It's disappointing that in the #1 race on the domestic calendar unknown
Euros can come over and take 1&2. Is the US Peloton that far behind? An
what's with HealthNet? No American on the roster worthy of being set-up for
the finale?
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"BC" wrote ...
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It's disappointing that in the #1 race on the domestic calendar unknown
Euros can come over and take 1&2. Is the US Peloton that far behind?Americans have won 10 of the 20 USPro cycling championships.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2003/jun03/wachovia03/?id=USPRO_results
Nothing wrong with that.JF
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"Jim Flom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:kT8xc.34139$DV4.16180@clgrps13...Quoted message said:
"BC" wrote ...
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It's disappointing that in the #1 race on the domestic calendar unknown
Euros can come over and take 1&2. Is the US Peloton that far behind?Americans have won 10 of the 20 USPro cycling championships.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2003/jun03/wachovia03/?id=USPRO_results
Nothing wrong with that.No one is marking the Euros and all of the top US riders are busy marking
each other. What the hell would you expect from a situation like that? -
Tom Kunich said:
"Jim Flom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:kT8xc.34139$DV4.16180@clgrps13...Quoted message said:
"BC" wrote ...
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It's disappointing that in the #1 race on the domestic calendar unknown
Euros can come over and take 1&2. Is the US Peloton that far behind?Americans have won 10 of the 20 USPro cycling championships.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2003/jun03/wachovia03/?id=USPRO_results
Nothing wrong with that.No one is marking the Euros and all of the top US riders are busy marking
each other. What the hell would you expect from a situation like that?Effectively this was a small escape bunch at the end that Freddy managed
to latch onto the back of. I'm surprised he got away with it. -
Americans are only batting .500 in their own domestic championships
race, yet the field is always predominantly compsed of Americans. A
few Europeans come over to latch on to the free gravy giveaway.THAT'S PRETTY [censored] SAD.
We may as well turn the race back into a 100k crit like they did back
in 83 (when Johnny Useless took the stars and stripes jersey with his
15th place behind Phinney and Bauer)Seems Eddy B was right when he said that most new US Pros take out
their licenses so they can brag to their girlfriends that they are pro
bike racers."Jim Flom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<kT8xc.34139$DV4.16180@clgrps13>...
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"BC" wrote ...
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It's disappointing that in the #1 race on the domestic calendar unknown
Euros can come over and take 1&2. Is the US Peloton that far behind?Americans have won 10 of the 20 USPro cycling championships.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2003/jun03/wachovia03/?id=USPRO_results
Nothing wrong with that.JF
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"kaiser" wrote...
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Americans are only batting .500 in their own domestic championships
race, yet the field is always predominantly compsed of Americans. A
few Europeans come over to latch on to the free gravy giveaway.THAT'S PRETTY F------- SAD.
It's better than the French and the TdF.
Jim Flom
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"Jim Flom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"kaiser" wrote...
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Americans are only batting .500 in their own domestic championships
race, yet the field is always predominantly compsed of Americans. A
few Europeans come over to latch on to the free gravy giveaway.THAT'S PRETTY F------- SAD.
It's better than the French and the TdF.
Why do you suppose they close the French national championships to French
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[email hidden] (kaiser) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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Americans are only batting .500 in their own domestic championships
race, yet the field is always predominantly compsed of Americans. A
few Europeans come over to latch on to the free gravy giveaway.THAT'S PRETTY [censored] SAD.
It's a European sport.
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We may as well turn the race back into a 100k crit like they did back
in 83 (when Johnny Useless took the stars and stripes jersey with his
15th place behind Phinney and Bauer)Eustice deserves a lot more respect than that.
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Seems Eddy B was right when he said that most new US Pros take out
their licenses so they can brag to their girlfriends that they are pro
bike racers.No, he was wrong. Most bike racers do not have girlfriends, nor would
that be likely to help one get a girlfriend. Most racers turn pro to
compensate for having been awful at dodgeball.-RJ
PS Not every Eddie in cycling is spelled 'Eddy.' Only Eddy spells it
that way. If you can't spell Borysewicz, at least get Eddie right.Quoted message said:
"Jim Flom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<kT8xc.34139$DV4.16180@clgrps13>...Quoted message said:
"BC" wrote ...
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It's disappointing that in the #1 race on the domestic calendar unknown
Euros can come over and take 1&2. Is the US Peloton that far behind?Americans have won 10 of the 20 USPro cycling championships.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2003/jun03/wachovia03/?id=USPRO_results
Nothing wrong with that.JF
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"Tom Kunich" ...
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Why do you suppose they close the French national championships to French
only?I'll bet it's so that it's harder for a foreigner to win.
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On 8 Jun 2004 18:22:16 -0700, [email hidden] (Ronaldo
Jeremiah) said:
Eustice deserves a lot more respect than that.
Its OK, he did OK on the commissions for the white sun block he seemed
to be wearing all the time. If he could have swung it into the same
kind of craze that Greg did with the wrap-around sunglasses, he'd be a
rich man today...Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels... -
I think John used the zinc oxide due to the massive facial scars he
sustained from a very bad crash not long before that. But man, he
sure looked like a Fred with that getup.No disrespect intened towards John. Great bike racer. I just can
never resist using his old nickname.But I'd be content having no national champion at all for a year if no
US rider can even crack the top-10 in the champs.Curtis L. Russell <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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On 8 Jun 2004 18:22:16 -0700, [email hidden] (Ronaldo
Jeremiah) said:
Eustice deserves a lot more respect than that.
Its OK, he did OK on the commissions for the white sun block he seemed
to be wearing all the time. If he could have swung it into the same
kind of craze that Greg did with the wrap-around sunglasses, he'd be a
rich man today...Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels... -
In article <[email hidden]>, kaiser
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I think John used the zinc oxide due to the massive facial scars he
sustained from a very bad crash not long before that. But man, he
sure looked like a Fred with that getup.No disrespect intened towards John. Great bike racer. I just can
never resist using his old nickname.Yes, a bike racer without a cool nickname would be useless, eh?
-WG
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(kaiser) said:
But I'd be content having no
national champion at all for a year if no
US rider can even crack the top-10
in the champs.There were three or four in the top 10 this year, and I think that is
typical.JT
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Well, lets at least settle on some standard of excllence. How about
cracking the top-three in order to qualify for a championship jersey?John Forrest Tomlinson <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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(kaiser) said:
But I'd be content having no
national champion at all for a year if no
US rider can even crack the top-10
in the champs.There were three or four in the top 10 this year, and I think that is
typical.JT
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