Lance bottle contents...?

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:27:24 -0700, Jaybee <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Just before the devil appeared at 10K, Lance took a bottle from someone at roadside
on the final climb. This must be a DC staff person, and it stationed there to
provide water or energy drink. Otherwise, how would Lance know what was in the
bottle? Couldn't be just anyone there. Do more teams use this technique on a
climb, when the team car is prohibited from providing a bottle?
Haven't seen this until now.

I can't imagine that Lance would drink anything that someone he didn't
know gave him, so I assume it's a DISCO person who gave it to him. I
also assume that it's legal.

Jack Hollis said:

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:27:24 -0700, Jaybee <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Just before the devil appeared at 10K, Lance took a bottle from someone at roadside
on the final climb. This must be a DC staff person, and it stationed there to
provide water or energy drink. Otherwise, how would Lance know what was in the
bottle? Couldn't be just anyone there. Do more teams use this technique on a
climb, when the team car is prohibited from providing a bottle?
Haven't seen this until now.

I can't imagine that Lance would drink anything that someone he didn't
know gave him, so I assume it's a DISCO person who gave it to him. I
also assume that it's legal.

Yes, I think the coverage mentioned that is was illegal for a team car to provide
bottles, to avoid any rest station while climbing. But it seems that it only makes
sense to station someone on the way up with bottles.

Quoted message said:

Yes, I think the coverage mentioned that is was illegal for a team car to provide
bottles, to avoid any rest station while climbing. But it seems that it only makes
sense to station someone on the way up with bottles.

They guy handing Lance the bottle was in a Disco uni so I presume he
was a team member of some sort...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Yes, I think the coverage mentioned that is was illegal for a team car to provide
bottles, to avoid any rest station while climbing. But it seems that it only makes
sense to station someone on the way up with bottles.

They guy handing Lance the bottle was in a Disco uni so I presume he
was a team member of some sort...

IIRC there's no more water or food allowed from team within last 10K so
it must have been just before the marker.

Jaybee said:

Just before the devil appeared at 10K, Lance took a bottle from someone
at roadside on the final climb. This must be a DC staff person, and it
stationed there to provide water or energy drink. Otherwise, how would
Lance know what was in the bottle? Couldn't be just anyone there. Do
more teams use this technique on a climb, when the team car is
prohibited from providing a bottle?
Haven't seen this until now.

Voight was slugging mineral water too.
You can't win the Tour without mineral water.

Stewart Fleming said:

Jaybee said:

Just before the devil appeared at 10K, Lance took a bottle from someone
at roadside on the final climb. This must be a DC staff person, and it
stationed there to provide water or energy drink. Otherwise, how would
Lance know what was in the bottle? Couldn't be just anyone there. Do
more teams use this technique on a climb, when the team car is
prohibited from providing a bottle?
Haven't seen this until now.

Voight was slugging mineral water too.

Angelina Jolie's Dad is riding in the Tour? Whoa.

Or do you mean Jens Voigt's evil twin? ;-p

jj

Quoted message said:

You can't win the Tour without mineral water.

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:27:24 -0700, Jaybee <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Just before the devil appeared at 10K, Lance took a bottle from someone at roadside
on the final climb. This must be a DC staff person, and it stationed there to
provide water or energy drink. Otherwise, how would Lance know what was in the
bottle? Couldn't be just anyone there. Do more teams use this technique on a
climb, when the team car is prohibited from providing a bottle?
Haven't seen this until now.

Lance's provider was wearing a team Disco jersey so you have to assume
it was planned. but I don't remember seeing that move before.

Voigt took an open water bottle from a spectator as he struggled up
the climb and I was shocked that he actually took a big swig (instead
of just using it to pour on his back).

Joe Blow said:

Voigt took an open water bottle from a spectator as he struggled up
the climb and I was shocked that he actually took a big swig (instead
of just using it to pour on his back).

Thats Ok, it was Gerolsteiner water.

And you can narrow that down to:

1) Pelligrino
2) Vichy Catalan

Now what we need is a research paper on which of these mineral waters
offer's the highest energy content.

http://www.mgwater.com/minwaters.shtml

But then they don't tell us what waters are what.