97 Teran

Today's writeup:
https://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/1400/index.html

"Stupid" and "don?t understand the tactics required to win a race of this nature", true or false as they may be in your opinion, are in any case pretty rough criticisms for the official site to be laying on participants.

Dolomiti

Heh I read that earlier and found it a little baffling. Maybe the writer put money on Ullrich?

jbhowat

I'd like to be at the T-Mobile breakfast table tomorrow. I think Vino is racing for himself, not for Ullrich and they were chasing him down as a rogue. At least thats what I thought at first. A couple stages ago, Vino was about to go off the front and Ullrich turned and visibly YELLED at him, so i dunno WHAT is going on. Either way, should have let the others chase....

filtersweep

A line break would be nice... once in awhile...

georgiaboy

Although these stars would return for the final climb they would vanish again after a bizarre scene which illustrated T-Mobile’s stupidity. -TDF website

The site should be promoting the race and its participants. Tour de France accepted T-Mobile into the race and then calls them stupid. I guess the TDF was stupid for allowing to participate.

Allen H

Sure sounds like it:
"But Ullrich… why must you insist on losing this race you know you can win?"

Translation: "Why must you insist on losing the race I bet you could win?"

roadgator

damn everbody is down on the t-mob boys. if it isnt their own DS its the damned TDF officials. these guys have been the only ones to put armstrong on the deffensive all tour, they should be cheered not insulted.

Chief Broom

Does anyone know who writes for that page? In the past they've always sounded like the writer might be a Brit. And, those remarks sound very similar to Sherwen's comments while calling the stage.

gmason

Seems to go with comments made by PouPou a few days ago in which he said flatly that Ullrich was "not a professional" because of his big weight gains in the off season, a dearth of racing, and bad conditioning.

97 Teran

I can't be bothered to go back and find actual examples, but I've always felt that these were either written by a Tour employee with excellent (but not perfect) English, or written by a central Tour employee and then translated into English (and the other languages) by someone else. Can anyone check against the Italian/German/other versions and decide if it's all translated from the same original?

There always seem to be some minor feel/usage issues in the text, but overall it's very well written assuming it's not a native speaker- if that is the case, they can do a lot better.