Michael Rasmussen

I was expectng him to compete with countryman Riis in the TT bike
throwing competition.

-ilan

Michael a écrit :

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From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Good heavens.

Except... what about those poor guys barely racing whom he beat (half
the field)?
-Ken

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From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Good heavens.

Seems there is a big difference between TT bikes and MTB bikes in the way
that they handle.

-p

Michael said:

From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Good heavens.

Nerves and inept support.

Pippen said:

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Quoted message said:

From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Good heavens.

Seems there is a big difference between TT bikes and MTB bikes in the way
that they handle.

-p

You'd think he'd be a natural for a technical course.

It's the curse of Saint-Etinne which strikes again.
Tour de France de 1956, TT starts in Saint-Etienne. Third in the GC: Wout
Wagtmans. He's very optimistic, but after five minutes all his hope seems to
be shatter when he makes a fall. Twenty km later a second blow: he has a
flat and looses a lot of time because the mechanic brings a frontwheel in
stead of a backwheel. Fifteen km before the finish he is overtaken by Stan
Ockers, started six minutes behind him. Wagtmans finishes 61th at 8'26" and
drops to the sixth place in the GC.

Benjo

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It's the curse of Saint-Etinne which strikes again.
Tour de France de 1956, TT starts in Saint-Etienne. Third in the GC: Wout
Wagtmans. He's very optimistic, but after five minutes all his hope seems
to be shatter when he makes a fall. Twenty km later a second blow: he has
a flat and looses a lot of time because the mechanic brings a frontwheel
in stead of a backwheel. Fifteen km before the finish he is overtaken by
Stan Ockers, started six minutes behind him. Wagtmans finishes 61th at
8'26" and drops to the sixth place in the GC.

.... at 11'33", just like Rasmussen.

Benjo

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From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Good heavens.

I think Ras must have broken a mirror seven years ago and had all his
bad luck in one day.

Michael said:

From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Good heavens.

He still beat Santiago Botero.

Michael said:

From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Came to the tour with the goal to wear polka dot; leaves the tour with
the polka dot. Podium would have been an entirely unanticipated
bonus; he would have lost 3rd even if he didn't choke.

So, he choked. BFD. He got his jersey and finished 7th overall.
Virenque finished 15th last year (guess who was 14th?).

Richard Adams said:

You'd think he'd be a natural for a technical course.

He should be... heck he spent 5 minuttes not riding his bike wich
means a virtual 9th in todays iTT at 2:47 behind Armstron and only
2:24 behind Ullrich. Rasmusen _must_ have gone realy fast downhill -
unfortunately too fast. Otherwise he could have kept 4th.GC

:-)

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I was expectng him to compete with countryman Riis in the TT bike
throwing competition.

The danish TV commentataers did fear it...

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Michael said:

From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Came to the tour with the goal to wear polka dot; leaves the tour with
the polka dot. Podium would have been an entirely unanticipated
bonus; he would have lost 3rd even if he didn't choke.

So, he choked. BFD. He got his jersey and finished 7th overall.
Virenque finished 15th last year (guess who was 14th?).

And a nice stage win. Still, I'll bet he puts in a little more time on the
TT bike before next year's tour.

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It's the curse of Saint-Etinne which strikes again.
Tour de France de 1956, TT starts in Saint-Etienne. Third in the GC: Wout
Wagtmans. He's very optimistic, but after five minutes all his hope seems
to be shatter when he makes a fall. Twenty km later a second blow: he has
a flat and looses a lot of time because the mechanic brings a frontwheel
in stead of a backwheel. Fifteen km before the finish he is overtaken by
Stan Ockers, started six minutes behind him. Wagtmans finishes 61th at
8'26" and drops to the sixth place in the GC.

... at 11'33", just like Rasmussen.

You must be kidding ?! Good thing Ras is 7th if not it would probably
mean the end of the world is close !

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Benjo

Michael said:

From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Good heavens.

Dumbass,

Pressure Choked the Chicken.

Morten Reippuert Knudsen says...

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Rasmusen _must_ have gone realy fast downhill -
unfortunately too fast. Otherwise he could have kept 4th.GC

Well, [censored], if I could only go (much) faster, I could beat them all.

Those little details sure get in the way of a great fantasy, don't they?

My heart goes out to Michael Rasmussen. He'll be back stronger and smarter, I
hope.

Michael said:

From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Good heavens.

Now answer me this: What about his team? Where the hell is the guy watching tv
and listening to the radio to tell him to go right at the roundabout. The man is
riding for a podium, the highest placed guy on the team, he's got the dots and
the team car hasn't got another bike exactly like his all perfectly set up and
ready to go.

Yeah, he obviously could've done his job better, but other people were making it
harder for him.

Ron

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From King of the Mountain to Race Jester.

Good heavens.

He is still KoM

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I was expectng him to compete with countryman Riis in the TT bike
throwing competition.

The danish TV commentataers did fear it...

So, did any commentator or newspaper headline say "The chicken lays an
egg"?

NS