Road Bike Racing - Victor Hugo Pena, ever the Domestique?

Please, I mean no disrespect with the thread title.

Here is a quote from this humble rider, who is the
penultimate team player from Cyclingnews.com:


In an amusing moment today during Stage 6, Peña explained post race that "Today I saw that Lance didn't have a bottle so I wanted to go back to the car to get one - Johan told me the Maillot Jaune doesn't get bottles."

this is great stuff.

Marty

That was an interesting site... watching the leader fetch bottles.

Picture lance doing that in the yellow jersey... hehe

The idiosyncracies of the traditions of the tour!

I've never heard of that one, but it makes sense!

L8R

Here's another quote from the bicycling.com stage 5 tour reports from Pena:


"Today was a dream. The best gift I could ever have. It was great for me, but also my country, who has had so many great cyclists."

Pena said that the only difficult thing was watching his leader Armstrong working for him. But Armstrong insisted, saying that it was Victor Hugo, not he who was in yellow today. Finally he accepted Armstrong's gift, although he will be only too happy to return it, if ever Armstrong takes over the race lead himself.

Just a class act. Glad he's a Postie! :)

Originally posted by lotek
Please, I mean no disrespect with the thread title.

Here is a quote from this humble rider, who is the
penultimate team player from Cyclingnews.com:


this is great stuff.

Marty

Yup, I heard an interview where he expressed his apprehension regarding riding in front of Lance in the peloton. Lance, however, told him that he was happy to pull for VHP.

That is one happy Columbian, and who could blame him!!!! What a humble man - now I know why he fits in with the Postal squad so well.

Kudos to Lance too! Not too proud to pull!

L8R

They are definitely a TEAM.

I saw that quote on the site as well and had a good chuckle. You can tell the rest of the posties are brain washed to do everything they can for Lance all the time.

One of the OLN sponsors, Clif Bar I think, was doing a contest to vote for your favorite domestique. I think Victor wins, hands down.

!Viva el Tren Azul!

yep i'll vote for that he is a good rider and thinks about his team and his captain before himself.