"The 33"-Road Bike Racing - Two brothers

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RonH
07-23-01, 07:29 AM
When I saw this on TV yesterday it brought tears to my eyes.

http://www.bicycling.com/tdf2001/photos/images/14_02_sm.jpg


Jan, we love you too.

fubar5
07-23-01, 07:44 AM
THAT my friends, is sportsmanship.Try to find that in any other sport!!!
JonR
07-23-01, 09:44 AM
That is what competition should be.

Joe Pozer
07-23-01, 10:42 AM
Say what you will about Lance but the fact is that he waited for Ullrich after his bad crash instead of attacking. Now that's integrity. He wanted to win the race outright, not by default.
fubar5
07-23-01, 11:08 AM
Ullrich crashed? I missed that I guess.
KevinG
07-23-01, 01:17 PM
Originally posted by fubar5
Ullrich crashed? I missed that I guess.

He went off the road and over the bars during stage 13
fubar5
07-23-01, 01:31 PM
OUCH!!!
Stan
07-23-01, 08:20 PM
That is an awesome thing. If they had been in the lead, i have, no doubt Lance would have given the stage to Jan. God knows he's earned it. It can't be easy being dropped by Lance.
Stan
07-23-01, 08:27 PM
Lance waited for Jan when he had his accident. My question is this. On stage 8? when half the peloton got caught behind the crash was it out of the ordinary or unsportsman like for the lead group to open up a 35 minute gap? or should, out of sportsmanship, they have waited? Just wondering. Its a moog point now anyway. Lance and Jan pretty much showed thier metal in the mountains. ride long and prosper Stan
orguasch
07-27-01, 11:26 AM
Ya I saw the crash of Ullrich and lance really waited for him, I beleive they have an unwritten gentlemans agreement in the Tour that if your on the lead and your closest pursuer suffer a flat or an accident the cyclicts who's on the lead will have to wait for the other guy to recover. I also remember that during the 1998 Tour Jan also suffer a flat during the mountain stages and the lead group waited for Jan to recover and because Jan was Number one in the General classification at that time
orguasch
07-27-01, 11:29 AM
Try looking for other sport who has the same sportmanship, I bet you, that your going to fail in getting one sports......