what were they thinking????

Gary said:

Lance picks up a stray seven seconds on hamilton, heras and others. How
did they let him slip away like that?
Gary

Because they were tired?

The finish video is up @ http://www.letour.com/fr/

Dan

BECAUSE HE RODE FASTER THAN THEM.

NEXT!

The 'casters said it a couple of times, but didn't really
explain it:
There is supposedly a different way to deal with separation
among riders when the finish is uphill (as today in Saint-Flour).
What's normal? Same time as the guy in front of you if you're
within 2 seconds? Two bike lengths?
What different with an "uphill finish"?
More generally, are the full rules on line somewhere?
(Suprising difficult to find the answer to this.)

Rico

Duh. Excellent insight. The question is WHY? Was it a simple slip up or
not being attentive or nobody cared?

Bart Van Hoorebeeck said:

BECAUSE HE RODE FASTER THAN THEM.

NEXT!

Gary said:

Duh. Excellent insight. The question is WHY? Was it a simple slip up or
not being attentive or nobody cared?

Bart Van Hoorebeeck said:

BECAUSE HE RODE FASTER THAN THEM.

NEXT!

It looked to me, from the video, the field was going flat out. With riders struggling
to hold the wheels in front of them, one rider in the chain lets a bit of a gap open,
and it's very difficult for others to come around and close it. The gap was only a few
seconds, but with the reference point being the winner and not the last rider in the
rear group, the time split becomes more significant.

Dan

They probably were thinking, "Oh [censored], there's a gap."

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They probably were thinking, "Oh [censored], there's a gap."

And my legs are killing me.

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Gary said:

Lance picks up a stray seven seconds on hamilton, heras and others. How
did they let him slip away like that?
Gary

Because they were tired?

The finish video is up @ http://www.letour.com/fr/

Dan

you mean
http://www.letour.com/2004/fr/index.html

Dan Connelly said:

Gary said:

Lance picks up a stray seven seconds on hamilton, heras and others.
How did they let him slip away like that?
Gary

Because they were tired?

You had to be pretty attentive in that finish. Credit Agricole
(Dufaux?) forced it going under the banner with 800m to go and there
were gaps all over the place in the final corners.

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You had to be pretty attentive in that finish. Credit Agricole
(Dufaux?) forced it going under the banner with 800m to go and there
were gaps all over the place in the final corners.

It was Halgand leading it out. We can add him to the list of "bitter rivals"
too:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/?id=2003/jun03/jun15news

Jeff