Originally Posted by Starclimber
Er, well, there was that pesky 'Lance' dude chasing down the 'pure climbers' and leaving them in the dust. Of course, he was also the best ITTist most days, so maybe we should disregard him. Basso may be the more complete package, but damn, Ullrich was looking good today.
I am definitely leaving Lance out, although he was beatable by the pure climbers when they were on (Euskaltel's climbers did it a couple times). Unless you are comparing Basso to Lance, and despite the big Giro win, Basso is not even close. I was refering to the italian climbers that have tried for the Tour...Garzelli, Simoni, Visentini...and a bunch of others have all missed out because the Tour has always been biased toward the ITT specialists.