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Geschrieben von tick am 25.10.2003 um 09:15:

  10 Reasons Lance won't win the TdF 2004

This is my favorite:

3. On the second day in the mountains, Lance is accidentally taken out by Tyler Hamilton, who was crashing out of habit. Gilberto Simoni wins the Tour by 3 minutes from Jan Ullrich who didn’t wait a tick, but couldn’t stay with Gibo in the mountains.


http://procyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=1740

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Geschrieben von Cyclist am 25.10.2003 um 09:46:

  RE: 10 Reasons Lance won't win the TdF 2004

Und ich bin natürlich für Nr. 4:

Zitat:

4. OR… On the first Day in the mountains Lance is caught in a pile up caused by a crash just as the group was catching an early break at the foot of the first Mountain. The crash was the result of Mario Cipollini (a late transfer to Credit Agricole and a member of the early break) ramming into the back of the car of Jean Marie Leblanc at 85kph and giving Jean Marie a severe case of whiplash (leBlanc is forced to withdraw and does not start next stage). Cipo goes on to win the stage on the Champs’ and states that Jean Marie should not be invited back next year if he can’t finish. Tyler Hamilton goes on to win by :32 (despite crashing 4 times) from Beloki (who is racing for 9 bucks a stage because he waited too long for Manolo Saiz to form a team and that was all the money Kelme had left over (Then he leaves Kelme immediately after the race).

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Geschrieben von hasending am 25.10.2003 um 10:59:

 

Mein Favorit ist klar die Nr. 1

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Geschrieben von Michelin-Männchen am 25.10.2003 um 16:42:

  I like this one

2. On stage 10 Lance decides not to continue despite a 4-minute lead as an honorarium to Eddy Merckx. Merckx says it was a great gesture, but adds that he would have done it on stage 9. Alex Vinokurov wins by 6 minutes despite initially being behind Jan Ullrich by 2:10, as Jan again waited for 26 minutes to make sure Lance was really quitting.