC is Boogerd, 65th, at 57'00.

Quoted message said:

Well Dekker was leading the lantern rouge competition but he's thrown it
away in the mountain stages.

damm, his goal was to be the fist rider at alpe d'huez :-(

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and this morning, before the stage, 3 of the 4 first bikers were french:

1. Voeckler
3. Sandy Casar
4. Virenque

so it's a good year.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

There's not many reasons for them to cheer for their countrymen this year...

Voeckler in yellow for 10 days, 3 stages ( Nazon, Virenque, Moncoutie)
Polka dots jersey ( Virenque)
White jersey ( Voeckler )

Not too bad.

name 1 dutch we can cheer for this year? how many stages win?
The first one in GC is Boogerd, 65th, at 57'00.

"Morten Reippuert Knudsen" <[email protected]...

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Donald Munro me.net said:

Quoted message said:

name 1 dutch we can cheer for this year? how many stages win?
The first one in GC is Boogerd, 65th, at 57'00.

Quoted message said:

Well Dekker was leading the lantern rouge competition but he's thrown it
away in the mountain stages.

damm, his goal was to be the fist rider at alpe d'huez :-(

Here are Lucky 13 --- the SLOWEST riders so far after Stage 13,
dog bless 'em all:

148 Baden Cooke (Aus) Fdjeux.com 1.45.13
149 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.45.31
150 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1.47.52
151 Ludovic Martin (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences - MG Rover 1.48.55
152 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick Step-Davitamon 1.52.12
153 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Lotto-Domo 1.54.41
154 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.55.50
155 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit Par Téléphone 1.55.57
156 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step-Davitamon 1.57.18
157 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Fdjeux.com 2.02.03
158 Frédéric Finot (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences - MG Rover 2.11.15
159 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit Par Téléphone 2.20.35
160 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole
2.25.08

And the crappiest team to ever contest the Tour in the Modern Era, RAGT::

1 Team CSC 171.52.16
2 US Postal presented by Berry Floor 5.52
3 T-Mobile Team 8.07
....
20 Fassa Bortolo 2.04.43
21 R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 3.45.05

WHY WHY WHY were RAGT allowed into the Tour?
How embarrassing.

-Ken

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Interesting sidenote. When Lance flatted, the guys from RAI said that
the spectators watching the giant screen at the finish cheered. Lame!

No, that is not lame when you remember their hero lost quite a bit of time
from a few mishaps. Why would they not be glad to see luck now going back in
Mayo's direction (if Lance fell back enough to make a differnce)?

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Who cares what the "Fans" (all nationalities) say or cheer about, they all have
big mouths and as they have shown on most occasions they act like horses-asses.
Fortunetely, the riders do not get caught up in it and let their riding do
their talking.

Yeah, and Sergio deserves it in last years US Open. That was a disgrace.

Curt

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Quoted message said:

curt said:

Judging by the way
some of the foreign golfers are treated when they play here.

The only foreign golfer who gets the razzz here is Montgomery and he
deserves it for the way he acted during the Ryder Cup. Now they call
him Mrs. Doubtfire.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Morten Reippuert Knudsen said:

Donald Munro said:

Quoted message said:

name 1 dutch we can cheer for this year? how many stages win?
The first one in GC is Boogerd, 65th, at 57'00.

Quoted message said:

Well Dekker was leading the lantern rouge competition but he's thrown it
away in the mountain stages.

damm, his goal was to be the fist rider at alpe d'huez :-(

He's going to have to not do a lot of work to get that one back on
schedule.

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tanx,
Howard

So far, so good, so what?

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

Chris said:

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Quoted message said:

Interesting sidenote. When Lance flatted, the guys from RAI said that
the spectators watching the giant screen at the finish cheered. Lame!

No, that is not lame when you remember their hero lost quite a bit of time
from a few mishaps. Why would they not be glad to see luck now going back in
Mayo's direction (if Lance fell back enough to make a differnce)?

It's unsportsmanlike to cheer when the other guy has a problem. You
cheer when your guy or team or whatever does something well.

In any case, I'm still impressed (fingers crossed) with how they go
through the crowds every year and problems are so rare.

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Howard Kveck said:

He's going to have to not do a lot of work to get that one back on
schedule.

or cath 10 riders

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