Amrstrong's TdF margins

"Jim Flom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

There has been no evident decline in Lance's margins of victory (just last
year). Can't wait to see how this unfolds.

1999
1. Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal
2. Alex Zülle (Swi) Banesto 7.37

2000
1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service
2 Jan Ullrich (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 6.02

2001
1. Lance Armstrong (USA)
2. Jan Ullrich (Ger) 6.44

2002
1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service
2 Joseba Beloki (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 7.17

2003
1 ARMSTRONG Lance
2 ULLRICH Jan 01' 01"

2004
1 ?
2 ?

2004
1. Lance
2. Basso 03'59"

Jim Flom said:

There has been no evident decline in Lance's margins of victory (just
last year).

Here are the gaps to 2nd and 3rd place from 1947 to 2003:
http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/rbr/tdf.csv

Robert Chung said:

Jim Flom said:

There has been no evident decline in Lance's margins of victory (just
last year).

Here are the gaps to 2nd and 3rd place from 1947 to 2003:
http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/rbr/tdf.csv

Gap to third place:

1999: 10.43
2000: 10.07
2001: 9.08
2002: 8.28
2003: 4.23
2004: 4.25 (extrapolated)

Dan