TdF: And he's off ...

elyob said:

And slips his pedal within 2 seconds! Woops.

But look (or, for those of us without TVs, /read/) how he's doing.
Proverbial train. Ullrich, OTOH, is not doing what I'd hoped he'd be
doing, I'm afraid - I've got a small amount of money riding on him.

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Quoted message said:

And slips his pedal within 2 seconds! Woops.

And as soon as that happened I thought to myself "Well all that's going to
do is spur him on."

Seems I might have been right ;-)

Cheers, helen s

elyob said:

And slips his pedal within 2 seconds! Woops.

.... Exactly the gap. Hmmm, is he hamming it up for the camer^Wgood of the
sport? [I don't believe so, but why spoil a good conspiracy theory?]

Sadly we now have 8 stages to wait before the GC contenders come to the
front and start to do their work.

Mike

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Responding (') said:

elyob said:

And slips his pedal within 2 seconds! Woops.

But look (or, for those of us without TVs, /read/) how he's doing.
Proverbial train. Ullrich, OTOH, is not doing what I'd hoped he'd be
doing, I'm afraid - I've got a small amount of money riding on him.

Well, you've lost that. He may recover from the impact with the car, but
his team is not going to recover psychologically from today. They no
longer have any clear captain, and internal competition is likely to
prevent them forming any sort of cohesive unit in the coming weeks.

Much as I dislike the arrogant, aggressive [censored], Lance was awsome.

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Morning had broken, and I found when I looked that we had run out
of copper roove nails.

Simon Brooke said:

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Responding (') said:

elyob said:

And slips his pedal within 2 seconds! Woops.

But look (or, for those of us without TVs, /read/) how he's doing.
Proverbial train. Ullrich, OTOH, is not doing what I'd hoped he'd be
doing, I'm afraid - I've got a small amount of money riding on him.

Well, you've lost that. He may recover from the impact with the car, but
his team is not going to recover psychologically from today.

The damn TdF is 3 weeks long. I certainly hadn't expected to be waving
goodbye to £100 until the mountain stages.

This year, I have yet to back a winner in cycling - fortune with horses
is currently subsidising losses on both cricket and cycling.

Quoted message said:

They no
longer have any clear captain, and internal competition is likely to
prevent them forming any sort of cohesive unit in the coming weeks.

Much as I dislike the arrogant, aggressive [censored], Lance was awsome.

Couldn't agree more.

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Causer (') said:

elyob said:

And slips his pedal within 2 seconds! Woops.

... Exactly the gap. Hmmm, is he hamming it up for the camer^Wgood of
the
sport? [I don't believe so, but why spoil a good conspiracy
theory?]

Just pulled up too hard on the third crank rotation of a time trial,
when he's putting all his power in to get the bike up to speed quickly,
and his cleat came out of the pedal. Not particularly surprising, and
it didn't take him long to correct.

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;; attributed to Kim Philby, oddly enough.

Simon Brooke said:

Much as I dislike the arrogant, aggressive [censored], Lance was awsome.

It's hard to see how you could win 6 consecutive Tours without either of
those 2 qualities.

--
Dave...

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the
future of the human race. - H. G. Wells

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Quoted message said:

Simon Brooke said:

Much as I dislike the arrogant, aggressive [censored], Lance was awsome.

It's hard to see how you could win 6 consecutive Tours without either of
those 2 qualities.

I think there were three qualities there .. I hope you didn't miss awesome!
In fact, there must be four.

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Simon Brooke said:

Much as I dislike the arrogant, aggressive [censored], Lance was awsome.

It's hard to see how you could win 6 consecutive Tours without either
of those 2 qualities.

Oh, indeed.

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