"Kyle Legate" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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In article <[email hidden]>, "Kurgan Gringioni"
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That is an exagerration, however, it is kind of crazy that at this time last year Ekimov was retired.
According to the coverage I watched, taped, and listened to ... Andrea Tafi was the main player all day ... he was the driving force for most of the race ... not Ekimov or van Heeswijk ... and Cruz was just the early sacrificial lamb.
I remember reading the live report on cyclingnews, and thinking Tafi was just burning his candle before the finale. He was working far too hard relative to the others.
Five flats, bike changes, all the work on the front to make the race hard as he promised and he still finished only :36 seconds down on the winners. I'd say Tafi was on a great day and just had [censored] luck, as opposed to PVP who had not even one flat (wonder if he used those mystery CX tires?)
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I'm surprised that no one picked Pieri for the win. Dude looks like he was born to ride the cobbles.
The way Dario Pieri rides the cobbles seems to me he's the next Franco Ballerini. He definitely should win P-R the next years. I'm glad he confirmed his potential for the classics after the 2nd place in Flanders 2000 and his win in the E3-Prijs Harelbeke 2002.
However there's one thing. Belgian cycling commentator Michel Wuyts told us the story that Pieri weigh more than 100kg (over 220 pounds that is) this winter. I don't know how Michel Wuyts knows this but i guess this is a story that makes Jan Ullrich pretty jealous. :-)
Pieri is definitely bigger than when I saw him at the USPRO series (2 yrs ago?). Dario fell to the ground on the velodrome infield grass crying after his heartbreaking loss. Ballerini came up to him and told him "this damn race, you have to lose it first before you can win it".
