Road Bike Racing - You gotta love this if your American. WARNING! Spoiler.

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SamDaBikinMan
07-10-03, 01:31 PM
General classification after stage 5

1 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal-Berry Floor 17.54.31
2 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal-Berry Floor 0.01
3 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal-Berry Floor 0.05
4 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal-Berry Floor
5 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) US Postal-Berry Floor 0.23
6 Roberto Heras (Spa) US Postal-Berry Floor 0.27
7 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) US Postal-Berry Floor
8 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal-Berry Floor 0.28

Has this ever happened. Top 8 in GC all on same team?

Would it not be nice to see a podium sweep in Paris by Postal.

KevinG
07-10-03, 01:33 PM
It is usually like that after the TTT.
SamDaBikinMan
07-10-03, 01:38 PM
Understood, but with this much gap in time? Rubiera and Heras could hold on by performing well in the mountains. The ITT will affect them so it would be hard.

brent_dube
07-10-03, 01:40 PM
Originally posted by SamDaBikinMan
Understood, but with this much gap in time? Rubiera and Heras could hold on by performing well in the mountains. The ITT will affect them so it would be hard.

That isn't much of a gap at all.
~LongRider~
07-10-03, 02:39 PM
One mountain stage will set everything right again.
Rossgo
07-11-03, 01:46 AM
It would be nice to see Roberto Heras on the podium as he has worked hours for armstrong and just missed out in spain.
GO HERAS
SamDaBikinMan
07-11-03, 06:46 AM
Originally posted by ~LongRider~
One mountain stage will set everything right again.


I find this comment most interesting since there have been several debates on sprinters versus climbers.

Interesting that once the race hits the mountains the elite take over and leave everyone in the dust but on flat sprint sections everyone pretty much stays very close and significant time gaps are almost unheard of.
jkoman
07-11-03, 09:38 AM
look at last years results after the TTT that Once won....results looked much the same...just diff. names