Quoted message said:From: Brian Lafferty ([email hidden]) Subject: Re: Making the podium at both Flanders and
Roubaix (will Boonen
be given a chance to win?)
Quoted message said:Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.racing Date: 2003-01-24 16:28:54 PST
"TritonRider" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:Quoted message said:From: [email hidden] (Tony) I started looking at these a result of hearing some people discuss
Tom Boonen s chances to win Paris-Roubaix this year, while riding for Quickstep and Museeuw. If
Johan does pull off the 4th Flanders victory and Boonen is riding well, will Boonen be given a
chance to win Roubaix or will Museeuw, the only rider able to be at the front of both races for
the last 12 years once again claim his role as undisputed team leader?My guess would be that Boonen would be ordered to give himself up to
support
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Museeuw. I think the reasoning would be "You are the future champion.
Show it
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:by helping Museeuw get one last great result. After that the team will
want to
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:work for you." I think that this happens if it is even vaguely possible
for
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Museeuw to get the win.
Bill C.
I would look for Museeu to support Boonen at the Ronde in-as-much-as
the
Quoted message said:Ronde is probably beyond Museeuw's ability to win again, even with
Boonen's
Quoted message said:support. But look for Boonen to support Museeuw in his quest to equal Mr. Paris Roubaix's record
of four. Museeuw is still the favorite in P-R,
with
Quoted message said:or without Boonen there.
Brian Lafferty
Winning Paris-Roubaix would mean that Museeuw would equal Roger De Vlaeminck's success. However
Museeuw said that, "I'd have preferred to win the Ronde for a fourth time compared to a fourth
Paris-Roubaix win...I don't feel at home in Northern France, also because I'm only there once a
year. Well, the Ronde is past. For those who still don't want to believe it: I was sick and that
made me vulnerable in the race."
<snip>
Museeuw supporting Boonen in Flanders.
I agree! Museeuw was Boonen's lapdog. He fetched water bottles for him, sheltered him from the wind
and softened up the field with his attacks to set up Boonen for the finale.
dreaming. He doesn't know his own capabilities anymore. Sickness. Ha!