Seen the race. The most spectacular Tour I never seen. Landis deserved his victory, the way in came back in Morzine, just the day after he seemed to have lost every chance to win in La Toussuire was just stunning, amazing.
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The Armstrong-Era was boring 'cause we knew forom the very beginning who would win. This Tour was exciting 'cause the race was open you never knew what could happen.
poggy1 said:
Well I've been watching the Tour De France since the mid eighties. This has been one of the most open I've most likely seen. With a few of the top names been taken out before the start of the race due to drugs. This left it wide open and also this proved to be the case. The 36 second gap back to second is one of the smallest ever. The gap of 1 mintue 29 seconds to third is the smallest ever. But the question still is, would have been if such as Basso was still in the race and not been removed ?
No, with Basso and Ullrich the race would never have been that spectacular. The race was open 'cause some teams had lost their leader so the #2 leaders became #1.
Basso is strong and he has strong fellows such as Julich, Sastre...
Sastre is weaker and he had no strong fellows.
The T-Mobile stuff is different : Kloden is nearly as strong as Ullrich. And he had good fellows such as Kessler, Guerini, Rogers... But this team always had terrible stategies. And this year was not different.
For example, in the Pla be Beret stage, the T-Mobile starts running very fast altogether, in order to get the other riders tired and ejects the weakest ones. They all get tired quite fast and when the leader's battle started, Kloden hadno fellows with him to give a help so couldn't follow Landis, Leipheimer and Menchov...
If T-Mobile would have run with their brain, Kloden may won
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