From: B. Lafferty ([email hidden])
Subject: Re: Ullrich Must Be Losing Sleep....
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Date: 2004-03-01 17:16:22 PST
Time will tell.
"trg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:And next year's tour as well 😉
B. Lafferty said:Speaking of numbers, I hope LeBlanc gives Ullrich #51 in this year's
Tour."trg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:I got it from a Spanish site that listed him as "retirado"
(withdrawn). As I now realize, the 71 by his name wasn't the mile he
dropped at, it was probably just his number. Oops.I guess he didn't drop, just finished out of the time limit.
B. Lafferty wrote:
> "trg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
> news:[email hidden]...
>> B. Lafferty wrote:
>>> from the anxiety of knowing that Krispy beat Floyd by one second
>>> at Algarve. Krispy needs to bluff better before he ramps it up in
>>> Georgia.
>>>
>>> From CyclingNews:
>>>
>>> "I wonder what Jan [Ullrich] thought when he heard I won in
>>> Portugal, that I'm winning in February, when I'm nowhere near my
>>> peak," Armstrong said. "I was thinking what would I do if I heard
>>> Ullrich had won a time-trial in February... I think I'd get
>>> straight down and do 50 sit-ups just to say to myself I was doing
>>> something. I didn't expect to win, but I did."
>>
>> Well, turns out Ullrich isn't losing sleep. He even dropped out of
>> the CLASICA DE ALMERIA after just 71 kms to catch up on his zzz's.
>> I guess Armstrong won't be doing situps either.
>
> Interesting, but not what the news services reported. What's your
> source?
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> From CyclingNews:
> Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) described himself as happy with his first
> race of the season, the Clasica Almeria in Spain, won by La
> Boulangère's Thomas Voeckler. Ullrich was part of the main field
> that finished too far behind the 20 leaders to be classified.
> "After my preparation with three training camps altogether, I feel
> on the right road towards the Tour de France," Ullrich told the SID
> newsagency. "It is not my aim yet to keep up with the best riders.
> Above all, it was important for getting the first racing kilometres
> in. That can now be built on."
>
> From PezCyclingNews:
> Jan Ullrich has started to warm up his big diesel engine of a body
> by turning out at the Clasica de Almeria, saying he couldn't have
> had a better start to his season, and telling his website that he
> was happy to finish in the main bunch (over 20 minutes back)
> because Guerini and Konecny were in the front of the race.
>