Originally Posted by Laggard
This is a bit late, but what surprised me was that Lance's climb up Ventoux was his fastest ever and he still lost all that time to Mayo.
Well, it was faster than his ride in 1999, and he lost a minute to the winner in 1999 (finished 5th, and this was against weaker competition). Though I don't see how his record time is that relevant without taking into account weather and surface changes.
Originally Posted by rygreen
It was his fastest ever time trial up the Ventoux, but I read somewhere that he climbed it significantly faster during the 2002 or 2003 TdF during one of the stages.
That was an error of writing by cyclingnews.